Lucinda Hartley
Urban Futurist & Leading Expert on the Future of Work and Living
Profile
Lucinda Hartley is an award-winning urban designer, a cofounder of world-leading social analytics company Neighbourlytics, and a globally recognised expert in the future of work and living.
Named as one of Australia’s 100 Most Influential Women by the Australian Financial Review, Lucinda is an ‘urban futurist’ who will challenge the audience to think differently about what the future holds. She is a technology leader who offers inspiration and practical advice on navigating some of the biggest questions of our time: what will the future of living and the future of work look like? and how can technology be a force for good in turbulent times?
As a co-founder of the social analytics company Neighbourlytics, Lucinda draws on the latest lifestyle data trends to provide actionable insights for creating workplaces that will attract the top global talent and communities where people are happier and healthier.
She also draws on a decade of experience pioneering innovative solutions to creating cities to provide the audience with practical examples of innovation and technology in action: from helping create the UN Sustainable Development Goals for cities (Goal 11) to advising Google on city-shaping projects in North America to delivering more than 100 neighbourhood improvement projects across Australia through her social enterprise CoDesign Studio. of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Singularity University.
Lucinda’s passion for cities and neighbourhoods began in childhood, growing up in Kenya, Zimbabwe and a host of other countries where she saw first-hand how your postcode is as likely to affect your life expectancy as your genetic code. As a result, she does not separate work and personal life: first, we shape our cities, and then they shape us.
Current Work:
As an urban futurist, Lucinda advises government, business, and technology leaders on innovation strategies for smart cities. She has worked with Google, UN-Habitat, Planning Ministers, MPs and major Property Developers to shape some of the world’s most significant urban renewal projects.
Lucinda is a Co-Founder of Neighbourlytics, a social analytics platform for neighbourhoods. Neighbourlytics’ proprietary technology taps into the digital footprint of a neighbourhood to understand its lifestyle and well-being. Neighbourlytics has scaled rapidly across 2000 neighbourhoods in 12 countries. Neighbourlytics was named as one of 20 Start-ups to Watch by Smart Company, and listed in the Deloitte Fast 50.
Lucinda is a regular media commentator and one of Australia’s sought-after voices on cities and social change. She has been featured regularly in the ABC, Sydney Morning Herald, Qantas Magazine, Vogue Magazine and The Age where she was named one of Melbourne’s Top 100 Most influential people.
Previous Work
Prior to co-founding Neighbourlytics, Lucinda founded the placemaking social enterprise CoDesign Studio. Between 2014-2017 CoDesign was Australia’s largest placemaking consultancy, delivering over 100 neighbourhood improvement projects from community gardens to pop-up parks.
She served as an elected youth advisor for UN-Habitat for 5 years, advocating for the inclusion of young people in the development of the Sustainable Development Goals. The direct references to women and youth in SDG 11: Cities are directly attributable to her work.
Awards and Recognition:
PropTech Association Australia Most Innovative Scale-Up in Data, Analytics, Insights & AI
PropTech Association “Best of the Best” PropTech of the Year Award for Commercial PropTech
Telstra Best of Business Awards State Finalist (2022)
Veuve Clicquot Bold Women Award Finalist (2021)
Australian Financial Review 100 Women of Influence (2019)
Deloitte Fast 50 Rising Star (2019)
Myer Innovation Fellow (2018)
Westpac Social Change Fellow (2018)
iAwards Startup of the Year, Australian Information Industry Association (2018)
Planning Institute of Australia, Awards for Excellence (VIC Winner (2017)
Westpac Business of Tomorrow (2017)
Place Leaders Award, Place Leaders Asia Pacific (2015)
Social Enterprise of the Year, Social Traders (2015)
Melbourne Design Awards, Winner, Community Category (2014, 2015)
Planning Institute of Australia, Awards for Excellence VIC Winner (2014)
Planning Institute of Australia, Awards for Excellence WA Winner (2014)
Media
Feedback
Fantastic and engaging session, an interesting exercises in thinking about how we all live into the future.
Lucinda is at the forefront of the global urbanism movement, challenging traditional approaches to planning and designing cities.
We absolutely loved having Lucinda as our keynote speaker and part of the panel and Q&A discussions. Lucinda really engaged with the topic - Leading Innovation and offered her unique industry perspective during her keynote as well as part of the panel. One of our key objectives of the Women in Tech Alliance, is to provoke people to think, feel and do something differently and Lucinda’s insights, reflections and tips definitely prompted conversation and commitment to action.
Lucinda was fantastic, the group responded well to her insights, and she tied it back well to the audience and their business background.
Everything went really well and Lucinda was amazing. She is such a great speaker and was so inspirational for our group of teachers. The Geography teachers were buzzing all day. Saxton has also been wonderful to work with.
Lucinda's presentation engaged the audience with honesty, beauty and simplicity. She received one of the longest ovations of all our speakers.
Lucinda was insightful and perceptive to our audience and topic and tailored her presentation to
suit. Her professionalism shone through and her engaging manner inspired our delegates.
