Director & Senior Environmental Consultant, Glowing Green Australia

Larissa is an energetic and resilient professional with a comprehensive knowledge of renewable fuels, environmental management, and sustainability. Tertiary qualified, Larissa has obtained a comprehensive knowledge and background in environmental studies, carbon, waste and project management, and business development.

She has spent extensive time advocating and engaging government, regional and rural communities, lecturing at universities and teaching at schools on the economic, social, health and environmental benefits of renewable fuels. She has led environmental education programs in Queensland schools, devised sustainability plans and environmental auditing for schools and companies nationally.

She has extensively advocated and engaged government, regional and rural communities, lecturing at universities and teaching at schools on the economic, social, health and environmental benefits of renewable fuels. She has led environmental education programs in Queensland schools, devised sustainability plans and environmental auditing for schools and companies nationally.

Larissa has represented Australia speaking on numerous global conference stages in the USA, Canada, Korea, Germany and the United Nations level, through to significant domestic speaking roles in Australia within her respective knowledge themes. Evidently she is committed to delivering outcomes for industry and offers her drive to succeed, her practical and theoretical knowledge and experience to her belief of ‘building the leaders of the future’ seeing her mentor over 14 students the last 2.5 years.

Larissa is an Adjunct Lecturer at Bond University and lectures Climate Change & Environmental Management curriculum while creating linkages for integrating and developing academia and industry stakeholder engagement.

As Senior Environment Consultant and Director of Glowing Green Australia a Gold Coast-based environmental consultancy firm, Larissa has given advanced experiences with her company and team providing services for clients in environmental auditing, advisory for development approval applications, waste management plans, carbon assessments, sustainability plans, ecological reporting and facilitation of environmental education programs into schools.