Feb 28, 2020 NCENN: Behaviour Science for Sustainability
February 28, 10AM – 12PM, Rideau Park United Church, 2203 Alta Vista Dr. Use Cunningham Ave entrance and look for NCENN signs.
Human behaviour is complex and often baffling. Why do people claim to care about the environment while damaging it? Why do they deny the facts of climate change? How do we get people to listen and engage with sustainability?
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Learn techniques to improve the effectiveness of your outreach programs, what (very) common errors you may be making and what to do instead, and how to structure your evaluations to ensure you’re actually having the impact you think you are.
Join us for a dip into the wacky world of human psychology and behavioural economics. You’ll emerge with a new understanding of human functioning and learn some tools and techniques to apply it in designing world-class places.
About Strategic BIAS:
Attention all organizations who work in environmental education, persuasion, activism, or generally trying to get people to do a thing:
Strategic BIAS offers online and in-person training to organizations eager to learn more about behaviour science. Learn how to use fundamental techniques to improve motivation, communications, and the impacts of your projects. Let our team of behaviour scientists teach your team how to use the latest behaviour research to facilitate change more easily and effectively.
We also work one-on-one with organizations to assess, measure, and improve projects, freeing up your teams to do more awesome work.
We are an agile consultancy working in the sustainability sector creating solutions using behaviour science.
By bringing behaviour scientists, engineers, and artists together, we aim to solve some fundamental problems societies face like reducing waste, lowering energy use, and improving sustainability outcomes.
For more information, please email our principal behaviour scientist at [email protected]
Speaker Bios:
Laura is a behaviour scientist with a graduate degree in psychology and more than a decade experience promoting sustainability through behaviour change. She helps clients solve problems and enhance their programming by better understanding human nature. She uses techniques from Psychology, Social Marketing, Change Management, and Behavioural Economics to facilitate lasting, impactful change.
Akil is a partner at Strategic BIAS, a consulting firm that uses behaviour science & analytics to help client’s improve sustainability outcomes by understanding the decision making process and designing solutions backed by data. He has a background in Energy Engineering and has worked in the analytics field for 4 years before deciding to use his expertise to create social good. In his spare time he helps people build healthy soil from food waste.
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