Damian believes that meaningful engagement begins with a simple idea: people should have a genuine opportunity to shape the decisions that affect their lives.

As Stakeholder Engagement Lead at National Highways, he works across major infrastructure projects, helping build trust, challenge assumptions and create stronger relationships with the communities and stakeholders they serve.

Passionate about doing things differently, Damian encourages people to look beyond traditional consultation methods, ask better questions and rethink what successful engagement really looks like.

For Damian, great engagement isn't measured simply by how many people we reach, but by how well we listen, what we learn and what we do differently as a result.