The Science of Calm
For Women in Leadership
Hosted by Wendy Johnston
April 13, 2026 - Featuring Interview with Dr Tia Kansara
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The Calm You Can't Fake: Designing Environments That Regulate Us Without Our Permission
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The Calm You Can't Fake: Designing Environments That Regulate Us Without Our Permission 〰️
Key Points From Our Chat
The premise is provocative and scientifically grounded: we spend enormous energy teaching leaders to self-regulate, but the environments we inhabit are constantly regulating (or dysregulating) us whether we're aware of it or not.
Your work as an ecosystem engineer means you understand that calm isn't just a mindset it's a design outcome.
This flips the typical wellness conversation on its head. Instead of "here's how to manage your stress," you're saying: what if the space around you was doing that work for you?
Speaker Bio
Tia is a multi award-winning entrepreneur and economist. The youngest to ever receive the Royal Institute British Architects honorary fellowship, she is the co-founder of Kansara Hackney Ltd, the first ISO-certified sustainable lifestyle consultancy, and CEO of Replenish Earth Ltd, a cause and a collective action to protect the global commons.
Hailed amongst the Top 100 most influential leaders in Tech by the Financial Times and Inclusive Boards, her clients include Coca Cola, Bloomberg, the European Commission, Forbes, Formula One, MIT, and Siemens.
Her publications in peer-reviewed journals range from sustainable cities to human performance, presenting her findings at conferences internationally through social media.
She has been invited to advise on sustainable cities for the government and private sector. As a professional moderator, lecturer and author; she has interviewed world figures and experts, moderating for Forbes, Coca Cola, European Business Angels Network and London Business School, and delivered keynote speeches on the future of cities. She has lectured at New Delhi School of Planning; Musashi Institute of Technology; KEA University; McGill University; University of British Columbia; School of Architecture and Planning; and School of Architecture, to name a few.
She is currently a visiting professor at the Centre of Environment Planning and Technology.
Featured Freebie:
Calm Space Guide and 3-Environment Guide
Key Points About Freebie:
The Calm Space Audit: A 5-minute interactive self-assessment that scores your environment across five science-backed dimensions (light, sound, nature contact, visual complexity, and materials), revealing whether the spaces you inhabit are actively depleting, neutral, or regenerating your nervous system with personalised priority actions to shift that immediately.
The 3 Environments Every Leader Must Design: A research-grounded framework that reframes calm not as a mindset practice but as a design outcome, walking you through the three environments every leader is simultaneously shaping: inner (your nervous system), immediate (your physical space), and collective (the systems and communities you influence) each with one powerful, evidence-based intervention you can apply today.
Together these two gifts give you both a diagnostic and a direction you'll know exactly where your environment is working against you, and you'll have a new lens for leadership that goes beyond self-regulation into the deeper work of designing calm into the spaces, systems, and people around you.
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