About us

Sustainability. Performance. Reputation. Creating and executing solutions to progress your sustainability performance & enhance your reputation.

Who we are

Started in 2009, Equilibrium is a boutique environment and sustainability strategy and management company that has completed more than 200 leading-edge projects around Australia and overseas.

Nicholas Harford

Managing Director

Nick is a sustainability and corporate affairs professional who has worked across Government, corporate and media. With a focus on using a sustainability platform to leverage business development, customer relations and corporate reputation, Nick has a record of successfully aligning improved commercial, environmental, social and regulatory expectations with organisational goals and outcomes.

Damien Wigley

General Manager

Damien is an experienced environmental management consultant. He has worked for and held senior and executive positions for the past 20 years with several large national and multinational consultancies providing strategic advice on environmental management issues with a particular focus on regulatory, environment and financial risks.

Tom Pollock

Environmental Consultant

Tom is an environmental professional with a background in both environmental science and business management, and brings these skills to have an innovative outlook on environmental issues. In addition, Tom is an experienced and qualified Integrated Management Systems Lead Auditor.

Leigh Bernoth

Senior Environmental Consultant

Leigh is a sustainability professional with a career spanning 20 years working across the industrial/commercial business sectors, and government, including the development of highly successful business support programs whilst working for the Victorian Government.

John Gertakis

Director of Communications

John is a communications and sustainability professional focused on responsible prosperity and effective stakeholder engagement. He is a solution-oriented pragmatist with a long history in product stewardship policy and implementation. John thrives on interaction with business, communities and government and is an Honorary Fellow of the Design Institute of Australia. He authored Australia’s first report on e-waste recycling in 1995 titled: Short Circuiting Waste from Electronic Products.

What we do

Knowledge, insights, research and advice to progress sustainability outcomes

Environment and sustainability

Understanding and responding to regulatory and consumer demands around environment and sustainability is a complex and ever-evolving task. Stakeholders and shareholders expect businesses to take a leadership position and make a positive contribution to society while minimising the negative effects it may be inflicting on the environment. Equilibrium can assist you to improve your organisational performance and reputation from within.

Climate change and carbon

Equilibrium offers unique insight, developed over many years, to help your organisation operate with a carbon constrained economy while realising the benefits of reducing your climate change impacts. From carbon accounting to developing management plans and systems, Equilibrium can help you to understand and reduce your impacts to deliver growth.

Compliance and management

By balancing your economic, social, and environmental obligations and objectives, you have the ability to efficiently and effectively manage responsibilities and flourish in a competitive marketplace. Equilibrium brings together practical services and products that support sustainability and innovation.

Engagement, communications and Government

Equilibrium has extensive experience in Government environment and sustainability processes and can align this knowledge to assist you to achieve your organisational goals. Equilibrium can assist your business with advice and assistance on grants applications, submissions and lobbying, policy advice and strategy in addition to developing internal and external communication programs to promote your sustainability initiatives.