Lead, Grow, Thrive: Advancing Your Career & Practice

FRI-B08: "No One Wants to Work Anymore": Between Labor and Purpose

Friday, September 18, 2026

10:45 AM - 12:00 PM PT

1.25 PDH, LA CES/HSW

Speaker(s)

Avery Haynes, Assoc. ASLA (any pronouns)

Planting Design Specialist
Hoerr Schaudt
Chicago, Illinois
Carlos Torres de Janon, Assoc. ASLA (he/him/his)

Educator, Designer
Self-Employed
Seattle, Washington
José de Jesús Leal Loera, FASLA (he/him/his)

Principal and Native Nation Building Studio Director
MIG, Inc.
Sacramento, California

As society rethinks labor, value, equity, and purpose, this session brings together emerging professionals and industry leaders together to explore change, build empathy, redefine success, and co-create a resilient, relevant, and human-centered future for landscape architecture rooted in shared accountability and collective imagination.

Learning Outcomes:

Identify how generational, cultural, and demographic shifts are reshaping expectations of work within landscape architecture.
Build tools for advocacy, boundary-setting, and cross-generational collaboration.
Envision and enact collective agency in the profession.
Develop shared language to discuss work ethic, value, and professional purpose across generations.