Climate Solutions Education and Leadership Training

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March 7, 2023

START

FORMAT

Online, live

8 weeks

DURATION

ONLINE

2 hours weekly

LANGUAGE

English

OFFLINE

3-4 hours/week

PRICE

Free

DIGITAL BADGE

Certificate of Completion

Accelerate your impact in climate and sustainability with proven executive competencies for results.

Science-based climate and sustainability education, coupled with the leadership skills for meaningful action at scale. This program is best suited for:

  • Ambitious professionals looking for leadership roles to take decisive climate action.

  • Up-and-coming leaders to champion sustainability initiatives within organizations.

  • Climate startup founders looking to develop executive competencies to scale their business.

  • Climate nonprofit leaders looking to accelerate their impact through effective leadership.

80% of the skills required in the short-to-medium term to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 already exist. This means most current workers are likely to only require upskilling, rather than complete retraining to gain a new job due to decarbonization.

Source: Deloitte Economics Institute

In the booming climate job market, those who master the skills required to lead in this fast-changing environment, will have the biggest impact on deploying the climate solutions we need with speed and scale.

“Being in the Climate Executive Accelerator is the opportunity of a lifetime. I am developing my public speaking skills and discovering myself as a leader in sustainability and climate action.” - Dr. Sulthan Khalifa Haroon Al Rashid, United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

How can the Climate Executive Accelerator help your organization?

This program is designed to increase the capacity of people to navigate the complexities of climate action with a keen eye on science and pragmatic implementation, while engaging all relevant stakeholders.

Learn relevant climate solutions and what you can do to scale impact.

Cultivate a solution-focused mindset that embraces innovation and change.

Develop your leadership talent to build resilience & excel through challenges.

“The Climate Executive Accelerator has helped us define and act on the top business priorities and accelerate our progress by thinking critically and prioritizing effectively.”

Kaitlin Highstreet, COO, Scope Zero

What you’ll get in our program

Whether you’re eager to pursue a more meaningful career or are just starting your journey and want to do more, the Climate Executive Accelerator is for you.

  • Executive leadership competencies to accelerate your career and impact.

  • Science-based climate information and interactive tools to measure outcomes.

  • A network of committed, purpose-driven peers from around the world that can help you get your foot in the door or identify the right partner.

  • A Certificate of Completion and a digital verifiable badge to recognize your achievements.

  • A step-by-step plan for starting your climate career and landing your first job.

  • Personal recommendations from our executive coaches to post on LinkedIn and your resume.

“The Climate Executive Accelerator equipped my project team with the practical skills required to embark on and develop an ambitious climate change awareness-raising project. Skills learned through the CEA will not only benefit the project at hand, but my future career endeavors in environmental sustainability policy and research.” - Grace T., Adelaide, Australia

Our curriculum

Against the backdrop of the latest scientific climate and sustainability information, our faculty will introduce and help you develop the executive skills necessary to put knowledge into action. The science-based climate resources we draw from include, but are not limited to:

  • International Institute of Sustainable Development (IISD)

  • The Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC)

  • United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)

  • Regeneration by Paul Hawken

  • Project Drawdown Climate Action for Business

  • MIT Sloan Sustainability Initiative

  • Science Based Targets Initiative

Reviewing case studies from our previous Climate Executive Accelerator, as well as highlighting organizations taking sustainability to the next level.

Global Landscape

Through a hands-on simulator, you will develop a visual understanding of the impact of different climate solutions.

We pair this knowledge with the leadership skills needed to bring real and meaningful climate action to life in your organization and your community.

The knowledge and the skills you will gain:

Climate Action Education

  • Regeneration Frameworks for Action

  • A just transition to net zero: people & society

  • Climate Action for Business

  • Corporate sustainability: the stakeholder approach

  • Decarbonization: reducing emissions

  • Energy transition & the Circular Economy

  • Protect & Restore: sequestering carbon

  • Net zero cities: green buildings & micro-mobility

Executive Leadership Coaching

  • Visionary Leadership: closing the gap on climate action

  • Leading through change: building resilience

  • Advanced communications training

  • Fostering collaboration: storytelling, persuasion & influence

  • Reducing climate anxiety through mindfulness & focus 

  • Key legal developments in sustainability

  • Inclusivity & conflict resolution

  • Project development & management strategies

“The heating planet is our commons. It holds us all. To address and reverse warming requires connection and reciprocity. It calls for moving out of our comfort zones to find a depth of courage we may have never known. It calls for action that is bold and fearless.”  

Paul Hawken, Author, Entrepreneur& Founder of Regeneration

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“The Climate Executive Accelerator is an innovation enabler. It brings out the best in leaders by challenging and encouraging us. I’ve been able to focus on seeing the deeper issues and the larger picture.” — Michael Nees, Founder, Guest New Zealand

Climate Executive Accelerator Program

NOW ENROLLING

NEXT PROGRAM STARTS: MARCH 7, 2023

  • Dates: March 7, 14, 21, 28, April 4, 11, 18, 25

  • Time commitment: 2 hours per week live

  • Offline commitment: 3-4 hours per week

  • Every Tuesday from 16:00-18:00 CET / 10:00 am - 12:00 noon EST / 7:00 -9:00 am PST

  • Sessions are online, live and interactive; recordings will be made available in case you miss a session

“The Climate Executive Accelerator is the best executive leadership program I have ever attended. I’ve been able to clarify my ideas, create the right mindset, identify areas for me and my project that need to be developed. ” - Francisco C., Avetta

Meet your faculty

  • Lina Taylor

    OLYMPIAN, SCIENTIST, EXECUTIVE COACH

    At the intersection of elite performance, science, and business, Lina has spoken at 270+ leading companies on the topics of building resilience and succeeding against the odds. She works with senior level leaders at Amazon, Meta, Accenture, and others as an executive coach.

    Lina holds a degree in Biology, a Certificate for Nonprofit Management from The George Washington University School of Business, and has completed training for Climate Action for Business from the University of Colorado and Regeneration with Paul Hawken.

  • David Merten

    CULTURAL CHANGE EXPERT & COACH

    David has a background in Social Work with focus on Social Management and Psychology. Working in diverse corporate leadership roles within the energy sector, David has experienced first hand the need of science-based, solution-focused coaching to achieve targets. He held a lead role in a cultural change network to achieved sustainability and reduce emissions, developing alternative products on the market. In his role as an in-house coach, David was a global advisor to build coaching programs for leadership teams to reach their goals.

  • Alex Balashov

    LEGAL EXPERT & ECOPRENEUR COACH

    Alex is an experienced legal professional, active in environmental protection since his college years.

    He brings exceptional expertise in balancing the complexities of business objectives for all stakeholders. Drawing on his experience as an NGO leader, Alex coaches and mentors sustainability leaders and ecopreneurs.

    Alex holds LL.M. in European Union Law from Leiden University and LL.M. in International Business Law from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

  • Niki Vinogradoff

    MINDFULNESS & FOCUS COACH

    Niki is a neuroscience-based mindfulness coach with nearly 15 years of daily meditation practice. He brings his deep expertise in mindfulness to help climate and sustainability professionals deal successfully with the challenges of their demanding, ever-changing, and stressful day-to-day activities.

    Niki holds a Professional Coaching Certification from the International Coaching Federation and specializes in helping clients establish re-balancing habits to counteract climate anxiety and develop a positive mindset.

“The Climate Executive Accelerator is a great way for executives across the climate-action spectrum to fine tune their business-building, communications, marketing and problem-solving skills. My coach is best-in-class.” - Lewis Blaustein, Founder, EcoAthletes

Join a community of committed, purpose-driven leaders who are taking decisive climate action.

Here’s who you’ll be learning and networking with in the Climate Executive Accelerator:

  • Sustainable startup founders who want to become better managers and leaders.

  • People who want to up-skill and explore a career in sustainability-driven leadership.

  • Leaders who want to communicate the business case for climate action with board members and stakeholders.

  • Aspiring professionals looking for leadership roles in climate and sustainability.

  • Purpose-driven champions who want to learn how they can do more for the planet.

  • Nonprofit professionals looking to increase their climate action impact.

“The Climate Executive Accelerator has been extremely helpful to our performance and unity as a team, helping us be more efficient at allocating work and more effective at avoiding potential roadblocks.” —Alex B., Co-Founder & CEO, Alga Biosciences

 FAQs

  • If you’re committed to deepening your understanding of climate solutions, have a desire to explore your own climate action plan (or that of your company), and want to develop your personal and leadership capacities, this program is right for you. To get the most out of the program, we ask that you commit to attending and actively participate in the live online sessions—and, if you miss a session, to watch the recording.

  • The program includes 2 hours per week of live online, interactive group sessions for 8 weeks. Although assignments are not mandatory, we encourage you to connect with other participants and explore the material we cover in the sessions. You can expect to spend an additional 3-4 hours per week working on your own.

  • Please fill out the Olympian/Paralympian Benefits Form verifying that you are an active or retired Olympian/Paralympian: and our team will be in touch with the coupon code and instructions on how to enroll.

  • We understand that things happen and you may not be able to be there live for all of the sessions. We will make the recordings available to you to watch on your own.

  • We require that you are present and actively participate in at least 50% of the sessions (4 live sessions). After watching the recording of the session you missed, you must complete and submit at the next session a brief review of the material you missed in order to get your Certificate of Completion and the digital verifiable badge.

  • Only participants with 80% or higher live attendance are eligible to receive a recommendation from one of the Coaches in the Accelerator. You may request your recommendation through LinkedIn - we will show you how to do that in our first class.

  • Learn from a variety of leading science-based climate resources, such as the IPCC, UNFCCC - Sports for Climate Action, Regeneration, Project Drawdown, MIT Sloan Sustainability Initiative.

  • All of our faculty coaches are certified professional coaches with the International Coaching Federation (ICF), abiding by the ICF Code of Ethics. Our coaches are not climate scientists and are not responsible for the information provided on the open source materials we use in class.

  • Before the Accelerator begins, you will receive an invitation to the Zoom events. We encourage you to add the events to your calendar so you can easily locate the Zoom link for each session.

“Social and environmental problems are connected. By taking action, we realize our ability to affect change.”  

Jane Goodall, Scientist, Conservationist & Activist

Photo credit: Vincent Calmel