Climate Reality & Leadership Talks

Each talk is fully tailored to your audience and strategic priorities.
Themes are co-developed with you ahead of the event to ensure relevance, impact, and practical takeaways.

Drawing on:

• My experience as a climate change and biodiversity policy expert working at the heart of international negotiations,

• A 1,600 km expedition across the Himalayas documenting real-world climate impacts on glaciers and communities, and

• My background as a social anthropologist, focused on how people, cultures, and institutions actually respond to risk and change,

These talks connect climate data with lived reality, and strategy with human behaviour. The aim is not awareness—but better decisions under pressure.

Example Talks Delivered

Connecting the Dots: Climate Change as a System, Not a Sector

What the Himalayas and climate negotiations taught me about how change really happens

Climate change is not a single problem with a single solution. In the Himalayas, I saw how glacier melt cascades through water, agriculture, migration, and social systems, long before anything is called a crisis. In climate negotiations, I saw the same issue from the other end: siloed decisions and solutions that fail because they treat symptoms, not systems.

This talk connects climate reality on the ground with decision-making at the negotiation table. Using a systems-thinking lens, it shows why fragmented responses fall short and why effective climate leadership depends on connecting data with lived experience and acting on weak signals before crisis forces them into view.

From the Himalayas to the Boardroom

Why the energy transition cannot succeed without restoring nature

In the Himalayas, the links between nature, energy, and livelihoods are impossible to ignore. Glaciers regulate water; water underpins agriculture, hydropower, and stability. When ecosystems degrade, energy systems and economies become fragile long before this is recognised as a crisis.

In boardrooms, however, energy transition and biodiversity are still treated as separate agendas. This talk bridges that gap, using the concept of ecosystem services to show how healthy ecosystems support water security, energy reliability, supply chains, and long-term value.

Drawing on field experience and international climate and biodiversity negotiations, it shows why decarbonisation without nature restoration increases risk rather than reducing it. The core message is simple: nature is not a trade-off to manage, but an asset to restore.

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