Leading in a Climate Changed World

Nick Ross has been a leadership trainer and personal development coach for over 20 years.  Coming from a professional background in addictions therapy his work today includes delivery of extensive leadership development programs and executive coaching to global companies and senior leaders.

As Director of A Different Drum, Nick brings his love of writing, poetry, storytelling and the wild to his work with executives and senior teams, to address and reflect on the place of soul at work and specifically the role of creative sanctuary in supporting healthy human well-being. He is also a coach and companion to many individual leaders going through periods of significant transition in their personal and professional lives.

Nick has chosen to stop flying for work or pleasure in 2020 because of the climate emergency and with colleagues and partners is turning his attention towards finding ways to successfully engage businesses and organisations in constructive dialogue about the ecosystemic crisis.

Nick has a longstanding interest in the exploration of human consciousness.  He draws his inspiration from time spent learning from a variety of aboriginal cultures and influential mentors including Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Parker Palmer and Robert Monroe.

 Nick works closely today with leaders and elders of the Yawanawa tribe from the Amazon Rainforest in Western Brazil and hosts annual cultural visits by tribal representatives from the village of Yawarani to the UK

When not working with leaders and organisations Nick is most likely to be found co-running a 2 acre market garden in Somerset with his long term partner Tia providing organic food and a learning resource within the local community. He is a member of the Deep Adaptation Forum founded by Jem Bendell and a member of Extinction Rebellion.

Dr Jude Currivan is a cosmologist, planetary healer, futurist, author and previously one of the most senior business women in the UK. She has journeyed to some eighty countries around the world, has experienced multidimensional realities since early childhood and worked with the wisdom keepers of many traditions.

Jude integrates leading edge science, research into consciousness and universal wisdom teachings. As a member of the Evolutionary Leaders circle (www.evolutionaryleaders.net) this underpins her work in raising awareness and enabling transformational and emergent resolutions to our collective planetary issues.

She holds a PhD in Archaeology from the University of Reading in the UK, researching ancient cosmologies and a Masters Degree in Physics from Oxford University specialising in cosmology and quantum physics. Author of six non-fiction books her most recent is the Nautilus award-winning The Cosmic Hologram.

In 2017 she co-founded WholeWorld-View (www.wholeworld-view.org ) to communicate the new paradigm of unified reality and with the aim to empower the understanding, experiencing and embodying of unity awareness to serve conscious evolution.

Jonathan Gosling is emeritus professor of leadership at the University of Exeter, engaged with several initiatives around the world aiming to encourage responsible leadership.

In the UK he is lead faculty with the Forward Institute, which aims to enhance the contribution of an 'enlightened elite’ in the nation’s most influential large organisations.

He also supports teams in front-line health services across southern Africa as they find inventive ways to respond to emerging challenges - including those brought about by climate change.

He was co-founder of the One Planet MBA and has researched how societies cope with imminent collapse.

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Welcome back to Leading in a Climate changed World, where, we return to our interviews from before the coronavirus lockdown.

In this episode, we talk about the climate crisis with Ed Gillespie and discuss striking the right balance between hopefulness and hopelessness, and the best way to avoid overwhelming humanity into doing nothing.

Robin asks about the people and organisations showing the courage that might inspire us at this time, and whether B-Corps and business round-tables are just window dressing or are genuinely inspiring sustainable change.

Ed talks about his travels, and the communities he encountered, including tribes which have scarcely changed their way of life, for the last hundreds of years and reveals a number of initiatives, which might just help us onto the right path.

If you haven't already, do listen to Ed's podcast with Jon Richardson and Mark Stevenson: https://jonandthefuturenauts.podbean.com/

In this episode, we speak to Dr Sally Uren - Chief Executive of Forum for the Future (https://www.forumforthefuture.org/).

Robin and Sally discuss the work of Forum for the Future and the principal challenges they encounter, within the organisations that they work with. They discuss how we can use the coronavirus pandemic as a dress rehearsal to address the challenges of the climate crisis, including the processes we need to keep and the type of leadership required to successfully engage with each issue.

They talk about structural inequality and how economic reform is where focus need to be made in order to make progress with long-term sustainable solutions.

Enjoy the podcast!

Emma Kemp is Campaigns Manager at UK based climate charity Possible, working on positive and practical ways to tackle the climate crisis. Emma currently leads on their innovative and exciting Climate Perks initiative, giving employers the opportunity to empower their staff to opt for flight-free travel. 

find out more at https://www.wearepossible.org/

Nick joined the Grantham Research Institute in February 2018 as Professor in Practice for Sustainable Finance. Nick leads the sustainable finance research theme. The focus of his work is on how to mobilise finance for a just transition, the role of central banks and regulators in achieving sustainable development and how the financial system can support the restoration of nature.

 From 2014 to 2018, Nick was co-director of UN Environment’s Inquiry into a Sustainable Finance System. As part of this, Nick led country activities in Brazil, the EU, India, Italy and the UK, as well as thematic work focused on investors, insurance and green banking.

Before joining UNEP, he was Head of the Climate Change Centre of Excellence at HSBC. Prior to HSBC, Nick was head of Sustainable and Responsible Investment (SRI) funds at Henderson Global Investors. Nick has also worked at the International Institute for Environment and Development, the European Commission and the Business Council for Sustainable Development.

Nick has a BA in History from Cambridge University and an MSc in International Relations from LSE.

Hi everyone! This is a short introduction from Richard Olivier, who introduces a new Podcast from Olivier Mythodrama - Archetypal Wisdom. Enjoy more leadership insights beginning with the Wisdom of Shakespeare, with special guest, Sir Mark Rylance.

Find the Archetypal Wisdom series on our website https://www.oliviermythodrama.com/podcasts

You can also find us on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or whichever podcast channel you are using - plus we are on YouTube.

Of course, Leading in a Climate Changed World will always be your favourite podcast series but this will come in a close second :)

Enjoy!

In this episode, we speak to Anna Leidreiter, Director of Climate & Energy at the World Future Council.

In the episode, Anna talks about how work in the World Future Council has been redirected during the pandemic, while she and Robin explore links between the challenges of the coronavirus outbreak and the climate crisis. What is the best protection for future situations, like those we are currently experiencing?

In terms of leadership, they discuss whether governments are using the opportunity around the coronavirus to work towards a greener future? Can markets fix the system? And what role should political leaders take in response to market forces?

Anna and Robin explain why a strong democratic system is necessary and discuss how we should work when we are presented with strategic leadership messages, such as the voices coming from the science community – highlighting the countries and cities displaying informed and inclusive decision making.

Don’t forget to find us on twitter (@l_c_c_w) and Facebook (facebook.com/leadinginaclimatechangedworld).

Welcome back to the Leading in a Climate changed world podcast from Olivier Mythodrama. We have returned with a few episodes exploring leadership during the current covid-19 outbreak and the impact that it’s had on the climate crisis discussions.

In our first episode back, we speak to Richard Olivier, Artistic Director of Olivier Mythodrama and Co-founder of Archetypes at Work™.

We find out how Richard began his journey into archetypal psychology and its relevance to leadership and personal development.

Richard introduces us to the ten archetypes that leaders need to develop within themselves to be able to take on the many and varied challenges that face us all in the world of business and outside in our lives. Particularly during the current situation we are all facing here in 2020.

Robin and Richard discuss the climate crisis and what we need to do to leave the old story behind and build a new sustainable way of living.  They discuss how the understanding of the archetypes might support us with the twin challenges of the climate crisis and to steer us through the pandemic, laying the foundations for the new trials we will face within a depleted and fractured economy.

Richard talks about how to activate and rehearse into the archetypes we need to become more complete leaders and what we need to do to ensure we don’t return to the old structures which were harmful and unjustifiable.

We invite you to watch the interview our YouTube channel to see the archetypes in action and resources for your own personal development will be made available on the front page of our website, leadinginaclimatechangedworld.com, including a self assessment and downloadable guide to the gifts of each archetype.

We hope you enjoy this episode and we will release more interview that you know and love, as well as other related leadership development discussions.

Once again, welcome back and don’t forget to share the podcast with anyone you think would enjoy them and you can get in touch with us on [email protected]