Taking the Pulse

In this episode of 'Climate Politics 2026', Lydia Stevens interviews executive coach, author and co-founder of the CCA Dr Josie McLean.

Together with Alison Whybrow and Eve Turner, Josie co-founded the Climate Coaching Alliance. Her work spans speaking, executive coaching, team coaching, organisational development, and systemic change facilitation.

With a PhD in Organisational Sustainability, Josie helps leaders to navigate climate complexity through Living Systems frameworks. She delivers bespoke leadership programs that draw on systems thinking and adaptive leadership principles to align personal values with organisational goals. 

She works with organisations evolving adaptive cultures to shape sustainable organisations, communities, and planet. She is a keynote speaker, author and facilitator.

💡 Call to Action

Josie asks us: 'Was I too bold? Did I go too far?’

Are you bold enough to offer coaching to one of your local politicians? If not, what will it take?

🔗 Links
Connect with Josie

Via her website

On LinkedIn

Read her work

Climate Coaching Alliance book: 'Ecological and Climate Conscious Coaching - A companion Guide to Evolving Coaching Practice'. Co-edited by Dr Josie McLean with Alison Whybrow, Eve Turner, and Peter Hawkins

Big Little Shifts: A Practitioner's Guide to Complexity for Organisational Change and Adaptation

Purposeful Cultures: A Practical Self-Leadership Guide

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On LinkedIn 

Via her website

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Credits: 
Guest: Dr Josie McLean
Interviewer: Lydia Stevens
Editors: Jo Peters and Amel Sedaoui
Thumbnail: Rachel Hitch

In this episode of 'Climate Politics 2026', CCA's Dr Diana Collett interviews strategist, author and host Paula Downey.

Paula is co-creator of CultureWork, a repertoire of living-system inspired processes and practices that support cultural innovation by re-imagining how people meet, organise and change.

She writes and speaks about how a living-systems lens can transform organisational life and inspire us to work together in new ways to address the urgent issues of our times.
 
💡 Call to Action

In this interview, Paula shares how coaching can help us answer the bigger questions and find solutions together by 'breaking the silence' of inaction and indecision.

Following Paula’s example, when and where can you be brave and speak Truth?

🔗 Links
Connect with Paula!

On Linkedin:

Via her website

Learn more about Culturework ...

On Youtube

Via their essays

Via the Climate Action Sprint

Read the first chapter of 'Working the way life works'

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Credits
Guest: Paula Downey
Interviewer: Dr Diana Collett
Editors: Jo Peters and Amel Sedaoui
Design: Rachel Hitch

In this episode of 'Climate Politics 2026', CCA's Lydia Stevens interviews writer and policy advisor Jamie Bristow. In this interview. Jamie shares how mindfulness, coaching, and inner work can transform outer systems. 

💡 Call to Action

Jamie Bristow works at the intersection of inner & outer transformation, resilience and sustainability. His goal is to make mindfulness and compassion training serious matters of public policy and catalysts for a healthier political process. He asks us to think about how our inner world affects how we show up for what is important. 

Have you ever considered how your inner state shapes your climate action?

🔗 Links
Connect with Jamie: 

On Linkedin

Via his website

Learn more about his work as ...

Ex-Director of The Mindfulness Initiative

Strategic Advisor at Inner Development Goals

Honorary Researcher at Lancaster Environment Centre

Co-founder of the Life Itself Sensemaking Studio

Read his work:

Reconnection: Meeting the Climate Crisis Inside Out

The System Within: Addressing the inner dimension of sustainability and systems transformation.

The System Within, Reconnection

Mindfulness in Westminster

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#MindfulLeadership #ClimateAction #CoachingForChange #Polycrisis

@JamieBristow @InnerDevGoals @ClimateCoachingAlliance.

Credits
Guest: Jamie Bristow
Interviewer: Lydia Stevens
Editors: Jo Peters and Amel Sedaoui
Design: Rachel Hitch

In this episode of 'Climate Politics 2026', CCA Political Pod's Lydia Stevens interviews sustainability leader, small holder, and author Jane Davidson. In this interview, Jane shares how her values formed in Welsh governance now strengthens her worldview and efforts to pursue a sustainable future prioritsing empathy and human connection.

💡 Call to Action

Jane is on a mission to mainstream sustainability. Her know-how and passion were forged as a Welsh Government minister and she carries this through her work as a small holder and patron, prioritising empathy and wellbeing. 

She challenges us to think:

How might you hold the oldest person you love and the youngest person you love in how you live and the decisions you make every day?

🔗 Links

Find Jane Davidson:

On LinkedIn

On her website

Read #FutureGen: Letters from a Small Country

Find out more about:

Wellbeing Project: Empowering Kenyans Through Justice here

Placing Nature on the Board here 

Wales Net Zero 2035 here

Garden Organic here

Chartered Institute for Ecology and Environmental Management here

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#ClimateJustice #Sustainability #TakingthePulse #ClimateCoachingAlliance  #Futuregen #Love #Welshgovernment #Cymru #JaneDavidson #Wellbeing

Credits
Guest: Jane Davidson
Interviewer: Lydia Stevens
Editors: Jo Peters and Amel Sedaoui
Design: Rachel Hitch

In the first episode of 'Climate Politics 2026', CCA Political Pod's co-founder Dr Diana Collett interviews conservation leader, climate activist, and author Rituraj Phukan. In this interview, Rituraj shares how his work now strengthens grassroots empowerment, emphasising the critical role of young people and local communities in driving climate justice.

Find out how to inspire young people and leaders to tackle the deeper causes of climate change. How does his approach resonate with you?

Credits
Guest: Rituraj Phukan
Interviewer: Diana Collett
Editors: Jo Peters and Amel Sedaoui
Design: Rachel Hitch

💡 Call to Action

Rituraj emphasises that true climate justice starts with grassroots ownership, where communities not only demand solutions but become the drivers of change.

He challenges coaches to ask:

“How do we localise the language of climate justice - terms like ‘just transition,’ ‘loss and damage,’ and ‘climate justice’ - so communities can own, understand, and act on these concepts?”

Reflect: How can you can contribute to climate justice in your community?

🔗 Links

Find Rituraj Phukan on LinkedIn

Read his work Climate Justice 101: Empowering Community Leadership or Everyday Climate Action: A Handbook for Gen Z

Support his work:

As Managing Editor & Publisher at Mahabahu Mirror 

As Secretary & Convenor at Mahabahu Climate Forum

As Director at Healthy Climate Initiative

Find Dr Diana Collett on LinkedIn

Explore the CCA Political Pod 


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Welcome to Taking the Pulse – Climate Politics 2026. It only takes a minute to take someone’s pulse. These are short interviews with thought leaders who inspire change. What pulse will you take from them?