Climate for Boards
Helping boards meet climate reality creatively.
Executive coaching and facilitated dialogue for boards and leadership teams navigating climate change, complexity and an emerging future.
The climate conversation has changed
Climate change is becoming part of the lived reality of organisations, their people and the communities they serve. For boards and leadership teams, it can no longer be understood simply as a sustainability issue or a challenge to be delegated elsewhere in the organisation.
Yet talking openly about climate can be difficult. The scale and complexity of the challenge can evoke very different responses — from urgency and anxiety to uncertainty, resistance or avoidance. When those responses remain unspoken, it becomes harder for leadership teams to think clearly and creatively together.
My work creates space for a different kind of conversation. Through executive coaching and facilitated dialogue, I help boards and leadership teams explore what climate change means for their organisation, build greater shared understanding, and develop the collective capacity to respond with imagination, flexibility and agency.
The aim isn't certainty. It's to meet reality together — and create the conditions for better thinking about what comes next.
My approach
Organisations are human systems. When the world around them changes, people don't respond through strategy and analysis alone. We bring our assumptions, emotions, experience and established ways of making sense of the world with us.
Climate change can make this particularly visible. Faced with a challenge of extraordinary scale and complexity, some people feel an urgent need to act while others may become cautious, overwhelmed or reluctant to engage. Leadership teams can find themselves caught between competing perspectives, commercial pressures and expectations — often while continuing to operate within assumptions that were formed for a different world.
I don't believe the answer is to push past those responses or rush a group towards consensus. My approach is to create the conditions for thoughtful, candid dialogue: making room for different perspectives, exploring what may be difficult to say, and helping the group stay with complexity long enough for new thinking to emerge.
This builds the collective capacity boards need to respond to change: greater flexibility, stronger collaboration and the ability to think creatively about unfamiliar problems. Because in a changing climate, the organisations best equipped for the future may not be those with the most certain answers, but those most able to learn, adapt and imagine what could come next.
Meet Vicky
I’m an executive coach, Chartered Accountant and experienced business leader, with more than twenty years spent working with boards, leadership teams and organisations navigating change.
My career has taken me from PwC and international media to running and ultimately selling my family business, and into senior executive, board, consulting and coaching roles across commercial and purpose-driven organisations. I’ve worked through periods of growth, restructuring, financial pressure, organisational transformation and profound external change. I understand both the responsibility of sitting around the table and the complexity of turning good intentions into meaningful action.
Today, I bring that experience together with my work in executive coaching, systems thinking and transformational change. I’m particularly interested in how groups of leaders make sense of difficult realities together — and how better dialogue can unlock the collective intelligence, creativity and courage needed to respond.
Climate change brings these questions into sharp focus. My role isn't to tell boards what their climate strategy should be. It's to create the conditions in which leaders can explore what is changing, what it means for their organisation, and how they want to meet the future together.
How I work
I work with boards and leadership teams to create focused space for the conversations that are difficult to have within the normal rhythm of organisational life.
Often this takes the form of an intensive half-day or full-day session, designed around the particular context and challenges facing the organisation. Through facilitated dialogue and executive coaching, I help the group step back from immediate demands, explore what climate change means for their organisation, and develop a stronger shared understanding of the environment in which they are making decisions.
The aim is to create breakthroughs in the group's capacity to think and work together — opening up greater strategic flexibility, creativity and collaboration. From that stronger foundation, boards and leadership teams can develop strategies and ways of operating that are more responsive to a changing climate and better equipped for the future.
Engagements can be standalone or form part of a longer programme of support, depending on what the organisation needs.
Start the climate conversation
If your board or leadership team is ready to explore what climate change means for your organisation — and how you can respond with greater clarity, creativity and collective capacity — let’s talk.