Our journey
Turning powerful ideas into actionable next steps
We began in 2019 with a mission to drive climate action in business. Over the years our work has deepened to tackling the economic root causes driving the crisis, and bringing new economic models into reality where it matters most. We work with our partners in many ways: open education and community-building, capacity-building in organisations and universities, and institutional collaborations. Always with the same purpose - accelerating the shift to a new economy that puts people and planet first.
Since 2019, we have empowered over 4,500 people driving climate action in their organisations...
It started as a network: a place for the people responsible for climate action inside their companies to stop being the only one in the building thinking about it.
The LFCA Community is now one of our key projects for proving the approach in practice - a few thousand members working on climate and environmental goals together rather than in isolation.
We do this by equipping them with the necessary open-source knowledge, tools and community
We started by giving away what we knew. Our knowledge platform has been free and openly licensed from the first day, so anyone can act on it without going through us.
Then we campaigned. Time for Climate Action pulled 500+ organisations and 100+ influencers into a single week, and across our public campaigns we have reached more than 82 million people. And we worked upstream: 40+ venture capital firms agreed to write a sustainability clause into the terms they offer startups, so the question arrives before the first hire does.
We also build the skills needed to truly land new ideas in an organisation
Later the work went deeper: courses, workshops and tools, built with practitioners and given away rather than sold.
We integrate leadership & change management skills into all of our sessions, and even developed a specific live, cohort-based course for our community to develop their capacity to lead on social and environmental transformation - whatever their role.
Over 90 participants have completed it - here's what they're grateful for:
“Every module connected directly to my real challenge at work. I did not just learn frameworks, I applied them to my actual organisation, my actual stakeholders and my actual next steps. I left every session with something concrete I could do differently the following week.”
Laura BiallySeibert Group“This course made me feel truly empowered to drive the sustainability change that my organisation needs. It did not only teach me how to better push sustainability forward as a core part of our business, but also how I can identify and leverage my skillset to do so.”
Stavroula BriseniouNavvis“I came away with a much deeper understanding of how change happens in organisations. The course challenged me to reflect on my own leadership style while providing practical tools I can immediately apply in my work.”
Ikaros AltantzisPaebbl“I really appreciate the kind-hearted professionalism and warm support of LFCA in bringing expertise from sustainability experts across all industries to the table, to humbly talk about their experience yet help spark new ideas and motivate us to drive our projects and make a change in our companies, and hopefully the world. The sessions were so much fun that for the past 8-9 weeks they brought a lot of joy to my work.”
Delia YangVivira“The course provided me with a fresh outlook on how to rally support for sustainability initiatives at organizations of all sizes. Beyond that, it gave me the chance to reflect on my leadership style and consider new approaches for securing buy-in from senior internal stakeholders.”
Fred HendersonEcosia
We are grateful to have partnered with leading sustainability and new economy changemakers along the way
People learn by example. We regularly invite pioneering thinkers and doers to contribute to our courses and workshops, showing participants exactly what's involved in the daily work of driving transformation in organisations.
Special thanks to Renée Lertzman, Andrew Winston, Maja Göpel, Julie Menter, Holly Alpine and Bob Willard, among countless others.
Over the years, we have expanded our strategy
Climate action alone will always be limited unless it tackles the systemic logics that enable it. So we moved toward a more holistic definition of sustainability - one that recognises the urgent need for new economic models that put people and planet first.
And began our first partnerships bringing new economic frameworks to universities, industry and business
Where the next generation of decision-makers is being trained, and where today’s are already deciding.