Who we are

Our mission is to accelerate the green transition by putting specialist coaching skills into the hands of climate leaders.

We know that these skills enable them to turn conversations about climate change into tangible action, and that coaching enables to protect their resilience and do their jobs better.

We pioneered the discipline of climate change coaching and created a new field within the coaching profession. We’ve been at the forefront of this work ever since and wrote the first book on the subject. Today, we are the only coaching company focused entirely on climate action. Moreover, we are a female-headed business, with strong ethical principles. We became a certified B Corporation to showcase our beliefs and demonstrate our commitment to impact for people and planet. We give away 2% of our annual turnover to charity.

It is our intention to bring coaching’s ability to change behaviour to the climate challenge so we can speed up action and keep people motivated that action is worth taking.  We believe that climate leaders deserve the very best quality coaching, tailored to their unique challenges. Our accredited and independently evaluated trainings offer training in coaching and influencing skills that help tackle the problems experienced by sustainability and climate professionals in many different organisations.

We have a deep ambition to influence the agenda in the climate sector, and further contribute to the growing body of knowledge on the skills and competencies needed to accelerate a green and just transition.

Our Story

In 2016, co-founder Charly, saw that while many were focussing on climate education, a lack of will power and pervasive sense of disempowerment was holding back action. Knowing that coaching empowers people, she was sure there it had a role. Yet many senior coaches worried that doing so meant forcing their own agenda, and strongly advised against it. Charly was convinced that the problem wasn’t making people care about the environment but rather enabling them to believe that their actions were worthwhile.

In parallel, Climate Change Coaches co-founder Zoe, had spent many years working for and with environmental NGOs, and was interested in how coaching tools could help climate leaders, both to unlock progress and reduce levels of burnout. Zoe and Charly met in their hometown of Oxford and realised that coming from different paths, they had arrived at the same conclusion: coaching and climate change needed to come together.

In late 2018, Charly was invited to speak at London’s first zero-waste Christmas market, and instead offered to bring coaches. Zoe, Megan, Hamish, Ruth, Amanda and Charly, offered rapid coaching conversations to shoppers. It was cold and awkward but it worked. The team heard how powerless people felt and were able to shift their mindsets and even set actions. The conversations proved that coaching skills could unlock climate action, and that cold December day, the company was born.

In 2019, the team tested different approaches, with workshops across Europe. They realised that most climate workers were unequipped in behaviour change, so the mission became to put coaching skills into their hands to increase their ability to empower people and overcome setbacks.

In 2020, Zoe formally became Co-Founder with Charly. Clients arrived from Europe and North America needing support with sustainability and climate. Meanwhile, the company was deluged with coaches, who saw colleagues speaking about climate change for the first time. As a result the Climate Change Coaching Mastery course was built, now in its 16 cohort, with ICF accreditation.

Leading the field has always been important. In the summer of 2022, Charly and Sarah published “Climate Change Coaching: the power of connection to create climate action” with Open University Press. In November 2022, Charly and Zoe  spoke at COP27 in Egypt, in a session that was live-streamed to 20,000 people. In January 2023, the company became a certified B Corporation. And in 2024 it partnered with Oxford Brookes University to publish landmark research into the role of soft skills in sustainability and the green transition.

The team remains critical. All but one of the original team from December 2018 are in the company today, and they have been joined by skilled colleagues, with diverse, exciting backgrounds.