Just like you, we want to make a contribution to alleviating the impact of climate change. We believe that belief is a self-fulfilling prophecy, and we know as coaches that when people believe and are believed in, they do incredible things. In every interaction we have, we see our job as cultivating that belief. We give you the skills to do the same, so that the transition feels possible, and you feel capable and even excited about it.
We are all professionally trained coaches with years of experience and thousands of hours of coaching under our belts. We know first-hand that change is possible for everyone. Our team have worked in leadership development, psychotherapy and change management, in sustainability, environmentalism, international development, the military, start-ups and multi-national for-profit businesses. Whoever you are, we have someone who really ‘gets it’ the way you do.
Charly has been a coach for 8 years, having previously built and run her own creative agency in West Africa. She founded the climate change coaches when she realised that powerlessness was holding a lot of us back when it comes to the climate crisis. Charly is an ICF Professional Certified Coach and a trained co-active and relationship, systems coach, with over 2600 hours of coaching experience. She previously taught in the Business School at Oxford Brookes University. She is also a professional facilitator to organisations pursuing carbon zero and others in the green economy. Charly passionately believes that coaching has a big role to play in enabling our collective sense of capability and resilience, and she and Sarah Flynn are writing a book about this for McGraw Hill Open University Press.
Charly Cox
Founder
Zoe has spent 17 years working in the environment sector, starting her career running a busy press office for Earthwatch, and then moving into Learning & Development where she worked with scientists to design innovative climate leadership programmes for multinational companies, schools, and young people. She is trained as a Co-Active Coach, facilitator, NLP and MBTI practitioner but only when she completed her postgraduate degree in Sustainable Leadership did she start to explore the relationship between coaching and climate action. This led to a glass of wine with Charly, and the rest is history. Zoe also leads the environment practice for Oxford HR and enjoys growing wonky veg and swimming in the Thames with her two children.
Zoe Greenwood
Co-Founder
Laura is our admin support for the team. She has worked across many different projects in various industries in her career. Including managing a beautiful bridal boutique for ten years where she found a passion for creating an exceptional experience for the brides visiting the boutique and was nominated for a special recognition award within the UK bridal industry for her customer service skills. Laura now runs her own VA business offering remote administration support to a variety of clients including the Climate Change Coaches. Laura enjoys working alongside and supporting our team and our clients. Based in surrey with her young son, partner (and two rescue bunnies), Laura enjoys exploring all the wonderful natural spaces on her doorstep, usually this includes hunting for Gruffalo!
Laura Elliott
Support and Administration
Joey is a professional coach, facilitator & retreat host. She works with purpose-driven leaders & change-makers as they increase their resilience & focus, and connect with their purpose & potential. At the root of her work is the belief that well supported & resourced people make unstoppable change-agents. Joey has 10 years and 1000+ hours of coaching experience. She is a Co-Active (CTI) certified coach who holds ICF PCC. In her work she combines her coaching knowledge with NLP and Neuroscience to support transformative change in her clients. Joey lives with her daughter, husband and dog in Cornwall, where they dig a lot of sandcastles – often in the rain!
Joey Clifton
Climate Change Coach
Emily is a health and nutrition coach who helps people to rethink their relationship to food: for themselves, their family, their community and for the planet. How we grow and consume food is a big part of the climate change problem, but also the solution. Emily believes that the choices we make today determine the conditions our children will live with tomorrow and that through nutrition coaching we can begin to reimagine our place in the modern food system. Emily trained with the Cadence Health International College of Nutrition and Coaching, and has worked as a food writer and consultant in Paris since 2011.
Emily Buchanan
Climate Change Coach
Ruth trained as a coach with the Institute of Educational Coaching in 2004, after qualifying as a history teacher. Driven by her passion to challenge injustice, Ruth works with leaders, helping them to anchor their professional commitments in their purpose, and to build relational cultures where individuals flourish. Ruth’s coaching style is characterised by a deep commitment to her clients and a confidence in their resourcefulness. Ruth loves spending her spare time in nature with her family; she brings to the climate change coaches her hope for a world in which all life prospers and a desire to use her skills to help tackle the greatest challenge of our age.
Ruth Springer
Climate Change Coach
Sarah believes that the nature of our relationship with ourselves often flows through into our relationship with others, and ultimately into our relationship with this beautiful planet. Sarah spent many years researching individual, relational and systemic resilience and loves working with sustainability professionals to align their wellbeing and performance so that they can thrive as they create purposeful change in the world. Sarah is a Psychologist, an ICF accredited coach (PCC) and trained Organisation, Relationship and Systems coach (CRR Global). She is an invited lecturer on ‘Authentic Resilience for Sustainable Performance’ at the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leaders (CISL). Her favourite activity is swimming in the sea with her dog.
Sarah Flynn
Climate Change Coach
Megan believes that two of the most powerful words in any language are: 'what if?'. She believes that the stories we tell ourselves about what's possible -- in ourselves, in our communities, and across our planet -- have enormous impact, and should be chosen carefully rather than accepted unthinkingly. Having worked in the startup ecosystem in Vancouver, she now coaches leaders and entrepreneurs at universities, climate summer schools, and incubators. Megan began her training with CTI, and is a CPCC and ICF PCC. Her coaching has been described as potent, intuitive, and deeply compassionate. She lives in Edinburgh with her three boys, one of whom has four legs.
Megan Fraser
Climate Change Coach
Ruma is a highly experienced C-Suite coach with a focus on legacy or simply put, taking responsibility for our own impact. Just like we have a unique fingerprint, she believes, we have a unique imprint / destiny / purpose. It is our responsibility to bring that to life; to tune into the patterns of how we relate to our own selves, with others, and also with resources such as nature, money, time etc. Only then can we journey effortlessly. Her deep interest on the topic of inclusion and how we co-create (non)inclusion revealed the urgency of inclusion of climate change in her work. Ruma is sharp, challenging and creative in her coaching style. She is CTI (co-active) & ORSC (relationships & systems) certified, holds the ICF PCC and WABC CBC credentials and has coached & facilitated teams across 14 countries.
Ruma Biswas
Climate Change Coach
As leaders experience ever more complexity and ambiguity in the face of the climate emergency, Claire is passionate about working with her clients to bring clarity and connection. It is her strong belief that leaders are more effective when they are aware of and playing to their strengths, and this lies at the heart of her coaching. Claire works with senior leaders across private, public and not-for-profit sectors. Her systemic approach combines academic rigour, over 10 years
experience in a global corporate environment and her own capacity for learning and growth. She is an accredited coach with AoEC and a Tutor at Cambridge Institute of Sustainable Leadership.
Claire lives with her husband, 3 children and labrador in Wokingham where they enjoy plenty of walks and (semi-successfully) growing vegetables.
experience in a global corporate environment and her own capacity for learning and growth. She is an accredited coach with AoEC and a Tutor at Cambridge Institute of Sustainable Leadership.
Claire lives with her husband, 3 children and labrador in Wokingham where they enjoy plenty of walks and (semi-successfully) growing vegetables.
Claire Goodman
Climate Change Coach
What we believe
The climate crisis is a human problem
Climate change is a human behaviour problem. Changing our behaviour can help us survive it and acknowledging this gives us some power. The more ingenious and creative the changes we can imagine, the better.
Change requires connection
People listen when they feel a connection. If they don’t feel heard they’re not going to budge. You can only connect with people on an emotional level. People’s hearts have to come into it. We can’t ignore the big emotions.
Action that counts needs a head-heart balance
However compelling the science about climate change, data doesn’t change behaviour. Positive emotions and belief do. Overwhelming emotions can prevent us taking effective action. We need to balance the head and the heart.
Climate leadership is for everyone
With the right skills, anyone can influence and inspire others to act and make changes for the climate. Every conversation and every individual action swells the wider waves of change. And every person with these skills can share them with others.