Advisory Panel
Jackie Arnold
ICF Executive Coach
United Kingdom
Jackie is a thought leader in the Climate Coaching Alliance, and has run her own coaching & coach supervision company since 2001. She supports leaders, HR professionals and senior staff both in the public and private sectors. She holds remote group supervision for full time international coaches. She is a researcher, prolific author on public speaking, coaching and leadership and international conference speaker.
Jackie is a member of the International Coaching Federation, the Association of Coaches, and the European Mentoring and Coaching Council.
Andrew Gaines
Instigator, Inspiring Transition
Instigator, Inspiring Transition. Andrew integrates insights from the neurology of improving human performance, psychotherapy, design thinking and marketing.
Professionally Andrew is a Feldenkrais practitioner, creativity trainer, and a psychotherapist. He is trained in The Natural Step, Aikido and Tai Chi. His academic background is in in engineering and philosophy.
Andrew’s books include Kitchen Table Conversations, Creativity Games, and Inner Work. His TEDX talk on Transitioning to a Life-Affirming Culture is here.
Andrew Harvey
Sacred Activism
Andrew Harvey is Founder and Director of The Institute for Sacred Activism, an international organization focused on inviting concerned people to take up the challenge of our contemporary global crises by becoming inspired, effective, and practical agents of institutional and systemic change, in order to create peace and sustainability.
Sacred Activism is a transforming force of compassion-in-action that is born of a fusion of deep spiritual knowledge, courage, love, and passion, with wise radical action in the world. Andrew’s vision is that the large-scale practice of Sacred Activism can become an essential force for preserving and healing the planet and its inhabitants.
Colin Meurk
Landscape ecologist
New Zealand
Landscape ecologist and visionary sustainability educator.
Parag Mankeekar
RealLives online game
India
Parag leads the scaling of RealLives, a gamified simulation that evokes empathy and understanding in the minds of users about humans from other countries, cultures, and socio-economic contexts. RealLives has featured in the top-10 game downloads on CNET..
Richard Whitehurst
Director, Overview Institute of Australia
Australia
Richard is the founder/director of The Overview Institute of Australia along with its sister organization – the Planetary Human initiative
The Overview Institute provides videos of Earth made by astronauts which evoke a sense of awe: this Earth is our home, and we should take care of her.
Richard practices professionally as a hypnotherapist.
Wilford Welch
Author: In Our Hands: A Handbook for Intergenerational Actions to Solve the Climate Crisis
United States
A former diplomat, Wilford is the author of In Our Hands: A Handbook for Intergenerational Actions to Solve the Climate Crisis.
Chris Turney
Climate palaeontologist
Australia
Chris is a Professor of Earth Science and Climate Change at the University of New South Wales. His most recent book is Iced In: Ten Days Trapped on the Edge of Antarctica.
Ben Bowler
Executive Director
Unity Earth
UNITY EARTH is a global network of organizations and individuals building a worldwide movement for unity and peace on Earth.
Gurteen Knowledge Cafés are a conversational process to bring a group of people together to learn from each other, share experiences and make better sense of a rapidly changing, complex, less predictable world in order to improve decision making and to innovate. The Gurteen Knowledge Community is a global network of over 22,000 people in over 160 countries.