Climate Action & Transition Leadership

Alexandra consults and teaches on purpose-driven leadership and culture change. She has worked internationally with business, government, civil society, and networks, often facilitating dialogue and learning between them in pursuit of systems change. Highlights include integrating sustainability into the UAE’s national schools curriculum, facilitating dialogue on climate change with UK Members of Parliament, facilitating a systems-wide collaboration in the UK food sector to reduce environmental impacts of packaging, and leading learning conferences for low carbon development policy makers and experts. From an early career in change consulting in the City of London, she moved to Ashridge Business school in 2005, where she helped build the successful Sustainability Consulting practice.

Since 2013 she has led Talik & Company, a sustainability-focused Organisation Development consultancy. Notable clients include UK Central Government, UAE Ministry of Education, Microsoft, Barclays, Renewable Energy Systems, Rockefeller Foundation, UK Green Building Council, Low Emissions Development Strategies Global Partnership, Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership. Her doctoral research into organisational engagement with sustainability produced a values-based systemic change model, now widely applied and taught in business schools, and due to be published in 2023 in a book chapter on relational team coaching.

A seasoned sustainability leader and Clean50 honouree, Nadine led corporate sustainability strategy, partnership development and employee engagement initiatives for sustainable business pioneer, Interface Inc. for over ten years. Currently completing her Ph.D. in sustainability education and organizational change, she’s Faculty for the Graduate Certificate program in Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability at St. Michael’s College, University of Toronto. Nadine is a LEED accredited professional who has served on the Boards of the National Zero Waste Council, US Green Building Council Education Advisory Committee and Canadian Business for Social Responsibility.

Sara is deeply interested in understanding how sustainability change agents build and maintain their professional resilience in the face of profound role-related challenges. Sara also researches how CEOs, senior executives, and board chairs come to broaden what they have traditionally viewed as strategic, such that they begin to prioritize ecological and social issues in their core governance and decision-making processes.

Sara is a PhD Candidate and Lecturer at Beedie School of Business, Simon Fraser University, as well as a corporate sustainability consultant. She is a seasoned researcher, practitioner, storyteller, connector, collector, and communicator. Prior to academia, Sara worked as a sustainability consultant to international brands, including IKEA, Teck Resources, Lululemon Athletica, WWF International, Four Seasons, Ledcor, and ABN Amro.

Taylor is a passionate problem-solver and environmentalist who works to drive systems change toward a more climate-positive, equitable, and socially-just future that is sustainable for people and the planet. She brings over 6 years of experience researching & developing sustainable materials from renewable resources, from both an academic and private start-up lens. With more than 5 sustainability related micro-credentials, Taylor believes in lifelong learning. Taking inspiration from biology in her approach to solving challenges, she demonstrates that nature is our greatest teacher. As a McMaster alumna, holding a B.Eng & Society and M.A.Sc in Chemical Engineering, Taylor brings new perspectives to the way we design and engineer our future, one that works with the planet, and not against it.