Employee advocates across influential companies representing multiple sectors gathered for an in person employee climate action retreat focused on influence as a transformative green skill. The retreat was designed to maximize employee impact in several key ways including: 1. Shifting power dynamics 2. Building cross-company alliances and 3. Exploring collective action opportunities for companies to shape climate action and meaningful systemic change.
Project Goals
Influence policy and decision-making
Raise awareness and shift mindsets in society
Focus Area
Business Models & Strategy
Corporate Leadership
What gave you the courage to start?
The objective of the meeting was to provide participants with an unique opportunity to enhance their influence skills, build deep relationships, and take collective action with like-minded colleagues. Unlike top-down authority, influence ripples in every direction inside companies. The retreat curriculum was built around three key elements of influence: systems thinking, coalition building, and collective action.
The Outcome
Over the course of the retreat, attendees learned how to decode the systems shaping corporate climate policy, identify key decision-makers in their own workplaces, and engage allies across the company to take collective climate action. Each employee outlined commitments for personal action steps in the next 3 days, 3 weeks, and 3 months after the meeting. Employees are now invited to meet regularly across companies to foster employee collaboration and share best practices.
The Impact
Employees are organizing events across companies including for upcoming Climate Weeks. Employees are meeting regularly across companies to collaborate, share best practices and take collective action. Employees are actively working for greener retirement plans and advocating for climate policies at work.