Political Pod – Shaping Tomorrow Book Circle. Step 2: Grasping Climate Politics

Presenter(s) Bio

Kat Haber is a pioneering climate coach who has organized TEDxVail for 16 years, demonstrating her long-term commitment to fostering important conversations about sustainability and innovation. In 2014, she walking across the country to raise awareness about climate issues in the Great March for Climate Action. Simultaneously she founded the WE Rotary Club of International Peace. Her global impact includes participation in the Global Summit for 750 Local Leaders at COP21 in 2015, where she engaged with 200 Chinese mayors who had already completed their first five-year plans for climate solutions in their cities.

Kat divides her time between four meaningful locations: Vail, Colorado for winter skiing where she asks directed climate-related questions to most of the people with whom she rides the chairlift; Waikoloa on Hawaii's Big Island where her son's family and her husband reside; Homer, Alaska where she convenes the Elders Council of the Center for Alaskan Coastal Studies; and her birthplace of Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, which recently delivered a significant electoral defeat to Elon Musk despite his $25 million investment in that Supreme Court race. For the past five years she has been studying online event production and engaging in weekly 2-hour conversations with global TEDx organizers from Australia, Europe, and the Americas. Clarifying the most effective method of activating and sustaining climate action to speed and scale is her daily delight. She invites you online to her 4th Climate Staycation September 25-27.

Lydia Stevens is an executive coach, facilitator, trainer, mother and grandmother. After 20 years of working as a consultant in sustainable development, Lydia re-trained as an executive coach at Henley Business School to work with businesses, communities and individuals to serve people and the planet. Lydia uses her coaching skills to find the spark that we all have within us that motivates us to contribute both small and big steps to a sustainable world. Lydia is an active member of Climate Coaching Alliance.

Her coaching includes climate and biodiversity work, systemic thinking, and bringing what lies beneath the surface into focus. Lydia co-hosted Connect with Something Bigger for a group of CEOs and leaders to support collective learning during COVID-19. Her breadth of experience covers transition as a leader, especially for founders of businesses and those fitting into their shoes once founders leave. Lydia is passionate about supporting younger people and global networks.