Coaching at Work Climate Coaching Action Day conference, with the Climate Coaching Alliance

Presenter(s) Bio

Lorenza Clifford is an executive coach and coaching supervisor with a background in Psychology.  She is a member and sponsor of the Climate Coaching Alliance, an Accredited Master Executive Coach with the Association for Coaching, and an Accredited Coach Supervisor with the Coaching Supervision Academy. She founded Coachange.org – working with leaders and coaches to face what is going on, working ‘with the grain’ of who they are, and their nature, ecosystems and economy. We are always coming to terms with new realities, and through enhanced curiosity, presence, choice and relationships, we can embrace our future courageously.  

Liz Hall is a leadership/ executive coach, trained mindfulness teacher and the editor of Coaching at Work since 2005. She’s the author of publications including Mindful Coaching (Kogan Page), Coach your team (Penguin Business), author/editor of Coaching in times of crisis and transformation (Kogan Page), and co-author with Dr Emma Donaldson-Feilder of Relational Mindfulness for coaches: Enhancing presence, awareness, wisdom, compassion and courageous collaboration (Routledge). She’s a contributor to Ecological and Climate Conscious Coaching (Routledge, March 2025). Committed to making a positive difference, including around how we navigate the climate emergency, Liz launched the annual Climate Coaching Action Day through Coaching at Work in March 2020, celebrating and promoting climate coaching, she’s a member of the Climate Coaching Alliance (CCA), co-facilitator of the CCA’s Compassion Community of Practice, and a coach with Social Movement Coaching, delivering CPD and coaching to climate & social justice leaders and teams. She’s trained to facilitate Joanna Macy’s The Work that Reconnects. Liz’s coaching is informed by mindfulness, compassion, somatics, attachment theory, systems thinking/feeling and adult vertical development, amongst others.

Dr Emma Donaldson-Feilder  is a Relational Mindfulness (RM) and Insight Dialogue teacher, chartered coaching psychologist, coaching supervisor and chartered occupational psychologist, who aims to support the development of kinder, wiser workplaces. In 2019 she completed a Professional Doctorate, in which she conducted research exploring the use of mindfulness and RM in leadership development. Building on this work, she developed a range of RM programmes to support leadership development and coach development. Emma trained as a mindfulness teacher through Bangor University’s Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice (UK) and as an ID teacher and Interpersonal Mindfulness Programme teacher through the Insight Dialogue Community (USA). She is co-author with Liz Hall of Relational Mindfulness for coaches: Enhancing presence, awareness, wisdom, compassion and courageous collaboration (Routledge, 2025). For many years, Emma’s work incorporated both research and practice in occupational psychology, particularly around the role of leadership and management in employee wellbeing. Her writing includes co-authorship of an award-winning book, Preventing stress in organizations: How to develop positive managers (Wiley, 2011). Her series on RM for Coaching at Work saw her receive a further writing award. Emma divides her time between London (UK) and Shoreham-by-Sea on the South Coast of the UK, where she has discovered a deep love of the ocean to add to her pre-existing love of being in natural environments such as forests, grasslands and rolling hills. She finds walking and immersing herself in any of these worlds deeply healing and uplifting.

Prof Stephen Palmer PhD is a Chartered Biologist, Chartered Coaching Psychologist and Chartered Scientist. He is an HCPC Registered counselling and health psychologist. His university appointments include being an Honorary Professor of Practice at the Institute of Management and Health, University of Wales Trinity Saint David (UWTSD), and an Adjunct Professor of Coaching Psychology at Aalborg University, Denmark. He is a also Director of Studies and Supervisor for PhD students at UWTSD. He is Co-ordinating Director of the ISCP International Centre for Coaching Psychology Research, Faculty of Climate Change and Coaching Psychology. Stephen is the Coaching at Work magazine publisher. He President of the International Society for Coaching Psychology, Vice President of the Institute of Health Promotion and Education and former President and Honorary Fellow of both the Association for Coaching and the International Stress Management Association (UK). He has written/edited 60 books and over 300 articles/book chapters on a range of topics eg wellbeing, stress, ecopsychology, climate coaching, relaxation & resilience. He describes himself as a pracademic who enjoys coastal walking and jazz. He is Chair of Relaxation UK.