Human Sustainability: From Burnout to Regenerative Leadership
Join our Women's themed event during SF Climate Week 2026!
The climate crisis isn't just reshaping our planet — it's reshaping our bodies, our nervous systems, and our ability to lead.
Today, women in climate movement are exhausted and the burden isn't distributed equally. Women are absorbing disproportionate emotional, caregiving, and labor loads during a period of compounding instability. This is showing up as hormonal disruption, nervous system overload, and a quiet exodus of talented leaders from the field — a health, workforce, and economic crisis that almost no one is talking about.
Join us for a candid, high-stakes conversation about the hidden human toll of climate work, and what it will genuinely take to build leaders, teams, and organizations that don't just survive crisis, but regenerate through it. Because if we burn out the people trying to save the world, we've already lost.
Our distinguished panelists, from different areas of the Climate movement, will dig into the costs hiding behind "resilience" narratives, why organizational design is either a liability or a lifeline, and how AI tools, from stress biomarkers to digital therapeutics, are starting to offer real solutions at scale.
Panelists Include:
Sonia Hunt, Co-Founder & CEO, Zentāra Ventures
Divya Demato, Co-Founder & CEO, GoodOps
Anitha Vadavatha, Founder & Managing Partner, AB Plus Ventures
Suma Peesapati, Environmental & Climate Justice Lawyer and Policymaker
Moderated by: Carmina Ilagan, Founder & CEO, Life Elevated Financial Strategies & Insurance Solutions, LLC
Agenda:
5:00 – 5:30 PM | Arrival + Networking
5:35 – 5:45 PM | Welcome + Intros
5:45 – 6:30 PM | Panel Discussion
6:45 PM | Closing Remarks
6:45 – 7:30 PM | Networking
Big thanks to our sponsors, Citizens Private Bank, and Henley & Partners.