Thought Leadership for Humans
What if you believed you could turn up the volume on your own big ideas and become a “climate thought leader”?
Yes, you.
You've got insights trapped in Slack messages. Your hard-won lessons sit in emails only three people will read—but something stops you every time you try to publicly share these ideas.
Imposter syndrome. Fear of sounding salesy. The sneaking suspicion that "thought leader" just means "annoying person on LinkedIn."
Don’t let the climate movement lose another voice it desperately needs. Join us in this action-oriented workshop and learn a better way.
You’ll work with other climate professionals to identify your thought leadership archetype, get started designing your own tiny experiment, and leave with a concrete next step toward building your thought leadership practice (instead of yet another goal).
Journalist and writing instructor Katie Gilbert will guide you through a framework that makes practicing thought leadership inspiring rather than draining, and will help you see how claiming your public voice benefits more than your career—it benefits the whole movement.
About Katie Gilbert
Katie is a Philadelphia-based writer, journalist, editor, and writing professor. She specializes in “climate translation”: the craft of simplifying, clarifying, and humanizing technical info about climate risks and solutions so it's accessible to various audiences.
She has partnered on projects with Columbia Business School's Climate Knowledge Initiative, the Three Cairns Group, ImpactAssets, FREYR Battery, and many academic researchers. She’s helped her clients produce op-eds and articles, email newsletters, white papers, event summaries, and book proposals and manuscripts.
Her journalism has appeared in The Atlantic, the Oxford American, Pacific Standard, Al Jazeera America, Philadelphia Citizen, Psychology Today, Institutional Investor, Responsible Investor, and elsewhere.
She teaches a first-year writing course for visual art students at Massachusetts College of Art and Design (MassArt). In partnership with the Climate Drift Community, she leads a recurring six-week program called Thought Leadership for Humans, to support climate-passionate thinkers and doers as they amplify their public voices.
Connect with Katie on LinkedIn.