(FREE) Climate Confessional with Jenny Hampton
What Is A Climate Confessional
Climate Confessionals are a space where we talk about the good, the bad, and the ugly of being a sustainability professional. We interview a sustainability creative leader and have you join our live podcast taping. We meet and deep-dive into their story with a throughline that will resonate with our community.
Topic
I'm super excited for this conversation with Jenny Hampton this week. I had the opportunity to work for Jenny and she is an incredible leader in the climate space, so I can tell you, you don't want to miss this one!
In this conversation, we talk about:
How boundaries can create a pathway to leadership
And how to take care of yourself while working on something as big as climate change
Common themes of challenges people face while navigating their careers in climate
About Today's Guest
Jenny Hampton is a Partner at Guidehouse with 20 years of experience designing human-centered energy and climate programs across both corporate and community contexts. Rooted in social science, organizational psychology, and behavior change, she has spent her career at the intersection of people and systems, helping governments, utilities, and nonprofits navigate the complexity of the clean energy transition with both rigor and deep care for the humans inside it. Jenny brings a mindfulness-based lens to her work, drawing on her own journey of releasing the weight of "saving the world" as a personal burden to guide others toward more sustainable, community-rooted ways of working. She believes that inner ecology and outer ecology are inseparable, and that burnout, grief, and anxiety in climate work are not obstacles to the mission, but invitations to tend to it differently.
Fast forward to today, it’s clear Jenny is someone who has learned how to read a room, navigate complexity, and step into what’s needed.