MY WORK
I provide consulting services for employee engagement, helping make sustainability part of everybody's job.
For employers: I work with employers to create top-down programming to engage the entire workforce in sustainability. By integrating employee engagement with existing sustainability goals and strategies, supporting the development of green teams, and using change management to communicate more effectively, I help create a culture of sustainability in any organization.
For job seekers: I work with job seekers to help them divest their talent from destruction. A tightening labor market, impossibly high expectations for past experience, low supply, overwhelming demand, and a lack of transferable professional skills are keeping thousands of people from landing their dream jobs in sustainability. My 1:1 climate career coaching services can help anyone make the transition to a climate job and align professional energy with planetary boundaries.
May 2024 at the GreenBiz Circularity conference discussing the intersection of employee engagement and a circular economy.
BLOGS and ARTICLES
To Change Everything, We Need Everyone: a February 2025 blog, via ClimateVoice, about how employees at Microsoft, Google, LinkedIn, Salesforce, and Pinterest have successfully organized into employee sustainability communities to drive change.
‘Activist’ is not a dirty word: Redefining what it means to take climate action, an August 2024 feature by Work for Climate where I argue in favor of workplace climate activism as an essential tool to drive meaningful change.
Meet the man who turned 10,000 Microsoft employees on to climate action, a July 2024 profile interview by Work for Climate about my work to make sustainability part of everybody’s job, first in Microsoft, and now in every company.
Microsoft employees spent years fighting the tech giant’s oil ties. Now, they’re speaking out, a May 2024 article by GRIST inside the worker-led effort to get the world's most valuable company to stop helping the oil and gas industry drill.
From Stage to Strategy: How Hardcore Punk Ethics Revolutionize Business Leadership, an April 2024 article outlining several examples of people who came up through the punk music scene and have gone on to have high impact in corporate and professional settings.
Employee Advocates Show Individuals Can Address Climate Change, a March 2024 article from The Sweaty Penguin summarizing various success stories of employees taking climate action at work.
What I Learned From Getting Laid Off, a March 2024 blog outlining my journey from getting laid off from Microsoft, to how I started my own consulting business, with lessons learned along the way. Deeply personal, a little spicy, and arguably funny, this is a side of me you don’t see professionally as often.
ClimateVoice: Connect the Dots, a Jan 2024 newsletter that outlines the critical role employees can play in ensuring their companies align their climate policy positions and advocacy with their sustainability commitments.
Inside Job: Crafting Climate Careers Without Changing Employers, an original blog from Jan 2024 that shares practical tips any employee can use to advocate for more sustainability resources in their company to create climate job opportunities.
Employee Engagement for Sustainability, an original blog from November 2023 that explains the importance of engaging all employees in a company’s sustainability efforts.
The Critical Role of Employee Sustainability Communities and How to Build One, an original blog from April 2023 that explains the importance of employee sustainability communities and shares best practices on how to run them effectively.
Make Sustainability Part of Everybody's Job, an original blog from February 2022 that explores why sustainability should be a part of everybody's job and how to make it happen.
Plastic Free Oceans 2: A Hackathon project with Microsoft and The Ocean Cleanup, a blog from 2019 outlining a multi-year Hackathon project I ran with TOC to help them use technology to rid the world’s oceans of plastic pollution.
Microsoft Hackathon leads to AI and sustainability collaboration to rid plastic from rivers and the ocean, a Microsoft article outlining my work with The Ocean Cleanup to clean plastic pollution out of the world’s oceans.
PODCASTS
How a punk-rocking paralegal harnessed employee power to green Microsoft, a 30 min podcast from Degrees via the Environmental Defense Fund about my journey into creating my own climate job and empowering thousands of others to find their path.
Coffee & Change: Climate Change and Essential Activism with Drew Wilkinson, a 1 hour podcast going deep on my journey from the underground punk scene to the heights of corporate sustainability and what the experiences have in common.
Powered by the People: It Rarely Hurts to Ask, a 40 min podcast oral history of how the Microsoft employee sustainability community was founded.
The shortest path to a climate job is the one you already have.
FEATURETTES
Meet the man who turned 10,000 Microsoft employees on to climate action, a July 2024 profile interview by Work for Climate about my work to make sustainability part of everybody’s job, first in Microsoft, and now in every company.
Meet the Seattle punk rocker who wants your boss to take action on the (fastcompany.com)
Climate at Work: The Power of Community Organizing Masterclass video
Climate at Work: Building Impactful Workplace Sustainability Communities video
"We don’t give up easily. ‘No’ doesn’t intimidate us.", Microsoft Life article
Drew Wilkinson followed his dream in pursuing Microsoft Hackathon project video