Climate action - Get Sh*t Done!

If you want to know how to put the action into climate action for your organisation, this is for you.  Over two 45-minute sessions, you will explore a process for prioritising climate actions, how to achieve your outcomes, and how to communicate with your stakeholders during your outcomes journey.

Session 1 - The Eisenhower Box

The Eisenhower Box is an approach for taking action and organizing your tasks around the four Ds; Do Decide Delegate Delete. This session will focus on how your community group can prioritise climate actions against your own strategy and decide who does what.

Session 2 - Perfect is the enemy of good 

This session will start by looking at how perfectionism can slow down action, and how to get ‘good enough’ outcomes by keeping your actions simple and measurable. We will then look at how you can communicate to your stakeholders throughout the journey towards achieving your outcomes.

Esther Whitehead

Esther brings extensive experience working in the not-for-profit, social enterprise and start-up sectors. A passionate advocate for the natural environment, Esther has a background in ecology; leaning on biomimicry tools to help resolve our greatest design challenges. She also spent over a decade working in the field of neurodiversity and equity in education and brings this mātauranga and mindset to the mahi. Esther has her own consultancy, Thrivemind supporting and coaching social impact strategies. She is a founder of Sustainable Queenstown Community Trust, and a councillor at Queenstown Lakes District Council. Other significant roles include educator, writer, change facilitator and key researcher on social impact, for example, the Ākina Foundation's Impact Initiative. Esther aims to always bring empathy to the fore of her leadership.

Esther, and her climate action co-lead, Arohanui West, support the implementation of The Funders Commitment on Climate Action an initiative funded by Combined Community Trusts Aotearoa and supported by the Centre for Social Impact.