Welcome to Climate CEOs, my newsletter from Entrepreneurs for Impact (EFI).
So glad you’re here! 👍🏼
I’m on a mission to empower 250,000 entrepreneurs and investors to tackle climate change through startups, finance, and personal growth. 🚀
I do this in a few ways. And I need your help to spread the word. 🙏🏼
Climate CEO coach and peer group leader — I created and lead North America’s top climate tech CEO peer group community, with 100 members representing $40B in company value or assets to invest. With monthly group meetings, annual retreats, guest speakers, and 1:1 executive coaching calls, our members help each other boost revenue, impact, capital raised, clarity, confidence, work-life balance, and team effectiveness. This community is creating billions of dollars of market value and millions of tons of greenhouse gas reduction.
Podcast host — I’ve interviewed 270+ climate CEOs and investors on my way to 1,000 episodes @ Climate CEOs.
Climate optimist — My weekly LinkedIn posts on climate startups, finance, and leadership are short and actionable.
Teacher — I’m a professor @ Duke University, UNC Chapel Hill, and Coursera have taught 90,000 world changers so far.
Oh yeah, I forgot to say: “Hi, I’m Chris Wedding.”
I’m a former rainforest researcher in the jungles of Costa Rica and Panama, nicknamed “Nature Boy,” who became an environmental private equity investor, impact investment banker, serial founder, climate CEO whisperer, meditation practitioner for 25 years, and Time Magazine's Person of the Year in 2006. (go ahead, Google it). 😜
And equally important…
I’m also an expert in failure with way too many mistakes to keep to myself: Startups that didn’t work out. Business partnerships that fell through. Big deals that didn’t close. Visions that lacked operational follow-through. Capital raises that missed the mark. Trust that was breached. Over 90% of what I try fails. (Hopefully quickly.)
That’s all, y’all.
Make it a great week. It’s usually a choice.
~ Chris
Founder @ Entrepreneurs for Impact
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P.S. Over 100,000 CEOs are members of CEO peer groups. Are you? Check out our community for climate tech CEOs at Entrepreneurs for Impact.
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(As these photos show, I’m an actual human writing this newsletter. Not AI. 🤖)
