In time for Earth Day, Dana Dohse and Steven Goldman are joined by a special guest to talk about how to begin your journey into the ESG or sustainability career field. Over the past year, we’ve seen a “green wave” of skilled workers looking to shift to roles focused on sustainability or ESG issue areas, either at their current company or at a new one, or taking their talents from Big Tech to Climate Tech companies.
Mike Hower, a sustainability expert with an unconventional career trajectory, has been helping companies to report out and tell stories about their ESG and sustainability impacts in roles across the last 15 years. Mike recently founded Hower Impact, his own sustainability communications consultancy, and Impact Hired, a platform aimed at helping people find impact jobs — while making it easier for companies to find the experienced hires they need to achieve their sustainability ambitions.
In this episode, he joins Dana and Steven to dig into how professionals can transition their existing skills into sustainability and ESG-focused work, the unique challenges and strategies faced when hiring ESG professionals, how the growing climate tech is creating new opportunities, and how those already in ESG roles need to stay ahead of future regulatory requirements for ESG reporting and adoption.
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Resources:
Ingredients for a Nuclear Power Renaissance with Brookfield All-Star Panel
Energy Minute: How The Emissions First Partnership is Putting Emissionality Front & Center
Devil’s in the Details: Advancing Granular Carbon Data with EnergyTag’s Killian Daly
REPLAY: Creating Sustainable Infrastructure-as-a-Service with Generate Capital’s Nam Nguyen
Energy Minute: Green Tariffs as a Path for Sourcing Clean Energy
Decarbonizing Flight: Growing the Sustainable Aviation Fuel Market with Kim Carnahan
Moving Corporate Clean Energy Adoption “Beyond the Megawatt” with Apex’s Erik Haug
Evolving Nuclear Power and Its Role in Decarbonization with Westinghouse’s Dr. Rita Baranwal
Pioneer Portrait: Inside Jan Pepper’s Push to Provide 24/7 Renewable Energy for Californians
Energy Minute: A Shift Towards Mandatory Due Diligence on Sustainability in the EU
Building (and Rebuilding) for Net Zero with Architect Lori Ferriss
Energy Minute: The EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive Ups the Ante on ESG Disclosures
REPLAY: Taking Data Centers to Net Zero with Iron Mountain’s Chris Pennington
Energy Minute: Appetite for Hydrogen is Booming, But How Do We Ensure It’s Green?
Creating Sustainable Infrastructure-as-a-Service with Generate Capital’s Nam Nguyen
Scaling Up Local Government’s Sustainability Ambitions with Harris County’s Lisa Lin
Energy Minute: Growing the Carbon Impact of Renewable Energy through Additionality or Emissionality
Growing Clean Energy Jobs & Decarbonizing Low-Income Communities with Nicole Steele, U.S. EPA & DOE
Energy Minute: Reuse, Repurpose or Recycle - Pathways to Reducing Waste in Key Clean Energy Sectors
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