Sustainability Directors and Managers
Engage your colleagues’ hearts and minds
so your initiatives get results and make a real difference in the world
Are you struggling to engage colleagues with sustainability?
Turning your colleagues’ disinterest into active collaboration in your organisation’s sustainability initiative is the key to success.
We’ve distilled our 20+ years experience of supporting leaders to engage colleagues and stakeholders with sustainability into five key steps in our Get Buy-In to Sustainability Quick Start Guide. A free resource you can use to quickly get to grips with the fundamentals of building engagement and collaboration.

Leadership for Sustainability: Guides, Podcast & Forum
Practical help and support
Guides & Podcast
A growing library of free resources offering insights, tools, and techniques to inspire and support you to make more progress plus hear from other sustainability directors and managers on what works for them. Check out the Guides and Podcasts…
Forums
Join our live online Forums to meet the Realise Earth co-founders and spend an hour with other sustainability directors and managers to explore the key issues and challenges that matter to you. Find our upcoming Events…
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Get expert support
Masterclass: Get buy-in to Sustainability
Masterclass – a 1-day deep dive into developing a tailored plan to engage your colleagues with sustainability, get buy-in and build your network of allies.
Coaching, Consulting & Facilitation
Expert support – tailored to your situation – to help you successfully deliver your organisation’s ESG, climate and sustainability agenda.
Leadership for Sustainability Accelerator
6-Month Programme – expert help to develop and implement a comprehensive, strategic action plan that accelerates progress and takes sustainability in your organisation to the next level.
Meet the Realise Earth team

Hi, I’m Osbert Lancaster
co-founder & director
I’ve been helping people to be more effective sustainability leaders for over twenty years. I have consulted to numerous organisation, large and small, supporting them to design and deliver sustainability strategies and climate action plans. I’ve taught sustainability at masters level and developed the University of Edinburgh’s first online MSc for professionals tackling the global challenges of environment, development and health.

Hello, I’m Morag Watson
co-founder & director
I’ve been a climate change, sustainability and leadership policy expert for nearly twenty years, and am a former UNESCO expert adviser. I’m Director of Policy for the trade body Scottish Renewables, advising the Scottish and UK governments on transitioning to a net zero, renewables powered energy system. The first sustainability leadership programme Osbert and I created was recognised as an Outstanding Flagship Project by UNESCO for its contribution to UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development.

And I’m Richard Profit
co-founder & director
I’m the CEO of the Cool Farm Alliance and former Global Operations Sustainability Senior Manager, PepsiCo, where I led the company’s climate strategy. I work with organisations around the globe, supporting their sustainability journeys as they decarbonise their supply chains.
What our clients say about us

At last I seem to be getting some real traction and influence in this and the programme has helped me identify the parts of our organisational system where I could have the most effective influence.
Chris Smith
Subject Lead – Arts
University of Plymouth

Knowing more about how to make change has given me a feeling of empowerment. I’ve been really pleased to see how the approach has worked and is valued.
Sarah Lee
Senior Associate Architect
Stride Treglown

The systems approach was a bit of a lightbulb moment in recognising that we need both direct action on those things we could easily influence as well as pushing for more strategic change.
Oli Mackie
Strategic Service Manager
NSPCC
It was such a positive experience. It gave me this feeling of life and empowerment, and direction. It helped me clarify my strengths and how I can bring sustainability into biomedical research through the European research networks I’m involved with.
Prof Marieke
van Ham
Sanquin Blood Supply Foundation and University of Amsterdam
It helped me feel less overwhelmed by the change that I and others need to make. The safe space allowed me to develop my thinking, which has had a hugely positive impact on how I incorporate sustainability in all my work.
Benjamin
Carey
Sustainable tourism consultant and crisis recovery expert

A transformational experience I will always treasure that helped me develop a stronger sense of what matters most and where I should allocate my time and energy.
Jane
Morrison
Environment Professional | Trustee, Wellbeing Economy Alliance Scotland
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