Climate Drift

We’re building Climate Drift to move 1M professionals into Climate. Here's how 👇

👉 We help mid-career professionals find their first leadership role in climate through the Climate Drift Career Accelerator (All-in). 
(Apply here: https://tally.so/r/m6Z955)

👉 We run the best Climate Community for executive and senior professionals (Easy first-step).
(Apply here: (https://tally.so/r/mDbGv5)

👉 We run a FREE “Find Your Climate Niche” email Learning Course (Dip your toes).
(Get it here: https://tally.so/r/wodXoP )


So far we're onto something.

Our last Climate Drift Career Accelerator cohort received a Net Promotor Score (NPS) of 75 and 4.7/5 star rating from senior professionals who are notoriously hard to impress.

Plus we’re getting reviews like this: 😍

1️⃣ “This is truly like no cohort out there! (I've done a few). The intimate community setting and amazing, intelligent speakers are unmatched.”

2️⃣ “I’ve already gotten tremendous value out of the course; specifically the action-oriented nature of the course (learning + doing, not just learning) and the orientation towards landing a career in climate and HOW to do it”

3️⃣ ”I learned SO MUCH and feel 10x more equipped for my climate career goals than before.”

4️⃣ “10 out of 10: The content is in-depth and interesting, and gives the cohort opportunities to get involved by tackling challenges hands on (which in my opinion, is the best way to learn!)


We do all of this in partnership with World-class Climate VCs and Climate Tech Companies 🙏

(All info available on the Climate Drift website).

Co-Founder

Take2

A Second Chance At Life:
Take2 helps to unlock the full potential of individuals within our justice system.

Board of Advisors

AimHi Earth

Upskilling millions of employees to drive sustainability transformations and save this planet.

Member Board of Directors

Edmund Hillary Fellowship (EHF)

The EHF fellowship is a world-class, high-trust network of serial entrepreneurs, industry experts, and investors building solutions for the next set of global challenges.

EHF Fellow

Senior Advisor - Online Learning Group

Senior Director of Product Management

Trilogy Education

𝘛𝘳𝘪𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢𝘤𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 2𝘜 𝘧𝘰𝘳 $750𝘔.

Leading the integration of the Trilogy Online Learning Platform offering our bootcamp programs in partnership with 15 universities (Berkeley, UCLA, Columbia, etc.) while growing revenues from $0 to $xxM ARR within 10 months.

Highlights:
> Built a small “Tiger-team” and launched our first UC Berkeley pilot within 6 weeks.
> Established, trained and led 40+ cross-functional people responsible for platform product management, program support, TA management, mentor recruiting and management, achieving industry-leading satisfaction rates for our online programs.
> Trained 100+ admission advisors on how to position and sell a mentor-led online coding bootcamp offering.

Senior Director of Product Management (acquired by 2U, Inc.)

Firehose Project

𝘍𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢𝘤𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘛𝘳𝘪𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺 𝘌𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘚𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘪𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘢𝘯 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘴𝘶𝘮.

Built and grew Firehose - an online coding bootcamp - to be the industry leader (4.3/5 student satisfaction, >60 NPS, >70% completion rates) enabling thousands of people to transition careers and skill up.

Highlights:
> Bootstrapped company from $0 to $xM ARR and beyond
> Hired, trained and managing team of 12 
> Leading the recruitment and training of 100+ senior software engineers (Github, PayPal, Shopify, Salesforce, etc.) for the Firehose mentor team
> Leading the entire product development of the Firehose online learning platform connecting thousands of students, hundreds of mentors and dozens of TAs in a central place.
> Established $4M partnerships with the Department of Labor (TechHire) and Youth Policy Institute to award $1M in scholarships to increase diversity in tech.
> Partnered with RefugeesOnRails to aid the European Refugee crisis and give technical skills to people in need across 4 European cities.


More at firehoseproject.com

CEO | Co-Founder (acquired by Trilogy Education)

FirehoseWeekend

Turned a side-project showing a handful of people how to code into teaching fast-paced web development courses at leading Universities (Harvard, Carnegie Mellon, Brown, etc.) 

Highlights:
> Grew company from $0 to $25K in monthly revenue
> Developed A/B testing system to consistently improve our curriculum and fundamentally understand how people learn complex technical concepts
> Developed project based Ruby on Rails web development curriculum and instruction philosophy from scratch
> Ran classroom instruction and personally taught several hundred students how to build web applications

Co-Founder & Web Development Instructor

Flywire

Leading the user experience for the entire customer facing Flywire platform, ultimately processing $1B+ in international tuition payments per year.

Highlights:

> Laid out the short- and long-term strategic user experience product roadmap for the engineering team.
> Established product conversion funnel metrics to introduce an experimentation mindset into the company culture and developed the company’s first A/B tests, resulting in $200k+ MRR within 3 weeks
> Build user research groups in high-volume markets (e.g. China, India, etc.), synthesized and evangelized the user voice, and adjusted the short-term product roadmap to improve feature usage by 30% for the most valuable user segments.

Product Manager for UX

Jana

It's a start-up and we wear many fancy hats around here. My favorite hat is Product Management.

Creating new products for our B2B platform means starting with use cases, sketching wire frames and writing detailed product specifications. Every product feature we build, I test myself and communicate consistently with engineering to deliver scalable solutions.

When I don't work on our core research product I optimize landing pages, test lead generation strategies through case studies and run global research projects for our Fortune 500 clients.

I also instituted a weekly ice-cream budget which benefits... well, mostly me!

Product Manager

“**Daddy, what have you done to keep Mother Earth healthy?**”  👉 Having a good answer for my kids when this Q hits is my personal North Star.

Over the last decade, I bootstrapped my technical education company to be the market leader (60+ NPS), helped 1,000s of people transition careers, sold the first $2M in revenue by myself, got acquired by the fastest growing EdTech company in the US, and scaled the entire online offering to 8-figures ARR in year 1, leading to a $750M acquisition. 

And learning an unbelievable amount of company-building skills (12 to 500 to 4,000 people).

Today, I use all this experience for my next chapter: 

Transitioning 1M people into the Climate Economy. 

My portfolio:
> I’m on the board of 3 high-impact organizations in climate and education. 
> I mentor impact entrepreneurs through the Edmund Hillary Fellowship.
> I built one 6-figure, one 7-figure, and one 8-figure business. 

**How I can help you today**:

→ The Climate Drift Community helps you build a successful career inside the Climate Economy.
Members learn from their peers, get feedback on projects they’re working on, and level up their skills through our weekly community events.
👉 Info + Apply here: ClimateDrift.com/Community

→ My FREE "Find Your Climate Niche" email crash course, helps 100s find their space in the Climate Economy.
👉 Get on the list here: https://tally.so/r/wodXoP

→ My 8-week Climate Drift Career Accelerator has an NPS of 75 and a 4.7/5 stars satisfaction rate, with an all-star community of mid-career professionals transitioning into climate from Apple, Spotify, Google, JP Morgan Chase, etc.
👉 Info + Apply here: ClimateDrift.com/Accelerator

Opening my Network.

If you are looking for a job, comment what you are looking for below. 

I have a strong network with amazing people.

Many Founders, recruiters, and hiring managers (especially in Climate) will see this.

All it takes is the right person to see your comment, at the right time, for many things to fall into place.

Use this and a bit of networking to help you achieve your goals faster 🙌


Let’s go 💪

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PS. Want to get even more value out of this?

👉 Comment + send me a connection request. 

I will DM you my favorite FREE resources that already helped a lot of people find high-impact work.

PPS. Will also try and look at as many comment & profiles as possible to see if I can help you in any way.

Marco Morawec

Up-skilling 1M people into climate | Founder | Last exit at $750M | I break down climate solutions so 5th graders understand them

Christin Light, LXD ✨✨

90% of you have no idea how to learn. 

And neither did I. Until I realized how our brains work👇

And just to be clear:

I say this as somebody who taught at the best universities (Harvard, Carnegie Mellon, Brown, etc.).

Spent the last 15 years in education. 

Helped 1,000s up-skill and land high-impact work while moving up the economic ladder.

But before Diana Hughes showed me what matters most.

I had no idea how our brains actually work.

Why does Diana know??

Because, she:

→ Holds 3 patents in game-based learning systems  that delivered 3x higher learning gains.

→ Spent 12 years translating  the latest learning science into learning products that actually work

→ And is now the head of product for an AI teaching simulator company.

→ And she’s a Climate Driftie and part of our community.


We always run a deep dive on this topic for every single Climate Drift Career Accelerator cohort and it’s making a HUGE difference.

And for everyone who’s not part of Climate Drift yet (join if you care about being successful in your career).

Diana was kind enough to write down what matters when it comes to learning.

6,000+ people already read her entire deep dive on the Climate Drift substack.

I leave the link in the comments.

Here are my 3 main points to get you started:

1️⃣ Your brain is not a library where you download and retrieve info; it's a limited workbench where knowledge gets actively built piece by piece. 

Most people get overwhelmed because they don't realize working memory can only juggle 3-4 new pieces for about 10 seconds before they vanish.

2️⃣ Effective learning depends on dual-coding. Using both verbal and visual channels to process info. 
Trying to learn on just one channel leads to distraction and poor retention, which explains why single-mode learning like dense reports or lectures rarely sticks.

3️⃣ Emotions are gatekeepers of learning: anxiety and fear literally set your brain on fire, shrinking working memory and wrecking recall. 

👉 Keeping your mood positive and regulation sharp is just as crucial as the content itself.


(Thank you for everything you’re doing, diana!).


For everyone else, join the Climate Drift community and get first class access to a network full of leaders.

Let’s go! 🙌

Head of Product | 3X Patent Holder | Blending learning science, tech & design to help kids and educators succeed

I’m ALL about lifting others up.

And I asked my friend Eugene Kirpichov to send me a 1 min video.

Explaining what he does at Work on Climate.

(One of the most respected Climate non-profits I know).

So others can get behind it.

And just to be clear:

I’ve donated my time (I’m on the WOC board) and money (whatever I could give) to WOC before.

And will continue to do so.

Yes, I am building Climate Drift.

Yes, we’re moving a lot of people into climate (we focus exclusively on senior /exec level).

But I never looked at this game as a zero-sum, winner takes all.

Eugene and I have been supporting and helping each other for years.

Go do the same and pick WOC as the non-profit you support this holiday season.

And please tell Eugene what you liked best about his 1-minute pitch in the comments.

(he hates that I make him do those pitch videos 🤣).


Let’s go!

Link to donate in first comment.

The Chief of Staff at Kelvin (Lowercarbon Capital Portco) is a Climate Driftie 🙌

Amit Dar 2 soundbites with all of our Drifties that stuck with me. 


👉 "The number one thing...

I got out of Climate Drift is community. 

Lean on it between your cohort, but also the past cohorts. Reach out whenever you need help or support. 

It’s lonely doing a career pivot or job search.

Take care of yourself and rely on other people who have been through it recently."


👉 "Climate Drift gave me a real sense of connection and support during my transition into climate tech. 

When you're making moves into new territory, having a community backing you is not just helpful - it’s critical."

So whatever you do during your career transition, make sure you build community around you for support, guidance and to speed up the entire transition process.

And yes, we talked about the challenges around retrofitting buildings, who he’s hiring for his team, and how to scale a climate/property tech company.

But that's another post 😅

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PS. If you’re a generalist like Amit, join Climate Drift and see where you can fit into the climate economy.

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