Empower your organization to thrive amidst global uncertainty by leveraging regenerative design
Sustainable design asks how to do less harm.
Regenerative design takes this a step further your projects can leave people, places, and ecosystems better off while simultaneously building adaptive capacity into your revenue streams.
Who We Are
Climate Paradigm Collaborative is an interdisciplinary consulting firm that helps engineering and design firms embed regenerative design practices into their work.
We specialize in group facilitation, scenario planning and modernizing how organizations approach social and environmental impact. We help clients build robust internal systems that strengthen environmental accountability, build resilience into revenue streams, and foster an empowering team culture over time. We work with people and organizations regardless of of where they are at, where they have come from, and what they value.
What Makes Us a Fit for You
Your sustainability work is stuck in the status quo of efficiency targets, standards, and checklists that never reach the root of the problem. The worlds problems feel to large to solve, leading to stagnation.
Your team is stretched thin and the economic uncertainty related to climate, oil shocks, geopolitics, and AI keep getting pushed to “later”. Making payroll supercedes the thought leadership that you know is necessary.
You are concerned about the adaptive capacity of your business when under pressure and want to explore new revenue streams that hold up across a range of socio-economic futures.
Differing value within your team systems make conversations about ‘environment and politics’ hard to start.
You’ve heard terms like “metacrisis”, “eco-grief”, and “low-carbon resilience”, but you aren’t sure how they are relevant to your organizations success.
Interested in taking a deep dive into the ethos of our team? Read about our approach philosophy here.
Practical Outcomes
Align with Climate Ethics, Codes, and Standards
Translate nebulous documentation into robust internal guidelines that go beyond traditional concepts of corporate sustainability.
Lead Socio-Environmental Change
Leverage your organizations existing wisdom and resources to lead positive socio-environmental change in your industry.
Adapt to Global Uncertainty
Future-proof your organization by slowing down and conceptualizing new ways of doing business within an array of potential futures.
Strengthen Team Cohesion and Autonomy
Increase your team's capacity to navigate polarizing topics, collaborate on dilemmic problems, and find empowerment when facing complex global issues.
Transform Climate-Anxiety
Present your team with an outlet to process anxiety related to global crisis as a mechanism for managing burnout, increasing efficiency, and tapping into new ideas.
Attract and Retain Top Talent
Appeal to young professionals by equipping your leadership with new language, perspectives, and soft skills to enhance their ability support your organizations psychological well-being.
The 3 Pillars of Regenerative Design
Question What We Build
Most 'green' technology still runs on the same extractive logic as the systems it replaces. We help teams ask harder questions about what they design: who it serves, what future it assumes, and whether it needs to exist at all.
Reconnect How We Work
Professional culture leaves little room for the open expression of values, emotion, or political discourse. This results in most individuals compromising what they believe in, in favor of getting work done. We facilitate spaces that help teams feel safe to talk honestly, think broadly, and align values to offering.
Design for an Uncertain Future
A forest survives drought because it isn’t one tree. We help firms build products, partnerships and revenue streams that hold up across a range of possible futures, so your business can meet the society where it’s at in real time.
How to Work With Us
The first step is always getting to know each other. We prioritize building relationships founded on a mutual understanding of how our Climate Paradigm’s unique skills have the best potential to interface with your team’s unique challenges and strengths.
- Start with our free 'Three Pillars of Regenerative Design' lunch & learn
- Expand what the term sustainable means in your workplace
- Sixty minutes with your team over lunch (can count towards 1 CE hour)
- Deepen your experience with our core three-part workshop series on regenerative design
- Equip your team to start developing products and services that align with their values
- Crafted to meet your team where they are at (can count towards 7.5 CE hours)
- Work together to build out a project or department that aligns with the three pillars of regenerative design
- Map what regenerative design means within the context of your organization
- Explore technology, develop proposal-ready language, create new revenue streams, engage in the relational layers of the work
“We need to grieve for our planet and tap into our sense of love and connection that underlies that grief. We as human beings need to show up and stay present when facing the crisis. We may never see the ultimate outcome of our work but cannot let this deter our sense of hope nor our collective determination. The most radical thing any of us can do at this time is to be fully present to what is happening in the world.”
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- +1 (204) 995-1160
- nick@climateparadigm.ca