About The Academy Earth

Where inner capacity meets outer impact — for leaders in a world that’s asking more of us than ever before.

The Academy Earth exists to support senior professionals and changemakers working at the edge of sustainability, climate, and systems transformation — helping you build the inner capacity needed to stay effective, vital, and generative in complex environments.

Today’s challenges aren’t just technical. They are relational, emotional, and systemic. Many sustainability professionals find themselves:

  • exhausted by complexity

  • chronically overextended

  • longing for deeper purpose

  • unsure how to lead when traditional models no longer work

We believe that resilience isn’t just about information — it’s about integration. Embodiment, emotional scaffolding, and relational presence are as fundamental to sustained impact as strategic frameworks and technical expertise.

Our Mission

To transform leaders from burnout and fragmentation into grounded, generative, and purpose-driven agents of systemic change.

We do this by combining:

  • research-informed methods in leadership and systems change

  • embodied practices that strengthen nervous-system resilience

  • relational development techniques for deep presence and connection

  • real-world application through prototyping and experimentation

This approach moves beyond short bursts of inspiration or conventional training. We help leaders reconnect to their own energy and clarity, so they can sustain high-impact work without burning out.

Who We Support

We serve leaders and teams who are ready to:

  • move beyond burnout into sustained agency

  • deepen their capacity to influence complex systems

  • integrate personal and professional purpose with real-world impact

  • lead with presence, empathy, and clarity

  • translate inner transformation into organisational innovation

Whether you’re a corporate sustainability lead, change consultant, innovation executive, climate professional, or systems thinker — this is for you if you recognise that what’s required now is as much inner development as outer strategy. 

What makes us different

  • Technical knowledge alone won’t sustain transformation at scale. We build:

    • emotional scaffolding

    • somatic awareness

    • resilient leadership identity so leaders can stay open, nimble, and humane under pressure.

  • We guide you from insight into practical action - personalised practices and real-world prototyping that influence your work, organisation, and networks.

  • Experience a curated community where vulnerability, honesty, learning, and experimentation are welcomed and held safely.

  • Our work is informed by global leadership research - including MIT’s Theory U’s presencing and prototyping processes, relational leadership frameworks, and embodied resilience methods being used in some of the worlds top performing organisations - adapted for professionals navigating complexity in sustainability and systems change. 

  • Finding your vision

    Earth Leadership Accelerator

    A systemic leadership accelerator for professionals working at the edge of sustainability, climate, and transformation - who need the inner capacity to keep going.

    Through a carefully curated sequence of immersive experiences, this programme helps participants recover from burnout, reconnect with energy and purpose, and develop the emotional scaffolding needed to lead systemic change in complex environments.

    Over the course of the programme, you will develop personalised, embodied leadership practices that honour your unique cognitive style, capacity for ‘aliveness’, and professional context — while translating insight into practical, real-world action across sustainability, innovation, and ecological entrepreneurship.

    This is not about doing more.

    It is about leading differently.

    Expression of Interest: Pilot Cohort – Starting April 2026

    Learn more

  • Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

    Howard Thurman

  • Looking at the world through a sustainability lens not only helps us 'future proof' our supply chain, it also fuels innovation and drives brand growth.

    Paul Polman, former CEO Unilever

  • The world doesn't get great unless we all get better

    Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis, Fierce Love

  • The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.

    Albert Einstein

  • The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it.

    Robert Swan, Polar Explorer

  • The inches we need are everywhere around us.

    Tony D’Amato (Al Pacino)

    Any Given Sunday