What does leadership mean? I come from a dual-cultural background where leadership meant far more than a title or ones pay grade. In 2026, with the Epstein files looming unprosecuted, while Luigi Mangioni faces a swift and high profile trail, the double standard of who faces justice based only on their relationship to and proximity to wealth could not be more staggering.
I would be lying if I said as a for-profit company Rewild does not necessarily choose to work with companies and individuals from all backgrounds, because our mission is to scale sustainable change in all organizational structures, and that means acknowledging and working with people and organizations where they are at. That said, I think, and hope, we are approaching an age of leadership that will rebalanced the scales and highlight the necessity of evolving as a species into greater systems of symbiotic and collective health.
Robert Kennedy once famously said
“The Gross National Product measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country. It measures everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile…”
While other countries propose new solutions, like a Gross National Happiness scale in Bhutan, or Rights of Nature in Brazil, America, the powerhouse of global and material economic power within the United Nations, where I write this from, lags far behind in these alternative measures of collective well-being. Our GDP rises, as does scaled hunger, human rights violations, public cynicism, illiteracy, unprecedented climate-driven weather events, and desecrated lands.
Ecopsychology is not a study you see mentioned much in these conversations, in part because it has been framed as a somewhat fluffy and self-helpy way to obtain healing from nature, or, more interestingly to someone like myself, as a highly political discipline: because we cannot discuss the psychology of a species that eviscerates its own habitat without asking deeper, challenging psycho-social philosophical questions as to why– which lead us to these same components of power, class, and systematic imbalances of each.
While it is not our job as a business entity to eliminate or revolutionize these systems entirely (this, I’ve been told, would be too much), we can help guide leadership in meaningful ways towards a shift in consciousness and priority.
Executive coaching at Rewild Ecopsychology will not teach you how to extract more money. Far divorced from the carbon neutral tracking that allows unchecked profits to guide the global political landscape on an ecologically finite planet, we explore what you as a leader actually impact in this world, and the whys and hows as to developing a radical shift in business, communications and hierarchy models that may actually move the needle on the climate crisis.
Early in my career, I pictured myself teaching companies how to nearly green-wash their products to earn through the good will of sustainability — trading higher supply chain and labor ethics costs with a green marketing incentivisation– later understanding the widespread team “Green Growth” to propose such a thing, that the richest amongst us, could continue to amass wealth without interrogating the foundation of our social and industrial systems, that they would even profit from the “Green Revolution”. The truth is, only ideas and ingenuity can grow exponentially, but not profits, and the model that requires infinite growth of a trade currency has become a great abstraction from the material reality of mass ecologic collapse. Green Growth under capitalism is not a revolution, but controlled opposition.
Without being a doomer, it’s important to know that we as a society can always do better. Rewild Ecopsychology targets and prefers to work with the largest companies, and the greatest offenders, and the leaders that quietly consider stepping away without knowing how else to leverage or protect their roles, because these are the scaled systems that impact us most. Asking the poorest of our society to individually recycle more as our only solution, is not the answer.
If you’re a leader who is sick of the corporate-speak dancing around the obvious, someone who, like me, knows leadership goes far beyond a quarterly earnings report, if you believe in servant leadership and the notion that with power should come deep empathy, and responsibility, –never arrogance or detachment from that which you impact and steward– then Rewild Ecopsychology coaching may be for you.
Note: I realize not all executives or community leaders can afford coaching and tailored programs, we will also be releasing courses in the Fall and Winter of this year and next as a wider-scale resource. If you are interested in these programs, please join the Rewild Ecopsychology mailing list for weekly nature inspiration “ecotherapy in your inbox” and direct updates on upcoming programs.
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