My life is dedicated to the preservation of the planet.Although my career has mainly focused on sales, marketing and analytics, my first love was biology and the natural world. Some of my first memories are taking my bike into the California hills and losing myself in nature. While my college education was focused on biology, after graduation I abruptly turned left and started my own marketing consultancy, and went my merry way. But my desire for helping this planet has never died, and the earth needs us more than ever. Although I have been poignantly aware of the dangers to the planet for some time, I recently started looking closer at the issues and science. Guess what? Still a huge amount of work to do! So I took a year off to upskill my knowledge on climate change science, solutions, data, and technology to transition to a career in climate and sustainability that utilizes my strong data analytics, science communication, marketing, and presentation skills.🌎 How I Spent this Past Year Upskilling my Climate Knowledge and Skill Set:*** Climate Change: Learning for Action (Terra.do): 12-week online climate course on climate change science and solutions.*** Leveraging Data and AI in Sustainability (Terra.do): 4-week online course focused on scaling data use to accelerate sustainability initiatives, developing data and AI strategies to streamline discovery and reporting, and drive informed decisions.*** Software for Climate (Terra.do): 8-week project-based online course focusing on the role of data, software and programming for climate solutions. *** Climate Reality Leadership Corps (Climate Reality Project): Intensive online climate leadership training program developed by Al Gore to learn how to communicate to and educate others about climate change and how to take action.📚 Some of My Key Skills / Professional Achievements I Would Like to Use in the Future:*** Data Analysis: Optimization of over 120 omnichannel marketing campaigns leading to over $10M in sales and $2M in budget savings.*** Marketing: $2M sales over a 3-year period by site redesign and highly targeted digital marketing.*** Sales / Presentations: Led a dozen sales teams, and within my own business personally demoed and closed big ticket items on 100+ clients.*** Leadership, Communication, Education: Trained dozens of employees + 100s of clients over my 20 years of marketing consultancy.🧠 I Know: GHG protocol, scope 1,2,3 emissions, ESG, climate change science, climate modeling, AI, climate tech, climate action planning, circular economy, reforestation, rewilding.