Clover Hogan
Climate commitments made five years ago are now colliding with the people who have to deliver them, recruit against them, and defend them. Younger employees, customers, and investors are reading ESG statements as contracts, not aspirations. The gap between what organisations promised and what they are doing has become a talent, trust, and legitimacy problem at the same time.
Clover Hogan is a climate activist and founder of Force of Nature who helps senior leaders understand how the climate crisis is reshaping what their employees, customers, and investors expect from them.
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Why organisations work with Clover Hogan
- She turns climate anxiety from a cultural backdrop into a measurable pressure point on recruitment, retention, and stakeholder trust, with specific evidence from Force of Nature’s work with young people in more than fifty countries.
- She has moved between youth movements and Fortune 50 boardrooms, including PepsiCo and Unilever, which means she can translate Gen Z expectations into language a sustainability committee can act on.
- Her TED talk “What to do when climate change feels unstoppable” has been viewed close to two million times, giving her a rare ability to hold a mixed audience, including sceptics, on a subject most speakers polarise.
- She founded Force of Nature at nineteen and built it into an internationally recognised organisation before handing over leadership, which gives her direct operating experience of building a climate programme rather than only commenting on one.
- Forbes 30 Under 30 listing and features in the Financial Times, The Guardian, BBC, The New York Times, National Geographic, and Vogue place her in the small group of climate voices that board-level audiences already know by name.
Biography highlights
- Founder of Force of Nature, a youth non-profit mobilising mindsets for climate action, founded at age nineteen.
- Former Executive Director of Force of Nature; now advisor and chair of the board after a formal leadership handover in 2024.
- TED speaker, “What to do when climate change feels unstoppable,” with close to two million views.
- Recognised on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list at age twenty-two.
- Host of the Force of Nature podcast, in conversation with figures including lawyers behind landmark climate agreements and Nobel Peace Prize nominees.
- Has advised Fortune 50 companies including PepsiCo and Unilever on Gen Z climate expectations; interviewed the 14th Dalai Lama and shared platforms with Jane Goodall and Vandana Shiva.
- Featured in the Financial Times, The Guardian, BBC, The New York Times, National Geographic, and Vogue.
Biography
The climate conversation inside most large organisations has quietly shifted. It used to be a reporting question. It is now a hiring question, a customer question, and a boardroom legitimacy question. Force of Nature, the non-profit Clover Hogan founded at nineteen, has spent the last several years mapping that shift from the other side of the table, working with young people in more than fifty countries on what they actually expect from the companies they join, buy from, and vote with.
Hogan treats eco-anxiety as a serious operating variable, not a feeling. Her TED talk, “What to do when climate change feels unstoppable,” has reached close to two million viewers by refusing both doom and false optimism, and by naming what people are actually experiencing. Inside Fortune 50 boardrooms, including PepsiCo and Unilever, she translates that same research into a direct question for leadership teams: what are you asking your people to defend, and can you defend it yourself.
Her authority comes from operating experience. She built Force of Nature into an internationally recognised youth organisation, managed a formal handover to new leadership in 2024, and now sits as chair of the board while advising organisations and speaking internationally. The Force of Nature podcast has put her in extended conversation with figures ranging from Nobel Peace Prize nominees to the lawyers behind landmark climate agreements, and with Jane Goodall, Vandana Shiva, and the 14th Dalai Lama.
The effect in a room of senior leaders is specific. She will not make the climate crisis smaller than it is, and she will not let it become an abstraction. She returns the conversation to the concrete group of people, inside and outside the organisation, whose trust the next decade of climate strategy has to earn.
Key speaking topics
- Climate leadership and corporate accountability
- Eco-anxiety and climate psychology
- Gen Z expectations of employers and brands
- Youth engagement and movement building
- ESG credibility and the gap between commitments and delivery
- Storytelling and public communication on the climate crisis
- Purpose and values in modern organisations
Ideal for
- Chief Sustainability Officers and ESG leads defending or rebuilding climate strategy against tougher stakeholder scrutiny.
- CHROs and talent leaders whose recruitment and retention now runs through how credible the organisation looks on climate.
- Boards and executive committees setting the next phase of sustainability commitments and the communications around them.
- Brand, marketing, and corporate affairs leaders whose audiences are increasingly Gen Z and increasingly unforgiving of gaps between claim and practice.
Audience outcomes
- A sharper read on what younger employees and consumers are actually asking of organisations on climate, beyond the survey headlines.
- Language for discussing eco-anxiety as a workforce and stakeholder factor rather than a private sentiment.
- A more honest internal test for where the organisation’s climate commitments are holding up and where they are exposed.
- Confidence to lead climate conversations with staff, customers, and boards without retreating into either doom or marketing gloss.
- A clearer sense of how youth movements, media scrutiny, and investor pressure are converging into a single reputational frontier.