Fehinti Balogun
Most organisations have a climate position written down and almost no internal language to talk about it. Senior leaders ask staff to care about a target the staff have never heard explained in human terms. The gap between the slide deck and the conversation is where engagement quietly dies.
Fehinti Balogun is an actor, writer and climate communicator who helps organisations turn abstract sustainability commitments into language their people actually respond to.
Full Profile
Why organisations work with Fehinti Balogun
- He brings a working screen actor’s craft to climate communication, with credits across HBO, Netflix, BBC and Paramount+ that buy attention from audiences who tune out conventional sustainability talks.
- His one-man show Can I Live?, produced by Complicite with the Barbican, is the rare piece of climate work that has been taken seriously by both theatre critics and climate organisers, giving him a methodology he can adapt for corporate audiences.
- He has spoken to policy and scientific audiences at UN COP26, the Scottish Parliament and Cambridge University, which means his climate content stands up in rooms beyond entertainment.
- His TED talk on finding your voice for climate action gives organisations a direct entry point for staff who want to act but do not know how to begin.
Biography highlights
- Graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), 2016.
- Screen credits include I May Destroy You, Dune, A Gentleman in Moscow, The Bastard Son & The Devil Himself, and Down Cemetery Road.
- BAFTA nomination for Supporting Actor for Down Cemetery Road.
- Writer and lead performer of Can I Live?, produced by Complicite with the Barbican, directed by Daniel Bailey and Simon McBurney.
- TED speaker: “How to find your voice for climate action” (2022).
- Climate platforms include UN COP26, the Scottish Parliament, Cambridge University and the YouTube Creator Summit.
Biography
Climate communication inside organisations runs into the same wall again and again. The science is settled, the targets are public, and the workforce still does not have a shared language for any of it. Fehinti Balogun has spent his second career building that language through performance rather than policy.
Trained at RADA, Balogun is a working actor with screen credits across HBO, Netflix, BBC and Paramount+, including I May Destroy You, Dune, A Gentleman in Moscow and Down Cemetery Road, the last of which earned him a BAFTA nomination for Supporting Actor. The technical command he brings to a stage or a camera is what gives his climate work its unusual reach.
Can I Live?, written and performed by Balogun and produced by the theatre company Complicite with the Barbican, is the centre of that work. It combines spoken word, hip-hop, theatre, animation and scientific fact, and it became one of the few climate pieces taken seriously inside both the UK theatre scene and the climate movement. The same instinct shapes his TED talk, “How to find your voice for climate action.”
His climate platforms include UN COP26, the Scottish Parliament, Cambridge University and the YouTube Creator Summit. He is most useful to organisations that have a credible climate position on paper and a workforce that has not yet found a way to talk about it.
Key speaking topics
- Climate communication and storytelling
- Sustainability and employee engagement
- Diversity and inclusion in the climate movement
- Purpose and voice for early-career talent
- Creative practice as a tool for organisational change
Ideal for
- Sustainability and ESG leads who need internal communications that move staff, not just stakeholders.
- CHROs and employee engagement leads building purpose-led programmes for early-career and creative talent.
- Internal D&I and ERG sponsors working at the intersection of climate and inclusion.
- Communications and brand leads in consumer-facing organisations who need a credible cultural voice on climate.
Audience outcomes
- A clearer sense of why staff disengage from climate messaging that reads as compliance.
- Language and examples leaders can use to talk about sustainability without sliding into jargon.
- A working model for how creative practice can carry organisational messages that policy memos cannot.
- A more honest picture of how race, class and access shape who feels invited into climate conversations at work.
Talks
A TED talk on how individuals move from climate anxiety to climate agency, drawing on Balogun’s own path from actor to activist.
Key takeaways:
- Why most people who care about climate stay silent at work and how to break that pattern.
- How creative tools, spoken word, theatre, story, can carry climate ideas that data alone cannot.
- A frame for finding the specific climate contribution that fits your skills, not someone else’s.
A performance-led keynote built from Balogun’s Complicite production, weaving climate science, personal narrative and spoken word into a single piece designed to shift how an audience feels about its own role.
Key takeaways:
- A felt understanding of the human stakes behind climate targets.
- A model of how art and science can be braided together for a corporate audience.
- A starting point for internal conversations on climate, race and access.