Isaac Kenyon

Why organisations work with Isaac Kenyon

• He carries three credentials in one room: working energy-transition geoscientist, trustee of Mind, and record-setting endurance athlete. That triangulation lets him speak to wellbeing, sustainability and performance without losing the audience on any of them.
• His lived mental health story is paired with a formal governance role at a national mental health charity, which raises the credibility floor for sessions on burnout and men’s mental health well above the standard adventurer-speaker offer.
• The Climate Explorers CIC platform gives him a real operating context for sustainability content. He is talking about ESG and nature-based solutions as a founder running campaigns, not as a commentator.
• Kenyon’s expedition material (Atlantic row, waterbike crossing, weighted Ironman) is used as evidence for specific arguments about teaming, recovery and decision-making, rather than as standalone motivation.

Biography highlights

• Co-founder of Climate Explorers CIC, a community interest company campaigning on nature-based climate solutions.
• Trustee of Mind in Mid Herts, the regional arm of national mental health charity Mind.
• BSc (Hons) Geology and MSc Geoscience, Royal Holloway, University of London; works as an energy transition geoscientist.
• Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, Geological Society of London, and member of the Scientific Exploration Society.
• Completed the Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge in 40 days, finishing sixth in 2019.
• World-record London Marathon run in a brain costume, raising funds and awareness for men’s mental health.

Biography

Most workforces are not short of wellbeing content. They are short of credible voices who can connect resilience, purpose and sustainability without sliding into slogans. That is the gap Isaac Kenyon fills, with a portfolio that holds together because every claim is backed by a role he actually performs.

He is a working energy-transition geoscientist trained at Royal Holloway, University of London, with a BSc in Geology and an MSc in Geoscience. He co-founded Climate Explorers CIC, a community interest company that builds campaigns around nature-based climate solutions and eco-adventure. The sustainability content in his keynotes is grounded in that operating reality, not in commentary.

The wellbeing line is anchored just as concretely. Kenyon is a trustee of Mind in Mid Herts, the regional arm of the national mental health charity, and a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, Geological Society of London and Scientific Exploration Society. His own experience of burnout sits alongside a governance role at a mental health charity, which is what raises the credibility floor on his men’s mental health and resilience material.

The expeditions are where the arguments land. A 40-day row across the Atlantic, finishing sixth in the Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge. A London Marathon was completed in a brain costume to set a record for men’s mental health. A waterbike crossing of the UK from Orkney to the Isles of Scilly. Kenyon uses each one to make a specific point about decision-making under fatigue, team behaviour at the limit, and what sustainable performance actually costs.

Key speaking topics

• Resilience and burnout recovery
• Sustainable high performance
• Mental health and men’s wellbeing
• Climate action and nature-based sustainability
• Purpose-driven culture
• Team performance under pressure
• Energy transition and ESG storytelling

Ideal for

• CHROs, heads of people and wellbeing leads dealing with workforce burnout and engagement.
• ESG, sustainability and corporate responsibility teams are looking for a credible voice that links climate to culture.
• Leadership offsites and conferences where resilience and purpose need to land in the same session.
• Organisations running men’s mental health, Mental Health Awareness Week or sustainability campaigns that need a named, accredited voice.

Audience outcomes

• A clearer view of how burnout shows up in teams and what leaders can actually do about it.
• A working language for talking about sustainability and wellbeing as a single agenda, not two parallel ones.
• Specific decision-making lessons drawn from extreme endurance contexts and applied to workplace pressure.
• Practical entry points for men’s mental health conversations that often stall in corporate settings.
• A reframing of purpose that connects individual resilience with organisational and environmental responsibility.