October 30, 2024 Josh Leonard sits down with Gail Hochachka and Lisa Gibson, leaders of the SALT for Climate initiative, to explore their pioneering approach to climate action. They discuss the often-overlooked psychological and social dimensions of climate work, share insights from their work on collective sensemaking and leadership training, and explain why a focus on human dynamics may be the missing piece in our response to the climate crisis.
Gail Hochachka
Gail has 20 years of experience bridging research and practice in sustainable development in Africa, Latin America and North America. Her enduring interest is on how to better understand and integrate the human dimensions of global environmental change, in approaches that are commensurate with the complexity of the issues today. She taught at the graduate level at John F. Kennedy University for seven years (2006-2013) and at the undergraduate level at the University of Oslo (2017-2019), and has also worked in leadership development in the private sector. She has publications in several journals as well as a book Developing Sustainability, Developing the Self: An Integral Approach to International and Community Development. She was a co-founder of Integral Without Borders. At present, she is a doctoral research fellow with the University of Oslo but currently based at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, conducting PhD research on the human dimensions of climate change adaptation and pathways to transformative change.
