Shaping green skills for climate leadership.

As governments and organisations invest heavily in green skills, many struggle to align leadership training with real labour market demand and credible career pathways. The client engaged TCC to ground the design of a climate leadership academy in evidence, ensuring learning offers reflected how sustainability roles are actually emerging and evolving across regions.

Starting point

As demand for green skills accelerates, many leadership programmes are being designed faster than labour markets can absorb them. Training offers often focus on ambition and visibility, while questions around career progression, employer demand, and long-term relevance remain underexplored.

The client was exploring the launch of a climate leadership academy within this context. While there was a strong appetite to act, there was limited clarity on which roles the academy should serve, how leadership development could translate into career impact, and how learning could remain credible across regions with very different labour dynamics.

How we engaged

We led a feasibility research and strategy engagement focused on labour market needs, sustainable career pathways, and skills-based training models. The work combined qualitative interviews with employers, practitioners, and ecosystem actors with targeted market analysis, examining how professionals enter, progress through, and lead in sustainability roles.

What Changed

The client gained a clear evidence base to shape the academy’s direction, including priority audiences, learning focus areas, and success measures beyond enrolment. The work now informs how the academy is being positioned and developed as it moves toward launch.