Award-winning environmental trainer and published author who once helped an abattoir reduce waste and increase profits — turning every job green, one sector at a time.
Clare Feeney is a published author, university lecturer, and multiple award-winning environmental trainer who has spent her career working in places that environmental advocates rarely go. She has been a vegetarian in an abattoir — helping the firm reduce waste and increase profits. She has worked in factories, on farms, in rivers and on civil construction sites. Her focus is not on preaching to the converted but on working with professionals in every sector to turn existing jobs into green jobs, using the tools and the mindset they already have.
What Clare has developed over years of this work is an unusually practical and persuasive case for environmental performance as a business outcome rather than a values exercise. She is direct, witty and deliberately un-precious about her subject matter — audiences in tough industries describe her as refreshing precisely because she does not talk down to them, and because her suggestions are things they can actually implement.
For environmental industry, construction, agriculture, sustainability and innovation conferences — particularly those with technically minded or sceptical audiences — Clare Feeney is an exceptional speaker. She converts audiences that other speakers cannot reach, and does so through rigour, humour, and the credibility of someone who has done the work in the field, not just from the lectern. Her presentations leave people asking for more — and thinking differently about what is actually possible in their own sector.
Clare Feeney is a keynote speaker based in New Zealand who speaks on education and sustainability & ESG. Book through Executive Speakers Australia.
Rising to environmental challenges in a skill-short world.
Why we don’t do sustainability, and what it’s co$ting us! (includes Clare’s WowOmeter).
How our accountants can transform environmental pain into financial gain.
Professional and personal pain in the environmental sector, root causes and a call to action.
Environmental training as a macroeconomic force: delivering the Learning Society as a pathway to a wellbeing economy.
You are one of the few people who could make being ‘splattered with sewage’ sound like an attractive employment opportunity! You bring a fresh perspective to the most critical issues of our time and turn complex ideas into concrete suggestions on how we can make our communities more sustainable, flourishing places. All this you achieve with such wit and vitality!Auckland University
Thank you so much for delivering such a great presentation. We have already had really good feedback about the session, and people have been asking for more information, which is great.Institutional investment group
Clare’s presentation on environmental training was edgy, informative and refreshingly un-PC.Anonymous
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