28 interviews, 92 survey responses…

In 2024, Heather Lynch and I surveyed 92 sustainability professionals and interviewed 28 of them to understand what challenges they faced and what support they needed. You can find the results here, including our research findings in a presentation and a template email to justify funding for a personal development budget.

Find out more about the research:

Read short blog posts:

• EDIE - Eco-anxiety, burnout and loneliness: Why sustainability work takes a personal toll

• IEMA- New research: common challenges for sustainability professionals in 2024

• IEMA - New research: important skills for sustainability professionals in 2025

  Prefer to podcast?

  ⛱️ You can listen to ‘What it’s really like being a sustainability professional’ On Becoming the Change podcast.

  🎧 Or listen to Katherine interviewed on the Pentland Centre podcast, ‘Who’d be a sustainability manager?’
  

Our findings have been shared on the front-cover article IEMA’s Transform magazine (image above) on CSOs and burnout and we are working with them to integrate more soft skills development into their competency framework.