I deliver talks and facilitate sessions that help people move from ideas about sustainability… into practical, shared action.
This work brings together storytelling, creativity, and real-world experience to help audiences make sense of change, and understand their role within it.
🎤 Core Talks
🌱 1. Writing the Future
How creativity helps us imagine and build sustainable change
Most people care about the future.
But the future is often discussed in ways that feel abstract, technical, or out of reach.
This talk explores how creativity, storytelling, and lived experience can help people engage with sustainability in a more meaningful and practical way.
Drawing on work across the arts, media, community practice, and environmental projects, I show how stories are not separate from action, they are where action begins.
Audiences leave with:
- A clearer sense of how future thinking shapes real-world decisions.
- Practical ways to use storytelling and creativity in their own work.
- Greater confidence to take part in shaping change, rather than observing it.
This talk works particularly well for:
- Conferences and public events
- Sustainability and innovation projects
- Creative, cultural, and education settings
🌱 2. Where Change Meets Reality
Making sustainability work in practice
There is often a gap between sustainability strategy and day-to-day reality.
People are expected to make decisions, manage risk, respond to policy, and communicate clearly, often without the time, language, or confidence to do it well.
This talk focuses on that gap.
It explores how organisations and teams can navigate competing pressures, make clearer decisions, and move from reporting and intention into meaningful, practical action.
Grounded in real-world experience across business, community, and environmental work, this session offers a realistic and constructive way forward.
Audiences leave with:
- A clearer understanding of why sustainability often feels difficult to implement
- Practical ways to align values, decisions, and communication
- A stronger sense of what meaningful action looks like in their context
This talk works particularly well for:
- Business and leadership audiences
- Local authorities and policy teams
- Networks working across sectors and disciplines
🌱 Formats
I work across a range of formats, depending on the event and audience:
- Keynotes (10-20 minutes)
- Workshops (from 1 hour to full multi week courses)
- Facilitated strategy sessions (tailored to organisations and teams)
- Panels, interviews, and podcast conversations (any length)
Sessions can be adapted for in-person or online delivery.
🌱 Who this is for
My work resonates most with:
- Organisations and teams working in sustainability, innovation, or change
- People navigating complexity, competing pressures, and uncertainty
- Audiences who want something practical, thoughtful, and engaging
- Sustainability Festivals and conferences
🌱 invitation
If you’re planning an event, course, or conversation around sustainability, change, or the future…
and you’re looking for something grounded, creative, and genuinely useful,
I’d be glad to be part of it.
Alan Raw 