Senior Advisors

Peter Boyd enjoys working where strategy, marketing and sustainability meet. In 2014 he moved from launch director and COO of the Carbon War Room, to independently launching The Time4Good Group. This now spans a social startup and consultancy, that includes advising The B Team on its Net-Zero initiative, and an Executive Fellowship at Yale’s Center for Business and the Environment.

He has over fifteen years of commercial experience with the Virgin Group, latterly serving as CEO of Virgin Mobile South Africa. He started his career with McKinsey & Co. after graduating BA Hons. from Oxford University reading Philosophy, Politics & Economics.

In parallel to his work at Time4Good, he is a member of the board of trustees at Earthplace and serves on the mayoral Green Task Force in his hometown of Westport, CT (which also recently targeted a ‘Net-Zero by 2050’ sustainability goal).

Dr. Feltmate is Associate Professor, Faculty of Environment, University of Waterloo. Positions he holds include: Chair, Climate Change Adaptation Project, Canada; Chair, Pollution Probe; Senior Advisor, Sustainable Electricity Program, Canadian Electricity Association; Board Member, Willis Energy Services; Co-Chair, WeatherWise, City of Toronto; Co-Chair, Greening Greater Toronto. He works extensively with Canada’s Property & Casualty insurance sector on matters pertaining to extreme weather and flooding.

Previous positions Dr. Feltmate has held include: Vice President, Sustainable Development, Bank of Montreal, and Director of Sustainable Development, OPG. Dr. Feltmate has developed the sustainable development programs for two dozen multi-national companies.

Sanjay Khanna is Director and Futurist of Whitespace Legal Collab by Baker McKenzie. The first futurist appointed to a global law firm, he consults with businesses, governments and civil society on big-picture challenges, such as artificial intelligence, climate change, future of work and smart cities.

Sought out for actionable insight on social, technological, economic, environmental and political trends, Sanjay has been a strategy consultant to Insurance Bureau of Canada and Centre for Social Innovation’s Agents of Change: Climate Solutions Program. Ford Motor Co.’s chief futurist invited Sanjay's contributions to Ford Trends 2017 and Ford Trends 2018. He is a founding member of the Loblaw Food Council, launched in 2016 by Loblaws, Canada's food and pharmacy leader.

Media outlets featuring Sanjay include The Globe and Mail, CBC’s The Current, and AMA Quarterly, the journal of the American Management Association.

As an applied psychologist I am focused on building citizen dialogue and action on climate change. This initiative is inspired by the 2018 IKEA/GlobeScan international survey “Climate Action Starts at Home.” This public document shows that Climate Skeptics make up only 10% of global citizens and most citizens are taking some action to reduce climate change. However, the biggest barriers to doing more include government, business, and peer-group inaction. People are looking for leadership and social permission/encouragement for doing more.

I have assembled a small group of leading online companies to create an interactive microsite (act4us) and will be encouraging Canadians (and their family members, friends and neighbours) to discover where they stand on climate change and how to speak with peers to encourage more action. This initiative is critical during the 2019 election year in Canada and it can serve as a pilot project for the 2020 U.S. election. June 2019 is the launch date. Sponsor and partners are encouraged to contact me to participate.

Dr. Ratcliffe is a Founding Board Member of Rethink Sustainability Initiatives, a member of Citizen’s Climate Lobby (Canada) and he is profiled on ca.linkedin.com/in/billratcliffe. Bill brings 40 years of marketing research, business management, marketing/communications experience to this initiative - along with an abiding interest in what it takes to influence human behaviour. Bill worked with Health Canada to de-normalize smoking. Now we need to de-normalize fossil fuel use.

An award-winning engineer, Jeanette Southwood is Vice-President - Strategy & Partnerships at Engineers Canada, the national organization of the 12 engineering regulators that license Canada's 280,000 members of the engineering profession. She leads a team focusing on the future of the engineering profession, in particular strategies to sustain and grow the profession for the continued benefit of society.

Prior to joining Engineers Canada, she led the Canadian Urban Development & Infrastructure Sector and the Global Sustainable Cities teams at a large global consulting firm where her teams focused on the strategic integration of cutting-edge international innovation and knowledge into value-creating solutions for public and private clients. For more than 20 years, she has directed and participated in numerous projects related to urban intensification and the sustainable revitalization of communities.

A dedicated volunteer on several Boards over the years, Jeanette is a Fellow of Engineers Canada and a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, a recipient of the Province of Ontario “Leading Women Building Communities Award”, and a Canada’s Clean50 2014 honouree. In 2015, she received the Ontario Professional Engineers Awards (OPEA) Engineering Excellence Medal and was named one of the WXN Top 100.

Melanie Steiner is Chief Risk Officer for PVH. Based at the company’s New York City headquarters, Melanie is responsible for managing risk efficiently and effectively within PVH. This position includes overall responsibility for internal audit, enterprise risk management, corporate social responsibility, and human rights

Prior to joining PVH, Melanie worked at Ernst & Young as Market Leader, Climate Change and Sustainability Services. There she provided her clients with assistance across a range of services including risk assessments, internal audits, strategy development, and non-financial reporting advisory and assurance. Before that, she spent 15 years in law and policy, first practicing commercial and environmental law, and then working as a Senior Policy Advisor at the international level.

Melanie lives in Toronto and attended Osgoode Hall Law School of York University, where she received a Bachelor of Laws. She also holds a Master of Laws from the University of London. Melanie sits on various boards and committees and is a regular speaker on corporate social responsibility and risk management.

Madelyn is the Director of Community Engagement with CREW Toronto (Community Resilience to Extreme Weather), a social enterprise whose purpose is to engage local communities in understanding how and why the climate is changing and preparing for disruptions associated with extreme weather events. An entrepreneur, social entrepreneur and intrapreneur, she has worked in academia, government, social and corporate sectors. Over her career, she led a variety of projects in environmental management, education and community development.

Her recent work in Climate Adaptation, involves a variety of partners in the effort to make vulnerable populations in Ontario cities more resilient. She holds Master’s degrees in both Freshwater Ecology (UofT-Zoology) and business (Schulich School at York U). She is bilingual in French and English.

Jim has over 41 years of experience in applied atmospheric research. He has served on international scientific panels and is the author of over 100 scientific and applied papers and articles. Jim is President of Jim Young Atmospheric Services Inc. in Toronto, Ontario, which he created in March 2005 after 33 years in the private sector (as VP and Senior Air Quality Expert with SENES Consultants Limited), the federal government (Acting Director General Research, Atmospheric Environment Service) and as Chief, Air Quality Section, Environment New Brunswick. Jim joined RWDI in 2015 as a Senior Consultant to grow their weather related services. Jim was Canadian Co-Chairman of the International Air Quality Advisory Board of the International Joint Commission for 12 years providing advice and guidance to the Commission on transboundary air quality issues. Jim is a Past Director of the Air and Waste Management Association (Ontario Section), Past President of the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (CMOS) and is a Professional Engineer in the Province of Ontario.