Grow your climate tech business faster without being so lonely at the top.
Join North America’s top climate CEO and investor peer group. Confidential sharing. Capped at 100 members with $40B+ for climate solutions.
Entrepreneurs for Impact (EFI) is a membership community with highly vetted CEOs & investors helping each other grow and tackle climate change profitably
Supercharge Your Impact
Learn from the best, just like you. Our members lead companies in forestry, solar, organic waste, green building, electric vehicles, carbon accounting, agriculture, food, impact investing, and energy storage.
Upgrade Your Leadership
Our confidential cohorts help you achieve faster business growth, better decision-making, investor savvy, visionary mindsets, conscious leadership, stronger networks, accountability, and personal productivity.
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Dr. Chris Wedding is a serial founder, professor, and board member with $1B of investment experience, 90,000 students taught, 25 years of meditation, tons of mistakes made, and an obsession with constant improvement.
Sample EFI Climate CEO Fellows and Alumni Advisors
LAUREN SALZ, COFOUNDER AND CEO AT SEALED — Making home energy efficiency easy with turnkey solutions, financing, and $60M+ in investor backing
NICK FLORES, MANAGING DIRECTOR AT CAPROCK — Advising ultra-high net worth family offices on impact investing
NICOLE POINDEXTER, COFOUNDER AND CEO AT ENERGICITY — Bringing clean power to thousands in West Africa with $10M+ of investor backing
JOSEPH MCMILLIN, EX-COFOUNDER AND CEO AT — Built and sold an organics recycling business to Generate Capital
CHARLIE DIMMLER, COFOUNDER AND CEO AT— Making high-performance materials from algal fuels instead of petroleum with $100M+ of investor backing
STACY FLYNN, COFOUNDER AND CEO AT EVRNU — TIME Magazine Invention of the Year, recycling used fabric with $30M+ of investor backing
TREVOR BEST, COFOUNDER AND CEO AT SYZYGY PLASMONICS — Using light to manufacture chemicals with much lower energy inputs and $125M+ in investor backing
KAMEALE TERRY, COFOUNDER AND CEO AT CHARGERHELP — Improving the reliability of electric vehicle charging stations with $20M+ of investor backing
MARK LEWIS, MANAGING DIRECTOR AT LIME ROCK NEW ENERGY — Investing $375M in growth-stage clean energy companies
BRENT BEERLEY, EX-CEO OF COMMUNITY ENERGY — Developed 2.7 GW of utility-scale solar projects, sold to AES
PHIL CROSKEY, COFOUNDER AND CEO AT MD ENERGY ADVISORS — Providing energy efficiency solutions for utilities and businesses
JEN WAGNER, FELLOW WITH BREAKTHROUGH ENERGY AND FORMER PRESIDENT OF CARBONCURE — Advising high-promise carbon removal startups under the umbrella of Bill Gates' network
BRYAN HASSIN, CEO OF DEXMAT — Advanced materials innovation with conductive carbon-negative replacement for steel, copper, and aluminum
SORIN GRAMA, CO-FOUNDER AND CEO OF TRANSAERA — Developing next-generation air conditioning tech
NATALIE KING, FOUNDER AND CEO OF DUNAMIS — Building EV chargers in the US
MEGAN O'CONNOR, COFOUNDER AND CEO OF NTH CYCLE — Refining metals sustainability within the US
BLAKE STURCKE, CO-CEO OF ENCORE RENEWABLE ENERGY — Building and owning solar and storage systems
BRAD HARTWIG, COFOUNDER AND CEO OF ARBOR — Removing and storing carbon while producing power from waste biomass
DOUG SPEIGHT, CEO OF AXNANO — Eradicating PFAS "forever chemical" contamination in water systems
KEVIN SCHULTE, COFOUNDER AND CEO OF GREENSPARK — Award-winning B Corp installing over 15% of all solar in New York
LIZ DENNETT, CEO OF ENDOLITH — Using microbes to boost efficiency in copper mining
AMANDA HALL, FOUNDER AND CEO OF SUMMIT NANOTECH — Innovative lithium extraction with higher efficiency and lower water use
Benefits for EFI Climate CEO Fellows
Faster Growth
CEOs with executive coaching grow faster than their peers
Fewer Blind Spots
If you’re the smartest person in the room, you’re in the wrong room
Space to Think
You can’t have breakthroughs in the daily grind — We have to make time for deep work
Fresh Business Ideas
Crowdsource and soundboard new business products or services
Honest Feedback
Nobody reaches their potential without some tough love
Elite Peer Group
Your network is your net worth — add 10,000+ new professionals to yours
Program Features
Annual Retreats
Build bonds in person with deeper dives at cool venues across the U.S.
Whole Person Focus
There’s more to life than work — e.g., physical health, mental fitness, mindfulness, and legacy
1:1 Online Sessions
Executive coaching, strategy, and goal setting for business and personal growth
Investor Database
1,300+ corporate and project investors in climate tech and clean energy that you might want to know
Cohort Meetings
Intimate small group Zoom discussions to share best practices, wins, and challenges
Guest Speakers
Leading thinkers, investors, and post-exit entrepreneurs to challenge your thinking
Who’s are ideal EFI Climate Fellows?
CEOs of High-Growth Startups
>$15M of capital raised
CEOs of Post-Revenue Companies
>$5M in revenue
Builders Who Give
CEOs join not just for an ROI, but also to help their peers grow
Post-Exit Entrepreneurs
Building a new climate venture
Humble Leaders
We all still have more to learn
Those on a Mission
Tackling climate change is not just about profit