Inspiring interview with Dr Gemma Harper OBE (Chief Executive of the JNCC)

The ACCESS team gathered our Fellows together at the end of April for the annual Leadership College Retreat at Dartington Hall. We enjoyed three days of connection, conversation and community in Dartington’s beautiful grounds. (One of our Fellows, Richard Bridge, will be sharing his reflections on the event here very soon.)

One of the highlights of the retreat was hearing Dr Gemma Harper OBE, Chief Executive of the JNCC, who gave an inspiring and thought-provoking keynote and kindly agreed to be interviewed afterwards.

In the video below, Gemma talks about the importance of the social sciences in addressing the climate crisis, why we need to tell better stories that will change people’s hearts as well as their minds, and how hope, purpose and responsibility feed into her own inspirational model of environmental leadership.