Testimonials - Moving Beyond

What people say

There are many organisations that profess to act on the big challenges facing us all – and how they and we respond will decide whether we can offer a liveable world to future generations. I genuinely believe that MovingBeyond wants to be help foster a movement of change across all sectors to achieve this. The big opportunity that MB provides is bringing people across all sectors together in a safe place as equals to consider how together we can tackle big issues in a way that plays to people’s strengths.

Jane Davidson

Chair NetZero Wales, Author #FutureGen, Pro Vice-Chancellor Emeritus at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David. Former Welsh Minister

MB has helped me align my own values and ambition to drive forward in my endeavours to tackle the climate emergency. By providing a safe space to connect with others (with no judgement) it allowed me to understand how my work fits alongside others and continues to provide for me a community of like-minded individuals.

Andrea Pearson

FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies, WES Top 50 Women in Engineering 2021, Coordinator of Teesside Cloth Nappy Library, Member of Stockton Business Climate Coalition.

MB is unlike anything I’ve ever experienced before. Change agents and intrapreneurs: prepare to arrive with an open mind and leave with an overflowing spirit.

Dr Gary Kendall

Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL), Head of Climate Implementation and Strategy at NatWest

MovingBeyond transcends the typical climate conference or community, by examining and rewriting the playbook to quickly build deep relationships and maximise impact. The event itself is immersive and transformational, but it is only the beginning. MB was the launchpad for a team of us working to decarbonise residential heating in the UK. Together with stakeholders from across the heating value chain (including energy, manufacturing, finance, and government), we are bringing our unique skillsets to bear to put the UK on track towards net zero.

Ann Siml

Associate Partner, Bain & Company

MovingBeyond is a catalytic powerhouse. It has been a fount of inspiration, encouragement, growth, connection, and renewal, from the outset and increasingly. I have found the community of close friends and allies I needed to face the planetary emergency. And it can do this on the main levels of action, which themselves I hadn’t identified until MB clarified them: me, we, us. I have grown as a person, as a father and friend, a member of many communities. My organisation, Woodland Savers, enables communities to buy and manage land for nature recovery. It has been simply rocket-boosted by the ongoing MB journey, and the fellow participants and organisations I’ve gotten to know through it. We now collaborate formally with partners at Bates Wells, the UK’s leading impact law firm; with managers at Bain and Company, the global consultancy; and by analysts at the pioneering asset manager Schroders, one of whose natural capital team now sits on our board. All connections I fostered through and with MB. I am more deeply informed end empowered than I ever. I see all of this as X to the power of MovingBeyond: me, my company, and the world itself. It is a way of convening, connecting, and empowering at a time when the world needs it most. I heartily commend it to any current or future leader.