Theme: IMPACT - Intrinsic Motivation for Persistent ACT to Tackle Climate Change

TEDx Plattsburgh Virtual Countdown Event to exchange on the challenges and possibilities of IMPACT: Intrinsic Motivation for Persistent ACT to Tackle Climate Change.
Reducing CO2 emissions, NETZERO, Green Technologies, Clean Industrial Processes or Business Ambitions are all "Call for Actions".
They have a common threat to tackle. A global threat. We mostly forget how these actions appear before becoming global: Locally, individually. We need so much more "green" initiatives. Self-motivation is a neglected key factor for these initiatives to thrive and get global.
We all need to SEE the gap between WHAT KIND OF FUTURE is waiting for us and WHAT KIND of FUTURE WE WANT. We need to powerfully connect with each other and take actions through our self-motivation to make our Collective Future that we would like for ourselves, for the future generations.
At this event, we will discuss how Self-Motivation triggering the holistic actions for Climate Change can be the missing piece of the Sustainability Puzzle.

Co-Hosts:
- Dr Ayse Basak Cinar Lowe, Award Winner Coach 4 Leadership and Wellbeing/ Speaker/Sustainability, and
- Stephane Bilodeau, Eng., PhD, FEC, Chairman of Smart Phases Inc. and co-founder of the International SMEs Forum 4 SDG Acceleration.

Accompanied by an awesome set of international panellists for the exchanges and discussions:

- Ana Gómez, Wellbeing Economy Alliance - WEAll, Spain

- Bhawna Arora, Director International, Development! Peace Ambassador Universal Peace Federation, United Kingdom & India

- Cihan Urhan, Manager at TSKB | Türkiye Sınai Kalkınma Bankası, Turkey

- Dr. CJ Palmer, Founder, CEO at Sustainable mPact™ & Sustainable Soundtracks™, Co-Founder Verdivo Capital, Medical Doctor (Specialist), Singer, Songwriter, Sweden

- Divya Singhal, Chairperson - Centre For Social Sensitivity and Action (CSSA) and Professor at Goa Institute of Management, India

- Nicky Amos, Managing Director, at Chronos Sustainability Ltd Chichester, England, United Kingdom

- Renahan Gil, Corporate and Public Affairs; ESG; Sustainable Development; Public Policies Greater São Paulo Area, Brazil

- Roshan Kindred, Chief Diversity Officer at PagerDuty, California, USA

Smart Phases
213, Connecticut Avenue
Plattsburgh, New York, 12903
United States

Ayse Basak Cinar Lowe

Award Winner Coach 4 Leadership and Wellbeing/Speaker/Sustainability

Dr. Cinar is an internationally accredited health coach (EQA Awarded, the European Mentoring and Coaching Council), a senior trainer, and researcher (DDS, MBA, PhD, DSci). Dr. Cinar pioneers in the field of evidence-based coaching and leadership to have a profound impact on the way the world does business for positive transformation locally and globally via building strategic alliances with stakeholders such as Universities, Business Partners, NGOs, Research Institutions and the Governmental Departments. Dr Cinar is the winner of the European Mentoring and Coaching Council International Coaching Award (2016), 100 Best Global Coaching Leaders Award, 50 Outstanding Women in Healthcare Management–2016 for promoting positive change and well-being in society through an international coaching project via building the bridges between diverse stakeholders. She currently works as a consultant coach at the University of Dundee to design, deliver & measure coaching projects, underpinned by SDGs.

Stephane Bilodeau

Founder and Chairman

Dr Stephane Bilodeau is an entrepreneur in Cleantech, Engineer, PhD in Energy & Advanced Thermodynamics, a frontrunner, his main objectives are related to the deployment of renewables, Artificial Intelligence, Energy storage and other clean technologies for Sustainability, Indoor Air Quality, Health as well as the development of teams, SMEs and the engineering profession in a sustainable way, being part of the solution to Climate Change Challenges. He is an active member of Engineers Associations in Canada, Chairman of the Scholarships and Awards Committee of FOIQ (OIQ Foundation) and he has founded and led 2 Cleantech Companies. In the last 20 years, he has worked extensively for Resilience, Wellbeing and Sustainable Development matters. He is the Founder and Chief Technology Officer, of Novacab.us, Fellow of Engineers Canada and expert contributor to Energy Central and #TowardsDataScience and #TheStartup via Medium, and to the World Health Network and the Covid Action Group.