Facilitators and practitioner coaches

During the TLFS program you’ll learn from the experience, knowledge and wisdom of our international team of facilitators and practitioners, as well as the other participants.

Dr. Monica Sharma

Trained as a physician and epidemiologist, Sharma worked for the United Nations more than twenty years. She currently engages worldwide as an international expert and practitioner on leadership development for sustainable and equitable change. She works with the United Nations, universities, management institutions, governments, businesses, media, and civil society organizations. She has generated transformational results worldwide on select sustainable development goals, and published and presented over 250 articles in journals and international forums. Sharma created and uses a unique response model based on extensive application—a conscious full-spectrum model—which is for simultaneously solving problems, shifting systems, and creating new patterns sourced from individual inner capacity and transformational leadership. Her recent book Radical Transformational Leadership: Strategic Action for Change Agents was a Gold Winner in the Nautilus Book Awards (Business and Leadership Category) and is the reference book in the TLFS Program.

Prof. Karen O’Brien

Karen O’Brien is an internationally recognized expert on climate change and society, and transformations. She has contributed to four IPCC reports and is currently co-chairing the IPBES transformative change assessment. Karen has worked closely with Monica for over a decade. Through this collaboration, she developed the Three Spheres of Transformation framework that underpins cCHANGE’s approach to sustainability transformations and has been widely cited in academic literature and the IPCC AR5. Karen has been hailed as one of the world’s most influential researchers of the past decade by Web of Science in 2019, 2020, and 2021. In 2021 she was co-recipient of the BBVA Foundations Frontiers of Knowledge Award for Climate Change. Her recent books include You Matter More Than You Think: Quantum Social Change for a Thriving World and Climate and Society: Transforming the Future.

Sudarshan Rodriguez

CEO and practitioner coach at RTLWorks

Sudarshan is the CEO at RTLWorks and is a development professional with multi-disciplinary backgrounds and experience in environment sciences, environmental policy & economics, environmental law, disaster management and livelihoods. He has worked with academia, development aid agencies, and civil society organizations.

Program coordinator // Linda Sygna

CEO of cCHANGE

Linda is passionate about bringing out the full potential of people and organizations, and build relationships and partnerships for results. Please contact her if you have any questions about the program - she would love to chat with you!

Teresia Sætre Aarskog

Practitioner Coach, cCHANGE

Agnes Vevle Tvinnereim

Practitioner Coach, VILL

The TLFS Program is hosted and coordinated by cCHANGE, a research and values-based change agency, supporting people and organizations to activate their greatest potential to contribute to solutions to climate change and sustainability issues. We engage in deep partnerships for results with committed people and organizations around the world, with courage, integrity and oneness. cCHANGE has been collaborating with Dr Monica Sharma for the last decade, exploring effective ways to shift cultures and systems and solve problems, anchored in equity and dignity for all.

We are building a global hub where people working on sustainability and climate change issues can build their leadership capacity, learn the “how” of transformations, and unleash their own and other people’s potential and creativity to create extraordinary results. Our team practice and train in the Radical Transformational Leadership approach and we are eager to support others to do the same through the TLFS-program.