10 Steps To Save The World: My Takeaways From Interviewing 500+ Climate Leader

At 18, I left university and spent a year interviewing over 500 climate founders, investors, and leaders while building my company, Apexion. I wasn’t just collecting opinions - I was trying to understand what it would take to make change happen faster. Through 24,000+ questions, I started uncovering the patterns beneath the world’s biggest challenges.

I began connecting the dots on deeper root causes that show up again and again - not just in today’s problems, but across history. From past mass extinctions to the rise and fall of empires, the same underlying factors keep repeating.

In this session, I’ll walk you through 10 of the biggest takeaways I’ve found - distilled into frameworks that lead us to think differently, act more effectively, and focus on what really matters.

Whether you’re trying to solve a huge climate challenge or build a breakthrough solution in your industry, I’ve found that these factors always seem to have the greatest influence on the outcome.