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Name: Laure Legros
The profession: Workplace climate activist
The organisation: WorkForClimate
The title: Head of experience
The pay: $110,000
Laure Legros (holding microphone) says she regularly deals with people who feel dread about climate change.Credit: WorkforClimate
9am: We’re a remote-first organisation, so I mostly work from home. Our goal is to democratise workplace climate action so more people can see a role for themselves and get involved.
As soon as I drop my little one at day care I begin listening to news on climate. I live and breathe climate, so I do this outside work too, but I spend about an hour on it each morning at work.
It’s essential as the space evolves quickly, and there is always more to learn or new perspectives to include. It can be a bit of a rabbit hole, so I need to keep my consumption of climate news balanced.
10am: A lot of what I do is content creation or community building. We’re a small team, so we don’t necessarily have a set job description, and our roles get stretched. This means I’ve picked up a lot of new knowledge and skills; that’s one of the things I love about this job.
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Most of the content that exists is aimed at an audience of sustainability professionals. For everyone else it can get complex and overwhelming. We try to create content that is accessible to everyone, without the jargon. I do the background research, and then our amazing content team helps make it an easier read.
This content goes out in our weekly newsletter, our blog and social channels. We also have playbooks which are standalone resources on topics like fossil-fuel free superannuation.
Noon: What WorkforClimate is trying to do has literally never been done before, so there’s a lot of experimentation and figuring things out. My role has a great balance between strategy work, coming up with plans and new ideas, and the execution of these new ideas. I love solving problems, and climate change is the biggest most wicked problem of them all, so that works well.