FEATURED WORKSHOP

Integrate low cost, high impact human focused energy management into operations by linking energy behaviours with business objectives to reduce waste, plan for future requirements, minimize facility complications, improve safety and reduce greenhouse gases.  Put your team’s creativity, skills and experience to work in professionally designed and delivered sessions. We focus on strengths and resources you already have in place to achieve energy savings. These participatory workshops blend just enough new learning with existing expertise so participants feel confident about what can be accomplished. ​

Previous Energy Behaviour Projects

★ Award Winning ENERGY CONNECT 
Kady Cowan created Energy Connect in 2015 at Atrium Health (the second largest public health network in North America) with a team of outside experts and internal hospital staff. Energy Connect embraces complexity through human-centered innovation rooted in training, capacity building and culture shift. Six energy behaviour interventions were designed and tested across six healthcare facilities with verified results showing annual energy savings ranging from 2% to 25% at 5 out of 6 pilot locations. Energy Connect was rolled out across the entire health system in 2018. Kady was awarded energy innovator of the year from the AEE (American Energy Engineers) in 2018 and the program was featured as a Tools of Change leading practice case study here.

★ IESO - BEST Training
​While Kady Cowan was at Ontario’s Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO), she collaborated with See Change Institute to develop and pilot a “Behaviour, Energy, Sustainability Training” (BEST) course for commercial energy managers and building operators in Ontario. This course served to fill an identified market gap and to improve their literacy in behavioural theory and techniques. Course participants reported positive feedback and tangible results when they returned to work. Results were published in the 2020 ACEEE Summer study proceedings here.
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★ TLC - Thermostats, Lights and Controls
In 2007, Kady Cowan led the Energy and Environment team at University Health Network (UHN, one of the largest hospitals in Canada) to launch an innovative energy management program called TLC: Thermostats, Lights and Controls. TLC’s goal was to decrease energy use by 15% through conservation and efficiency ($1,000,000 and 10,000 tonnes of CO2). By 2013, TLC was actively contributing to UHN’s annual energy savings goal of $2.35 million.

Facilitation

Want to think through ideas and get staff or executives engaged in the issues you are working on? Convening a workshop, training, lunch and learn or workgroup can be a one-off event, short burst of events or a longer term engagement. Together we will get a project started, build momentum, refine components or reflect on the impact you have already achieved and want to surpass.
"Kady is my go-to person for projects, collaborations, facilitation and much more. I have worked with Kady for over 20 years and have always been impressed with her insight, passion and solutions-oriented approaches. If you need something done right, you need Kady on your team!"
 
Linda Varangu, MEng, Climate Change Lead and Founding Executive Director, Canadian Coalition for Green Health Care

Coaching 

Guidance and advice to individuals and small groups on energy, climate and sustainability topics. Relying on 20+ years practical experience in large commercial and institutional sectors we will help you find the response and approach that is best suited for you. Use coaching to develop your ideas, help get unstuck, generate options, and understand your circumstances and relationships that underpin your challenges. 
“I appreciate the coaching sessions, it really helps open my eyes to the uncertainties and challenges related to my account and to broaden my knowledge and skills on how to adapt to make valuable changes.”

Kaila Kelly, ​Engineer In Training, Energy Manager, Cape Breton Regional Municipality

Program Designer

Interested in a multi-solving approach where one solution addresses more than one challenge at the same time? Let's design a practice, program, evaluation or event that embraces the complexity of individual and organizational behaviour, business objectives, and ecological resilience. Together we will learn and practice combining strategies and tactics for climate resilience, greenhouse gas reduction and a just energy transition. 

Products may include: 
  • Roadmaps and Compass
  • Evaluation
  • Participatory Action Research

Knowledge Mobilization

Create a culture of improvement with practice that gets the right information to the right people at the right time. Turn ideas and intention into action with comprehensive and context specific programs that focus on people. Helping everyone think and act their way into sustainability.

Products may include: 
  • Workshops
  • Data Visualization
  • Challenge Mapping 
"Kady Cowan is a skilled storyteller. She thoughtfully, playfully, deftly brings her audience on the journey, ensures they knew the route and encourages them to join in."

Carol Devine, Climate and Health Researcher and Advocate, International

Key Note Speaker

Sample Topics
 ::  Reshape Energy Efficiency Programs, Learning from Fractals
 ::  Learning from Field Stories about Energy Culture
 ::  Move from Hunch to Proof by Observation
​ ::  Shape Motion Rhythm of Change
 ::  Close the Climate Resilience Gap Between Values and Action in Facilities and Operations

Community Building

Since 2020 | Toronto | Ontario | Canada

CLIMATE SANCTUARY

A peer-to-peer climate feeling space that provides FREE emotional support for people working in service to climate safety. Join our monthly hybrid circle to help build your personal resilience as we continue to face ongoing threats to our shared sustainable future.

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