Where do you start to create a healthy organization in our era of climate crisis? One way is to see how your organization runs from the inside out. I discuss this in this episode of AfterShock with Erin Gallup, founder of the Hive Initiative, whose design-led “Mini Summits” are transforming how employees and leaders engage with climate, biodiversity, and wellbeing at work.
In this episode we cover:
1. The small step a CEO can make today: Erin recommends educating yourself and your organization by using Hive’s free Mini Summits, each with an eight-minute science segment
that turns awareness into immediate solutions.
2. Erin’s origin story: How a Silicon Valley designer left the world of shopping apps to build a climate movement rooted in design and community.
3. Why design matters for climate action: Clear, simple design can shift employees from paralysis to purpose.
4. Greenwashing vs. greenhushing: Why silence can be just as risky as over-claiming, and what leaders can do instead.
5. The anatomy of a healthy organization between now and 2030: Resilience, psychological safety, and distributing responsibility across the workforce.
6. The role of employees as climate catalysts: How younger generations are eager to contribute if leaders simply invite them in.
7. The hidden costs of inaction: From fragile supply chains and biodiversity collapse to
weakened social fabric and reputational damage.
8. A hopeful 2030 vision: Employee-led sustainability teams as the new normal inside organizations.
This special series from the AfterShock podcast is in association with the Creating Healthy Organizations Conference hosted by Vanguard University’s Graduate Organizational Psychology program. We explore what it truly takes to build healthy organizations—ones that positively impact people, planet, and profit.
More about Erin Gallup:
Erin Gallup is a digital product designer who spent 20 years working for Silicon Valley’s tech companies, all the while desperately wanting to use her skills to make our planet go in a better direction.
After moving to Norway in 2018, she founded the Hive Initiative as a way to realise this dream, put her skills to work and meet others who wanted to do the same. Together she and her collaborators created free and downloadable Mini Summits as a way to make it easier to include employees in company sustainability efforts.
Download the Mini-Summits for free: https://hiveinitiative.org/mini-summits
Connect with Erin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/egallup/