Good cop bad cop
a community of practice for climate professionals
Imagine finishing your work day, and meeting some peers for a game of dart or pool, your comforting drink of choice, and some banter. Spending some time with people who get it, because they do the same work, just in a different organization.
Some days, you let a big sigh out at the door, and then go on to chit chat and laugh about anything but work.
Some days, you walk in beaming, ready to celebrate a long awaited win with people who know how hard you've worked to make it happen, and how much it matters.
Some days, you rely on others for brainstorming, trouble-shooting, ideating, and flipping a problem on its head to make sense of it.
Today, you may pop in for 5-10 minutes, just to "say hi", or you may stay longer. Last week, you had a rough time on a project you were working on, and just knowing that you had that space to come to afterwards gave you the push you needed to get through the rough patch. You could just come back to this spot to retreat and gather yourself with people who just get it, in a space where you belong.
Everytime you show up, you leave refreshed and reminded that you are very far from alone on this path.
This is what good cop bad cop is about. The strength and comfort of an informal network.
Hi! I'm Katherine. I'm the one inviting you in.
Like you, I'm a climate professional. I advise, research, and teach about climate solutions, and I've been at it for a decade. Energy transition, climate finance, decarbonization strategies and resilience and adaptation are the areas I know most about. I come from economics, and added a few other tools along the way.I know what it's like. I know what working in climate feels like, because I've done it, and I've supported brilliant, engaged and thoughtful professionals navigating the messy parts, the ambitions, the set backs, the slow wins, and the iterations.I'm an experienced convener. I host The Carbon Copy Book Club, for climate professionals, launched in late 2024. I also brought people together through different gatherings and experiences in auditoriums and classes, many parks, a few bars, many meeting rooms, on canoes, kayaks and rabaskas, in chlorinated pools, on the side of the Grand Canyon, and around many bonfires.And I believe we are stronger together.
good cop bad cop is for you, who:
Works to study, design, deploy or implement solutions to the climate crisis
Won't consider your career as just a job - but a way to influence human and planetary systems
Gets your best work done through collaboration with other wicked smart people
Gives everything within projects, but misses opportunities to look at the bigger picture
Craves being around other people who just get it
Just so we're clear: not everyone thinks the same way about climate solutions.
Your skills, industry and priorities around climate are unique. How you chose, or have landed in climate work, and what you choose to dedicate your work to achieving and the way you go about it is different than what I've been pursuing, and differs from most other of our peers. Between ourselves, we have a large diversity of expertise and informed opinions and sometimes, we don't all see the same paths through.But you know what's insanely RARE? Spaces that allow us to:
- Genuinely discuss and debate our hypothesis without losing credibility.
- Recognize when diversity of tactics can be part of a larger strategy.
- Ask the hard questions (or those we hesitate to ask) and discuss the doubts we all have.
- Share about our struggles, even when we feel (and are) privileged.
- Recognize that we agree on the why and on the urgency.
Debate to get it right is healthy and needed. And lots of forces may push us apart rather than together. We won't get much done, let alone get it right, if we're not ready to admit that we may all hold a different piece of the same puzzle.
Good cop bad cop is where you go to be with other people who just... get it.
What we do together at GOOD COP BAD COP:
Come together to meet each other as we are, without the pressure to perform
Celebrate our collective and individual wins, and pay attention to the meaningful small steps
Do the inventory of what we're skilled at, and identify underused talents
Simulate and practice what challenges our work in a friendly environment
Identify crucial competencies and skills we need to develop, and learn how to best integrate them
Develop reflective practices around our work, through individual and collective lenses
Recognize how rest and stepping away is as important as hard, dedicated work
Address how to live well with our work, instead of seeking the illusion of work-life balance
We may discuss about...
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The details
What do you actually get access to when you join GOOD COP BAD COP beta?
3 months or 6 months access to good cop bad cop, starting in mid-January 2026
A 90 minutes call with peers every two weeks, focused on connecting with others. (Held at two different times to cover all global time zones)
A private forum with invitations to share periodically on specific themes - some more serious, some more silly (on Slack).
Early access to all experiments as I build other parts of good cop bad cop.
Founding member status, including all related bragging rights. "I was there at the very beginning!"
Subscription by cohort
Members of good cop bad cop are onboarded in cohorts.You can join for 3 months or 6 months.The beta cohort comes at a reduced price. As the Community of Practice expands with new features, pricing will be adjusted accordingly.
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"Working with other people is rarely efficient. That's what makes it effective."
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