Learn. Connect. Transform.

SecondPlace provides the knowledge and helps build the network for mid-career professionals learning to navigate complex challenges while moving the dial in favour of sustainable futures. It does this through

Learning: Change must happen across industries, policies and social movements to build momentum. By providing a common language and framing around sustainability and geopolitics to leaders across these private, public and civic sectors, they will understand their own role and that of others.

Connecting: Incremental changes build momentum through an interplay of actions driven by leaders and the networks in which they work and draw their inspiration. Building on their common language, these communities help leaders distinguish the signals from the noise.

Transforming: Whether it’s introducing new technology, building social movements or enacting policy, incremental changes always precede transformational change. Reaching these tipping points is absolutely necessary, but can be uncomfortable for many and often only really understood in hindsight.

Second Place provides strategic advisory services for individuals and organizations navigating the intersection of geopolitics, sustainability and systemic change. We work with leaders across the public and private sectors to help them understand emerging global shifts - from climate risk and biodiversity loss to energy transitions, demographic change, and evolving power dynamics - and translate these into practical strategy.