Creative Boardroom: Collaborate4Climate is a pioneering, all-island initiative addressing the urgent challenge of climate change through creative collaboration and leadership. Phase 2 was rolled out across 2025 and into early 2026.

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Creative Boardroom: Collaborate4Climate Phase 1 Overview

Creative Boardroom: Collaborate4Climate Phase 1 brought together The Institute of Directors Ireland, The Institute of Directors Northern Ireland and Creative Futures Academy in 2024, with the shared ambition to create actionable solutions for our planet. In Phase 2, we welcomed new project partner: Forvis Mazars, to join our collaboration.

Review Phase 1
Creative Boardroom: Collaborate4Climate Phase 2

Phase 2 was designed to extend the impact of the programme beyond the original cohort—taking what was learned and created in Phase 1 and bringing it into organisations, public spaces and decision making contexts across the island of Ireland.

Phase 2: Evaluation Report

Celebrating All-Island Collaboration on Climate Action

Phase 2 saw the Collaborate4Climate exhibition tour the Island of Ireland. The exhibition was designed using sustainable design principles, and brought into focus the core challenges for Ireland’s climate responsibilities— food, transport, textiles and the built environment, in an accessible and impactful way.

Creative Boardroom: Collaborate4Climate Exhibition and Workshops

The Creative Boardroom: Collaborate4Climate (CBC4C) exhibition was designed using sustainable design principles, and brings into focus the core challenges for Ireland’s climate responsibilities – food, transport, textiles and the built environment, in an accessible and impactful way.  A striking conversation-starter, the exhibition acts to raise awareness company-wide and supports real behaviour change. The exhibition will toured to several partner locations through 2025 and into early 2026, building awareness and making this story public.

Organisations also had the option to participate in a CFA-led, design thinking workshop with ‘Strategising for Sustainable Futures’ as a key focus. The workshops took as its start point, a specific challenge unique to each organisation in terms of their sustainability journey.

Tania Banotti, Director, Creative Ireland speaks about 'Creative Boardroom Phase 2'


Follow our Journey

Please click the links below to explore our programme as it developed throughout 2025 and into 2026.


Creative Boardroom: Collaborate4Climate Exhibition at Peter Froggatt Centre, Queen’s University


Creative Boardroom: Collaborate4Climate opens at ESB


Creative Boardroom: Collaborate4Climate at Department of Climate, Energy and the Environment


Creative Boardroom inaugural 'Warming up the Boardroom' Award 2025


Design Thinking Workshop with Furthr Board at Guinness Enterprise Centre


Creative Boardroom: Collaborate4Climate on public display at Connolly Station


Creative Boardroom: Courageous Climate Conversations Guide


Institute of Directors Ireland Design Thinking Workshop, NCH, Dublin


Creative Boardroom: Collaborate4Climate at the Shared Island Conference


Creative Boardroom: Collaborate4Climate heads to Killarney & opens to the public!


IoD NI Design Thinking Workshop, Riddel Hall, Belfast


Creative Boardroom: Collaborate4Climate exhibition at Department of Culture, Communications & Sport (DCCS)


Creative Boardroom Exhibition at the IoD Leading in Governance Conference


IoD Climate Change Design Thinking Workshop for Chartered Directors


Creative Boardroom: Collaborate4Climate Exhibition comes to Belfast


Creative Boardroom: Collaborate4Climate Exhibition at CBRE Ireland Offices


Video Testimonial from Phase 2

Louise Allen, Director, Creative Futures Academy - Phase 2