Naomi Klein Speaking Fee: $30,000 to $50,000

The climate crisis is often framed as a technical problem — more efficient technologies, smarter markets, incremental emissions reductions. That framing leaves intact the economic logic that got us here, guaranteeing more climate harm and deeper inequality. Naomi Klein flips the question: if fossil-fuel extraction and perpetual growth are at the root of the crisis, then meaningful climate action must be political, systemic, and justice-centered. Drawing on the argument of This Changes Everything, Naomi lays out why climate policy that tolerates economic concentration and extractive business models will fail, and what a justice-led transition must demand instead. She traces the history of failed market-centered fixes, surfaces the political coalitions needed to make a rapid, equitable transition off fossil fuels, and translates high-level history into concrete choices for organizations and civic leaders. PERFECT FOR TEAMS & LEADERS WHO ARE: • Developing or revising climate strategy and need to move beyond technocratic fixes toward policies that center labor, community resilience, and equity • Responsible for sustainability communications and stakeholder engagement, seeking persuasive narratives that connect climate action to economic justice • Public-sector leaders and funders who must design transition plans that protect workers and communities while accelerating decarbonization • Nonprofits and movement coalitions wanting to build broad political alliances and campaign tactics that win large-scale change YOUR AUDIENCE WILL WALK AWAY WITH: • A clear critique of why market-first climate strategies stall, and the political levers that break that deadlock • Concrete policy and organizing priorities for a rapid, fair transition off fossil fuels that protect workers and frontline communities • Messaging strategies that reframe climate action as a justice and jobs agenda — useful for internal planning and public outreach • Examples of successful cross-sector alliances and practical next steps organizations can take to align operations with a just-transition approach Attendees leave equipped to shift climate commitments from symbolic to systemic, mobilizing policy and politics for deep, equitable emissions reductions.

Crises open opportunities — not only for collective recovery, but for powerful actors to remake economies in ways that concentrate wealth and erode democratic safeguards. That’s the core insight of The Shock Doctrine: disasters are often used to push through policies that would be politically impossible in ordinary times. Recognizing that dynamic is the first step to defending democratic life. Naomi Klein combines investigative reporting, historical case studies, and contemporary analysis to show how market-driven reforms are frequently accelerated in moments of shock — from natural disasters to economic collapses and political upheaval. She maps the tactics used to privatize public goods, deregulate markets, and silence dissent, and she identifies the institutional and civic defenses that blunt those moves. PERFECT FOR TEAMS & LEADERS WHO ARE: • Designing recovery plans after natural disasters or economic shocks and want to ensure rebuilding prioritizes public goods and equity • Working in regulatory bodies, municipal government, or philanthropy and need tools to guard against extractive policy capture in crises • Civic organizers, journalists, and NGOs seeking to anticipate and counter opportunistic policy shifts during emergencies • Corporate risk and strategy teams that must understand how rapid policy changes reshape markets and stakeholder expectations YOUR AUDIENCE WILL WALK AWAY WITH: • A diagnostic lens for spotting when emergency responses are being used to push permanent market reforms • Practical safeguards and policy responses that protect democratic institutions and public services during recovery efforts • Communication strategies to mobilize public resistance to privatization and extractive policy proposals in crisis moments • Case-study lessons from prior shocks that reveal alternative paths for equitable recovery and resilient governance Participants gain the tools to transform crisis response from a vulnerability into a moment of accountable, democratic rebuilding.

In an era of deepfakes, curated outrage, and ubiquitous branding, political life is increasingly engineered as spectacle — a mirror world where attention is extracted and truth becomes fungible. Naomi Klein’s recent work in Doppelganger explores how identity, disinformation, and theatrical politics combine to destabilize democratic debate and stall collective action. Klein outlines how attention economies, corporate branding techniques, and political actors produce misinformation ecosystems and mirror-world politics. She connects these dynamics to broader threats — from climate denial to the erosion of civic trust — and points to cultural and institutional strategies that can blunt misinformation’s power while restoring shared facts and collective purpose. PERFECT FOR TEAMS & LEADERS WHO ARE: • Communications and policy teams battling misinformation and seeking frameworks to rebuild public trust and credible narratives • Cultural institutions, media organizations, and educators designing programs to strengthen media literacy and civic resilience • Movement builders and advocacy groups needing tactics to counter spectacle-driven politics and protect substantive debate • Technology and platform leaders responsible for content governance, algorithmic impacts, and balancing free expression with democratic integrity YOUR AUDIENCE WILL WALK AWAY WITH: • A clear analysis of how branding and spectacle produce political confusion and the practical entry points to interrupt that cycle • Communication techniques to reclaim narrative ground and build durable trust with diverse publics • Programmatic ideas for media literacy, platform accountability, and cultural interventions that inoculate communities against disinformation • Strategic approaches for aligning organizational practices with a politics that privileges evidence, accountability, and collective problem-solving Attendees leave ready to defend democratic discourse, design interventions that reduce misinformation’s reach, and rebuild institutions that anchor shared reality.