Chris Turner

Chris Turner

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Calgary, Alberta

Climate Change | Global Cleantech & Sustainability Expert

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  • HR & Corporate Culture
  • Communication
  • Leadership
  • Purposeful Work
  • Personal Growth
  • Resilience & Adversity
  • Influence & Negotiation
  • Peak Performance
  • Self Improvement & Self Care

CHRIS TURNER BIOGRAPHY

Chris Turner is one of Canada’s leading voices on climate change solutions and the global energy transition. Chris Turner draws on his reporting of the state-of-the-art in renewable change, cleantech, and urban design to paint a vivid portrait of a new, sustainable world order that will allow individuals and businesses to survive and thrive in the twenty-first-century economy.

An award-winning author, Chris Turner has published several bestselling books. The Patch: The People, Pipelines, and Politics of the Oil Sands won the National Business Book Award, and his previous books on climate solutions, The Leap and The Geography of Hope, were both National Business Book Award finalists. His latest book, How to Be a Climate Optimist: Blueprints for a Better World, was published by Random House Canada in 2022. Turner also published a collection of his award-winning essays and feature writing in 2014, How to Breathe Underwater, which won the City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book Prize.

In addition, Chris Turner writing on energy, climate, and technology has appeared in The New YorkerThe Guardian, the Globe and MailMaclean’s, and many other notable publications. He has won 10 National Magazine Awards, among other distinctions. Turner was a 2019 media fellow at the Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue; a 2013 writer-in-residence at the Berton House in Dawson City, Yukon; and a 2010 Paul D. Fleck Fellow at the Banff Centre.

As a speaker and communications strategist,  Chris Turner’s recent clients have included the Canadian Climate Institute, Natural Resources Canada, TD Bank, Compugen, Shaw Industries, the Canadian Institute of Planners, and Siemens Energy.

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Book

The Leap: How to Survive and Thrive in the Sustainable Economy
The Leap: How to Survive and Thrive in the Sustainable Economy
In The Leap, Chris Turner presents a field guide to making that jump, drawing on recent breakthroughs in state-of-the-art renewable energy, cleantech and urban design

Book

How to Be a Climate Optimist: Blueprints for a Better World
How to Be a Climate Optimist: Blueprints for a Better World
From the National Business Book Award winner and GG finalist, a very different book about facing the climate crisis, and what awaits us on the other side. Chris Turner has reported from the places where the sustainable future first emerged—from green islands in Denmark and green office parks in...

Book

The Patch: The People, Pipelines, and Politics of the Oil Sands
The Patch: The People, Pipelines, and Politics of the Oil Sands
The Patch is the story of Fort McMurray and the oil sands in northern Alberta, the world’s second largest proven reserve of oil. But this is no conventional story about the oil business. Rather, it is a portrait of the lifecycle of the Patch, showing just how deeply it continues to impact the...

Book

Planet Simpson: How A Cartoon Masterpiece Documented An Era And Defined A Generation
Planet Simpson: How A Cartoon Masterpiece Documented An Era And Defined A Generation
A smart, accessible and funny cultural analysis of The Simpsons, its inside stories and the world it reflects. From Bart Simpson to Monty Burns, the Internet boom to the slow drowning of Tuvalu, Planet Simpson explores how one of the most popular shows in television history has changed the way we...

Chris Turner Topic Presentations

How To Be A Climate Optimist

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  • Based on his most recent book, National Business Book Award winner and GG finalist, Chris Turner talks to audiences about facing the climate crisis, and what awaits us on the other side.

    Turner has reported from the places where the sustainable future first emerged—from green islands in Denmark and green office parks in southern India to solar panel factories in California and idealistic intentional communities from Scotland to New Mexico. In this presentation, he condenses the first quarter century of the global energy transition into bite-sized chunks of optimistic reflection and reportage, telling a story of a planet in peril and a global effort already beginning to save it. This presentation helps audiences move past the despair and futile anger over ecological collapse and harnesses that passion toward the project of building a twenty-first-century quality of life that surpasses the twentieth-century version in every way.

Tracking the Global Energy Transition

Taking the Leap: Embracing the Sustainable Economy

Chris Turner Speaking Testimonials

Everything went great at our event! Chris’ keynote was very well received and our President was very pleased with everything.

Senior Advisor, Internal Communications
Targay

Chris provided a thought-provoking and stimulating presentation on the need for a change in the way we live. His passion for the subject matter certainly came through in his detailed and energetic presentation. He left us with a renewed sense of the need for (and benefits of) sustainability as a core principle in transportation planning and city-building.

CITE Conference

Chris Turner’s presentation was powerful and delivered with passion. It was exactly what we were looking to provide to our audience.

Better Buildings Conference

The War on Science is a tremendously important book and you owe it to your country to read it.

National Post Review 2013

Chris Turner Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Chris Turner Keynote Speaker delivers customized and tailored keynote presentations, workshops, and training sessions on a wide variety of topics. Each presentation is unique and are designed for a variety of audiences, industries, conferences, and event formats.

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