{"id":787,"date":"2025-12-16T13:56:43","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T13:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/sustainabilityspace\/?p=787"},"modified":"2026-01-30T17:15:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T17:15:38","slug":"empowering-future-leaders-through-the-climate-fresk-at-exeters-flagship-mba-by-sara-agbenro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/sustainabilityspace\/2025\/12\/16\/empowering-future-leaders-through-the-climate-fresk-at-exeters-flagship-mba-by-sara-agbenro\/","title":{"rendered":"Empowering Future Leaders through the Climate Fresk at Exeter\u2019s Flagship MBA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
By Sara Agbenro<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

At the start of this academic year, Exeter\u2019s prestigious MBA programme – 1st in the UK for sustainability, and 10th<\/sup> globally – welcomed its 2025\/26 student cohort with an experience designed to challenge, inspire, and empower: the Climate Fresk. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Climate Fresk is a participatory workshop that\u2019s empowering millions across the globe to take part in high-impact climate action. Turning the best available climate science from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) into an engaging card-based team game, Climate Fresk deepens participants\u2019 understanding of the climate change system and its social and economic implications – encouraging system thinking and collaborative problem-solving. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThe Climate Fresk workshop was a great opportunity to understand how different factors are connected to each other. Working as a team was also very valuable because we all had different thoughts, and that\u2019s really where the learning happens. It made me realise how important it is to be aware of all the factors in the chain, because when we make a decision, we don\u2019t just affect the direct element involved but the whole ecosystem around it.\u201d<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Jos\u00e9 Antonio Gordillo Camacho, The Exeter MBA student<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

MBA students\u2019 diverse cultural and industry backgrounds enriched the conversations with international perspectives and lived experiences of climate and ecological crisis. The three-hours interactive session did not only develop students\u2019 climate literacy and futures skills, but it also allowed them to explore climate emotions and to discuss solutions \u2013 boosting confidence and sense of agency.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whether they came from medical careers or tech corporates, charity organisations or finance,  the 25 MBA students also reflected on what they can do to model sustainable leadership in their personal lives and careers, each leaving with clear ideas to bring forward: <\/p>\n\n\n\n