Peter Boyd
Yale lecturer and global climate leader driving Connected Leadership and Net-Zero action.
Why book Peter Boyd for your next event
- Yale lecturer and Founder & CEO of Time4Good, guiding leaders toward purpose-driven, high-impact strategies.
- Former COO of Sir Richard Branson’s Carbon War Room and leader of global Net-Zero initiatives.
- Creator of Yale’s Connected Leadership course, followed by 120,000+ learners worldwide.
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Connected Leadership and Net-Zero strategist with global impact
Peter Boyd is a globally respected voice on Connected Leadership, system change and the transition to a Net-Zero world. As a Lecturer at Yale and Founder & CEO of Time4Good, he works at the intersection of business, climate and leadership. With more than twenty years of experience across government, entrepreneurship and global corporations, Peter brings clarity, energy and practical tools that help leaders turn ambition into measurable impact.
Peter Boyd – Yale Lecturer and Climate Leader
Peter Boyd is a Lecturer at the Yale School of the Environment, Lecturer in the Practice of Management at the Yale School of Management, and Resident Fellow at the Yale Center for Business and the Environment. Across these roles, he teaches, writes and speaks about leadership, strategy and the transition to a Net-Zero world.
His work is grounded in real-world experience. For over twenty years, Peter has worked with, led, advised and coached high-growth organizations on leadership, strategy, time maximization, team alignment and entrepreneurial opportunity. He brings insight from corporate boardrooms, public institutions and mission-driven initiatives that resonates with executives, policymakers and entrepreneurs alike.
Founder of Time4Good and Connected Leadership Advocate
Outside Yale, Peter is Founder & CEO of Time4Good. Through Time4Good, he helps leaders and their teams across sectors build purpose-driven paths to maximum positive impact. His focus is aligning leadership, time and strategy to accelerate meaningful change.
Peter is passionate about “Connected Leadership” — a leadership approach built on understanding the deep interconnections between people, organizations and the systems they operate within. His Connected Leadership free online course, developed with Yale and delivered via Coursera, has attracted more than 120,000 participants worldwide. The course reflects his belief that leadership must evolve to meet the scale and speed of today’s global challenges.
In his keynotes, Peter translates these ideas into practical frameworks. Audiences gain tools to rethink priorities, strengthen alignment and lead in ways that create measurable progress toward Net-Zero and broader sustainability goals.
Leadership at the Frontlines of Net-Zero
Peter Boyd has played central roles in influential climate and business initiatives over the past two decades. He was Launch Director and COO of Sir Richard Branson’s Carbon War Room, working to harness market-driven solutions to climate change.
He served as Chair of The Energy Efficiency Deployment Office for the UK Department of Energy & Climate Change, helping shape public-sector approaches to energy transformation. He also led The B Team’s “Net-Zero by 2050” initiative, encouraging businesses to support an ambitious Paris Agreement at COP21 and commit to science-based climate targets.
Today, Peter continues to shape global climate action. He is Co-Chair of the UN’s Race To Zero Expert Peer Review Group, helping ensure credibility and rigor in Net-Zero commitments worldwide. He also serves as a senior advisor to the US Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office and sits on the board of Sustainable Westport in his hometown of Westport, Connecticut.
These experiences give him a deep understanding of how business, government and civil society can work together to accelerate system change.
From Virgin Group to McKinsey
Before focusing fully on climate and system change, Peter spent twelve years at the Virgin Group, including serving as CEO of Virgin Mobile South Africa. There, he led growth, built teams and navigated complex, fast-moving markets.
His career began at McKinsey & Company, where he developed a strong foundation in strategy and problem-solving. This blend of consulting discipline and entrepreneurial execution continues to shape his approach today: ambitious goals supported by focused action.
Book Peter Boyd for Your Event
When you book Peter Boyd for your event, you bring in a speaker who combines academic depth with frontline leadership experience. He speaks with clarity, warmth and authority, offering audiences both inspiration and concrete next steps.
Peter addresses themes such as:
Connected Leadership in a complex world
Accelerating the transition to Net-Zero
Aligning strategy, time and purpose
Leading system change across sectors
Building high-impact, aligned teams
His talks are relevant for corporate leaders, sustainability professionals, policymakers, entrepreneurs and students. Each presentation is tailored to the audience, ensuring practical value alongside big-picture thinking.
Driven by Endurance and Curiosity
Outside his professional roles, Peter is currently pursuing a Masters degree at the University of Cambridge. He has run more than twenty marathons and ultramarathons, including the Marathon Des Sables in 2024 and twenty years earlier.
He enjoys skiing and kayaking, and values time with his wife and three children. This personal commitment to endurance and balance mirrors the mindset he encourages in leaders: resilience, focus and a long-term view.
Peter Boyd stands at the intersection of leadership and climate action. Through his teaching at Yale, his work with Time4Good and his global advisory roles, he equips leaders to navigate complexity and deliver lasting, positive impact. Book Peter Boyd for your event if you want your audience to leave with renewed clarity, practical tools and the confidence to lead the transition to a Net-Zero future.
Keynotes
Keynote by Peter Boyd:
It’s Time4Good – Maximizing Your Impact
Peter has an innovative and highly practical take on the concept of time and productivity, drawing from the focus of his start-up company, as well as over ten years in senior positions at the Virgin Group, global NGOs and government, and latterly advising CEOs of growth companies.
He describes time as one of the biggest market failures in society. He covers two common frameworks to approaching time and workplace productivity, and shows how we can create an overarching framework to yield genuinely actionable insights that can help Leaders prioritize their time. It can extend to how Leaders engage with the outside world and their social media presence; as well as optimize the allocation of time across their organization. If interested, please speak to one of our consultants, and Peter as appropriate, to assess the specific fit with your audience.
To the extent it is interesting or useful to the event, Peter can also introduce his newly-built platform Time4Good.net. Time4Good talks could take the form of a one-way informative speaking engagement, but also evolve to more interactive workshops to ensure the executives yield the most benefit.
Keynote by Peter Boyd:
Net-Zero By 2050 – The Opportunity Of Our Generation
Peter has been working on, and talking about, the economic, social and environmental opportunities of solving climate change since 2009.
Whether it is addressing ship-owners in Greece, solar executives in Canada, or a cross-sector audience in Singapore, his emphasis is always on getting across a compelling and tailored message to the audience, that they can feel positive and change their to-do list when they get back to work. Example flow:
- Climate Change is important, is part of a larger system of changes we’ve created as a world, and affects us all – including those in the room
- There are profound changes that have taken place in the last 12-18 months – critical sparks for action include the UN’s adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals and the creation of the Paris Agreement at the UNFCCC climate talks COP21.
There are huge opportunities – both economy-wide and sector-specific – for the audience in the room to profoundly affect their job over the coming months and years. It’s time to take advantage.
Peter brings high energy and assumes no prior knowledge in the subject of climate change. He brings a wealth of solution examples from working with the Shipping Industry and Island governments at the Carbon War Room; to accelerating green student start-ups at Yale University’s Center for Business & The Environment at Yale University. He has observed international climate negotiations in Copenhagen, Durban, Cancun, Paris and Marrakech.
Peter can liaise with the organizers pre-event to create a tailored message to create the biggest change from the audience in the room – whether it is a clean-tech audience, broader business, the ngo world, or community and faith-based organizations.
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