Our passion
LightSwitch is dedicated to building capacity in people and organizations to radically transform our societies to become truly sustainable and resilient.
Every day.
Our mission is to bring about a cultural shift in how we as a society utilize existing knowledge, create new knowledge and scale knowledge into new domains and contexts.
We know from experience that it takes considerable effort, structure and leadership to truly capitalise on the valuable knowledge resources that reside in people and organisations.
Our focus
Our contribution to the sustainability revolution is to enable actionable knowledge sharing, innovation and capacity building partnerships between people and organizations that are devoted to making a positive difference.
We have the sustainability expertise, the methods and the networks to do this and through our work, we support people to become effective change agents in their respective contexts and spheres of influence.
In everything we do we take a system approach and strive to bridge the silos and connect the dots between academia, the public sector, business and civil society – to deepen our common understanding of the challenges we face and to enable us to create fit-for-purpose solutions.
Meet the founder
Helena Lindquist
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Founder and Company Director of LightSwitch since 2012. Deeply committed to be a force for planet-positive change by leveraging sustainability knowledge and scaling solutions through action-oriented knowledge sharing and innovation partnerships.
Helena is a creative cosmopolitan with long experience of working with the public sector, the research community, industry and NGOs, particularly on matters related to the transition to a renewable energy system. She is particularly active in intergovernmental organisations for policy development in the clean energy transition and as change leadership trainer and advisor for regional and local governments to accelerate concrete action on sustainability. She has published several peer-reviewed articles and has contributed to an internationally acclaimed book on renewable energy integration. Helena is a system thinker who believes that building capacity in other people and facilitating new connections between change agents in different contexts are among the most impactful things you can do.
Helena Lindquist
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Founder and Company Director of LightSwitch since 2012. Deeply committed to be a force for planet-positive change by leveraging sustainability knowledge and scaling solutions through action-oriented knowledge sharing and innovation partnerships.
Helena is a creative cosmopolitan with extensive experience of working with the public sector, the research community, industry and NGOs, particularly on matters related to the transition to a renewable energy system. She is particularly active in intergovernmental organisations for policy development for the clean energy transition and as change leadership trainer and advisor for regional and local governments to accelerate concrete action on sustainability. She has published several peer-reviewed articles and has contributed to an internationally acclaimed book on renewable energy integration. Helena is a system thinker who believes that building capacity in other people and facilitating new connections between change agents in different contexts are among the most impactful things you can do.
