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Today, we are talking to Matthias Muehlbauer of OnePointFive.
We have the pleasure of covering one of our good friends, Matthias Muehlbauer at the powerhouse firm OnePointFive. Matthias is a Founding Partner at the firm, where their activities range across two operations:
They provide diligence and climate advisory services
They train sustainability professionals
They’re bringing a level of success and professionalism that is beating MBB (top 3 consulting firms) at the sustainability game.
From operating such a dynamic business from day 1, Matthias has picked up a lot of great knowledge about the space:
The Future of Work in climate
Where sustainability is headed
The power of bootstrapping
What you need to know to be successful in getting a job in climate
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The Guest: Matthias Muehlbauer
Matthias Muehlbauer is a Founding partner at OnePointFive, a New York-based climate advisory and training firm.
Originally from Australia, he began his career at PwC in mergers and acquisitions and strategy consulting, primarily in the resource sector.
Matthias holds an MBA, with studies split between a Japanese government scholarship program and Yale School of Management.
His journey into the climate space began in earnest during his time at Yale, where he became involved with Cambium Carbon, a climate-focused startup, as head of finance.
He co-founded OnePointFive during the pandemic, successfully building the firm into a significant player in the sustainability consulting and training space.
The Company: OnePointFive
One Liner: Climate advisory and training firm helping organizations develop and implement decarbonization strategies
OnePointFive are your climate experts in residence, helping to grow your business without destroying the planet.
They develop intentional solutions across Climate Finance, Climate Technology, Training, and Sustainability Services to future-proof your organization and decouple emissions from business growth.
OnePointFive is recognized as a Forbes Next1000 company, with 2-3x year-on-year growth from 2020 until now. Their global network of 350+ highly vetted sustainability and climate experts are on-call to solve your project challenges.
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📝 Show Notes:
Topics
03:12 About OPF
12:22 Differentiating Ed in the Market
13:49 From Expert Network to Education
15:45 Workforce Transition
18:43 Mid-Career Pivoters
27:16 Bootstrapping & Being Nimble
31:02 Embedded Sustainability in the Workforce
40:14 Clean Energy and the Future of Fossil Fuels
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Text Transcript 👇🏽
Somil Aggarwal:
Alright, Matthias, welcome to the show. How are you?
Matthias Muehlbauer:
I'm doing great. Super excited to be on the show. I've been following the great work you and Clean Techies have been doing in the space. So, excited for today.
Somil Aggarwal:
I appreciate that, man. Those are a lot of nice words. I don't know if you'll feel the same after I catch you up on a soundbite or two later on, just saying.
Matthias Muehlbauer:
No worries, I'm an open book. We have a PR team that can clean things up if needed.
Somil Aggarwal:
He came in with the PR team! There we go, they're official, guys. They're official. Well, you guys are big enough to have a PR team, which means we should be knowing who you are. So, who are you and what is OnePointFive?
Matthias Muehlbauer:
Great, I'll start with a few things. Let me go through some of our business models and share a bit about our origins. OnePointFive is a New York-based climate advisory and training firm. We've been in operation for about four years. Essentially, we have two main focuses. One is our climate advisory side, where we work with multinational organizations across the US, EU, and APAC. We help them decarbonize their strategy and operations. We do a lot of Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions measurements and develop decarbonization plans and climate strategies to help them reduce their emissions.
We also work with funds, helping them build their climate investment strategies and conducting due diligence on their investments. On the other side, we focus on training and skills. We run an eight-week cohort-based accelerator around sustainability consulting skills. Sustainability consulting is a term we use after some A/B testing in the market. It's essentially a Swiss army knife of skills needed in the sustainability space to help organizations achieve net zero.
We launched this program in February last year, 2023, and since then we've had four cohorts, with about 600 people graduating from 40 different countries. We have around 15 local hubs where people can meet up in real life. These hubs include the US, the EU, the UK, and also places like West Africa and Latin America. We even have a guy in Mexico City heading up our efforts there. Our next step is world domination!
Somil Aggarwal:
Nice. Is this your personal travel list? Is that how you decide on new spots?
Matthias Muehlbauer:
Exactly, exactly. We open up Airbnb, look at all the sweet guest-nominated places, and figure out where the next hub should be. No, we have an online process for advertising our platform. We're fairly notorious on LinkedIn and have a bit of a presence there. As a result, we've got people from all around the world signing up. About 30% of our cohorts have been from the global south. We see a huge opportunity to upskill these sustainability skills in a corporate sustainability context.
Somil Aggarwal:
Amazing. So you guys do a lot. You do some advisory, you do sustainability consulting, which is kind of a catch-all for many things probably. You work with funds on diligence, and you're also focused on the climate transition. Where do you fit into all of this?
Matthias Muehlbauer:
I'm a founding partner at OnePointFive and have been here since day one. The two models are really connected. The advisory work informs our training content by bringing real-world practitioner insights into our courses. We're doing the research and building this content, presenting case studies from our advisory side to our academy. This ensures our education is relevant and practical, differentiating us from other players in the market. Traditional academic sustainability education often doesn't translate well to real-world corporate sustainability work.
In our nascent field, the body of knowledge keeps evolving. Here's an analogy we like to use: if you start a sustainability degree and finish your first semester in three months, you're already out of date with current practice due to the rapid regulatory changes in sustainability. This is why we believe practitioners need to lead the education, matching the speed and nature of the field with micro-credentials and cohort-based learning programs.
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