4 Element Strategy provides consulting for environmental leaders, teams, and organizations supporting ecological regeneration. We offer support such as:

creating government sustainability plans, such as climate mitigation, adaptation, and resilience
integrating climate action and environmental best practices into local government Comprehensive and Master Plans
professional development training to build capacity and resilience of sustainability teams and organizations
project design and strategic planning for environmental teams
communication and public engagement strategy
coaching in secular mindfulness and eco-psychology to prevent burnout

We serve nonprofits, community organizations, government agencies, universities, and mission-driven businesses who want to pursue regenerative and just solutions to the climate crisis.

Where We Begin

Many of us engaged in climate action, biodiversity protection, and environmental justice are motivated by a deep sense of care for the world we inhabit.

For some, this care is directed toward other humans—particularly communities harmed by extractive or inequitable systems. For others, it extends to the more-than-human world, including wolves, whales, birds, plants, and fungi. For still others, it is oriented toward entire ecological systems such as forests, watersheds, and marine habitats.

Over time, however, this care is frequently eroded by repeated encounters with authoritarian, capitalist, and supremacist structures. Sustained exposure to loss, conflict, and limited institutional change often leads to exhaustion, disengagement, or burnout.

At 4 Element Strategy, we offer practical tools and frameworks that support effective, durable engagement. Our work helps individuals and teams strengthen resilience, expand strategic capacity, and mobilize underutilized skills in service of people and planet.

Deeper questions inform this work. Click below to consider some of what underpins our approach.

Deeper Questions

Click below for some of our deeper questions

Deeper Questions

Our Team

Adam Lobel

Adam Lobel, PhD, practices at the threshold of ecologies, Buddhist-inspired meditation and philosophy, and psycho-social political change. A professor of Ecopsychology, a Guiding Teacher for One Earth Sangha, a Greenfaith fellow, and a respected meditation teacher, he leads contemplative ecological workshops and is active in environmental justice movements. Adam regularly presents papers on contemplative environmental philosophy at academic conferences around the world. He lives with his family in Pittsburgh, PA where he protects land from the petrochemical industry.

Gabe Dayley

Gabe Dayley, MA, pursues regenerative solutions to the climate crisis in government, nonprofit, and higher education. He supports local governments and universities in crafting equitable strategies to address the root causes of climate change, and he facilitates workshops on personal, organizational, and community resilience. Gabe previously served as Climate Action Program Manager for Albemarle County, Virginia, where he led interagency collaborations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and prepare for local climate change impacts. He brings extensive training in authentic leadership, conflict resolution, and contemplative methods to his work.

LaDawn Haglund

LaDawn Haglund, PhD, is a sociologist and professor of climate justice whose work integrates research on sustainability and human rights with contemplative practices and social transformation. She brings clarity, compassion, and deep inquiry to helping individuals and communities navigate structural injustice and imagine new paths forward. LaDawn is devoted to exploring—together with others—how contemplative awareness can support the creation of a more just and caring world.