Deploying a whole-systems approach to address the climate crisis, Edie leverages decades of experience building close-knit international networks for environment, sustainability, and social justice. She coaches sustainability champions in advancing climate and social justice initiatives, and in personal sustainability and wellness. Edie co-founded the Donella Meadows Leadership Fellows Program of the Sustainability Institute where she co-designed transformative leadership skills through a focus on systems thinking, reflective conversation, the discipline of vision, and coaching. To expand this work, she founded the Sustainability Leaders Network, and taught courses in Biomimicry and Systems Thinking. She serves on the advisory board of the Multisolving Institute, and has been an advisor of Climate Interactive since it spun off from Sustainability Institute.

Early in her career Edie was the executive director of the Association for Progressive Communications, which included leading international teams to provide the newly created internet services at several United Nations world conferences, including the 1992 U.N. Earth Summit in Brazil, the 1993 U.N. Human Rights Conference in Austria, and the 1995 U.N. Women’s Conference in China — for which she was profiled in the 2020 book They Didn’t See Us Coming: The Hidden History of Feminism in the Nineties.