Climate risk doesn't fit neatly into organizational boxes. It spans atmospheric science, financial engineering, insurance actuarial work, policy analysis, and real estate valuation—often within a single client engagement. No firm, no matter how well-resourced, houses world-class expertise across every dimension that matters.
That's why We're building something different: a distributed network of independent climate risk experts who collaborate on complex problems while maintaining their autonomy. And We're looking for exceptional specialists to join us.
The Challenge: Expertise Gaps Are Everywhere
The Reality of Climate Risk Advisory Today
When a reinsurer needs to evaluate climate exposure across a property portfolio, they typically face three options—none of them ideal:
Option one: Hire a large consultancy with a recognizable brand. They'll assign whoever is available, not necessarily whoever is best qualified. You'll pay premium rates for generalists learning on your dime.
Option two: Engage multiple specialized firms and try to integrate their findings yourself. This creates coordination nightmares, conflicting methodologies, and gaps between workstreams that nobody owns.
Option three: Build internal capabilities from scratch. This takes years and millions of dollars—time and resources most organizations can't spare while climate risk compounds quarterly.
I've watched clients struggle with all three approaches. The common thread? They're trying to solve a network problem with institutional solutions.
The Opportunity: A Network Model for Expert Collaboration
What If the Best Experts Could Work Together—Without the Bureaucracy?
Independent experts get the best problems. Clients get the best talent. Everyone maintains their autonomy.
Climate risk expertise is increasingly distributed. The best catastrophe modeler might be an independent consultant in Bermuda. The leading parametric trigger designer might be a former investment banker now advising selectively. The climate scientist who can translate IPCC scenarios into business implications might be splitting time between academia and consulting.
These experts exist. They're exceptional at what they do. But they're hard to find, harder to coordinate, and rarely work together—even when clients desperately need their combined perspectives.
We're building the connective tissue that makes expert collaboration seamless.
What We're Building: A Curated Network of Specialists
IVYSH Consulting operates as an integrator and orchestrator. We maintain relationships with deep specialists across every dimension of climate risk and disaster finance. When complex engagements arrive, we assemble precisely the right team—not whoever happens to be on staff.
Expertise Areas We're Building
Climate Scientists
Translating physical climate projections into business-relevant insights
Catastrophe Modelers
Multi-peril exposure analysis and non-stationary risk modeling
Disaster Finance Experts
Cat bonds, parametric insurance, ILWs, and innovative risk transfer
Actuaries
Climate-adjusted pricing, reserving, and capital modeling
Real Estate Specialists
Climate impact on property valuation and portfolio risk
Policy & Regulatory Analysts
SEC climate rules, TCFD, EU taxonomy, and cross-jurisdiction compliance
How It Works: Collaboration Without Bureaucracy
The Network Model in Action
Client Challenge Arrives
We scope the problem and identify required expertise
Team Assembly
We engage the right specialists from our network
Orchestrated Delivery
We manage collaboration and integrate workstreams
Unified Results
Client receives coherent, actionable recommendations
You maintain your independence. You choose which projects to participate in. You're compensated fairly for your expertise—without the overhead extraction that large firms impose. And you get access to sophisticated problems that independent consultants rarely see.
Why Join: The Benefits of Network Membership
Cutting-Edge Problems
Work on the most sophisticated climate risk challenges facing carriers, reinsurers, and institutional investors—problems you won't find as an independent.
Fair Compensation
Your expertise is valued appropriately. No partner profit extraction, no overhead burden—compensation that reflects what you actually contribute.
Elite Collaboration
Work alongside other top practitioners in your field. Cross-pollinate ideas. Build relationships with experts you'd never otherwise encounter.
Thought Leadership Platform
Contribute to our publications, speak at events, and build your professional profile through association with cutting-edge work.
Who We're Looking For
We're not building the biggest network. We're building the best one. That means being selective about who joins.
Deep Expertise
Recognized authority in a specialized domain with a track record of solving real problems
Collaborative Mindset
Comfortable working in integrated teams and sharing credit for collective success
Intellectual Honesty
Prioritizes getting it right over impressive-sounding answers; knows what they don't know
If you're a climate scientist who can translate research into business applications, a catastrophe modeler pushing beyond historical distributions, an actuary rethinking assumptions under climate change, or a disaster finance expert structuring innovative risk transfer—we want to hear from you.
Whether you've gone independent, you're considering it, or you're at a firm but interested in project-based collaboration—there's a place in this network for exceptional talent.
Ready to Join?
Let's Start a Conversation
We're building the premier network for climate risk expertise. If you bring deep knowledge and a collaborative spirit, we'd love to explore how we can work together.
Climate change is the defining challenge of our generation. Addressing it requires the best minds working together—not siloed in competing institutions, but collaborating across boundaries on problems that matter.
That's what we're building. And we're looking for the best to build it with us.