Wilford is a keynote speaker focused on solutions to the climate crisis.

Wilford speaks to corporations about how best to identify and address the risks of climate change to their operations and brand and the opportunities climate change may offer them. He also speaks to groups of citizens about how best to become part of the solution, not the problem.

Wilford is the lead teacher, and the 2021 edition of his book In Our Hands is the primary text in the Presidio Graduate School’s national educational program that provides K-12 teachers across the United States with the knowledge they need about the climate emergency and solutions to be able to teach their students (https://k12.presidio.edu/climate/). This initiative is based on the view that K-12 students will live lives that will be far more impacted by the climate crisis than past generations and that they should therefore be made aware of the challenges ahead and be given tools to deal with them.  

Wilford is a former U.S. Diplomat who played a role in the United States decision to establish diplomatic relations with China during the Nixon administration. For decades he was a business consultant to major corporations, such as Citibank and Toyota, and to governments, including NASA in the United States, and the governments of Korea and Taiwan in the development of their electronic industries.

He has a BA from Yale University, a law degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and a PMD degree from the Harvard Business School. 

The 2021 edition of In Our Hands, provides two future scenarios to 2050 , one that shows all we did to solve the climate crisis by that time, and one entitled “The Road to Ruin”, that shows how the world, that took 300,000 years for humans to develop collapsed in just thirty years. The book is filled with actions to take and 130 links in the final Resources for Leaning and Action chapter that enables readers to go into greater depth into every one of the subjects raised in the book, from the science of climate change to the water wars to come.