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Amber Riedl

Co-founder of OHKW Klimajobs, building vocational training for the energy transition

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Amber Riedl
LFA Fellow

Amber Riedl co-founded OHKW (Ohne Hände keine Wende) and Klimajobs, a venture transforming vocational education to accelerate the renewable energy transition. The premise is concrete: the clean energy buildout needs skilled tradespeople, and the systems for training and placing them haven't caught up.

She came to this work through over 15 years as a serial entrepreneur in digital media, most notably as co-founder of makerist: a platform that helped millions embrace DIY creativity through sewing, knitting, and crafting tutorials, scaled with a strong focus on market fit, financial control, and sustainable expansion. She's built and exited companies, navigated pivots, and scaled internationally.

Through Terra.do's LFA program, Amber connected her entrepreneurial experience to the climate workforce gap she now works to close.

Amber is building the vocational training infrastructure for the energy transition: the kind of work that's essential and often invisible.

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