Meet Our Team
Cyle Zezo
President & Founder
Cyle Zezo founded Reality of Change in 2023 to support unscripted producers and studios in their efforts to address sustainability through their work. In 2025, he was named as one of Realscreen’s Factual Under 40 for his work on sustainability in unscripted entertainment. Separately, Zezo has executive produced the series Penn & Teller: Fool Us, Mysteries Decoded and Recipe for Disaster, and was previously the head of Alternative Programming at The CW Network, where he grew unscripted by tripling the size of the unscripted team, shepherded a threefold increase in unscripted programming hours, and led the three key areas of New Series development, Current Series management, and all network Specials (and additionally supported the digital team with original unscripted entertainment). He is on the advisory council for the Hollywood Climate Summit and is an advisor to the Sustainable Entertainment Alliance.
Sydney Clover
Senior Advisor, Creative Strategy
As Senior Advisor, Creative Strategy, Sydney Clover collaborates with Reality of Change and the entertainment community to provide the counsel, tools and resources to support sustainability creative across unscripted formats, documentaries, and the sector broadly. A seasoned creative executive with over 15 years of experience, Clover has spent her career developing and producing premium unscripted content for major industry companies, including National Geographic, Discovery Channel, and ITV America. Most recently, she led development of Nat Geo’s original series for Disney+, Hulu and YouTube, overseeing creative strategy, casting, and production for globally resonant, digital-first content. With her keen business acumen, strong creative instincts and collaborative spirit, Clover has built a reputation for shaping bold ideas into accessible, breakout formats and delivering standout projects that resonate with audiences in a competitive landscape.
Michelle Minsook Lim
Executive Director - Korea
Consultant, Korea
Michelle Minsook Lim spearheads Reality of Change’s strategic expansion into the Korean market by supporting the inclusion of sustainability and climate-conscious creative within the region’s dynamic entertainment ecosystem. Partnering with local entertainment stakeholders, she works to advance environmental narratives, establish localized sustainability guidelines and provide educational resources tailored to local writers, producers, and audiences while maintaining global relevance. With an extensive background as a content curator, format strategist, and media educator, Lim’s cross-cultural expertise spanning Korean and U.S. television industries enables her to facilitate global collaboration and support producers in developing impactful programming aligned with Reality of Change’s mission.
Prior to joining Reality of Change, Lim served as Executive Director at the International Non-Scripted Content Association (INSCA) and was a special lecturer on pitching strategy for Content Export Professional Training Program, hosted by the Korea Productivity Center (KPC), delivering masterclasses on co-production strategy. She previously served as unscripted format curator at Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation and taught workshops on U.S. and U.K. non-scripted formats to writers and producers in Korea.
Tham Singpatanakul
Coordinating Editor
As Coordinating Editor at Reality of Change, Tham Singpatanakul supports the organization's work across unscripted television, production strategy and international media partnerships, aiding in project, workflow, and resource creation, development and management.
Industry Advisors
The Greener Reality Pledge and our Sustainability Roadmap were designed with guidance and oversight of an advisory committee of more than 30 studios and production companies who produce unscripted content, from some of the most exciting indies to the biggest and most prolific studios in our sector.
We will continue our mission of executing the Roadmap that this group endorsed, and will also continue to engage the industry at every turn, guiding our work with outside partners and informing the creation of new tools and resources.