Services and Expertise

Services

Strategy Design

We'll partner to create short- and long-term strategies that will demonstrate progress and achieve your goals. Elements of strategy support can include stakeholder identification, roadmap development, and goal-setting, in addition to establishing effective governance mechanisms.

Research & Benchmarking

The sustainability landscape is ever changing. I can provide peer and industry benchmarking, landscape analysis, and trend analysis to help you determine your level of ambition and support your strategy development.

Program Development

Operationalizing your sustainability and human rights activities is key to getting the work done. With your input, I can build cross-functional programs or guide a pilot to test an opportunity. We can also explore external programs with potential partners or coalitions.

Regulatory Monitoring & Guidance

The regulatory environment at the state, national (U.S.), and international level is evolving quickly. New requirements are developing for ESG reporting, green claims, circular opportunities, extended producer responsibility, and more. I can provide bespoke and targeted monitoring to guide your product development or customer engagement activities, or meet other related needs. I can also advise on proactive advocacy opportunities and partners.

Content Development

Stakeholders are eager to understand your sustainability efforts, but the information is nuanced and the messaging needs to make sense for the audience. I can help you create effective and clear content that will meet their needs - whether education for employees, Q&A for investors, guidance for suppliers, or something else.

Policy Development

Policies about social and environmental responsibility help set the standard for your business and lay a foundation for your impact strategy. I have experience writing, and managing approvals for, Human Rights Policies, Modern Slavery Statements, and Environmental Policies. I can also provide guidance for policy updates and alignment within existing documents, like your Supplier Code of Conduct.

Areas of Expertise

Product Sustainability

Circular Systems and Business Models

More Sustainable Packaging

Identify or create more sustainable products in your assortment, including through the use of certifications. Determine how to describe and promote them to your customers.

More Sustainable Packaging

Circular Systems and Business Models

More Sustainable Packaging

Determine the type of packaging that best protects your product, while prioritizing environmental and social impacts at the sourcing stage as well as at end-of-use.

Human Rights

Circular Systems and Business Models

Establish policies aligned with international standards to guide decision making across your organization, and improve your external reporting.

Circular Systems and Business Models

Increase circularity for fashion, textiles, beauty, food, and shipping. Identify potential partners, and explore costs, opportunities, and obstacles.

Governance

Org Design for Impact Teams

Employee Engagement

Create effective working groups, and identify the appropriate paths for risk escalation and opportunity exploration. Set up internal and external reporting cadences.

Employee Engagement

Org Design for Impact Teams

Employee Engagement

Build a plan for sharing information with your employees, and create opportunities for them to provide feedback and ask questions. Align employee giving and volunteerism with your broader impact goals.

Org Design for Impact Teams

Find the most effective structure for a team that is often small but mighty. Prioritize your working areas and needs, and hire for talent with the right experience and expertise, including interns.

Partnership Management

Org Design for Impact Teams

Identify and prioritize the external coalitions or working groups that best align with your goals and budget.

Ways of Working

Fractional Sustainability Officer

As a fractional officer, I'll work closely with you on an ongoing basis to develop your sustainability program, embed it within your business and communicate the results.

Project-Based Contracts

Fractional Sustainability Officer

As a consultant, I'll partner closely with you and key colleagues to devise and implement business-aligned sustainability strategies and projects.

Advisory Services

Fractional Sustainability Officer

Advisory Services

In an advisory capacity, I'll be standing by to offer an informed point of view based on direct experience, as well as a rich network of external partners and collaborators.