The Experience I Bring
I’ve led sustainability in complex, high-pressure environments, where competing priorities, financial constraints and limited headroom are the norm.
This hasn’t been advisory work from the side lines. It has meant leading real change inside organisations where decisions are difficult, scrutiny is high, and delivery matters.
The work has involved:
●Aligning executive teams around challenging strategic decisions
●Embedding sustainability into core governance, risk and operational processes
●Securing investment while delivering cost efficiencies
●Building cross-functional networks of internal leaders to drive change from within
●Translating complex technical risk into clear, focused board-level conversations
I understand what it takes to move sustainability from aspiration to accountability.
Selected Outcomes
Some of the practical, system-wide change I’ve led includes:
●Developing the first sector-specific Clean Air Framework, later adopted nationally
●Building a network of ~100 strategically positioned internal sustainability leads
●Delivering organisation-wide behaviour change programmes that reduced material use and operational waste
●Introducing UK-first initiatives in procurement and plastics reduction
●Leading cross-sector advocacy, including Ride for Their Lives to COP26
●Integrating environmental data directly into service-level decision-making
●Creating the GOSH Play Street programme, now a cross-sector partnership delivering permanent public realm transformation
●Developing and delivering community-led renewable energy projects benefitting 9,000+ residents
●Project-managing insulation schemes for over 1,300 homes, reducing emissions and targeting fuel poverty
●Launching the UK’s first electric vehicle club within social housing to promote sustainable transport
Fees
Fees reflect senior-level expertise, direct delivery and full accountability for outcomes. All work is led personally from start to finish, there is no delegation or handover.
Engagements are typically structured in one of three ways:
●Strategic advisory support (short-term or retained)
●Defined projects with clear timeline, scope and deliverables, usually agreed on a fixed fee basis.
●Interim or fractional leadership roles delivered on a day-rate basis.
Investment depends on scope, complexity and duration. As a guide:
●Short advisory or analysis pieces are typically structured as fixed-fee commissions.
●Larger programmes or interim roles are agreed on a day-rate or monthly retainer basis.
A clear proposal including scope, deliverables, timelines and fees, is developed following an initial conversation, so you have transparency and certainty before proceeding.
We also agree phased delivery to align with budget cycles and governance requirements.