The sustainability business case
How to quantify the financial value of sustainability — risks managed and opportunities captured. Based on twenty-five years of doing it for multinationals.
Teaching, speaking & advisory
Twenty years teaching sustainability. Twenty-five advising the corporations doing it.
Most of my working week now goes into teaching and writing. Around that I take on a small number of advisory briefs, board workshops and keynotes — wherever the brief is interesting and I think I can be useful.
Teaching
Corporate sustainability
Corporate sustainability
Corporate sustainability
Corporate sustainability
Systems & narrative
Systems & narrative
Two decades on the Cambridge faculty
I've been a Fellow of the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership since 2007, and on the faculty of their postgraduate and executive programmes for almost as long. Now that I've stepped back from full-time consulting, I'm taking on more teaching — ad-hoc lectures, dedicated part-time roles, and bespoke corporate education.
CISL postgraduate teaching
Faculty and tutor on the Postgraduate Certificate in Sustainable Business, and on the Master's in Sustainability Leadership. Continuous involvement since 2007.
Executive & board programmes
Tutor on CISL's executive programmes for banks, asset managers and major corporations — plus bespoke board education on transition strategy.
Guest lectures
One-off lectures and modules at business schools, universities and in-house corporate academies. Happy to travel.
Part-time teaching roles
Open to dedicated teaching and facilitation roles at universities or schools running programmes in sustainability, ESG or environmental studies.
Topics I lecture on
Sustainability strategy
How firms identify their material issues, set credible targets, build implementation plans, and embed it all into operations.
Sustainability communications
Stakeholder engagement, internal communications, reporting that doesn't read like greenwash. Drawing on the Nestlé and Coca-Cola work.
The circular economy
Strategy and practice, including the New York Circular City Initiative I co-founded and led.
Sustainable economies
What an economy that works for people and planet actually looks like — building on An Economy That Works, the Aldersgate Group report I led.
Changing societal narratives
The cultural stories that block the sustainability transition, and how to change them. The argument of the book I'm writing.
Advisory
A small number of standing briefs
Twenty-five years advising corporations on sustainability — most recently as Global Sustainability Director at Kearney, and before that leading the sustainability transformation of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. I now take on a handful of advisory briefs each year alongside the teaching and writing.
Board & ExCo workshops
Half- or full-day sessions on transition planning, the business case, building resilience, or making CSRD work for you instead of against you.
Advisory days
Typically 5–10 days a year alongside one CSO or CEO. Strategy, board prep, business case, transition planning. Kept small on purpose.
Writing for you
Ghostwritten op-eds, board memos, CEO letters and white papers — written with you, in your voice, on topics I already think hard about.
Keynote
30–60 minute keynotes for leadership offsites, investor events, conferences and industry summits. Plain English, no PowerPoint theatre.
Past clients include Beiersdorf, Nestlé, BT, Coca-Cola, Galp Energia, Prudential, SAB Miller, Infineum and Verescence. Most current advisory work is confidential — specific engagements named on request.
Speaking
For boards & CFOs
For investors
For policy & civil society
For communicators
Author talk
Keynotes and conference talks
30–60 minutes for leadership offsites, investor events, conferences, festivals and industry summits. Plain English, no PowerPoint theatre.
The business case for sustainability — honestly
How to quantify the financial value of sustainability when the easy arguments have stopped working.
Building resilience and what comes next
Setting strategy when the politics moves faster than the regulation — building resilience without retreating from substance.
An economy that works
What a UK economy delivering prosperity, competitiveness and sustainability could actually look like.
Why the climate movement keeps losing
The narrative gap underneath every "rational" climate argument — and how to close it.
Changing Stories, Finding Hope
A book talk on the cultural narratives blocking the transition — and the practical ways to move beyond them.
Affiliations & credentials
Tell me what you're trying to do
A paragraph is plenty: who the audience is, what you want them to walk away thinking, and roughly when. I'll come back inside 48 hours — and tell you honestly if I'm the right person for it.
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