Consultancy services

I specialise in supporting charities and funders to address social, environmental* and equity issues together.

My services are bespoke and will strengthen your contribution to transforming our society to be fairer, healthier and more sustainable for everyone.

Systemic change, at scale and at pace, to live within planetary boundaries requires mindset and behaviour change across society. For charities and funders this includes collaboration across silos so we are more than the sum of our parts. We must also play to our strengths as a sector: ensuring equity is embedded throughout the transition to a post carbon economy; that people most impacted are involved in decisions that affect their lives; and that 'the voice of nature' is represented.

I can help you wherever you are on your journey, including to:

Explore and understand

How the people and places you support are impacted by the environmental crises, or, how the environmental issues you support are impacting people
What 'climate justice' and a 'just transition' mean for the people, places, and cause you support
Options for action at the intersection of social, environmental, and equity issues
Options for climate mitigation, adaptation, and a ‘just transition’, including bold and holistic approaches that shift the ‘Overton window’ to ‘third horizon’ transformative change
Explore your role in systems change

Prioritise and plan

Codesign an action plan to flex your mission and reduce your emissions in service to a fairer, healthier, more sustainable future
How you might create the conditions for positive tipping points to leverage societal change at pace and depth
Develop a strategy with a clear yet flexible approach for continued impact within an ever-changing external environment
Develop climate resilient services and programmes
Start, refresh, or expand your philanthropy to incorporate action at the intersection of social, environmental, and equity issues

Partner and collaborate

Engage the people impacted in decisions that affect their lives (including facilitation of user led, coproduction, codesign, or consultation processes)
Engage your grantees or funders in conversation about climate change, and wider environmental, issues
Build partnerships, ecosystems, and networks
Multisolve with partners

Training and support

Ensure your team are Carbon Literate, and understand what a 'just transition' means
Provide training / workshops for your team, board, or grantees, to understand how people are impacted and case studies of positive action
Guidance, research and resources to support implementation

I draw on 25+ years of experience to offer a wide range of services. If the support you are looking for is not listed above, please get in touch for a chat. I’m open to providing critical friend support; funder-plus support; partnership development; research and analysis; chairing; speaking; coaching; mentoring; training; workshop facilitation; change management; interim management; blogs, articles, podcasts and more. I collaborate with trusted fellow freelancers, with complementary skills and experience, together we can provide whatever combination of skills and experience you seek.

* I use 'environmental' as shorthand for issues relating to: climate change / climate crisis / climate emergency / global warming; nature loss / biodiversity loss / nature crisis / ecological emergency; as well as the pollution of air, land, and water.