That is why I love it. I am drawn to the challenges that feel impossible: removing carbon from global trade, securing the first low emission fuels in international shipping routes, or designing returnable packaging systems for a new context. I do not wait for perfect conditions, I find the people who need to be in the room, and bring them together in ways that build enough trust, clarity, and momentum to get the first big step over the line, and prove what can be done.
Stuck on a barrier in your supply chain, sustainability program, or systems change project? Let us find the root cause, and the people, partnership, or approach to bridge the gap from ambition to implementation.
Bring a question, a stuck project, or a hunch you want to test. The lowest-risk way to get my read on something, or figure out if we should work together.
Anyone in the food and fiber adjacent world. Students and early-career folks: discounted rate, please ask.
Book a session →We get under the surface of your challenge, find what is actually holding it in place, and map the conditions that would make movement possible. You leave with a clearer picture of the problem and who or what might help. This can also be the first step toward a longer piece of work, if desired.
Sustainability leads, founders, operational teams, boards. Anyone with a real decision to make, needing more clarity on how to make it.
Book a session →Honest systems thinking on food, fiber, supply chain, and transitions, in a room or on the page, for audiences ready for operational truth, not a sustainability report.
Conveners, podcast hosts, editors, and organizations planning a gathering or publication.
For organizations that need a senior strategist, business-improvement lead, or capability builder inside the work, not alongside it. You have a clear remit and an outcome, and need a partner in delivery.
Food, fiber, supply chain and adjacent companies and NGOs. Vancouver-based, working globally. Not a reporting role.
Author of more than 100 published pieces on circular systems and food resilience, including the forthcoming Circular by Nature. Commissioned and guided the Kiwifruit Industry Orchard Electrification Study and the New Zealand to Belgium Low Emissions Corridor Feasibility Study, the latter shared in Parliament.
I provide honest systems thinking on food, fiber, supply chain, and transitions, in a room or on the page, for audiences ready for operational truth, not a sustainability report.
For Conveners, podcast hosts, editors, and organizations planning a gathering or publication.
Send me what you are working on and your timeline. We will talk so I understand the context, the audience, and what you are trying to achieve, then I will come back with an outline and next steps, usually within 48 hours of our call.
It has been sent straight to my inbox. I will come back to you, usually within 48 hours.
For organizations that need a senior strategist, business-improvement lead, or capability builder inside the work, not alongside it. You have a clear remit and an outcome, and need a partner in delivery.
For Food, fiber, supply chain and adjacent companies and NGOs. Vancouver-based, working globally. Not a reporting role.
Send me what you need solved and your timeline. We will talk so I understand your context, drivers, and goals, then I will come back with an outline and quote, usually within 48 hours of our call.
It has been sent straight to my inbox. I will come back to you, usually within 48 hours.