Europe
Isabella Guerrini
Isabella is the Head of be sustainable® Europe. She is an entrepreneur, landscape designer and advisor in sustainability development, with a specialism in organic agriculture. She is also an educator, workshop leader, journalist, writer and author. Isi has more than 15 years experience in project management; international partnerships, non-profit collaboration, entrepreneurship; research mentorship and strategic planning. With her skills, Isi decided to join the be sustainable® Group. She coordinated all the activities that have taken place in this articulate and wonderful space and harmonized her skills, “bringing them into a project of life and ambition to achieve a sustainable society.”
ABOUT US
Martin Blake – Head of Advisory & Consulting
Martin is a visionary strategist in the sustainable development movement and an award winning Top 100 Global Sustainability Leader. He is the innovator of the holistic 6 Pillars Approach to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and has deployed one of the most successful energy conservation programmes in the world. Martin’s specialist expertise is in developing strategic plans and influencing high profile stakeholders with both governments and non-government organisations.
Martin is an accomplished executive leading in the corporate sustainability field with a proven track record of accomplishment in leading an efficiency and cultural change program in a large organisation like Royal Mail. He is expert of carbon abatement programs and marginal cost curve applications. Incredibly well networked in the corporate sustainability field, Martin is a highly articulate systems thinker who can cut through complexity, distil the issue and come up with a solution.
be sustainable® is a group of companies specialising in the areas of sustainability consulting, implementation and financing. The companies are headed by some of the world’s leading experts in sustainability, who have joined together with a vision to create transformational change and build a more successful, profitable and sustainable future for all.
Our experts
be sustainable® is a born global start up, bringing together successful and internationally recognised leaders, to provide transformational projects and impact triple bottom line (people planet profit) in the areas of:
Advisory and Consulting
Communications
Governance
Integrative Design
Intermediary Services
Labs and Research
Anchored by determined shareholders, be sustainable® has developed this innovative suite of products and services to support Blue Economy projects. The vision is to change the traditional paradigm by focusing on maximum impact and minimum cost; both economically and to the planet.
Our collaborative company structure enables us to undertake transformational projects across Europe, Africa, Canada, South America and the Asia Pacific, from design and waste management initiatives, to marshalling the dynamics of cities, to creating the industries of the future.
The be sustainable® group links into a broader network of knowledge, institutions and academia, including links to FTSE 100 companies through be governance® and to global universities and the ‘top 100 technological innovations that can change the world’ through be labs and research®.
Our experts have deployed the most successful CSR programmes in the world through be advisory and consulting®. They have established new benchmarks in cluster development, that have been recognised through the OECD and deployed in the world’s smartest economies in Scandinavia, through be integrative design®.
The group boasts two of the Top 100 Global Sustainability Leaders. The company heads have published numerous books, articles, scientific research papers and have advised some of the world’s leading companies, executives and ministers. Their work has been covered in the major financial press, including the Financial Times in the UK, Borsen in Denmark and the Financial Review in Australia.