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Why we are different
Instead of consulting, we mentor. We work alongside you to ensure that you and your team are in charge of goals, strategies and actions and that you develop the right bank of skills and knowledge along the way. We help steer you to success, core to how we work. There is a global shortage of experienced sustainability and ESG professionals. Through skills and leadership we aim to foster a prosperous and sustainable future. Our purpose is to develop and mentor 1,000 ESG leaders by 2030.
ESG Strategy is led by Lee Stewart, a sustainability professional with close to 20 years’ experience working across Australia, UK, Japan and New Zealand in startups, consulting, and large multinationals. He is a qualified climate reality speaker and mentor trained by Al Gore and has worked for Global IT Company Fujitsu as the Regional Head of Sustainability where he developed several sustainability technology solutions including the multi award-winning Digital Owl Solution and was the only non-Japanese employee on the global sustainability team regularly reporting to the president in Tokyo.
Most recently, Lee was Head of Sustainability at Fonterra where he led a team that was responsible for setting the sustainability strategy, ambition, communication, governance, and climate related disclosures. He was the key spokesperson on sustainability for the group fronting media, government, activists and NGOs.
He also managed the external sustainability advisory panel which reported to the board and was responsible for instigating a number of first for the group which included, modern slavery report, net zero demonstration farm and their sustainability graduate program. One of his biggest notable achievements was bringing together the Sustainable Business Council and other agriculture sector leaders and government to achieve commitment of over $338M investment in research and developing funding over four years to help develop tool and technology to reduce on farm emissions quicker.
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Lee focuses on helping boards and senior executive teams to enhance and develop meaningful sustainability and ESG strategies.
