I have spent the past 20 years in leading roles as a brand and communications counsellor and Sustainability and Purpose expert. My career spans multinationals including Philips, Shell, and SWIFT, as well as leadership roles in global PR agencies, working in The Netherlands, France, Belgium, USA, UK and the across the Middle East. I have acted as the lead communications advisor for more than a dozen Fortune 50 CEOs as well as a number of leading international political figures, especially in Brussels.I am a specialist in helping complex organisations deliver the triple bottom, having worked at C-suite level with multinationals on CSR and purpose strategies, as well as crisis and issues, reputation management, and stakeholder engagement on environmental and social issues.Most recently Group Head of Responsible Business at National Grid, delivering the energy transmission company’s global sustainability transformation one of the world’s largest investor-owned energy companies transmitting and delivering gas and electricity to over 80 million consumers in the UK and U.S. Running “Project Impact”, the National Grid’s strategy to apply the lens of Total Societal Impact to everything it does as a business. Responsibilities include materiality assessment, articulating the responsible business strategy, setting measurable and transparent targets (including Scope 1,2, and 3 Carbon Emissions targets), developing an ESG narrative, establishing an activation process in the business, and leading responsibility reporting. Specialties: Brand Management, Marketing, Communications: Media Relations, Internal Communications, New Media, Brand Management, Lobbying, Sustainability, Green marketing