SERVICES: SUSTAINABILITY CONSULTANCY FOR FASHION, LIFESTYLE AND CONSUMER BRANDS
Sustainability covers many topics. I help you see what matters for your brand and what to do first.
A new rule lands on your desk, a claim gets questioned, a report is due, or your board asks for a strategy. The question underneath is usually the same: what applies to us, where is our impact, and what do we do first? Each service below answers that for one part of the work, and each one ends with your team able to continue on its own.
01 · STRATEGY AND ROADMAP
Sustainability strategy
For brands that want one plan for sustainability instead of a list of loose projects. Sustainability covers many topics, each with its own rules and its own depth, and from the middle of it the whole is hard to see. I bring the overview: I map what regulations require of you and what you want to achieve as a brand, set goals you can measure, and put the steps in order. Your team knows what to do first, what is coming, and why.
With AI: I can set up a dashboard that brings your targets and efforts into one overview, so you can show where you stand at every quarterly meeting and measure progress every year.
CAN INCLUDE
Mapping regulatory requirements
Impact and priority assessment
Goals and SMART targets
Roadmap with owners and timing
Management and team presentation
02 · MY SPECIALISM
Green claims
For brands that want to talk about their sustainability work without a claim coming back at them. I review your website, product texts, reports and campaigns against the EU Empowering Consumers Directive (EmpCo) and other rules, propose rewrites, and write the green claims guide or playbook for your company. Where it helps, I set up the claims system, so marketing, product and sales know what they can say and what has to be in place before they say it. That is the doing side of green claims: the product, the supply chain and the data that make a claim true. You get communication that holds when a customer, a journalist or a regulator checks it.
With AI: I can set up an agent that gives your team a first check of new product texts against your claims rules. I review the rules it works from and the results it gives.
CAN INCLUDE
Claims review with rewrites
Green claims guide or playbook
Claims system and approval flow
Managing the proof behind your claims
Team training
03 · SUPPLY CHAIN
Due diligence
For brands that want to know their supply chain and reduce the human rights and environmental risks in it. Regulation asks for it more every year, and it is also what lets you prove that what you say about your supply chain is what happens there. I follow the OECD due diligence guidance: identify the risks and impacts, put methods and tools in place to manage them, reduce the negative impacts, and follow up. I can do the whole cycle or the part you are missing. You get a process your team can run, and the evidence behind what you say.
With AI: I design workflows that collect and sort supplier information, so your team spends its time on the suppliers that need attention.
CAN INCLUDE
Supply chain mapping
Risk and impact assessment
Policies, methods and tools
Supplier engagement
Follow-up and reporting
04 · GRI CERTIFIED PROFESSIONAL
Sustainability reporting
For brands that have to report, or want to, and want a report worth reading. I write your sustainability report, following the GRI Standards or in your own format, or I set up the reporting framework so your team knows what to report, how, and who owns which data. As a GRI Certified Professional I know what a good report needs, with or without the standard. You get a report that shows where you stand and tells you what to improve next.
With AI: I use AI to prepare first drafts of standard sections from your data; every figure and every sentence is checked by me before it goes in.
CAN INCLUDE
Full report, GRI or own format
Materiality assessment
Reporting framework and data owners
Report review
Reporting training
05 · IN-COMPANY AND AT EVENTS
Training
For teams that do the sustainability work next to their own job and want to do it well. I train on green claims, strategy, reporting and due diligence, in-company or at an event, in Dutch or English, from one hour to a half day. Every training is adjusted to your market and your questions, and I break each topic down into steps that are easy to understand and to act on, with your own products and texts as the examples. You get a team that knows the rules, can apply them, and asks the right questions before something goes out.
With AI: on request, the training includes how your team can use AI for a first check of its own work, and where the human check stays.
CAN INCLUDE
Green claims training, the most requested
Sustainability strategy for SMEs
Reporting and due diligence sessions
From one hour to a half day
Handouts for daily use
06 · IN YOUR TEAM
Interim
For companies that need a sustainability strategist in the team for a set period, starting at half a day a week. The work can be strategic, operational or a mix. Reasons vary: setting up the strategy or the systems, covering a leave, or keeping the work going while you decide on a permanent role. I work in your team, with your people and your tools, and I hand over a set-up that keeps running when I leave. You get the work done now and a team that knows how to continue it.
With AI: while I am in your team, I can set up AI tools and workflows that fit your sustainability work, so they stay useful after the interim period.
CAN INCLUDE
Starting at half a day a week
Set period, agreed in advance
Strategic, operational or a mix
Leave cover
Handover to a permanent role
Nothing meaningful happens in sustainability until you know what matters for your brand, and what to do first.
STEP 1
Kick-off
Big or small, we start with one session to agree what the project has to deliver, who is involved on your side, and how we work together. You leave with a plan and a planning.
STEP 2
Gathering information
I collect what I need: documents, data, texts, supplier information, and the conversations with the people who do the work. This is where most projects find out where they really stand.
STEP 3
The work, with check-ins
I do the analysis and the writing, and we check in along the way, weekly or less often, depending on the project. You see interim deliverables, so nothing is a surprise at the end.
STEP 4
Final presentation
I present the results to you and, if you want, to your management team, with the possible next steps. Then the work is yours: your team knows what to do first, and why.
Who these services are for
Brands and companies that make products, from a small label to an international group, that want to manage their impact and be able to prove it.
Fashion, lifestyle and beyond
My roots are in fashion and textiles. The rules and frameworks cross over, so I also work with consumer brands and companies in other sectors. Most clients sell in Europe or supply European brands.
What I say no to
Making a brand look further along than it is. If a claim or a report is meant to cover something rather than show it, I say so in the first call and say what I would do instead. The work I do for you has to change something, and I hold myself to that.
How pricing works
Projects and trainings run on a fixed fee for an agreed scope. Interim work runs on a half-day or day rate. Before we start you receive an offer with the scope, the deliverables, the planning and the price, and nothing changes without your agreement. Not every question needs a full project. Sometimes a strategy session or a training gives you enough direction, and I will say so.
FAQ
Not sure where to start?
Book a 20-minute call and bring your question as it is. We work out what the first step is, which service fits, and whether that step needs me at all. Or write to hello@thesustainabilityclub.com.
