What’s keeping you busy?

• Designing immersive, experiential workshops for the executive board of multinational luxury retailer; the goal is to move their mindset from sustainability as risk mitigation to exciting, bottom-line, and ethical-driven opportunity for their organisation.
• Typing up loose ends for our B Corp certification.
• Doing one last read-through of our white paper on sustainability and technology (watch this space!).
• Advising an NGO in Afghanistan on how we can empower female artisans over there.

What new ideas or opportunities are set to become part of your future business fabric?

• We are working on a piece of radical transparency software with our existing consulting clients who come from backgrounds as diverse as tech, legal, and conservation. They come to us for our fashion and sustainability expertise in order to penetrate and make change in the global fashion industry.

What are the biggest challenges you are facing right now?

• Our biggest challenge, which we also see as an opportunity, is to convince fashion brands and manufacturers of not just the ethical but also commercial imperative to embrace sustainability as a core pillar of their business. Anything else is tantamount to becoming obsolete in the years to come.

Is there anything you know now that you’d wish you’d known at the start of your career?

• Everything I learned during my time at Cambridge in their Sustainable Leadership program. Especially the business studies aspect of it – I wish that had been a core part of my curriculum during high school and undergrad.

Who have been your most important professional mentors / influencers?

• At the beginning of my career, fashion icon and maverick Isabella Blow.
• Ed Carr, who was my ultimate boss at The Economist.
• Lucy Cooper, Head of Innovation at Microsoft, who is on my Advisory Board.

What is the best piece of advice you ever received?

• Dalai Lama’s right hand, Venerable Geshe Dorji Damdul, shared this with me when I was in India: “If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry. If it's not fixable, then there is no help in worrying. There is no benefit in worrying whatsoever.”

A book you’ve recently read and would recommend?

• The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life by David Brooks. This book is about what happens when you realise you really want to change direction in life or your career.

What’s your guilty pleasure?

• I have too many but a few are: scuba diving, flea markets, and going to India.