Sustainability
is dead.

Stop reporting the past.

Start designing the future.

Narrative-first impact advisory

For organisations shaping what comes next

I guide founders, funders, business leaders, and cultural platforms navigating today’s transition to a regenerative bioeconomy.

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Step into your next impact era

Most organisations are trapped telling yesterday’s sustainability story.

Annual reports and incremental targets don’t lead to true transformation or long-term resilience.

Through a unique blend of coaching, mentorship, systems thinking, and industry expertise, I help organisations craft futures worth believing in. First, we co-create a resonant narrative capable of igniting aligned action across leadership, partners, and customers.

Then, we make sure the business evolves to match the story through deep strategy work — reimagining business models and products/ services by tapping into new positive potentialities underpinned by regenerative economics.

Narrative becomes your North Star strategy. What you imagine today, you create tomorrow.

Impact advisory offerings

Three distinct pathways designed to give you high-value impact outcomes, tailored to wherever you’re at.

  • 4-6 weeks

    Ideal for organisations launching new impact initiatives, pursuing funding rounds, making near-term strategic decisions, or crafting new thought leadership.

    • Biweekly facilitated working sessions and synthesis outputs

    • Async content review and guidance

    • Final recommendations

  • We focus on your most urgent 1-2 areas, such as:

    • Funding pitch deck narrative

    • New impact narrative architecture

    • Clear thought leadership approach

I: SPRINT

EXPLORE SPRINT

  • 3+ months

    Ideal for organisations actively evolving their impact strategies and needing ongoing narrative and strategy guidance, along with increased team capability to carry the narrative.

    • Monthly facilitated working sessions and synthesis outputs

    • Ongoing advisory access between sessions

    • Narrative and positioning communication coaching

    • Team capabilities workshop(s)

    • Review call after initial 3 months

  • We work across multiple priority areas in a symbiotic manner, for instance:

    • Impact narrative crafting, testing, refining

    • Aligning new business models

    • Increasing team members’ capability to convey the narrative and translate into business reality

II: PARTNER

EXPLORE PARTNER

  • 6+ months

    A deeper collaboration where Emma works alongside you as a trusted advisor. Best for organisations during periods of significant transition or growth needing dedicated guidance.

  • A high-touch model that included Everything from PARTNER, plus:

    • Increased ongoing advisory access between scheduled working sessions

    • Emma’s participation in key internal meetings

    • Coaching through complex decision-making

    • Review call after initial 6 months

  • Through a high-touch working model, we’re able to work deeply on your regenerative strategy and narrative in a dynamic, holistic way, delivering an array of outputs, such:

    • Impact narrative architecture

    • Funding deck narrative

    • Leadership narrative communication

    • Designing new business models and product innovations

III: EMBED

EXPLORE EMBED

Optional add-ons: nature immersion offsite strategy deep dive with Emma; access to Emma’s curated network of marketing, branding, comms, and technical industry experts to support your narrative and strategy execution.

Select Projects

  • Illustration of a rural farm landscape with mountains in the background, fields, trees, a pond, and farm animals, accompanied by flying birds and a large white circle with text about food redesign and regenerative economy.

    The big food redesign

  • Graphic for the Regenerative Mind Series featuring host Emma Chow with guests Luis Camargo and Thomas Legrand. Title: Shifting the narrative to capture food's positive potential. Includes photos of each person and a microphone icon.

    Regenerative Mind Series

  • People viewing exhibits behind glass display cases at an indoor museum or exhibition.

    NYC Climate Week Exhibit

  • Screenshot of the Future Food Movement website showcasing four masterclass programs: Shifting Food Design, Circular Economy for Food, Food Systems Thinking, and Regenerative Food Systems, with colorful backgrounds and 'New' labels.

    Future Food Movement Masterclasses

  • Black and white close-up of a turnip with leaves, with text 'Cities and Circular Economy for Food' and the Ellen MacArthur Foundation logo.

    Cities and circular economy for food

  • A woman standing on an outdoor stage, holding a microphone and speaking. The stage has audio equipment and a computer monitor, with a fabric canopy overhead.

    Groundswell Talk

  • A group of people listening to a woman speaking in a forested area with lush green trees and plants.

    Cultivating the Future of Food

  • A woman sits on a chair, holding a microphone and reading from her phone, while speaking at an indoor event or conference. In the background, several people are seated at round tables, listening attentively.

    Nexus European Summit 2024

Meet Emma

Emma is a trusted guide in the transition towards a thriving bioeconomy. She has shaped regenerative thinking across industries, advising clients from food, fashion, and hospitality to philanthropy and more.

Experience includes:

  • Led global food systems initiative at Ellen MacArthur Foundation, developing a framework that empowered hundreds of brands and retailers to bring nature-positive foods to market.

  • Conceptualised and hosted Regenerative Mind podcast, highlighting mindset shifts as an essential component enabling regenerative transitions.

  • Directed cutting-edge research on the role of nature on mental health for leading mental health agency, producing a narrative to influence UK policymakers’ nature conservation funding.

  • Designed framework for evaluating high-potential prospective social impact clients as a strategy consultant at Deloitte (USA).

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I welcome conversations around advisory work, research collaborations, keynotes, teaching, and creative partnerships.

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Select Clients & Collaborators

BRODIE Partners
B&B Studio
Culinary Institute of America
dss+
EIT Food
Future Food Movement
Groundswell
Investing in Regenerative Agriculture & Food

NEXUS
Prime Global
Prospira Global
The Earthshot Prize
United Nations Conscious Food Systems Alliance
UNESCO
University of Amsterdam
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