Sarah Power

• Co-founded climate tech start-up in agriculture and food sector.
• Developed business strategy and plan to attract outside investors, securing £2m+ in pre-seed capital.
• Led grant identification and application process to secure £1m+ in funding (UKRI, DEFRA, ESA).
• Designed company culture based on principles of open-source, growth mindset, diversity, assuming positive intent, transparency and straight talking.
• Led organisational recruitment and performance management.
• Conducted market research and analysis to identify emerging opportunities including commercial/ corporate landscape and assessing incoming climate and environmental legislation (e.g. TCFD, TNFD, CSRD).
• Identified new customer segments and target audiences.
• Developed relationships with ecosystem stakeholders, partners and corporate customers across the climate, environmental, agricultural and food sectors.

• Worked with leadership team to establish and shape strategic direction of sustainability practice.
• Provide on-going guidance and strategic advice to senior leaders to support growth.
• Monitor climate and sustainability landscape and regulatory environment to identify areas of opportunity for development of new offerings.
• Provide network and client introductions to expand business reach and impact.
• Review and provide input on client proposals and RfPs.
• Provide point expertise on areas of change strategy design, organisational design, culture and ways of working change, food and agriculture sector.
• Coach and mentor team members.

Advisory board member for high-growth consulting firm with a specific focus on business development and maintaining a values-based inclusive culture and employee engagement through periods of growth.

• Provide input on annual and 5 yr strategic planning process including the facilitation of senior team off-sites and workshops.
• Review and advise on organisational performance providing input on areas for potential improvement and growth.
• Leverage industry experience and network to support development of new service offerings and business expansion.
• Advise on recruitment and performance management of senior leaders with an objective to achieve a diverse leadership team.
• Host external client facing events where relevant (e.g. sustainability, change management).
• Advise founding team on corporate transaction strategy including VC investment.
• Coach and mentor employees at all levels.
• Weekly 1:2:1 call with founder, monthly and quarterly advisory board meetings.

• Led impact and engagement strategy for University of Edinburgh's Centre for Business, Climate Change and Sustainability in advance of COP26.
• Core objective to raise public awareness and engagement on key climate and sustainability topics to drive adoption of more climate-friendly behaviours.
• Designed and planned series of external events that convened academics, business leaders and other ecosystem stakeholders on topics that included 'Financing a Just Transition', 'Building a Resilient Food System' and 'Capacity Building and the Global South'.
• Coordinated and managed internal and external teams including Marketing, Procurement, Professional Services and production company.

Senior member of the UK Executive team leading a 350-person business and also Global Transformation Lead, UK People and Change Lead and UK Executive Sponsor for CSR and Inclusion & Diversity.

• Led a team of Client Executives to originate, sell and deliver a portfolio of £15m+ to senior level, C-suite clients.
• Recruited, led and developed a practice team of 100 + consultants.
• Shaped market offerings in response to customer needs and market trends.
• Delivered board-level transformation programmes across several industries including Telecoms, Rail, Financial Services, Retail/ FMCG.
• Led development and implementation of business CSR and I&D strategy.

Worked with non-profit Management Sciences for Health (MSH) in East Africa to assess and re-develop a leadership development programme for senior health professionals in partnership with the Ministries of Health in Kenya and Uganda.

Worked with non-profit Unitus to support their MFI Strategic Planning programme - working with Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) in East Africa to develop 3-year strategic plans, growth strategies, goals, priority initiatives and operational plans.

Manager with Accenture responsible for designing and leading change programmes in private and non-profit sectors. Projects included:

• Phones for Health (Tanzania, Kenya) - P4H Training & Capability Build
• Oxfam (Honduras) - Global Agriculture Scale-Up Initiative
• UNICEF (Senegal) - Inter-sectoral Collaboration Programme
• Pfizer (Ireland) - European Shared Services Programme
• Bank of Ireland (Ireland and NI) - Alnova Banking Programme