About us

Sophie is a passionate believer in the power of business to drive positive social and environmental change. As a lifelong lover of nature and wildlife, after 15 years as a successful leader in communications, Sophie embarked on a career as an independent sustainability consultant.

Over the last two decades Sophie has developed sustainability strategies for leading brands including The Body Shop, The CoOp, Ella’s Kitchen, Forest Holidays, Jaguar Land Rover, Microsoft, Renault, UCC, Swarovski Group, Unilever, Urenco as well as dozens of smaller businesses.

In 2018 Sophie founded Fit for Purpose – a sustainability strategy consultancy that works with businesses to help them define, demonstrate and articulate their purpose beyond profit.

Sophie co-chairs the Oxfordshire+ B Local and is Non-Executive Director of sustainable packaging specialist Root. She is an Associate of ISEP and holds an MSc in Climate Change and Development from University of Reading.

Phil is driven by helping organisations to understand and reduce their environmental & social impacts. He seeks positive outcomes that deliver “more good”, not just “less bad”.

With 34 years consultancy experience and 15 years in the sustainability space, Phil is an expert in measuring carbon and other impacts. Crucially his expertise includes translating potentially dull numbers into meaningful data and insights to drive sustainability strategies, targets and action. “A carbon footprint is just a bunch of numbers, it’s what you do with it that counts” as he often says.

Phil led Capgemini UK’s environment programme, including establishing an ambitious Net Positive target, before founding Consciam (a certified B Corp) in 2015. He has helped many companies to drive real change in their business. Phil lives in Cornwall where he loves to spend time in, on or close to the sea.

Joel is a Sustainability Consultant at Philosophy, where he supports clients with data-led insights across sustainability frameworks. He has worked on projects spanning B Corp requirement trackers to Double Materiality Assessment scoring systems, focusing on translating complex environmental and economic data into clear, actionable outcomes.

Before joining Philosophy, Joel was Data Lead for the Oxfordshire Doughnut Project for the Oxfordshire County Council and later supported the Doughnut Economics Action Lab (DEAL) in creating a harmonised database of 30+ Data Portraits from around the globe.

He holds an MSc in Ecological Economics from the University of Leeds, graduating with distinction, and a First-Class BA in Business Economics from the University of Liverpool.

Katie is a Consultant at Philosophy, where she supports clients in turning sustainability goals into measurable, meaningful actions across carbon footprinting, sustainability strategy, and B Corp certification.

Before joining Philosophy full-time, Katie worked with Fit for Purpose and Consciam, delivering cross-cutting projects that bridge strategy and data. She has led competitor benchmarking, carbon footprint development, and stakeholder engagement – supporting purpose-led businesses to identify risks, define priorities, and take practical steps towards positive social and environmental impact.

Katie combines a scientific and analytical background with a demonstrable passion for placing nature at the heart of business. She holds a degree in Environmental Studies from Yale University and brings additional experience in conservation research and climate resilience projects in Belize and Honduras.

With 15 years’ international experience, Dorothee provide flexible, remote administrative and bookkeeping support for sustainability-focused small businesses, helping Philosophy Consulting reclaim team member’s time to focus on delivering the best client work, ease workload pressure, and confidently grow their organisations. 

As an environmental chemist and specialist consultant in life cycle assessments, Matt is dedicated to reducing the impact associated with global consumption while ensuring we can still benefit from essential products – like asthma inhalers, for example. Through working with organisations such as GSK, Johnson & Johnson, 3M, and IKEA, he’s helped countless companies improve the long-term sustainability of their products.

Matt’s visually engaging and easy-to-understand data presentations not only reveal your products’ life cycle impacts but also highlight the path to meaningful impact reduction. And with a PhD in Chemistry and Master’s degrees in Green Chemistry and Eco-Toxicology, he guides you through making changes to your product in a way that’s both achievable and beneficial to your bottom line.

Emma is a responsible business specialist with two decades of experience working in-house and as an independent sustainability consultant. Emma has specific expertise in sustainability strategy, stakeholder communications, and reporting.

As a consultant, Emma has supported a number of large, UK-based clients to design, develop and communicate sustainable business initiatives – from carrying out materiality assessments and stakeholder engagement initiatives, to copywriting and editing non-financial disclosures including NFSI (Non-Financial and Sustainability Information), TCFD (Taskforce for Climate-related Financial Disclosures), and Modern Slavery statements.

Emma works across a range of strategy projects at Philosophy including materiality assessments, target setting and competitor audits.

With 25 years’ industry experience advising and delivering projects for private and public organisations on circularity, sustainable design and systems thinking, Tracy is known for strategic analysis, risk insight, and capability building. A committed educator, speaker and media commentator, serving as advisor across industry and academia. 

Kate is a highly experienced Supply Chains Human Rights Environmental & Social, ESG & China expert, applying her 20+ years’ experience in sustainability across Responsible Sourcing and Supply Chain Due Diligence. Kate advises our clients on how to align with global frameworks, reduce risk and increase supply chain resilience, and offers training and guidance for business teams across all aspects of human rights due diligence. 

Heidi is a consultant with 20 years’ experience specialising in sustainability and purpose-driven strategy and communications.

Over the past two decades, she has supported some of the world’s best-known businesses including Unilever, Tesco, Shell, Costa Coffee, Tui, Aviva and Aston Martin to enhance performance and reputation by developing robust sustainability strategies and carrying out materiality and stakeholder engagement reviews as well as delivering regulation sharp reporting and compelling communications.

Gemma is a strategic leader whose career spans both commercial and not-for-profit sectors, with a long-standing focus on shaping brand, experience, and impact. Her work is defined by a commitment to purposeful growth, stakeholder alignment, and long-term value creation. 

She has led transformative brand programmes, built innovative cross-sector partnerships, and developed ESG strategies from the ground up, including achieving B Corp certification and earning national recognition for sustainable tourism leadership. Gemma’s approach blends commercial insight with values-led thinking, helping organisations connect vision to action in ways that resonate across audiences and channels. 

As an advisory board member, Gemma brings strategic clarity, creative energy, and a deep understanding of how to embed purpose into brand and experience, supporting Philosophy’s clients to navigate complexity and lead with integrity. 

Miranda Peredo is a penultimate International Business Management student at Oxford Brookes University, passionate about sustainability, diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I), and consultancy. Recognised on the OBBS Dean’s List for her commitment to the Business School’s mission and vision, she has led sustainability initiatives as a Fair-Trade and Green Impact Auditor, while simultaneously being recognised for her academic excellence (4.0 GPA).

Dedicated to advocating for underprivileged and underrepresented groups, Miranda has served as a Student Partner at Oxford Brookes Business School, and as both an Access and Participation Consultant and Curriculum Consultant at the Oxford Centre for Academic Enhancement and Development. She received the Student Partnership Educational Award for her work advising a wide range of university stakeholders and influencing strategic decisions that promote an inclusive and equitable student experience.

Matt grew up on a smallholding in Cornwall before forging a career in conservation that has seen him work and travel in over 70 countries.

After completing a PhD in nature-based tourism, Matt spent the best part of two decades in the international conservation non-profit sector. This included developing global biodiversity indicators, tools and assessments for the UN and multinational corporations and leading the delivery of the UK National Ecosystem Assessment, the first of its kind to document the value of nature to society. Matt also had two stints working at Fauna & Flora International, managing large-scale grants, developing FFI’s strategy and expanding in-country field operations worldwide.

Before joining Cornwall Wildlife Trust as Chief Executive in 2022, Matt worked as a strategic advisor for WWF International. He has been a trustee of several conservation charities and is currently Deputy Chair of the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Local Nature Partnership.

Rachael Clay is a sustainable development professional and strategic social innovator with over 25 years’ experience working with NGOs, social enterprises, institutions, funders, and business. She is the founder of the impact agency Ethicore, which supports organisations to achieve sustainable social and environmental outcomes through deep insight, strategic partnership, innovation, and capacity strengthening.

She is particularly focused on the potential to develop transformational partnerships, systematic innovation and sustainable impact, based on deep insight and engagement. Her work as a strategic social innovator draws on technical expertise across many SDGs. She is an expert in global research and engagement, participatory processes, facilitation, strategy, organisational development, partnerships, resource development and evaluation.

Before founding Ethicore, she spent over a decade in senior roles at Oxfam, following earlier experience in commercial research and national mapping. She is also a trained coach and NLP Master Practitioner.