I work with ambitious organisations who are ready to put environmental sustainability at the heart of their business future.
I am a leading change-maker in the UK and European live events industry, with twenty years experience at the vanguard of environmental sustainability; hands-on delivery, strategic sector work, speaker, guest lecturer, industry columnist.
I have spent my life and career to finding ways to deliver and inspire better environmental practices, and in 2018 I was awarded the national P.E.A [People, Environment, Achievement] Green Pioneer Award.
Find out a bit more about me in a recent blog here.
Key Achievements
In 2010 I co-founded Powerful Thinking, the UK’s event industry Think-Do Tank on Sustainable Energy. The project has created the leading global knowledge base for sustainable energy at outdoor event, with guides translated into multiple languages.
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I Chair Vision:2025 – the UK Outdoor Event Industry Environmental Steering Group. Vision:2025 is the outdoor event industry response to climate crisis, providing a framework for action and a knowledge base to support the sector to achieve 50% reductions in GHG’s by 2025.
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I Co-founded (and hold the role of CEO) UK charity ecolibrium in 2015 as an events industry response to the climate crisis, and a recognition of the significance of music industry travel emissions. It is a community of over 100 events, artists, industry events, music companies, ticket agencies and supply chain organisations and has balanced over 13 million miles of travel emissions and planted over 20,000 trees to date.
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I am proud to be one of a team of five who founded Shambala festival 20 years ago, and I remain actively involved as Operations Director. Shambala is ‘Pioneering, intimate and truly innovative…has perfectly blended creativity and participation for well over a decade. Shambala is a special place where you play, revitalise, make lots of new friends and return to the world fuelled-up on the beauty of being alive.’
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Current Positions and Affiliations
- Founder-Director – Kambe Events
- Operations Director and Sustainability Lead – Shambala Festival
- Co-founder and CEO – UK Charity Ecolibrium (formerly Energy Revolution)
- Co-founder and Chair of Vision:2025 – UK Outdoor Event Industry Environmental Steering Group
- Associate consultant for Events and Festivals – Julies Bicycle
- Associate consultant – Green Events International (Nederlands)
