Environmental Policy

STRAT7 is committed to providing a quality service in a manner that ensures a safe and healthy workplace for our employees and minimises our potential impact on the environment. We will operate in compliance with all relevant environmental legislation and we will strive to use pollution prevention and environmental best practices in all we do.

Scope of Policy

This policy applies to all staff members of STRAT7. Other individuals performing functions in relation to STRAT7, such as agency workers and contractors, are encouraged to use it.

B Corp accreditation

STRAT7 is aiming for B Corp certification by 2025 with the aim to illustrate our dedication to doing business in the best way possible.

Current commitment

We are committed to:

  • Minimising the amount of materials we waste.
  • Increasing the amount of materials we recycle.
  • Reducing the amount of energy and water we use.
  • Encouraging the use of public forms of transport by staff.
  • Ensuring all staff are aware of our environmental policies.
  • Ensuring that our purchase of business equipment and supplies is consistent with our commitment to the environment.
  • Commission an independent annual Carbon Emissions Report

Waste and Recycling

  • Staff are trained to minimise waste and maximise recycling and there are clear and accessible recycling bins throughout the office.
  • All toner cartridges are recycled.
  • Unwanted PCs are donated to be reconditioned and used by charities.

Resources

  • We use energy efficient light bulbs wherever possible and equipment and lights are switched off overnight, or utilise motion-sensor to automatically switch lights on/off.
  • All PCs are compliant with the relevant standard for energy efficiency.
  • We use double sided and 2-per-page printing where possible.

Transport

  • We provide shower facilities for employees who commute to work by bicycle.
  • We participate in the Cycle to Work scheme.
  • Staff are offered interest free loans for public transport season tickets.
  • Staff are encouraged to travel to meetings by public transport.
  • Where international and/or domestic flights are unavoidable we offset our carbon emissions (www.climatecare.org).

Aims and endeavours

We will endeavour to:

  • Integrate the consideration of environmental concerns and impacts into all our decision making and activities.
  • Promote environmental awareness among our employees and encourage them to work in an environmentally responsible manner.
  • Educate and inform our employees about environmental issues that may affect their work.
  • Purchase recycled, recyclable or re-furbished products and materials where these alternatives are available, economical and suitable.
  • Promote efficient use of materials and resources throughout our facility including water, electricity, raw materials and other resources, particularly those that are non-renewable.
  • Avoid unnecessary use of hazardous materials and products, seek substitutions when feasible, and take all reasonable steps to protect human health and the environment when such materials must be used, stored and disposed of.
  • Purchase and use environmentally responsible products accordingly.
  • Communicate our environmental commitment to clients, customers and the public and encourage them to support it.
  • Strive to continually improve our environmental performance and minimise the social impact and damage of activities by periodically reviewing our environmental policy considering our current and planned future activities.
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Joe Lockey

Senior Analyst

Joe joined us after completing rotations across our consumer, services and health sectors, whilst gaining exposure to both qualitative and quantitative research techniques.

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Alice Hedlund

Principal

Alice has experience in customer-centric growth, brand strategy and innovation at global scale. She specialises in brand transformation journeys, bridging the gap between business and brand strategy to create holistic and actionable plans for impactful growth.

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Tom Carvell

Principal

Tom has a science background with a PhD in Materials Chemistry. He has spent most of his career working on in-house front-end innovation where he delivered mid/long term strategic projects for brands such as Durex, Scholl, Veet and KY. He is focussed on delivering pragmatic but provocative innovation strategy for CPG categories.

Manick Pratheeban

Senior Principal

Manick is a brand strategy and consumer insight specialist with 15+ years’ experience helping to grow some of the world’s biggest brands. He has a proven track record of translating trends, consumer, and market data into actionable insights to formulate growth strategies.

Kate Jones

Senior Principal

Kate has over a decade of experience in creating transformative strategies for customer-focused businesses. With a background in consumer insight and behaviour change across consumer health, packaged goods, leisure, banking and other sectors she focuses on elevating the customer experience to create human-centric innovations and foster impactful growth.

Jacob Gascoine-Becker

Partner

Jacob specialises in leveraging consumer research to inform investment strategy and business case development. A management consultant since 2014, he previously spent eight years working in ecommerce and digital marketing.

Ines Achabal

Senior Analyst

Ines is inately curious and creative. She is known for her expansive thinking when exploring client challenges and elevating the visual quality of outputs to maximise their impact.

Helene Mills

Partner

Helene has 20+ years’ experience advising business leaders and investors on growth strategy based upon consumer and market intelligence. Her particular specialism lies in leisure, retail, food and beverage sectors.

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Helen Donald

Partner

Helen has consulted businesses at different stages of growth across a variety of sectors, specialising in consumer packaged goods and consumer healthcare. She is an adept strategist, bringing clarity to the most complex of situations and connecting dots to create rich, future-proofed platforms for innovation, brand positioning and growth.

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Allan Chen

Senior Principal

Allan’s core skillset provides an analytical and commercial lens to address client challenges. He started his career as an actuary, and since then has held a broad range of strategic roles, improving performance across the private and public sector.

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Björn Dufwenberg

Managing Director​

Björn has 15+ years’ experience in insight-driven transformation, across management consulting, as well as brand and innovation agency roles. Most recently he headed up the Customer-Led Transformation practice at PwC Sweden, until joining STRAT7 in 2021. He’s worked on global projects covering consumer goods, durables, spirits and beverages, retail, banking, and private equity.

Kamilla Dala

Senior Principal

Kamilla has 10+ years’ experience leading and implementing insight-driven transformation within global matrix organisations in durable and consumable goods. Areas of expertise cover segmentation, uncovering and translating actionable consumer insights within innovation, product development, brand positioning, strategy and marketing.