The Balancing Act: Juggling Profit & Purpose

Nicoleta is Head of Sustainability at Cooper Parry and our resident ESG legislation guru. She’s responsible for turbocharging CP’s ESG efforts, including our B Corp journey and Net Zero targets, and she leads our Sustainability Advisory offering, helping clients at every stage of their sustainability journey achieve their ESG goals.

Juan David is an Industrial Engineer from the University of Antioquia (Colombia) and holds a master’s degree in Globalisation, Business and Sustainable Development from the University of East Anglia (UK). He has more than 12 years of experience in the Colombian financial sector and recently in the United Kingdom. Until August 2022, he worked as a leading credit risk analyst for the financial sector at Bancolombia, Colombia. His passion and motivation to be part of a more ethical banking system and promote sustainable development led him to complete his master’s degree in the United Kingdom in 2022-2023. He currently works as Impact and Sustainability Manager at Unity Trust Bank in the United Kingdom.

Hannah is the founder of B Corp certified consultancy, Keartland & Co, helping business leaders turn their sustainability commitments and plans into action that makes a meaningful difference. With 20+ years’ experience leading innovation and change at director and board level, she is a Fellow of the ICAEW and sits on their Sustainability Committee.

With over 20 years’ consulting and operations experience, Nicky is passionate about working with businesses to implement change that delivers meaningful impact. She has worked on the transformation of a wide array of public and private sector organisations in the UK, Europe, the USA and the Middle East, and in 2021, she set up The Spiral Hub to change the way businesses do change.

After graduating with a BSc in Environmental Sciences and an MSc and PhD in Low Carbon Technologies, Hannah became a sustainability consultant before transitioning to broader sustainability management roles. Today, she is Head of Environment, Social & Governance at VetPartners, a veterinary group with over 11,000 employees and 650 sites in 9 countries, where she has created and delivered the company’s first sustainability strategy.