Mike is a sustainable business transformation agent, focusing on the practicality and reality of ‘getting sustainability done’ across companies, value chains and sectors. Until 2019, Mike was Director of Sustainable Business at Marks & Spencer, spearheading its ground-breaking Plan A sustainability program.
He’s the co-founder of Planeatry Alliance, a Senior Associate at the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership and a Trustee at Blueprint for Better Business.
Harriet is a life and mindset coach with a passion for building community and creating meaningful connections.
She runs the Henley Female Network, fostering spaces where people can support, inspire, and empower one another. As a trustee of Greener Henley and Friends of Badgemore School, Harriet cares deeply about the environment and education, believing strongly in the power of collective action to create positive change for people and the planet
Kate is a global communications and marketing executive with over 20 years of experience leading communications, brand transformation, audience growth, and stakeholder trust for high-profile organisations in sport, technology and public affairs.
She is currently Chief Communications Officer at the Totteham Hotspur Football Club.
Giles Trendle is an international media advisor and the co-chair of Covering Climate Now, a global alliance of news outlets working together to enhance climate coverage.
A former Managing Director of Al Jazeera English, Giles has extensive experience as a media leader, documentary filmmaker, and frontline reporter in the Middle East.
He began his journalism career in the late 1980s as a freelance reporter in Lebanon, covering the country’s civil war and hostage crisis. Over the years, he has undertaken assignments in Egypt, Iraq, Israel, the Palestinian territories, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Afghanistan
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Julie has spent her career in senior leadership roles across the UK and Nordics in the finance and asset leasing sectors, with experience spanning sales and marketing, operations, and business development. She chaired cross-industry sustainability initiatives for two industry bodies, helping to accelerate environmental improvements across the asset finance sector through education, innovation, and the sharing of best practice.
Based in Henley-on-Thames, Julie is keen to apply her professional experience locally, supporting Greener Henley’s work to drive meaningful and lasting environmental change within our community.