About Me

I grew up outside, playing tennis, hiking, skiing, and spending as much time as I could by the lake and the ocean. Climate change was already a defining issue by the time I was old enough to understand what it meant, and it became something I couldn't separate from the version of the world I actually wanted to live in: clean air, thoughtful materials, infrastructure that works with natural systems instead of against them. That's still what pulls me toward this work, not obligation, but a genuine pull toward what's possible when things are built better.

I came at it first from an engineering angle, environmental engineering, then systems engineering. because I wanted the science and the math to back up the plan. But over years of doing this work, I've learned that better numbers and better innovations aren't usually what's standing between a company and its climate goals. What actually moves a plan off the page is getting the right people, across teams, levels, and functions, genuinely on board. That's the piece I bring: strategy that's backed by rigorous analysis, delivered by someone who knows how to build the buy-in it takes to make it real.

After more than eight years in sustainability and climate consulting, I've seen companies invest significant time and resources into measuring their impact, setting targets, and reporting against ambitious goals, but often struggle with the next step: turning those commitments into action.

I started Elemental Neutral to make high-quality sustainability expertise more accessible to companies that need strategic support without the cost or complexity of a large consulting firm. I work with teams building their sustainability function, companies that need a project executed from start to finish, and project teams bringing sustainable design and materials to life. I intentionally take on a limited number of clients at a time, so every engagement gets real attention.

My strategy work is grounded in what's actually practical to execute, not just what looks good on paper.

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Previous Work Experience

ERM - Principal Consultant, Corporate Sustainability & Climate Change

Los Angeles, California. 2022 - 2026

ERM is one of the world's leading sustainability and environmental consulting firms. I spent more than four years there, progressing from Managing Consultant to Principal Consultant, working closely with clients across manufacturing, oil & gas, construction, real estate, technology, food and beverage/CPG, and pharmaceuticals. I partnered directly with client teams to build buy-in across their organizations, guiding companies from having no emissions inventory at all through to a fully realized climate strategy. That work spanned both levels a strategy needs to succeed: action-level implementation plans that teams could actually execute, and C-suite-ready decks that quantified the financial and emissions impact of different paths forward, giving leadership the data they needed to commit. Along the way, I led and coached teams of consultants to make sure every engagement delivered work clients could act on with confidence.

Aurecon - Sustainability Consultant

Sydney, Australia. 2019-2022

Aurecon is a leading engineering firm in the APAC region, and I spent three years with them in Sydney, Australia, working on a small, specialized sustainability team embedded within a much larger engineering practice. This was boots-on-the-ground work: I helped deliver sustainability and climate strategy throughout the construction process on major infrastructure projects, including Western Sydney Airport and Melbourne Metro Rail, which gave me hands-on experience operationalizing strategy rather than just designing it on paper. I developed climate change adaptation plans, led sustainability workshops with project teams and stakeholders, and coordinated with contractors and clients to help projects achieve sustainability certifications, including LEED, Green Star, and Infrastructure Sustainability ratings.

Project Highlights

1. Net Zero Roadmap for a Food Packaging Company

This client had made public net-zero commitments but didn't yet have a clear path to get there, including emissions specific to agriculture and land use (FLAG), which are notoriously hard to tackle. Meeting their targets felt daunting before we started, the scope of what needed to change wasn't obvious yet. I worked with their team to analyze their full emissions footprint, then narrowed a long list of possible reduction opportunities down to the handful that would actually move the needle, modeling the emissions impact and cost of each. The result was a roadmap with near- and long-term science-based targets and a clear set of prioritized actions, replacing what had felt like an overwhelming commitment with a concrete, achievable plan.
2. Climate Transition Planning for a Large Technology Company

This client already had decarbonization plans in motion, but they were siloed across teams, work was being duplicated, and no one had full visibility into how the pieces fit together. I built on their existing efforts to develop an internal climate transition plan, including an outline aligned with emerging CSRD disclosure requirements, and led an analysis of the company's climate-related risks and opportunities. From there, I found the synergies they were missing, linking risk mitigations to their existing decarbonization, product, and value-chain initiatives so the company had one unified plan instead of several disconnected ones, with clear priorities, ownership, and metrics to track progress.
3. Sustainability Goal Setting for a Consumer Goods Company

This client already had some sustainability goals in place, but they needed to step back and reprioritize. No one had sat down as a team to confirm what actually mattered most. I led an ESG goal-setting workshop with their leadership team, using materiality as the filter: focusing the conversation on the topics that mattered most to both the business and its stakeholders, rather than trying to tackle everything at once. The goals that came out of that session became the foundation of their published sustainability report, giving the company a set of priorities that leadership had actually aligned on, not just a list handed down from outside.
4. Embodied Carbon Reduction for Melbourne Metro Rail

Description gLowering the embodied carbon of materials was a key objective for this project, but turning that ambition into a workable plan meant bridging two different worlds: what was possible on paper and what was actually buildable. I evaluated the project's sustainability objectives, researched available market innovations, and built out a list of initiatives, assessing both the emissions impact and the practical feasibility of each. Working closely with the engineering design teams, I refined that list into initiatives that could be implemented, then made sure they were carried through into the project's official design documentation, so the plan didn't stop at recommendation but became part of how the project was actually built.oes here
5. Sustainable Design Delivery for Western Sydney Airport

The Commonwealth Government set ambitious goals for the new Western Sydney Airport, energy efficiency, low-carbon materials, recycled material use, and water conservation, but hitting them required aligning architects, engineers, and government stakeholders who each had different priorities and constraints. I worked directly across all three groups: identifying initiatives that could meet the government's objectives, evaluating their design and engineering feasibility, and workshopping alternatives when the original approach wasn't practical. Where an initiative didn't fit an architect's vision for the building, I helped find a version that did. The result was a set of sustainability initiatives that made it from concept into the actual design and construction of the airport, not just a wish list, but a plan the whole project team could build around.
6. Ingredient Sourcing Strategy for a Food Distribution Company

As part of a broader Scope 3 supply chain emissions effort, I worked with this client to identify which ingredients in their sourcing were driving the largest share of their footprint. Partnering with their procurement team, I evaluated realistic paths forward for each, whether that meant shifting to lower-impact ingredients or refining sourcing practices and improving traceability of where ingredients came from. The result was a prioritized list of ingredients to target, paired with new procurement standards the team could bring directly to their suppliers, turning a broad emissions hotspot into a concrete set of sourcing changes the company could act on.