We work with organisations managing environmental and social risk — from strategy through to risk management, impact assessment, management systems, to due diligence, monitoring and reporting. Our support is built around teams or individuals, and designed to be removed once it is no longer needed.
From strategy through to operationalisation, with a focus on risk, impact assessment, due diligence, management systems and capability building.
Direct advisory work for business leaders, project developers and lenders, globally. We help clients define strategy in complex emerging contexts with competing priorities — finding a way forward that reduces risk and amplifies the opportunities, while recognising the needs of the business.
Advisory services for a full range of clients across many sectors, covering the standard areas of environmental and social practice — from impact assessment and risk through to lender compliance and reporting.
Expert support, built around your people. Backup for individuals taking on new responsibilities for E&S risks, or those undertaking E&S work that represents a genuine step up in complexity or scope — so they deliver the work and grow into the role at the same time.
Critical review of philanthropic programmes for meaningful impact — for social investment programme managers and investors who want to know whether the money is doing what they intended.
Whether the work is a strategy, a due diligence exercise or support for one person, the shape of an Ambient engagement is the same.
Before anything is scoped or costed, we want to understand the decision you face, who is affected by it and what has already been tried. That conversation is free and carries no obligation.
The associates who scope the work are the ones who do it. We work with a network of partners, each with over 25 years' experience, so the expertise is matched to the problem rather than to who happens to be free.
Our support is designed to leave your organisation able to implement, manage and deliver the work itself. That means plans that work in real life — proportionate, fit for purpose, and not gold-plated or more complicated than the situation needs.
Our work routinely touches material that is commercially sensitive, contested or pre-disclosure. We work under NDA as standard, and are glad to sign yours before the first substantive conversation — you never need to share anything sensitive to find out whether we can help.
We are seasoned professionals, each with over 25 years of experience working with business leaders, project developers, lenders and consultancies across the full environmental and social lifecycle — from E&S strategy through to operationalisation.
Our focus is risk, impact assessment and due diligence, through to management systems and capability building. We have worked in more than 20 countries, for clients ranging from multinational corporates to SMEs, and have delivered formal and informal training to hundreds of professionals and leaders.
We have done the work we are advising on. The judgement comes from having been accountable for it, not from having read about it.
Director
Over 30 years in environmental and social practice — as a consultant, as Shell's Global Head of Social Investment and Principal Technical Expert for ESHIA and social risk, and for more than two decades as an independent adviser to multilateral lenders, Equator Principles banks and major project developers.
She's worked as an E&S panel expert for the World Bank, and advises EBRD's Environment and Sustainability Department.
Ask her about: corporate strategy · ESIA · lender compliance · social risk · due diligence · impactful community investment at scale · building E&S capabilities
Ambient works with a network of associate partners, each with over 25 years' experience and drawn from every level of the discipline. We match the partner to the problem, and tell you who you will be working with before the work begins.
Tell us about the decision you face, or the piece of work in front of your team. An initial discussion is confidential, without obligation and free of charge — and we will tell you honestly if we are not the right people for it.
Whether you are commissioning work, managing a programme, or the person who would be supported, you are equally welcome to get in touch.