About – Katherine Ann Byam

About Katherine Ann Byam

Katherine Ann Byam (FCCA, MBA) is a Sustainability Strategy Manager, Founder, and Leadership Coach to sustainability-minded business executives globally.

A professional with 20+years change leadership, finance and supply chain experience in the FTSE Top 10, she started her consulting firm in 2019 to support sustainable business development goals. Katherine holds an MBA with distinction, specialising in Innovation Management, and is a fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants. Katherine is also a trained Neuro-Linguistic Programming practitioner.

As a sustainability strategist she supports net zero transitions, evaluating materiality, developing strategies, and delivering key projects that aim to realise long term net-positive goals. As a sought-after coach, board advisor and keynote speaker, she has facilitated development workshops, professional career transitions, and provided sustainability and strategy guidance within iconic brands such as the Plastic Pollution Prevention Mission Hub UK, Amazon Social Impact Team, Women Tech Global Network, ACCA, Stryker, Speak Up, Mind Channel, Carbon capture CooperVision, Ancoram, Foundervine, and more.

Katherine is the Author of Do What Matters, The Purpose Driven Career Transition Guide, and the host of the Podcast Where Ideas Launch – The Sustainable Innovation Podcast.

Katherine also gives back through volunteering. She is a regular judge for numerous sustainability awards based in the United Kingdom. She also participates on various social and environmental impact boards and steering groups.

She loves spending her spare time in nature, walking the western and southern coasts of the UK, France, and Tobago, or on the Northern and eastern coasts of Trinidad.

Reviews

Katherine is the real deal. Her drive, energy, support and guidance are incredible. I feel more able to tackle the challenges my business faces with her cheering me on. Her advice is invaluable and she genuinely cares about me as well as as my business, which is hugely important as a self-employed person. Katherine helps problem solve as well as helping steer me in new directions...and even pushes me to get out of my comfort zone!

Cathy Mears Martin

Author of the Eco Protection Squad and Founder of Sustainable Ideas

I invited Katherine as a panelist to support the event organized by the Amsterdam Stryker Women's Network to celebrate the International Women’s Day on the topic #Breaking the Bias. I was very excited to have her participating in this mixed panel, which was a huge success! Katherine was well prepared, insightful and gave us and our participants much to ponder on understanding bias and neurodiversity.

Lupina Valdes

Senior Manager – Risk at Stryker

Over the summer at Mind Channel we worked with Katherine to develop our first Microlearning for Sustainability. Katherine has deep knowledge in this subject area and was able to bring out a clear easy to digest story of the evolution of sustainability over history to today, and what the future can be, leveraging a wide tool kit of references, integrating the concepts with what we experience in our every day lives, and creating great story arcs for our learners to follow.

Claudia McFarlane

Director at Mind Channel

Our Amazon DACH Women's Affinity Group decided to launch a mini series of podcasts, to amplify the message of purpose and social impact and the role of both in our leadership today. We hired Katherine as an external consultant to help us shape the project, source insightful guests, plan and design the content, and conduct the interviews. Katherine took complete ownership of the project, delivering incredibly vulnerable and insightful interviews from prominent leaders in Europe!

Anna Derinova-Hartmann

CSR and Humanitarian Aid at Amazon