Experience

Pond Foundation

• Switzerland
• Environmental Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Founder & Chief Inspiration Officer

  • Jan 2021 - Present

  Pond Foundation inspires strong regenerative action for people and planet. We operate through four initiatives: My Carbon Zero; Regen 21; Hilary's Kids and Earthtrust. Pond Foundation inspires strong regenerative action for people and planet. We operate through four initiatives: My Carbon Zero; Regen 21; Hilary's Kids and Earthtrust.



adifferentway community

• Founder & Chief Inspiration Officer

  • Jun 2019 - Present

  adifferentway community is about impact. Its goal is simple: help social entrepreneurs, change-makers, sustainability professionals and mediators reach their goal of creating positive impact for people and the planet, at scale. You will create your impact. You will travel the journey you know you must travel. We will lift you up, empower and inspire you to reach that destination. That is our single-minded focus for each and every member. If you’re joining as a social entrepreneur, you will become a vibrant, successful social entrepreneur. Your social enterprise will start, survive, grow, and flourish. If you’re a change-maker, a sustainability professional or a mediator, you will create change and impact and inspire others to create change and impact at scale. You will live your passion. You will become strong and resilient. Is this community for me? Are you traveling a journey to create positive impact for people and the planet, at scale? If so, we’re here to help you travel that journey so that you create your impact. "My promise to you is that when you join the community, you will never walk alone." -Scott Poynton



TFT - The Forest Trust

• Switzerland
• International Trade and Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Founder

  • Mar 1999 - May 2019

  Transitioned out of CEO role at The Forest Trust after 17 years in charge.Mentoring and supporting the new leadership team. Spreading the word, taking impact to scale.

• CEO

  • Mar 1999 - Dec 2015

  Founded TFT in 1999Grew the organisation to over 250 colleagues working in 48 countries across 19 commodities. Focused on building cooperation and bringing change at scale, exploring new innovations for forest conservation and protecting people's rights, scaling impact and digging deeply to understand the causes of both success and failure. Adaptive leadership moving beyond traditional strictures.Successfully managed my own succession, starting in 2004 to finally handing over to a new CEO at the end of 2015.



ScanCom International A/S

• Denmark
• Furniture and Home Furnishings Manufacturing
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Managing Director ScanCom Vietnam/Environment Director ScanCom International

  • Jun 1999 - Jul 2001

  Managed ScanCom Vietnam furniture business to deliver wooden garden furniture to global markets. As ScanCom International Environment Director, transformed the company's environmental credentials, catalysing important changes in the global wooden garden furniture industry. Managed ScanCom Vietnam furniture business to deliver wooden garden furniture to global markets. As ScanCom International Environment Director, transformed the company's environmental credentials, catalysing important changes in the global wooden garden furniture industry.



FORTECH/Dames & Moore

• UK General Manager/Pricipal Consultsnt Australia/Project Manager Vietnam

  • Jun 1993 - May 1999

  From 1997-99, set up FORTECH's UK office in London to offer forestry consulting services to European clients. From 1995-97, worked as a Principal Consultant from the Canberra HQ on projects across S & SE Asia. From 1993-95, Managed Aus Govt funded aid project to research best ways to reforest 150,000ha of acid sulphate grasslands in the Long Xuyen Quadrangle, Mekong Delta, Vietnam. From 1997-99, set up FORTECH's UK office in London to offer forestry consulting services to European clients. From 1995-97, worked as a Principal Consultant from the Canberra HQ on projects across S & SE Asia. From 1993-95, Managed Aus Govt funded aid project to research best ways to reforest 150,000ha of acid sulphate grasslands in the Long Xuyen Quadrangle, Mekong Delta, Vietnam.



Forestry Tasmania

• Marketing & Field Forester

  • Mar 1988 - May 1993

  Two years in Fingal Valley learning on ground forestry operations before heading to Oxford to study MSc then back for 18 months as Marketing Forester in Hobart HQ Two years in Fingal Valley learning on ground forestry operations before heading to Oxford to study MSc then back for 18 months as Marketing Forester in Hobart HQ