Resilience Building
Led by veteran Board Advisor Illana Adamson, Be Better bridges the profound knowledge maturity gap at board and senior leadership level around the complexities of physical planetary boundaries, supply chain resilience and future value creation.
Business and community leaders are facing unprecedented uncertainty around geopolitical and climatic changes posing new economic threats and challenges to navigate. We support this dynamic transition with tailor made and off-the-shelf solutions for C-suite and leadership to confidently navigate the fiduciary responsibilities linked to physical climatic impacts.
We work with private and public sector across multi stakeholder groups including NHS England, Cambridge Institute of Sustainable Leadership, Reset Connect, WEX Global, and sectors such as legal, risk, compliance, marketing water, and health.
We bring 30+ years in strategic advisory services including 20+ years of socio-political and environmental knowledge.
Advisory Services
Retainer Support
Bespoke strategic advisory services. Including; physical materiality, beyond compliance or carbon, impact audit, value chain or greenwashing health checks, resilience oversight, stakeholder assessments and compliance.
We are industry agnostic working with clients across law, risk, marketing, compliance etc.
Bespoke Briefings
Curated sessions to open dialogue on evolving issues and how core stakeholders are addressing them, the hurdles they are experiencing and how collaborative approaches increase value.
These sessions tend to work best as part briefing / part chaired roundtable discussion bespoke to your geography or supply chain.
Leadership Roundtables
For 5 years we have successfully undertaken R&D and delivery of tailor made Board Training to join the dots on climate and fiduciary responsibilities.
Clients include NHS England where the success of our programme evolved to a roll out across the whole of SE England - where the NHS support 20 million patients (approx).
Keystone Voices - Fireside Chats
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Donato Calace - Datamaran
Donato sits on the advisory panels for mandatory reporting (CSRD & TNFD) and advises FTSE 500 Companies of Sustainability.
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Jacob Tompkins OBE
With an OBE for services to water, Tompkins is one of the most important voices in both UK and global water - the most important resilience risk point for value creation.
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Prof. Mark Maslin - UCL
Author of ‘How to Save our Planet’, alongside hundreds of scientific papers, he is Pro-Vice Provost of Earth System Science. In addition to advising C-Suite.
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Dr Victoria Hurth - Pracademic
Author of “Beyond Profit: Purpose-Driven Leadership for a Wellbeing Economy”, Keynote Speaker, Head Tutor - CISL, Board Member and Researcher.
Conversations with the voices driving resilience
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Sameh Wahba - World Bank
Sameh is the Regional Director for Sustainable Development at the European and Central Asia region in the World Bank where oversees all World Bank lending and policy advisory work in agriculture, environment and sustainability. We spoke about the priority of water for resilience.
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Baroness May, Theresa
Conservative PM (2016-2019) May has oversight of vast complexities. It was her role in women and equalities at the nexus of climate that we discussed at COP26. May legally committed the UK to “net zero 2050” and was instrumental in the success of COP26, Glasgow.
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Baroness Thatcher, Margaret
Conservative PM (1979-1990). In her later years Baroness Thatcher was deeply committed to her support for the British Forces Foundation - I curated an event with her as Guest of Honour. We discussed her concerns about climate change and her framing that humans are stewards of the Earth.
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Erinch Sahan - Doughnut Economics
When I sat down with Erich to discuss the precarious inflection point for businesses he was the Business and Enterprise Lead at Doughnut. Following his role as Chief Exec of World Fair Trade Organisation.
Upcoming Events
“Climate and Water Coalition for Business and Community”
The soft launch roundtable of this vital coaliton with strategic partners Reset Connect and London Climate Action Week (24th June)
Patrick Linighan CSO, Clyde and Co.
Keystone Voices Fireside Chat with Paddy who has a vast knowledge of C-Suite sustainability through the lens of a global legal firm
Membership Information
Paul Randle “Competitive Sustainability”
Keystone Voices Fireside Chat with Paul. He and co-author Alexis Eyre are award winning authors on the nexus of sustainability and global marketing
Membership Information
Quarterly Townhalls
Members meet online four times per year to peer network and exchange insight on sustainability as resilience in a dynamic landscape.
Celeste Leverton Leverton Wealth Partners
Keystone Voices Fireside Chat with Celeste who was responsible for Coutts bank’s B Corp certification alongside advising high networth clients.
`Annabel Nelson ICEAW Sustainability Committee
Keystone Voices Fireside Chat with Annabel is the co-founder of Fairlight Partners and systems strategist on the intersection finance and sustainability.
Be Better Resilience Leadership Modules
This bespoke course for leadership to navigate future risks and value creation: Understanding Greenwashing, ESG or Physical Materiality, Water Threats to Supply Chain, Strategic Resilience
Annabel Gillard Humanising AI, LSE
Keystone Voices Fireside Chat with Annabel who focuses on AI and its impact examining the incredible opportunities and tough choices that brings.
Lunch and Learn 45 minute sessions
In the dynamic landscape of resilience strategy we bring peer insight from member experts such as Roger Coenen Climate Risk Regulatory Change Specialist and RIO -AI Sustainability Data.
News Briefings
Climate and Water Coalition for Business and Community
We are thrilled to announce that Be Better CEO Illana is now Chair of the ‘Climate and Water Coalition for Business and Community’. The importance of water as a single break point risk for economic growth at national regional and organisational level is increasingly in the spotlight.
This requires a new multi-stakeholder discourse on access, equity and economic stability. The Coalition addresses resilience both inwardly at UK River Basin health and outwardly at the UK’s role in driving best practice stewardship up and down global value chains.
We are soft launching with a roundtable discussion alongside our strategic partners London Climate Action Week and Reset Connect. This event will be at Reset Connect on 24th June 2026. Contact us for more information event, coalition including partnership and stakeholder enquiries: