Impact
unleashed
In one of the most important eras of opportunity, we can help you to rewire your business for sustainability.
Old models are on the way out and there's growing need to adapt.
There may be many different reasons triggering you to act – the climate crisis, talent attraction issues, customer signals or regulation.
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Regardless of your starting point we can break down the barriers preventing current progress, helping you to change the future through new and better ways of doing business.
Working
with us
We take an opportunity-led approach, generating real value from real sustainability progress.
At Devlo, we believe that sustainability is the ultimate driver of long-term value and success. Our mission is to help our clients future-wire their organisation, by threading sustainability through their business model and enhancing the capability within their teams to deliver value and impact.
We offer a range of services, from bespoke sustainability strategies to training and development programmes that empower teams to take ownership of sustainability initiatives. We also provide advice and guidance on how to measure, report and communicate your sustainability progress to key stakeholders.
What we offer
1. Future-wiring
We help businesses identify opportunities and plan for sustainable growth.
We explore your current challenges and their context before designing creative strategies and solutions to enhance your ESG commitments, realise new opportunities and engage your most important stakeholders.
Get ahead and build a sustainable future.
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2. Capability-building
We help organisations to develop their own sustainability capabilities through tailored workshops and training sessions, delivered by experienced consultants.
Each session is purposefully curated to empower your corporate citizens with knowledge of key sustainability principles and the means to apply these principles into their individual roles and departments.
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3. Scaling
An engine for change: We connect project partners and stakeholders to scale your sustainable solutions.
From green financing to innovation partnerships - contact us to see how we can help.
Distinctive
insight
Combining deep operational expertise with creative communications and sustainability leadership, our team brings a unique perspective to your challenges.
Our founders are experienced business leaders from opposite ends of the value chain - working with the global consumer marketplace and deep within the supply chain. This dual perspective provides a distinctive level of insight that enables us to develop creative and effective solutions.
Heidi Sommerville
Devlo co-founder
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A relationship-driven entrepreneur, Heidi combines 30 years' experience in international shipping and industrial services with the credentials of creating value-driven profitable growth in business.
She has a reputation for integrity and personal commitment, connecting trade through freight logistics and connecting people through building relationships.
Hailing from a hard-to-abate industry that is characterised by inequality - and with an African heritage and academic foundation in industrial psychology - she's driven to bring sustainability solutions across the supply chain.
Incorporating original research into supply chain collaboration for decarbonisation gives Devlo a fresh perspective on the issues and opportunities for collective transformation.
Vicki Harding
Devlo co-founder
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Named one of the UK’s leading communications experts, Vicki’s career has centred on advising some of the best-known multinationals across multiple sectors including FMCG, technology, fashion, retail and automotive. Formerly Managing Partner at the global strategic and creative consultancy, Iris, she's been responsible for high-profile brand, reputation and value-driving work at companies including BMW, Samsung and Heineken, along with globally recognised associations and inter-governmental organisations.
Aligned with her never settle attitude, her past clients are largely united in their challenger mindsets, and she brings this passion for change to Devlo. She's a strong advocate for gender equality and counts UN Women UK amongst her advisory roles.
Her sustainability drive was ignited with an early foundation in biology and cemented with academic research in Sustainable Business Models, which is the foundation for Devlo's own sustainability commitments, and drives its offering.
