Meet our team
Beth Jenkins has more than 20 years of experience helping leading companies and their partners navigate the social side of sustainable business. She has advised companies such as ABInbev, Mars, The Coca-Cola Company, Unilever, and Verizon seeking to build larger, more inclusive markets and stronger, more resilient supply chains, as well as associations, donors, and civil society organizations seeking to set the agenda and support companies in achieving social goals, including IFC, UNDP, WBCSD, and the World Economic Forum.
Beth has worked extensively analyzing complex, systemic social issues and creating actionable strategic frameworks for change. She also has a long history of translating and building alignment across stakeholders in business, government, and civil society. In addition to her work with individual clients, she has been involved in a number of influential initiatives shaping the field of social sustainability over the years, including UNDP’s Growing Inclusive Markets Initiative and John Ruggie’s human rights mandate. Most recently, she spent two years helping WBCSD conceptualize, grow, and develop thought leadership for the Business Commission to Tackle Inequality, a cross-sector coalition now totaling more than 80 CEOs and other leaders.
Beth's expertise spans a range of issue areas, with a special focus on poverty, inequality, social mobility, and economic opportunity for women.
She has authored more than 30 publications, many of them during her 15 years working with the Corporate Responsibility Initiative at the Harvard Kennedy School—first as founder and director of CRI’s Economic Opportunity Program, and later as a non-resident senior fellow. She is a graduate of Yale University and the Harvard Kennedy School.
Richard has over 16 years experience of advising leading companies and development organizations on social sustainability strategy, partnership building and advocacy.
He has supported large companies, including Verizon, ABInBev, Mars, The Coca-Cola Company and the Body Shop, seeking to embed social sustainability commitments into core business and value chains, and has worked with leading donors and development organizations looking to engage with business to advance responsible and inclusive business practices, including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, FCDO, ILO and IFC.
Richard has worked extensively on designing and facilitating collaborations between groups of companies and development partners to advance collective impact goals. He also has particular experience in developing and delivering impactful advocacy and communications programmes. As Director of Stakeholder Engagement for the business network Business Fights Poverty for eight years, Richard led collective advocacy and engagement activities on behalf of a Lead Group of multinational companies and development partners.
Richard has built expertise in a range of issue areas, including food and nutrition, expanding economic opportunity, living wage, women‘s empowerment, water stewardship and human rights.
He has co-authored over 15 policy and research reports on business partnerships for sustainable development with the Corporate Responsibility Initiative at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, the University of Cambridge and Ashridge Hult Business School. He holds a Masters in Responsible Business Practice from the School of Management at the University of Bath. Prior to entering the world of social sustainability, Richard held senior positions at leading global communications firms Edelman, Weber Shandwick and Burson-Marsteller.
Kate is a leader in the role of business in society. She advises multinational corporations, nonprofits, and international organisations on how to address social inequities – in the workplace, in the value chain, and in wider society – while simultaneously creating business value.
Kate has extensive experience in corporate responsibility and sustainability strategy. She spent a decade at FSG, a strategy consulting firm and think tank founded by Harvard Professor Michael Porter and Mark Kramer, where she co-led the firm’s corporate practice and oversaw dozens of engagements with multinational companies to develop strategies on a range of social issues critical to business, with a focus on gender equity, workforce development, and economic inclusion.
She also has deep expertise in designing and facilitating multi-stakeholder collaboratives. She is currently leading the launch of the Taskforce on Inequality and Social-related Financial Disclosures (TISFD), a collective impact initiative which will develop a global framework that enables companies to identify, assess, and manage their impacts on people. Previously, she built and led Save the Children’s Global Business & Innovation Hub, a 20-person team responsible for designing, delivering, and evaluating Save the Children’s business and philanthropy partnerships across its 120 countries of operation.
She writes frequently on the relationship between business and society, including collaborating with Unilever on its first equity, diversity, and inclusion paper “Equity for Impact”; with the WBCSD on its flagship report “Tackling Inequality: An Agenda for Business Action”; and with FSG on “Centering Equity in Corporate Purpose,” “What Does It Really Take for Companies to Advance Gender Equity?” and “The Role of Business in Global Education.” She holds an MBA in International Business from Georgetown University.