Karen Gardham

Current

• Sustainability Consultant at Green Minded

Education

• University of Sussex
• The University of Kent

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Industry

Environmental Services

Karen Gardham’s Summary

Karen has had extensive experience of supporting organisations to save money and improve their sustainability. Her award-winning policies and awareness-raising programmes at Brighton & Hove City Council have helped Brighton & Hove become the most sustainable city in Britain (Forum for the Future, 2007). She can help businesses:
- develop a sustainability or environmental policy;
- train staff to save resources;
- manage projects;
- implement actions;
- put in place measures to improve the resource efficiency of your workplace.

She has had a passion for the environment for many years, raising awareness for Greenpeace and carrying out research for the UN Environment and Development Committee in the early days, and putting her Masters Degree in environmental policy into practice with organisations such as Brighton & Hove City Council and RICS as well as many third sector organisations.

Karen Gardham’s Specialties:

Developing effective action plans
Training
Forming partnerships
Change management

Karen Gardham’s Experience

• Sustainability Consultant

  Green Minded

  (Environmental Services industry)

  August 2008 — Present (1 year 5 months)

  - Carrying out an environmental audit of policies and procedures, or calculating carbon footprints to international standards;
  - Working with businesses to develop an environmental or sustainability policy that will guide the organisation on taking action;
  - Working with staff to create awareness of their actions, identifying "champions" within the organisation, and creating an understanding amongst all stakeholders of the need to take action. Running regular training sessions on sustainability issues;
  - Once a policy is in place, helping develop detailed action plans to tackle the negative environmental or social impact of the business. These become part of the normal business planning process;
  - Management of particular projects coming out of environmental action planning. This might include an awareness campaign for customers and staff, researching new methods of operating, or forming partnerships with other organisations across sectors to achieve a common aim.

Karen Gardham’s Education

• University of Sussex

  MA Environment, Development and Policy , environmental systems, policy development, climate change, environmental impacts, "green" businesses , 2001 — 2002

• The University of Kent

  BSc (Hons) , Social Psychology , 1995 — 1998

  Final year dissertation was published:
  Gardham, K. & Brown, R.J. (2001) Two forms of intergroup discrimination with positive and negative outcomes: Explaining the positive negative asymmetry effect. British Journal of Social Psychology, 40(1), 23-34