Tamara Giltsoff

Current

• Sustainability Strategist and Innovation Leader at Tamara Giltsoff

Past

• Managing Director and Head of Strategy at OZOlab
• Service Innovation Strategist and Business Development Manager at live|work – Service Innovation and Strategy
• Brand Strategist at Circus

• Brand Strategist and Account Director at Oyster Partners (now LBI)
• Senior Designer at The Bureaux – fashion trends
• Deputy Art Director, Marketing and Promotions at The Daily Telegraph

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Education

• University of Bath
• Brunel University

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Industry

Environmental Services

Tamara Giltsoff’s Summary

Tamara works with leaders to shape sustainability strategy, drive innovation and create long-term sustainable value for businesses and society. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Tamara is a Sustainability Strategist and Innovation leader with 13 years professional experience. She works with and advises corporate clients, start-ups, NGOs, consulting firms and agencies on the transition to sustainability, resilience and next evolution economics in the 21st Century. She is also a founding partner of Abundancy Partners, a newly formed strategic consultancy and Think-Do Tank, with John Grant and Jules Peck. Tamara is currently working with AEA Group – UK’s leading climate change policy and science consultancy, with now offices in the US.

Most recently Tamara was the Managing Director and Head of Strategy for OZOlab – the sustainable innovation group and business incubator. She established OZOlab with the two founding partners in 2007 and led strategy since its inception, shaping each new OZO venture. Here she also set-up and led the lab’s Sustainability Strategy consulting offer for corporate clients such as Ogilvy, Kraft and Unilever.

Tamara’s background combines 13 years professional experience in brand strategy and marketing, business strategy, (service) innovation and sustainability strategy – both as a consultant and an entrepreneur. She holds a Masters in Design, Strategy and Innovation and a Masters in Responsibility and Business Practice, both with Distinction.

She writes regularly for Treehugger.com, PSFK.com and Sustainablelifemedia.com, and speaks on sustainability and business practice. She was named one of the “35 Outstanding Businesswomen Under the Age of 35” by World Business Magazine and INSEAD in 2007. And is an adviser to Sustainable Brands International (SBi), OZOlab, Alldaybuffet/Feast Social Innovation and Wave Management Group.

Tamara Giltsoff’s Specialties:

Strategy and innovation planning.
Service innovation/service thinking.
Brand strategy and marketing.
Stakeholder engagement.
Speak and writing.

Tamara Giltsoff’s Experience

• Sustainability Strategist and Innovation Leader

  Tamara Giltsoff

  (Environmental Services industry)

  January 2009 — Present (11 months)

  Tamara has been freelance consulting on a number of projects since departing from OZOlab at the end of 2008. She writes regularly on sustainability, business and transition. An archive of all her published articles and public speaking can be found on my site http://tamaragiltsoff.com
  
  She is a founding-partner of Abundancy, a newly formed strategic consultancy and Think-Do Tank. http://abundancypartners.com

• Managing Director and Head of Strategy

  OZOlab

  (Environmental Services industry)

  December 2006 — January 2009 (2 years 2 months)

  OZOlab is a leading sustainable innovation group and business incubator that exists to identify, create and market a new breed of businesses. The lab incubates businesses under the "OZO" brand umbrella and advises large client companies on sustainable business transformation.
  
  Tamara established OZOlab, with the two founding partners, in 2007. She led strategy and innovation since its inception, identifying business opportunities and shaping each of the new ventures.
  
  
  OZOlab.com
  OZOlife.com
  OZOcar.com

• Service Innovation Strategist and Business Development Manager

  live|work – Service Innovation and Strategy

  (Privately Held; Design industry)

  February 2005 — February 2007 (2 years 1 month)

  live|work is a UK Service Innovation and Design consulting firm. It is the founder and leader in the discipline of Service Thinking, transforming public services and working with brands to create value from service innovation.
  
  An alternative to the dominant product mindset, Service Thinking places people, networks and sustainability at the core of how we design and innovate services. The application of Service Thinking can help transform our organisations and economies.
  
  Tamara was a lead Service Innovation Strategist at live|work, and she led business development efforts in UK and the US.
  
  livework.co.uk

• Brand Strategist

  Circus

  (Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry)

  September 2003 — February 2005 (1 year 6 months)

  circuslondon.com

• Brand Strategist and Account Director

  Oyster Partners (now LBI)

  (Public Company; LBI; Internet industry)

  January 2000 — September 2003 (3 years 9 months)

  lbi.com/en/About-Us/

• Senior Designer

  The Bureaux – fashion trends

  (Marketing and Advertising industry)

  1998 — 1999 (1 year )

• Deputy Art Director, Marketing and Promotions

  The Daily Telegraph

  (Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

  June 1995 — February 1998 (2 years 9 months)

Tamara Giltsoff’s Education

• University of Bath

  MSc , Responsibility and Business Practice , 2005 — 2007

  Distinction.

• Brunel University

  MA , Design, Strategy and Innovation , 1999 — 2000

  Distinction.

Additional Information

Tamara Giltsoff’s Interests:

Moving fast down slopes; running long distances; learning to play the piano; riding horses competitively – in the past; speaking and mentoring on sustainability.

Tamara Giltsoff’s Groups:

RSA Fellow

http://www.thersa.org/

•    Strategic and Systems Thinking
•    The-Green-Group.com
•    Sustainable Brands
•    Innovations in Government: From Transitions to Transformation

Tamara Giltsoff’s Honors:

One of "35 Under 35" top businesswomen awarded by World Business in Association with INSEAD.

Tamara Giltsoff’s Contact Settings

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