Stephanie Walker

Stephanie created Leadertree Consulting to enable the UK’s leaders and innovators in sustainability and nature recovery to grow, succeed and unlock funding. Leadertree Consulting is a sustainability, marketing, partnerships and research consultancy uniquely founded in-depth environmental insight and extensive in-house experience in both the charity and corporate sectors.

Key clients and projects include:

Technical knowledge: woodland management, ecology, nature finance, UK Woodland Carbon and Peatland Codes, UK carbon market v. global, carbon buying methods, sustainability models and methodologies, SDG, SBTN, TNFD and building knowledge of wider frameworks.

Stephanie joined the Woodland Trust to lead the business development team in creating new corporate partnerships. She successfully established what was a very new team when she arrived, putting in a new structure, reporting and approach, and with the team created 14 new partnerships in her first two years, securing over £1.3m of new income for the Trust. Stephanie also did extensive work at a Trust-wide level to redevelop and market Woodland Carbon, as well as the corporate proposition to support the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Woods Project.

After starting a family, Stephanie returned to work in a part-time role in autumn 2013 managing strategic projects in the fundraising department. She worked on special projects to support the Woodland Trust's strategic plan and the Fundraising Director. These included leading a project to research the possibility of creating a social investment fund for woodland, developing marketing and fundraising propositions, and improving how the Woodland Trust uses it management information to help performance via a new system design and roll out.

Stephanie worked closely with the CEO and President to drive forward a new three year strategy. She was promoted from Head of Communications to Director. Her role was to lead and direct marketing including strategy, proposition development, brand, web, email, events and research reports, and lead and manage new member recruitment, sponsorship and partnerships. Achievements included leading a rebrand and new website from concept to launch in 5 months, turning around the industry awards from a loss-maker to a profitable sell out in a year, and designing an online report subscription product for their industry research.