Both ends of the chain. One adviser.
I help FMCG leaders see what’s coming in their supply chains before it becomes a commercial problem. It helps that I’ve worked in the fields and in the boardroom.
Most advisers have seen the boardroom.
Almost none have worked the field.
I’ve spent twenty-five years in both.
Eight years in commercial horticulture. Then the boardrooms that depend on it.
I drove a tractor for a living before I briefed a board. Tesco's producer network, Unilever's Sustainable Living Plan, VP of Sustainable Futures at Capgemini Invent. The thread through all of it: helping businesses see their supply chains clearly, and act on what they find.
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Courtney Holm — Founder, The Holm Edit
The risk to your P&L is already growing. It’s just still upstream.
Scope 3 — the emissions in your supply chain — sits in soil, weather and supplier economics your reports can’t see. Fertiliser price shocks, failed harvests, new laws like EUDR, CSRD and UKSRS: by the time they reach a board paper, they’re a cost, not a warning.
I’ve sat on both sides of that distance. I close the gap before it closes on you.
Three ways in. One conversation to start.
Board & Executive Advisory
Walk into the boardroom already knowing.
Ongoing advice for CSOs, CPOs and boards. I read the risk in your supply chain, put it in commercial terms, and bring it to your table before it lands in the numbers.
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Programme Leadership
Programmes that actually deliver.
Part-time or interim leadership inside your team, taking sustainability from plan to delivery, with the supplier relationships to make it stick.
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Speaking & Strategic Advisory
Make the whole room see the whole chain.
Keynotes and focused advisory days that make supply chain reality clear to a board, and practical enough to plan around.
How speaking works → Advisory days from £1,500 / day Published, deliberate, and a filterThe proof.
Equitable sourcing and supply chain risk for a UK food retailer
The supply map, the working session and the strategy that put pounds-at-risk behind five-year sourcing commitments.
Read the case → Technology · Net zeroA sustainable IT strategy for a major UK parking operator, in three days
The strategy, the playbook and the business case to grow without growing the footprint.
Read the case → Certification · SystemsFairtrade International — a commercial traceability strategy, signed off in three months
The strategy, the requirements and the roadmap to commercialise traceability.
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I don't just spot the risk. I've built the systems that let you build the supplier relationships you need to mitigate and adapt.
Doug Gatlin
Courtney's leadership has been vital to Green Seal's work on upstream traceability and responsible procurement. Trust now depends on what companies can prove. By bringing industry together to connect safer chemicals, circularity, water, and climate priorities into one shared framework, we are building the common definitions businesses need to lead.
