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"Janet Shepherd spent 7 years at the cutting edge of environmental and sustainability auditing and reporting in the UK, and consistently demonstrates that she knows where best practice is, how to apply it, and
how it creates value for organizations of every size."


Dr David Wheeler Erivan K Haub
Professor of Business and Sustainability
Schulich School of Business
York University, Toronto

 

About us

Janet Shepherd
BA, Dip Env Dev (OU), CEnv, MIEMA

Janet Shepherd is EcoAgility's Founder and Principal Consultant.

Janet has been working in the field of environmental management and social responsibility since 1992. She has extensive experience in the retail industry, of supply chain issues and working with NGO agendas.

Janet is an experienced desktop researcher on environmental and Corporate Social Responsibility matters. She has compiled research reports for use in strategy, policy and procedure development, best practice identification, benchmarking and the ethical screening of organisations for their suitability as promotional partners.

Her environmental management career started 20 years ago with The Body Shop International plc. This encompassed their pioneering work on environmental and social reporting, responsible ingredient sourcing, packaging minimisation, recycling, supply chain screening, customer engagement campaigns and stakeholder engagement.

For several years Janet sat on the British Retail Consortium Environmental Policy Advisory Group and its Working Group on Product Stewardship.

As well as being a Chartered Environmentalist and Full Member of the
Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA), Janet is a trained Environmental Management Systems Auditor and registered with IEMA as an Environmental Auditor.

She has been involved in the preparation of several qualitative and quantitative environmental and wider 'Values' reports relating to retailing and manufacturing and has recently contributed to reports by the Business Leaders Initiative On Climate Change.

EcoAgility is a strategic partner of White Maple Consulting and has contributed an article on Corporate Social Responsibility to their newsletter, The Review. EcoAgility also has links with other respected associates, who have complementary environmental, corporate social responsibility, fair trade and general management expertise, in order to be able to offer clients a service that best matches their needs.