Description

Leanna is a sustainable finance specialist providing independent, expert advice to financial institutions, including banks, insurers, and investment companies, helping organisations align their business models &strategies with the European Green Deal, Paris Agreement and Global Biodiversity Framework

With over 20 years experience in consultancy, research, project management, and business development, Leanna combines sustainability expertise with a passion for environmental protection. She supports financial institutions in managing sustainability risks and identifying opportunities that create value through products and services suited to a net-zero, nature-positive and regenerative economy.

Leanna is a skilled problem solver with an analytical mindset, strong business acumen, and excellent communication skills. She has a strong understanding of the sustainable finance regulatory landscape and helps organisations translate complex requirements into practical action.

She supports companies in assessing environmental impacts and dependencies, identifying risks & opportunities, reducing environmental footprints, transforming business strategies, setting sustainability targets, developing climate and nature policies, creating transition plans, implementing due diligence processes, and strengthening reporting and disclosures.

Leanna holds the CFA Climate Risk, Valuation, and Investing Certificate, strengthening her expertise in climate risk analysis, carbon markets, transition finance, sustainable financial instruments, and valuation impacts. She can integrate climate & nature considerations across asset classes, investment portfolios, & financial decision-making.

Whether your organisation is building sustainable finance capability, responding to regulatory requirements or integrating climate and nature-related risks into investment & portfolio management, Leanna provides practical, strategic support to strengthen resilience & drive sustainable long-term growth.

Languages

English
Native or bilingual
French
Basic

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

Paris (up to 50km)

ECO EXCELLENCE
Sustainable Finance Specialist
CONSULTING AND AUDITS
October 2020 - Today (5 years and 8 months)
France
Eco Excellence is a consultancy business specialising in sustainable corporate development. It provides the finance sector with market intelligence, practical advice & in-house support linked to the evolving regulatory landscape related to sustainable development, transition planning and climate & biodiversity issues. For more info. visit:

Additionally, the CFA Climate Risk, Valuation and Investing certificate allows me to:

*Communicate and explain climate science concepts to clients, helping to understand climate risk adaption and mitigation.

*Analyse transition plans, including companies financial position as demonstrated by its balance sheet, how transition activities will be financed, including risks & opportunities to a company and it's investors. *Analyse a company's climate disclosure & risks, integrate climate risks & considerations into a financial model, and adjust projections and discount rates to revise a valuation. *Analyse the financial projections of an investment project (PE, VC, RE, or infrastructure), including a range of scenarios, and adjust it by integrating climate factors. *Analyse and adjust a portfolio so it's aligned with the net-zero pathway; assess portfolio construction implications of overweighting versus underweighting certain stocks, biases, or tilts toward developed markets versus emerging markets and toward large versus small / mid-cap issuers. *Analyse an environmental shareholder resolution proposed by an investment company. Provide recommendations for investor engagement activities and a voting recommendation on the shareholder resolution.

Sustainable development Sustainable Finance, Climate Reporting & Disclosures Biodiversity & Metri CSRD, SFDR, finance & nature regulations & frameworks
Top Tier Impact
Member
July 2025 - Today (11 months)
*Top Tier Impact is the global ecosystem of investors, entrepreneurs and corporations who are focused on solving the critical issues of our time. Across all activities, the mission at Top Tier Impact is to accelerate the global adoption of impact and sustainability. *TTI Impact Network is the global members-only community of 500+ leaders in impact and sustainability across more than 45 countries.
BRE Global
BREEAM Technical & Commercial Manager - Domestic Buildings - Zero Carbon Homes - Pre Paris Agreement
November 2010 - October 2018 (7 years and 11 months)
Watford, England, United Kingdom
(1) Responsible for developing and managing the technical robustness, competency & operational procedures of the UK Government endorsed Code for Sustainable Homes (CSH) ‐ Technical Housing Standard (towards zero carbon) in accordance with UKAS accreditation. Responsible for stakeholder engagement across the housing sector including Govt. depts. such as planning and regs. Oversaw collection and management of DCLG statistics & UKAS accredited sub‐licensee contracts, including their technical & certification operations. (2) More generally, gained significant experience and expertise managing a team and developing technical criteria, providing updates and standardising the measurement of a buildings overall environmental and social performance against a set of established benchmarks, covering 9 key areas and 34 sub-issues. Weighted categories within the technical standard tackled reducing carbon emissions towards net zero, low impact design, adaptation to climate change, ecological value, biodiversity protection and social issues. (3) Represented BRE Global and won the introduction of a new Technical Housing Standard: A new nationally described 'Minimum Space Standard' during a technical working group at the Dept. of Communities & Local Government (DCLG) in Westminster, against the Housing Lobby (4) Gained experience presenting QSAND framework & tool (Quantifying Sustainability in the Aftermath of a Natural Disaster), developed for the Red Cross at the United Nations, Palais de Nations in Geneva. (5) Won award for The Future of Sustainable Homes event held in Westminster (6) Gained extensive business development experience, commercialising BREEAM through it's international operations.