The People
Behind the Book...
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Stephanie earned a post-graduate degree in not-for-profit management. Her career spans diverse rolesfrom public relations to board leadership. She is dedicated to community empowerment, climate action, and social entrepreneurship, evidenced by her involvement with the Environmental Funders Network, Groundwork London’s Our Space Awards, and Impact London Collective. Her love of nature started as achild, first shaped by the surrounding wide open expanse of the High Sierra Desert in Northern Nevada,and continues to grow now along the wild banks of the River Thames near her home in London.

Stuart is a senior executive focused on helping leaders navigate future uncertainty. As an innovator, intrapreneur, and changemaker, architecting complex, multi-million-pound transformations for global firms like Salesforce and Wood Mackenzie, he understands that the greatest risk in a disrupted world is not having a clear compass. His experience proves that while traditional playbooks are failing, a deepcommitment to ethics provides the clarity and stability needed to make sound decisions amidst chaos. Today, through his work as an adviser and his engagement with the League of Intrapreneurs and the BMW Foundation Responsible Leaders Network, he helps leaders embed this ethical resilience into their operating models, building organisations that are not just profitable, but durable enough to thrive in the decades to come.
OUR LEARNING JOURNEY
Neither of us have a finance background. Stephanie’s education and work experience are in public relations and charity management in the environmental sector, whilst Stuart’s education and expertise are in business administration and change management. Over the years, our shared interest in ‘good businesses’ grew – especially as social entrepreneurship began to blur the lines between for-profit and nonprofit models. We took a dive into our personal investments, taking stock of where our money was invested, and asking ourselves how we could actively align our money with our climate purpose. What we expected to be a guided tour with a financial adviser quickly became an adventure through an uncharted jungle – a maze of financial jargon, global goals1, misleading media messages, and greenwashing financial services. To navigate this jungle, Stephanie enrolled in a Sustainable Finance course at Cambridge University’s Centre for Sustainable Leadership. It was a giant leap into the unknown, but she discovered a spectrum of financial activity to ‘rewire the economy to a sustainable, inclusive economy2.’ Most importantly, she learned that an individual’s capital can be influential – if deployed collectively, practically, and with intention. This guide is our long answer to helping us find our way through the financial landscape with all of our capital. When we didn’t find an immediate, single answer to our question of ‘doing better with our money’, we became curious about why there were no easy solutions. And, we quickly learned that our financial capital was only one part of the tools we had to offer. Our human capital (network and skills) would help us fully participate in climate action. 1 United Nations. (n.d.). The 17 Goals. Sustainable Development Goals, Retrieved from https://sdgs.un.org/goals 2 University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL). (2017). Rewiring the Economy: Ten tasks, ten years. Retrieved from https://www.cisl.cam.ac.uk/resources/cisl-frameworks/rewiring-the-economy

BE BRAVE. Give what you can, then be absolutely amazed at what comes next.
- Chris Anderson
Infectious Generosity
Our Partner People
Our talented ties that brought our testimony to life! The guide was created with an abundance of collective intelligence and goodwill.
We found our expert partners through conferences, reports, serendipitous meetings, and bold conversations— all driven by a shared commitment to making intentional financial decisions more inviting, accessible, and rewarding.

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THANK YOU TO OUR ADVANCED READERS AND 'PROJECT FRIENDS'
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