About Kate 

Dr Kate Averill (PhD, MBA, P.G. Dips. Evaluation & Teaching, BSc in Geography)

As a visionary Sustainability and Evaluation Specialist, I harness a wealth of expertise in designing outcomes, engaging stakeholders, and aligning strategies and frameworks across both public and private sectors to ensure accountability and transparency. My dedication to tackling global challenges such as climate change, resilience, and biodiversity preservation is unwavering. With diverse experience spanning Asia, the Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and even Antarctica, I have cultivated a sensitivity that informs my ability to develop regionally appropriate, integrated sustainability approaches.

The Living Sustainable Business Approach emerged from my experience supporting businesses, organisations, funds, programmes, regions, and countries to evolve and integrate sustainability into their approaches, frameworks, operations, and reporting. Given the fragmented nature of sustainability tools, I have outlined a framework and approach that managers, leaders, board members, sustainability professionals, employees, and specialists can use to translate organisational sustainability intentions into impact. We need to rebalance our efforts to make further contributions to close the activity-to-impact gap and answer the question: Are we doing enough of the right things?

My methodology integrates values-based strategies and genuine stakeholder engagement throughout the process. This approach amplifies diverse voices and improves outcome effectiveness and transparency.

I am dedicated to driving impactful change by combining conceptual and practical methods to empower communities and organisations to integrate sustainability goals, advocating for a future where sustainable development is integrated and fostering a healthier, more resilient planet for future generations.

Kate lives in Nelson, New Zealand, enjoys outdoor activities, nature and contributing.