Hi, I’m Victoria, but it won’t be long before you know me as Tause. My clients tell me I’m great at inspiring them and their boards, galvanising their teams and enabling their businesses to become more responsible and resilient. So that’s where I focus my work.
I work with businesses in many sectors including retail, fmcg, energy, hospitality, manufacturing and professional services. My clients include Accenture, City of London, Pukka Herbs, Mars Petcare, Azzurri Group, Sky, Bambino Mio, Genuine Solutions, Made in Britain and Costa – among many others.
Beyond my corporate work, I’m also Founder of Love Haslemere Hate Waste and creator of Haslemere’s Repair Cafe, Library of Things and Community Fridge to make a positive impact in my own community.
Sky wanted to show leadership in the global business community to drive policy and behaviour change around plastics nationally and internationally, building on their Ocean Rescue campaign. Victoria worked with Altology to develop three commitments which leveraged Sky’s expertise and influence as a global media brand:
Established Refreshment Division’s communications strategy, drawing on sustainability focused achievements and embedded the strategy through a powerful internal and external comms programme. Responsible for providing sustainability consultancy as Refreshment developed a unique sustainability strategy within the Unilever brand.
O2 had an opportunity to explore why they existed as a business. Victoria worked with the team to articulate O2’s purpose and create a strategy to embed it throughout the business. That began with the Senior Leadership Team of 40+ C-Suite execs, followed by the National Employee Conference where the Purpose was revealed to 8,000 staff. Of the SLT, 91% were excited by the Purpose, and 97% understood how it can drive competitive advantage. Across the business, 88% of all employees felt inspired by the purpose.
Worked with the CEO, leadership team, and investor, Towerbrook, to surface Azzurri’s purpose and define the business vision. In collaboration, we determined Azzurri’s values, so that the purpose could be brought to life. In partnership with the Head of Responsible Business, we set a new sustainability strategy including a series of challenging targets, focused around People, Planet and Plate. I continue to support Azzurri to report on progress each year.
We worked with Ball Corporation who wanted to understand how their business could respond around the plastics debate. As one of the largest aluminium can manufacturers, we helped Ball to cement their understanding of the landscape, which informed their future strategic approaches.
Created the award winning sustainability strategy, Sea Change, for Thai Union, parent company of John West. The strategy includes a partnership with WWF and a series of targets on sustainable fishing practices. Embedded the strategy internally and transformed the John West brand through championing transparency and traceability.
Henry Ford’s famous words, “You can have any colour you like, as long as its black” of the Model T in 1919 – 1925 are a far cry from the reality of car buying today. Black, red, green, silver, white, blue, even gold are common colour choices for t
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