Max is a senior consultant at Biodiversify with over 10 years of academic and applied corporate experience in delivering sustainability strategies and supply chain impact reduction, with expertise in water stewardship.
My happiest memories are connected to time outdoors with my family and friends. In a busy, stressful world spending time outdoors is when I feel most at peace. I want my daughter to grow up in a world where nature is valued and protected.
I started my career as a geography teacher, working in schools in London for five years. I then returned to university to complete and MSc and PhD as I wanted to work in academia. I fell into a corporate role by chance after completing my PhD, working in-house for Dunelm’s sustainability team. My time there taught me that the corporate sustainability sector provides many opportunities to “make an impact” and I wanted a role where I could work with as many organisations as possible, so transitioned into consultancy.
Farmland bird conservation. Birds act as indicators of wider ecosystem health and the decline in abundance and diversity of farmland birds since the Second World War shows how much we have lost. I grew up in the Cambridgeshire Fens and birds were the wildlife I interacted with most.
Corporate nature strategies and de-mystifying complicated topics.
I’ve been lucky enough to visit some incredible places around the world, but the place that means most to me is Beacon Hill Country Park in Leicestershire. My daughter loves exploring the woods there, the views from the top across Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire are spectacular, and it is my go to place when I need a little reset.
The Eurasian Blackbird (Turdus merula) was the species that made me fall in love with birds as a child. On a crisp spring morning, it’s song vibrates my soul! They also have the most endearing mannerisms and quirks, people dismiss them easily but next time you see one, really watch how it capers about.
During my MSc field work (hiding in a hawthorn counting forage flights from a Tree Sparrow nest…) I fell asleep for a few minutes. I woke up to see a Roe Deer nibbling at the ground 12 inches from my boot. We both gave each other a scare and she scampered away pretty quickly!
I love exercising outdoors, be it running, cycling or mountaineering. The North-West Highlands of Scotland is my favourite place to visit for all three! I also play tabletop games like Dungeons and Dragons and Warhammer 40,000.
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