I help businesses prepare for and progress through B Corp™ Certification while measuring and improving their ESG (environmental, social, governance) and sustainability performance. As an independent B Corp Consultant, I’ll help you understand the latest B Lab™ standards, assess your current position, identify gaps and coordinate what’s needed for your progress towards certification or recertification.
Combining technical knowledge with practical support, my change management, project management and documentation background will help maximise your B Corp ambitions, communication and commercial development.
By helping you strengthen responsible practices through evidence-based improvement, I can also contribute to your corporate social responsibility (CSR) approach.
Whether you’re exploring certification possibilities, preparing for self-assessment, adapting your policies and procedures, or merely looking for a structured way to measure and improve your impact, my role as a B Corp Consultant is tailored to your requirements.
Based in Haarlem, I can support businesses across the Netherlands, including those in Amsterdam, Hoofddorp, Schiphol, Leiden, Alkmaar and the wider Randstad region.
B Corp Consultant services for positive impact, ESG and sustainability
B Corp Certification offers a structured framework for understanding and improving how your business affects people, communities and the environment. It furthermore addresses governance, accountability, transparency and the way you consider stakeholders in your management decisions.
It’s an impact-management framework that can form part of your business’s broader CSR approach.
I connect certification support with practical ESG and sustainability measurement, helping you not only establish where you are on your improvement journey, but also identify significant gaps, prioritise improvements and demonstrate progress with credible evidence.
Prepare for B Corp Certification
I help you understand the process, confirm your eligibility, define the appropriate certification scope and organise your assessment, evidence and improvement work.
Measure your ESG and sustainability performance
I help you identify relevant environmental, social and governance indicators, establish baselines, analyse current performance and create a consistent approach to impact measurement.
Turn your findings into practical improvements
Measurement should support action. I translate assessment findings into policies, responsibilities, priorities and achievable improvements that reflect your business, resources and longer-term ambitions.
What I can do for you as a B Corp Consultant
Depending on your business needs, internal capacity, policy maturity and ability to adopt change quickly, the level of support you need can be adapted and tailored. Throughout your journey, I’ll provide as much focused advice on specific requirements as necessary, or plan and coordinate a broader certification and improvement programme.
Getting started and defining your scope
- Help you start and navigate your B Corp Certification journey
- Confirm your eligibility and certification scope
- Assess your readiness and identify gaps
- Explain relevant terminology, standards and processes
- Understand your objectives, context and available resources
Measuring and analysing your impact
- Measure and analyse your corporate impact
- Lead your impact analysis and self-assessment
- Map your requirements, responsibilities and priorities
- Establish your impact KPIs, and track progress through benchmarking
Planning and coordinating the work
- Manage your project and coordinate the teams
- Organise your engagement, collaboration and review routines
Strengthening policies, practices and evidence
- Develop your policies, procedures and guidelines
- Resolve your sustainability documentation gaps (English or Dutch)
- Align your operations and strategy with B Lab Standards
- Connect global standards with your local context and business realities
Embedding improvement across your business
- Help you use business as a force for good
- Help maximise your positive social and environmental impact
- Embed sustainable and responsible practices in your business
- Build your internal knowledge through peer learning and knowledge transfer
- Enable you and your team to take ownership of B Corp Certification
- Develop your continuous improvement roadmap
- Provide flexible, tailored support based on your needs and resources
How a B Corp Consultant supports prospective and existing B Corps
The amount of work required depends on whether you are exploring certification for the first time, actively preparing your submission or adapting an existing certification programme to the latest standards. As your B Corp Consultant, I’ll help you understand what applies to your business, where you currently stand and what a reasonable journey forward could be.
For prospective B Corps
- Check your suitability and readiness for B Corp Certification
- Explain what certification involves and what it requires from you
- Map your certification journey, priorities and next steps
- Guide you through self-assessment
- Help you use B Lab tools to understand and improve your impact
- Strengthen your impact management
- Build the foundational practices you need for certification
For existing B Corps
- Support your recertification under the new standards
- Review your progress and identify any gaps
- Help you adapt to changing standards and expectations
- Benchmark your impact and track your improvements
- Refresh your policies, procedures and documentation
- Strengthen your sustainability practices
- Embed routines that support continuous improvement
- Help you stay ahead of best practice and maintain a competitive edge
A practical B Corp Consultant process
Every project is different, but the work can usually be organised into three connected phases. As your B Corp Consultant, I’ll support the complete programme or focus on where you or your team needs additional capacity or specialist guidance.
1. Discovery, Scope and Gap Analysis
I begin by understanding your business, objectives, structure and available resources. Then together we clarify your eligibility, certification scope, relevant requirements and current level of readiness, identifying the gaps in your policies and procedures, evidence and internal responsibilities.
The outcome is a clear overview of your starting position and the likely amount of necessary work.
2. Validation, Maturity Assessment and Planning
The next phase tests and validates the initial findings.
I help you examine your current impact-maturity, determine significant gaps and prioritise action according to certification requirements, operational value and available resources.
We then co-create a realistic roadmap with responsibilities, milestones, indicators and review points.
3. Roadmap Implementation, Progress Tracking and Review
During implementation, I’ll monitor progress, engage teams, and provide advice, project coordination and documentation support.
We then review evidence as it develops, track agreed indicators and adjust priorities where needed. The aim is not only to complete certification tasks, but also to establish practices that you and your team can maintain and improve over time.
What a B Corp Consultant can help you with
The updated certification model introduces Foundation Requirements, seven Impact Topics, B Impact™, new digital systems and independent third-party assurance.
I’ll help you understand how these elements apply to your organisation and translate technical requirements into manageable business actions.
- Explain the seven Impact Topics and their requirements
- Clarify the updated B Corp Certification process
- Assess your eligibility for B Corp Certification
- Define your certification scope, track and eligible brands
- Review how your structure, size, sector and industry affect certification
- Help you complete your Foundation Requirements
- Support you in creating a Risk Profile where necessary
- Guide you through self-assessment
- Help you navigate the B Impact Platform and Digital Certification Platform
- Organise, review and upload your supporting evidence
- Explain the new third-party assurance model
- Clarify the roles of B Lab and independent assurance providers
- Help you understand and address major and minor non-conformities
- Prepare you for surveillance, recertification and other scheduled audits
- Translate technical requirements into practical actions for your business
ESG and sustainability measurement with a B Corp Consultant
B Corp Certification can provide a useful structure for impact management, but sustainability measurement should also help you run your business more effectively.
I help you establish a practical ESG and sustainability improvement approach that reflects your activities, stakeholders and decision-making needs. Working with a B Corp Consultant can also connect this work with the evidence, governance and improvement practices relevant to certification.
This may include:
- Defining the environmental, social and governance issues relevant to your business
- Reviewing existing policies, commitments, data and responsibilities
- Establishing an impact baseline
- Selecting meaningful KPIs
- Identifying data and documentation gaps
- Benchmarking current performance
- Setting realistic improvement objectives
- Assigning responsibilities and review routines
- Tracking changes over time
- Connecting operational improvements with wider business strategy
- Strengthening the evidence behind your sustainability communications
The aim is to create useful management information rather than measurement for its own sake. Indicators should help you make decisions, assign resources, identify risks and demonstrate credible progress.
ESG and sustainability improvements
Once you understand your current position, I’ll help you turn our findings into a proportionate improvement programme.
It should be realistic enough to implement but meaningful enough to create measurable value. I’ll help you focus on significant positive steps, even when immediate perfection is not possible.
Depending on your priorities, this may involve:
- Governance and stakeholder decision-making
- Environmental management
- Climate targets and action planning
- Resource efficiency and circularity
- Responsible procurement
- Supply-chain expectations
- Human rights
- Fair work and workplace practices
- Justice, equity, diversity and inclusion
- Community impact
- Impact governance and accountability
- Sustainability policies and procedures
- Data collection and performance reporting
- Internal knowledge and capability
- Responsible external communication
Why work with an independent B Corp Consultant?
I provide independent, flexible and affordable support shaped around your objectives, resources and internal capabilities.
As a subject-matter expert in a globally recognised framework for sustainability and impact management, I combine technical knowledge with practical support for change management, communication and impact-learning. I’m agile, responsive and focused on adding the value you want.
In managing and coordinating projects, I also continue to apply PRINCE2 Practitioner project-management methodologies for success.
Working with a B Corp Consultant gives you the comfort of a knowledgeable, skilled helping hand throughout your journey, but without taking ownership from you or your team. I’ll help you build the knowledge, confidence and capability you need to manage lasting change.
Alongside my consultancy work, I volunteer in Haarlem to remove plastic waste from local rivers and canals.
Practical support that goes beyond technical expertise
I help you:
- Embed impact into everyday business thinking, decision-making and growth
- Support your organisational transformation and contribution to wider community progress
- Align strategy, operations and impact
- Build your internal knowledge, confidence and capability
- Take ownership of lasting change
Your success partner
I can support a defined project, provide specialist input at important stages or act as your success partner across a longer certification and improvement programme.
The scope remains flexible. The purpose is always to help you make meaningful progress and leave your organisation better equipped to continue improving.
Credibility under increasing scrutiny
As scrutiny and scepticism around greenwashing grow, a B Corp Consultant can help you prepare for independent third-party verification, strengthen credibility, communicate your impact with greater confidence and reduce reputational risk.
I’ll help you distinguish between ambitions, commitments, actions and demonstrated outcomes so that your communications are supported by appropriate evidence.
What are the latest B Lab Standards?
The latest B Lab Standards establish a more rigorous benchmark for responsible business. Companies certify against Standards V2, which introduce Foundation Requirements and required performance thresholds across seven social, environmental and governance Impact Topics.
The Foundation Requirements (FR) address eligibility, the B Corp Legal Requirement and risk assessment. The requirements that apply to your business are then influenced by factors such as its size, sector, industry and certification scope.
PSG – Purpose & Stakeholder Governance
Businesses define a clear purpose and incorporate stakeholder considerations into governance and decision-making.
CA – Climate Action
Businesses measure their climate impact and take credible, proportionate action to address the climate crisis.
JEDI – Justice, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion
Businesses develop inclusive workplaces and contribute to more just and equitable communities.
GACA – Government Affairs & Collective Action
Businesses act responsibly in their public affairs and contribute to collective solutions that support an inclusive and regenerative economy.
FW – Fair Work
Businesses provide good-quality employment and develop positive, fair and accountable workplace cultures.
HR – Human Rights
Businesses respect human rights and establish practices for identifying, preventing and addressing adverse impacts.
ESC – Environmental Stewardship & Circularity
Businesses manage environmental impacts and contribute to more circular operations, products, services and value chains.
B Corp Certification and continuous improvement
B Corp Certification is not intended to be a one-off exercise. Under the current model, certification involves independent third-party auditing and a five-year certification cycle. Businesses are expected to maintain conformity, address relevant milestones and take part in scheduled surveillance and recertification audits.
A B Corp Consultant can continue supporting your organisation after its initial assessment or certification work has been completed.
I can help you:
- Monitor ongoing conformity
- Track your impact
- Maintain supporting evidence
- Review changes in your organisation
- Update policies and procedures
- Respond to evolving requirements
- Prepare for surveillance and recertification
- Develop a longer-term improvement roadmap
Why become a Certified B Corp?
B Corp Certification provides a structured and independently verified way to demonstrate your commitment to responsible business.
Potential benefits include:
Reputation, trust and market position
- Join a like-minded global business community
- Differentiate your business in the marketplace
- Demonstrate positive-impact leadership
- Strengthen your brand and customer trust
- Reach new customers and business opportunities
- Lead through greater transparency
- Communicate your impact more credibly
- Reduce perceptions of greenwashing
People, operations and supply chains
- Attract and retain values-aligned talent
- Improve and streamline your supply chain
- Align operations with your values
- Build stronger workplace practices
Resilience and continuous improvement
- Build long-term resilience and sustainability
- Strengthen your risk management
- Learn from and share best practice across the B Corp community
The value of certification will depend on how effectively you embed the standards into your business. It should support stronger decisions and practices rather than operate as a stand-alone badge.
Understanding B Lab, B Impact and the B Corp Movement
What is a Certified B Corporation™?
A Certified B Corporation, commonly called a B Corp, is a business independently verified as meeting the applicable B Lab Standards for social, environmental and governance performance, transparency and accountability.
Certification applies to the company rather than an individual product or service.
What is B Lab?
B Lab is the global non-profit network behind B Corp Certification, working to transform the global economy to benefit all people, communities and the planet.
It develops standards, policies, tools and programmes that influence business behaviour, culture and structures while mobilising collective action on society’s most critical challenges.
What is the B Corp Movement?
The B Corp Movement is a global movement working to shift the economic system from benefiting a few to benefiting all, from concentrating wealth and power to advancing equity, from extraction to regeneration and from individualism to interdependence.
What is B Impact?
B Impact is B Lab’s digital impact-management platform.
It helps businesses measure, manage and improve their impact, complete a self-assessment, benchmark performance and progress through B Corp Certification. It can also support sustainability management independently of certification.
B Impact is therefore more than a certification checklist. It provides a structured way to understand performance, identify priorities and support purposeful business decisions.
What is a B Corp Consultant?
A B Corp Consultant is an experienced B Corp Certification specialist who has successfully completed the B Corp Consultants Program and joined the European B Corp Consultants community.
B Corp Consultants guide businesses through certification and recertification under the current B Lab Standards. They can also support ongoing impact management, organisational change and knowledge transfer.
Through ongoing updates, direct engagement with B Lab and peer learning with other consultants, a B Corp Consultant can help you assess readiness, understand evolving requirements and approach certification or recertification with greater clarity and confidence.
Supporting progress and purpose
Responsible-business expectations continue to evolve. Businesses are being asked to provide clearer evidence, stronger governance and more credible explanations of their social and environmental performance.
I help you:
- Respond to evolving B Lab Standards and changing expectations for responsible business
- Make meaningful progress, even when perfection is not possible
- Take significant positive steps during uncertain times
- Accelerate progress towards a sustainable and just economy
- Turn sustainability commitments into practical business action
- Create lasting value for your business, stakeholders and community
The objective is not simply to complete a project. It is to leave your organisation with stronger knowledge, clearer responsibilities and a practical approach to continued improvement.
Frequently asked questions
The process begins by confirming your eligibility and completing the Foundation Requirements. These cover eligibility, the B Corp Legal Requirement and risk assessment.
You then use B Impact to review the standards that apply to your organisation and complete your self-assessment. After preparing and submitting the required evidence, your organisation undergoes an independent third-party audit. Any major non-conformities must be resolved before certification can be issued.
Potential benefits include stronger credibility, clearer impact management, access to a global business community, improved stakeholder trust and greater differentiation.
The process can also strengthen governance, workplace practices, risk management, supply-chain oversight and the evidence supporting your sustainability communications. The actual benefits depend on your business and how well the standards are embedded in day-to-day operations.
I can provide an independent assessment of your current position, explain which requirements apply and help you create a realistic plan.
Depending on your needs, I can provide focused advice, documentation support, impact measurement, policy development, project coordination, team engagement or broader certification management.
My role is to make the requirements understandable and help your team translate them into proportionate business actions.
Yes. B Corp Certification requires continuing attention rather than a one-off submission.
I can help you establish KPIs, review routines, responsibilities, evidence-management practices and a continuous improvement roadmap. This helps your organisation maintain progress and prepare for future surveillance or recertification activity.
I’m based in Haarlem and support organisations throughout North Holland and across the Netherlands.
Support can be provided through a combination of remote and in-person collaboration, depending on the work required.
However, if you need someone more local in your country or region, I can help you find a suitable B Corp Consultant.
I provide flexible support that can be adapted to the needs, capacity and resources of smaller Dutch businesses.
This might involve a focused readiness review, support with selected requirements or a broader certification roadmap. The scope can be designed to help your team retain ownership rather than outsource the entire process.
My objective is to be an affordable, responsible consultant that offers flexibility and fairness without compromising on quality. So, there is no standard cost because the amount of work depends on your business’s budget, readiness, size, structure, certification scope, evidence gaps and internal capacity.
A focused review or advisory assignment will require less support than a complete certification programme involving assessment, documentation, project management and implementation.
After an initial conversation, we can define the proposed scope, deliverables and sensible, realistic and fair fee before the work begins.
Stakeholders are people, groups or entities affected by, or with an interest in, a business’s activities and decisions.
They may include employees, customers, suppliers, investors, communities, governments, vulnerable groups, future generations and the environment.
ESG stands for environmental, social and governance.
It is a way of organising and evaluating how a business manages relevant environmental and social matters, how it is governed and how these considerations influence decisions, risks, responsibilities and performance.
ESG is related to sustainability, but the terms are not always interchangeable. Sustainability generally addresses the broader long-term impacts of a business, while ESG often provides categories for management, measurement and disclosure.
ESG and sustainability improvements are changes that strengthen a business’s environmental, social or governance performance.
They can include clearer responsibilities, improved policies, better data collection, environmental targets, fairer workplace practices, responsible procurement, stronger human-rights processes and more reliable impact reporting.
I help organisations identify which improvements are relevant, establish priorities and track whether the changes produce meaningful results.
CSR stands for corporate social responsibility. It describes how a business takes responsibility for its effects on society and the environment and integrates relevant social, environmental, ethical, consumer and human-rights considerations into its decisions and operations.
It can include governance, workplace practices, environmental management, human rights, community impact, responsible procurement, stakeholder engagement and transparent communication.
B Corp Certification is a specific, independently verified certification based on the B Lab Standards. CSR is the broader approach a business takes to managing its responsibilities and impacts on society and the environment.
B Corp Certification can support and provide evidence for parts of a business’s CSR approach, but it does not cover every possible CSR activity or replace wider responsibilities.
Ready to understand your next step?
Whether you are considering B Corp Certification, preparing your self-assessment, adapting to the new standards or looking for a more structured approach to ESG and sustainability improvement, I can help you establish a practical way forward.
I provide agile, responsive and tailored support based on your business, objectives and available resources.
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