Advisory · Workshops · Training
I help businesses make sense of sustainability and make it work commercially.
BUSINESS FIRST. SUSTAINABILITY BUILT IN.
Step 1: Your Business
I start with your business: what you sell, who you sell to, where you make money, what to stop, what to start, how you grow, what gets in the way, and where the risks are.
I don't just talk about sustainability. I've worked inside businesses to develop sustainability strategies, respond to customer and tender requirements, strengthen ESG credibility, assess risks, build capability, and turn plans into practical action.
No greenwashing. No fluff. Just commercial sense applied to sustainability.
Step 2: Your Commercial ESG Diagnostic
A fixed, one-day review of where sustainability matters commercially to your business. Client tenders, risk assessments, capability, customer sustainability demands and where you stand versus competitors. You leave with a clear, practical view of what matters and what doesn't.
What follows is a mix of workshops, training, or strategic advisory support, whatever fits what you actually need.
HOW I WORK WITH BUSINESSES
1. Strategic Advisory & Board Support
Practical commercial guidance and challenge for leadership teams and boards. Helping you navigate customer requirements, emerging regulations, supply chain exposure, and sustainability strategy without compromising gross margins.
2. Workshops & Training
Interactive sessions designed to build real capability across commercial, operational, and management teams. Covering commercial sustainability, carbon literacy, and winning customer tenders and RFPs credibly.
3. Focused Commercial Projects
Hands-on support for specific challenges: conducting carbon audits, building practical sustainability pathways and conducting materiality and risk reviews linked directly to business performance.
RECENT WORK IN PRACTICE
COMMERCIAL & ESG LEADERSHIP · 18 MONTHS
Retail marketing services business
Working within the agency to strengthen its ESG credibility and response to client tenders and RFPs across FMCG, food and beverage, tobacco and confectionery.
This included ESG audits linked to key client accounts, alongside development of a clear sustainability strategy, plan and measured pathway for the business.
STRATEGY
Craft brewery
Sustainability strategy and a practical pathway for the leadership team.
CAPABILITY BUILDING
Workshops, training and teaching
Work with an insurance PLC, the German National Tourist Board, a Corporate Sustainability Tutor for the Chartered Institute of Marketing and a Carbon Literacy Training Facilitator.
PRACTICAL ACTION
Carbon, cost & operational priorities + risk assessments
Carbon footprint audits and practical initiatives to reduce energy use, waste and cost + sustainability reviews and materiality assessments.
ABOUT ME
I’m a Commercial Director and Advisor with 25+ years’ experience across commercial strategy, revenue growth, marketing and business improvement.
My background spans global media and entertainment brands (BBC Worldwide, Universal Pictures) and mid-market B2B leadership.
Alongside deep commercial experience, I bring specialist expertise in sustainability, holding qualifications from the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL), serving as a Corporate Sustainability Tutor for the Chartered Institute of Marketing and acting as an accredited Carbon Literacy Facilitator.
I combine commercial leadership with specialist sustainability expertise, giving businesses the experience and capability to act on both.
Qualifications & Affiliations
MBA, Durham University Business School
Fellow, Chartered Institute of Marketing (FCIM)
Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL)
Corporate Sustainability Tutor, Chartered Institute of Marketing
Carbon Literacy Trainer & Facilitator
Contact
Gavin Miller
London • Thames Valley
SOME CLIENT TESTIMONIALS
“Gavin combines commercial thinking with practical sustainability expertise. He focuses on what sustainability means in real business terms rather than theory or ESG reporting.
He provided clear, actionable advice and a coaching style that helped us rethink how we approached the challenges we were facing. He also delivered a written strategy document that gave us a practical foundation and pathway for moving forward.
It was a strong mix of commercial clarity, practical sustainability insight and hands-on support.” May 2026
-Nick Payne, Managing Director SA Brain
"Gavin facilitated a full-day sustainability session for a room of people from the same sector but with very different commercial priorities. He managed something genuinely difficult - bridging real commercial pressures with genuine sustainability ambition, without making either feel like a compromise.
His candour, warmth and depth of experience created an environment where people felt comfortable being honest and had their thinking genuinely challenged. Lively, enjoyable and substantive - a rare combination.
If you're looking for a facilitator who can hold a complex room and leave people energised, I'd recommend Gavin without hesitation."
-Cheryl Chung, Corporate & Government Affairs
“What really sets Gavin apart is how well he gets both the sustainability world and the commercial one. That mix meant we ended up with a strategy that wasn’t just ‘nice to have’ but something people could get behind and deliver. He brought our teams along for the ride and helped us talk to clients about it in a way that felt honest, inspiring, and practical.
He made a big difference to our journey. I’m really glad we had him on board and I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend him to anyone looking to do sustainability properly." November 2024
-Group Managing Director, Retail Marketing & Logistics Company
“Gavin consistently demonstrated an exceptional ability to engage audiences, from CEOs and senior directors to junior colleagues. His commercial leadership and deep ESG knowledge enabled teams to build practical capability that translated into meaningful outcomes.
He played a pivotal role in strengthening Acosta’s ESG credibility and retaining key clients. His impact as a commercial ESG professional is both lasting and measurable”.
-Michelle Carter, Interim Head of HR Acosta Europe
"We had a brilliant workshop with Gavin – lots of fantastic insights and a whole new perspective on sustainability and marketing in a sustainable world."
-German National Tourist Board
"Gavin is consistently helpful, knowledgeable, and a pleasure to work with. He's helped us to get started with clarity about sustainability and what this means in practice, well beyond carbon footprints. Thought-partnership in these early stages has been invaluable."
-Saskie Dorman, NHS Palliative Care Consultant, Forest Holme NHS Hospice
“We would like to thank Gavin Miller for his time with the Climate Partnership Steering Group. He has had a brilliant and useful impact on business interactions and the Climate Strategy.”
-RBWM Climate Partnership Committee Chair
