About Me
Do you think enhancing environmental and sustainability performance is the best way to deliver your commercial project? I think it is and I can prove it!
Since 2017, clients have turned to ACM Consultancy Services, a professional Environment and Sustainability SME Consulting Firm, now a sole trading organisation titled ACM Global Sustainability. We deliver tailored, transformative, and quality solutions to tricky questions, on time and within budget. My clients buy into our shared sustainability ethos, vision and mission. I am proud to have a 100% repeat customer record across clients. We have won two international awards, including:
Green Apple Global Environmental Best Practise, 2021 - Acquisition International Global
Excellence Awards: Best Environment & Sustainability Consulting Firm 2021 – UK
Our Vision
I believe that our ability to thrive is dependent on embracing a positive green agenda.
I help forward-thinking businesses, stakeholders and individuals achieve sustainability outcomes by driving a lasting positive legacy.
I drive optimised environment and sustainability performance into your existing business operations, to empower a globally sustainable future through transformation, innovation, collaboration and expertise.
I achieve maximum value for our client ecosystems by creating an equilibrium of environmental and operational performance that have wider benefits for your project and business, through the key steps within the ACM Global mission statement.
Mission Statement
Optimal performance is achieved through informed insight driving effective critical thinking. I deliver the mission by undertaking the following key steps:
Championing: I help your teams define and champion the principles, vision, goals, outcomes and actions for the project as an integral and critical function of your project’s success.
Empowerment: Your teams are empowered with the autonomy to operate with greater agility, maximising outcomes whilst minimising risk.
Experience: When integrating my skills, knowledge and technical abilities into the heart of a project I drive fresh thinking to achieve optimised results that multiply.
Facilitating: I facilitate collaboration to foster trust between all stakeholders, which bolsters creative thinking, providing a platform for innovation, the perspective on what is possible, and how this can change.
Resource: Through my own expertise and adaptable working, and referrals to dynamic, scalable resource (as required), I help you define your project resource requirements. Together, we translate objectives into the desired outcomes in terms of time, accuracy and quality. We strive to reach holistic solutions that deliver beyond clients expectations and upskill teams in new areas that become the next leaders.
Legacy: My involvement in your teams will collectively leave a tangible positive legacy for stakeholders.
Anna Hewson
Associate, Environment and Sustainability Consultant
Anna is a proactive and adaptable Associate Environment and Sustainability Consultant with 18+ yrs experience of delivering improvements to both low and high value linear and non-linear infrastructure projects and other organisations. She was founder of the award-winning ACM Consultancy Services Ltd for over 7.5 years. And now leads ACM Global Sustainability as a Sole Proprietorship, inputting expertise directly at every level of your sustainability project.
She motivates and manages multi-disciplinary teams across the private and public sector; to deliver Environmental Impact Assessments, IS014001 Environment, Sustainability and Consenting Management, and Sustainability Consultancy (Strategy and Implementation); and is able to direct to a number of specialists in her network (E.g. Circular Economy, ESG, EIA, Ecology – NBS, BNG etc.).
She provides a collaborative forum for innovation and expertise to transition forward-thinking businesses, in pursuit of delivering the UNSDGs, towards rational but ambitious, sustainability transformation. She drives sustainability through all of her work streams.
Achievements
Anna has gained experience on a range of multidisciplinary projects, with project values of up to £42.6 billion. Her industry focus is within the rail and infrastructure, water and environment sectors, with further experience of highways, airports and nuclear. She sits on the committee of several Sustainability Steering Groups.
She and has worked on the largest Geospatial database in Europe and her Sustainability Road Maps/Reports, Research and Training, have been used by the Environment Agency, DEFRA, Perpendo and EAZA to inform them of the state of the implementation of their policies and guidelines. Anna is highly organised and has a proven track record of thriving in highly pressurised and challenging environments.
Leadership
She is an empathetic, clear and engaging communicator who is adept at building relationships with integrity, driving collaboration and gaining trust. She considers wider aims, whilst presenting great attention to detail in order to achieve improved service delivery. Her business vision is to help forward-thinking organisations achieve an equilibrium of environmental and operational performance. She believes in, and champions, a Net Positive Company approach.
Quick Summary:
- A proactive, solution-orientated, adaptable and client focused Associate Environment and Sustainability Consultant with over 18 years professional experience in the private and public sector; and over 7 years’ running a business that won two awards.
- Motivates, upskills and manages multi-disciplinary teams to deliver environment and sustainability consultancy (from strategy through to implementation), IS014001 environment and consenting management systems, EIA (adhering to T&CP regulations, including Lead Author technical / quality review of ES), and helps input into other environmental assessments, and sustainability products, in both the public and private sector.
- Contributes environment and sustainability best practise to award-winning infrastructure development (linear / non-linear), including major capital works (NSIPs) with value of 46 billion. Delivers environment management across the project lifecycle (from planning through design, construction and commissioning)
- An industry focus on transitioning organisations within the rail, infrastructure, water and environment sectors (including fixed, active and natural assets), with prior experience of highways, airports, nuclear.
- Held senior positions in global consultancies and managed work or collaborated with inter-disciplinary teams in Portugal, Spain, Norway, Africa, Iraq and across the UK.
- A clear and engaging communicator who is adept at building trust, upskilling, training and driving collaboration, in order to deliver holistic and compliant sustainability outcomes. Highly organised and a critical thinker, with a proven track record of delivering in challenging environments.
Internships
Two of our recent international internships who we throughly enjoyed having at ACM. Skilled individuals from the next generation, enjoying the EMEX Exhibition:
Customer Testimonials
"ACM Consulting Services were brilliant to collaborate with and they demonstrated extensive knowledge and passion in the field of sustainability. I was impressed with their ability to view things in a different way and make clever connections that are not always obvious. They demonstrated tremendous dexterity to juggle the constant changing demands of the project and they earned my highest recommendations."
"It's been fantastic working with you. Your ability to assimilate and share information and your enthusiasm for the subject is awesome. I really hope we will work together again some time in the future."
"Thank you for all your support since you’ve been with us. It’s been fantastic to have your experience and knowledge steering the team to produce some really great work to help put the Thames Estuary on a path towards a sustainable and green future. I can definitely see the growth in ability and confidence across the team (including myself!) thanks to your imparting of wisdom"
Why not get in touch?
Why not get in touch so we can demonstrate exactly how we will deliver our mission statement and create thriving, quality operations and outcomes for your business?
Anna is a bespoke Environment and Sustainability Consultancy consultant, who drives an equilibrium of environmental and operational performance, within the public and private sector, to empower a globally sustainable future through innovation, collaboration and expertise.