"I sound like everyone else."
When Alexina first came to me, she thought of herself as "another B Corp sustainability consultant."
Like many experienced professionals, she'd built an impressive career before launching her consultancy. But she'd mentally separated that previous experience from the business she was building today.
During our conversations, one detail kept resurfacing: 10 years in investment banking. To Alexina, it barely seemed worth mentioning. To me, it was the thread.
It explained why she approached sustainability differently. She wasn't simply helping organisations become more responsible; she understood commercial decision-making from the inside. She could bridge sustainability with business performance in a way many competitors couldn't. That insight is became the foundation for her positioning, messaging and offers.
Sometimes the thing that makes you different is the thing you've stopped seeing.
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