Jun 3, 2026 · 14 min · 9 segments
Molly Todd, sustainability and carbon consultant at FuturePlus, joins Alexandra to talk about her journey from nearly a decade in hospitality to becoming one of the team's go-to experts on carbon and…
Molly ToddGuestAlexandraHostIt'd be great to talk a little bit about the consultancy and the carbon today of what we do.
But just to kick us off, um, can you give us a little bit of background of what kind of clients that you're working with, um, and what they're typically coming to you or to us to, to solve?
Typically, I mean, we see a huge range of clients coming to FuturePlus, but I think typically when I'm having those, um, introduction conversations with clients, um, I'd say clients fall into kind of three different categories of, like, what they're looking to solve by coming to us.
Um, and so I guess the first type of client we would see would be businesses that have a specific problem, um, that they want us to be able to help them address.
So that might be, um, uh, something that requires technical expertise that's outside of the business's comfort zone.
That might be regulatory, it might be carbon, um, might be, um, complying with a specific supplier request, and they're just not quite sure how to handle it.
Uh, the second type of client, um, we often see, or business that we work with, um, is, uh, where a business has met or kind of hit a bit of a stumbling block.
Um, or they've done something and it's worked, but they're not really sure where to go next, and they just need-- they kind of need a sounding board or a bit of support with, uh, where they go from there.
Um, and then the third type of client that we would work with typically will be, um, businesses that have just not got that internal capacity.
Um, and they need-- they know that they need something done in the ESG space, whatever it might be, carbon, supply chains, you know, reporting, but they just don't have that internal capacity, and they're looking for, um, somebody to just be able to take that off their hands.
Um, a kind of reliable, trusted, um, support that can do the work for them and provide them with the results, and, you know, they feel safe and secure in what they're presenting publicly.
Yeah.
It's when they're using sustainability and ESG as part of the-- as a business tool, essentially.
So understanding where it fits into but just not having the capacity, which I think is-- we're seeing more and more of, um, with teams.
And it's even if they do have a sustainability, probably only one team.
Teams of one I think has been a bit of a trend that actually Polly and I, I think, spoke about at the very beginning of this year, but we're seeing that definitely coming through.
Um, and there is a lot of noise at the moment around that sort of business case around sustainability.
There's a lot of, um, noise around greenwashing, around regulation, pressure and, uh, pressure from investors.
But I would say probably we're seeing quite a lot of pressure from procurement as well, as you're saying, around supply chains.
Um, what's one of the ways that we're helping people cut through that?
It'd be great to talk a little bit about the consultancy and the carbon today of what we do.
But just to kick us off, um, can you give us a little bit of background of what kind of clients that you're working with, um, and what they're typically coming to you or to us to, to solve?
Typically, I mean, we see a huge range of clients coming to FuturePlus, but I think typically when I'm having those, um, introduction conversations with clients, um, I'd say clients fall into kind of three different categories of, like, what they're looking to solve by coming to us.
Um, and so I guess the first type of client we would see would be businesses that have a specific problem, um, that they want us to be able to help them address.
So that might be, um, uh, something that requires technical expertise that's outside of the business's comfort zone.
That might be regulatory, it might be carbon, um, might be, um, complying with a specific supplier request, and they're just not quite sure how to handle it.
Uh, the second type of client, um, we often see, or business that we work with, um, is, uh, where a business has met or kind of hit a bit of a stumbling block.
Um, or they've done something and it's worked, but they're not really sure where to go next, and they just need-- they kind of need a sounding board or a bit of support with, uh, where they go from there.
Um, and then the third type of client that we would work with typically will be, um, businesses that have just not got that internal capacity.
Um, and they need-- they know that they need something done in the ESG space, whatever it might be, carbon, supply chains, you know, reporting, but they just don't have that internal capacity, and they're looking for, um, somebody to just be able to take that off their hands.
Um, a kind of reliable, trusted, um, support that can do the work for them and provide them with the results, and, you know, they feel safe and secure in what they're presenting publicly.
Yeah.
It's when they're using sustainability and ESG as part of the-- as a business tool, essentially.
So understanding where it fits into but just not having the capacity, which I think is-- we're seeing more and more of, um, with teams.
And it's even if they do have a sustainability, probably only one team.
Teams of one I think has been a bit of a trend that actually Polly and I, I think, spoke about at the very beginning of this year, but we're seeing that definitely coming through.
Um, and there is a lot of noise at the moment around that sort of business case around sustainability.
There's a lot of, um, noise around greenwashing, around regulation, pressure and, uh, pressure from investors.
But I would say probably we're seeing quite a lot of pressure from procurement as well, as you're saying, around supply chains.
Um, what's one of the ways that we're helping people cut through that?
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