Liam Dystant

Innovative Sustainability and Business Change Consultant balancing people, profit, and planet

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Liam's Bio

Liam is a delivery-focused, experienced Sustainability and Business Change Consultant with over 25 years of expertise in driving organizational transformation and ESG initiatives. He provides strategic and tactical consultancy across various
industries, specializing in sustainability, process, and technology change.

Liam is passionate about developing solutions that future-proof businesses while creating opportunities in our evolving world.
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Career Highlights
  • Founded Lightworks Consulting, providing sustainability advisory and strategy development for clients across diverse industries
  • Secured ~£350k funding for solar panel installations in local schools as a key member of renewable energy non-profits
  • Led HSBC's regulatory and stakeholder reporting redesign, generating ~£20m in cost savings through cloud data initiatives
  • Five Rivers Rum: Developed carbon footprinting, lifecycle analysis, and emissions reporting, creating a roadmap to carbon-neutrality by 2025
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Notable Client Work
  • Successfully managed the zero-risk transfer of ~£300bn assets during the RBS / ABN Amro merger programme
  • Crowell & Moring LLC: Advised global law firm on sustainable strategies, opportunities, and risks
  • HSBC: Led global rollout of Agile ways of working across 5 offices and 500 colleagues
  • Morgan Stanley: Managed global front-to-back office projects, generating cost savings of ~$10m per annum
  • Additional clients: Bound to Prosper, Yonder Consulting, Nuclear Waste Services, Eighteen O Four Consulting, New Wave Federation, Natwest, Deutsche Bank
Sustainability and ESG strategy development
Balancing people, profit, and planet in business strategies
Simplifying and prioritising sustainability challenges
Business process re-engineering and technology change
Change management and Agile project delivery
Stakeholder engagement and relationship management
Cost/risk governance and management

Liam's expertise

Working with Liam

Liam's Personality
Liam describes himself as creative, entrepreneurial, collaborative, forward-thinking, and delivery-focused.
Liam's Ideal Client
Liam's ideal clients are forward-thinking organizations committed to sustainability, open to change, and seeking integrated strategies that balance people, profit, and planet. He values working with clients who are keen to future-proof their businesses while generating opportunities in our changing world.
Why Work With Liam
  • Extensive experience across multiple industries and global organisations
  • Proven track record of delivering substantial cost savings and efficiency improvements
  • Deep expertise in sustainability, change management, and Agile methodologies
  • Strong focus on building collaborative relationships and inclusive teams
  • Ability to simplify complex sustainability challenges and prioritize actions
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How Liam Can Enhance Your Business
  • Develop and implement comprehensive ESG strategies aligned with your business goals
  • Drive organisational transformation through effective change management and Agile practices
  • Optimise processes and reduce costs while improving sustainability outcomes
  • Build and nurture high-performing, diverse teams to drive innovation and growth
  • Create balanced solutions that consider people, profit, and planet
  • Simplify and prioritise sustainability challenges to make them more manageable and actionable
  • Future-proof your business by identifying opportunities in our changing world

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