BEAN RESEARCH - Key Persons
Bethan has an MSc in Management and Corporate Sustainability from Cranfield University, focusing on social impact reporting in her thesis. She has a Green Belt in Lean Six Sigma and is certified by the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). With over six years of industry experience in sustainability and fashion, she organised and developed luxury garments for an award-winning company and advised SMEs on their CSR policies and practices. Bethan joined Bean Research in 2022, bringing her design and organisational skills, recent academic research and experience in innovative problem-solving catering to different stakeholder needs.
Cath, a research consultant, is an associate of Bean Research. Determined to find the meaning in numbers and interpret "the story" for stakeholders, Cath has used a wide range of research techniques to understand consumers and the impact of campaigns. With over 15 years of experience in the development and delivery of consumer and business intelligence projects, Cath is a seasoned research professional. She spent 10 years at Mindshare, a global media and marketing services agency, leading research initiatives for clients like Unilever, Nestlé and Nespresso. Long since earning a First Class Masters in Business Science in Cape Town, Cath has traded beaches for forests and now calls the Surrey Hills home.
Charlotte has worked in research, evaluation and social impact assessment on behalf of businesses, government and charities for over 25 years and is the Social Impact Assessment lead at Cranfield School of Management.
She founded Bean Research in 2012, after Director roles at both Business in the Community (where she conducted, commissioned and supported research across the responsible business agenda, as well as managing the All Party Parliamentary Group on Corporate Responsibility) and Ipsos MORI (co-founding the CSR Research unit and conducting stakeholder reviews for major multi-national businesses).
She is an Accredited Practitioner of Social Value UK, an adviser to Social Value Portal, a Fellow of the Institute for Corporate Responsibility & Sustainability, a Life Fellow of the RSA and a mother of two teenage children.