Environmental Initiative
"We hired Catherine as a consultant to help establish clarity in tracking project metrics and to communicate the unique impact and value of the Midwest Row Crop Collaborative (MRCC). She created tools and a strategy for consistent data tracking and reporting and contributed to the framing and content of MRCC's 2022 Impact Report. Catherine happily jumped into a nebulous project, asked insightful and constructive questions throughout our work together, and she waded through complexity with clear communication, strategic foresight, and adaptive planning and project management. She worked well with our team and I look forward to the chance to work with Catherine again in the future!"
-Ellen Gibson, Impact Officer
Blue Diamond Growers
"Catherine led our sustainability development and helped build the formal program from the beginning. Her knowledge and expertise in corporate sustainability coupled with her understanding of what initiatives were important, helped to bring the vision to reality. One key driver of success was that she developed partnerships with NGOs to support grower sustainability. She focused on educating employees and customers within the supply chain on sustainable almond growing practices. She took her core understanding of modern sustainability demands and brought that to add value to the organization."
- Ben Goudie, Director, Member Relations
PepsiCo
"On behalf of all the team at PepsiCo, thank you for your valuable contribution meetings with our USA corn growers, it met the objectives of helping the growers understand the wider Sustainability agenda and the future need for measurement on farm. The interest in the Fieldprint Calculator was encouraging and it was an important way to identify how value can be translated back to the growers within the sustainability journey."
- Ian Hope Johnstone, Director, PepsiCo Agriculture Sustainability
Winfield Solutions
"I've enjoyed the opportunity to work together with you on building the Field to Market ag sustainability program, and especially in the creation of an effective field implementation approach, over the past several years. Your patience and attention to detail as you worked with the broad array of different persons and personalities in order to arrive at success at the local level has been impressive. I'm pleased to provide you with a recommendation for others to read in support of your technical and communication skills-set to accomplish these types of projects across broad swaths of agricultural and conservation entities and objectives."
- Keith Newhouse, Director of Business Development, Winfield Solutions
MarketsandMarkets
"Catherine’s expertise in the agricultural supply chain expanded MarketsandMarkets credibility with our clients. Her thoughtful analysis of current and future subject matter contributed to the strategic direction of client offerings. Both our clients and internal research and analyst teams appreciated her industry insights which translated in to account wins for our team."
- Will Polese, Director, MarkestandMarkets
Field to Market: The Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture
"Catherine has been an invaluable asset to Field to Market for the past six years. She has served as a consultant during one of the most critical phases of program development and growth for our organization. Catherine is highly knowledgeable on the data requirements and technical details of the Fieldprint Calculator, and she also helped with the design of Field to Market's Supply Chain Sustainability Program, including Fieldprint Project registration and reporting protocols. Catherine has established herself as one of the foremost experts on supply chain sustainability efforts for commodity crop production in the United States."
- Rod Snyder, President, Field to Market: The Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture
World Wildlife Fund
"I have had the distinct pleasure of working with Catherine for over five years as part of her work with Field to Market: The Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture. Catherine has always been responsive, a clear communicator, and is able to help set meaningful goals and drive progress while remaining grounded in the feasible. She can meaningfully contribute to both theoretical and technical conversations and has the ability to work with very diverse sets of stakeholders in the sustainable agriculture and agricultural supply chain space from producers to academicians to corporate representatives to NGOs. I look forward to more opportunities to work with Catherine in the future."
- Franklin Holley, Manager, Agricultural Commodities, Sustainable Food Team, World Wildlife Fund
Renewable Choice Energy
"Catherine was integral to building the professional services consulting arm of Renewable Choice Energy (RCE). She brought wisdom, strategic expertise, and incredible insights that enabled the sustainability consulting offerings to rapidly scale beyond greenhouse gas inventories, helping to put RCE on the map as a trusted sustainability partner to countless organizations. Much of her tenure at RCE concentrated on Walmart's Sustainability Index, supporting supply chain partners by translating the various concepts and completing the requirements needed to satisfy Walmart's KPIs. Catherine quickly became a go-to consultant for RCE's client base, in large part due to her exceptional customer service, driving 100% customer satisfaction through her clear, calm, and quality communication. Catherine was a pleasure to work with, and I wholeheartedly recommend her."
- Heather Porter, Director of Sustainability Services, Renewable Choice Energy
"We hired Catherine as a consultant to help establish clarity in tracking project metrics and to communicate the unique impact and value of the Midwest Row Crop Collaborative (MRCC). She created tools and a strategy for consistent data tracking and reporting and contributed to the framing and content of MRCC's 2022 Impact Report. Catherine happily jumped into a nebulous project, asked insightful and constructive questions throughout our work together, and she waded through complexity with clear communication, strategic foresight, and adaptive planning and project management. She worked well with our team and I look forward to the chance to work with Catherine again in the future!"
-Ellen Gibson, Impact Officer
Blue Diamond Growers
"Catherine led our sustainability development and helped build the formal program from the beginning. Her knowledge and expertise in corporate sustainability coupled with her understanding of what initiatives were important, helped to bring the vision to reality. One key driver of success was that she developed partnerships with NGOs to support grower sustainability. She focused on educating employees and customers within the supply chain on sustainable almond growing practices. She took her core understanding of modern sustainability demands and brought that to add value to the organization."
- Ben Goudie, Director, Member Relations
PepsiCo
"On behalf of all the team at PepsiCo, thank you for your valuable contribution meetings with our USA corn growers, it met the objectives of helping the growers understand the wider Sustainability agenda and the future need for measurement on farm. The interest in the Fieldprint Calculator was encouraging and it was an important way to identify how value can be translated back to the growers within the sustainability journey."
- Ian Hope Johnstone, Director, PepsiCo Agriculture Sustainability
Winfield Solutions
"I've enjoyed the opportunity to work together with you on building the Field to Market ag sustainability program, and especially in the creation of an effective field implementation approach, over the past several years. Your patience and attention to detail as you worked with the broad array of different persons and personalities in order to arrive at success at the local level has been impressive. I'm pleased to provide you with a recommendation for others to read in support of your technical and communication skills-set to accomplish these types of projects across broad swaths of agricultural and conservation entities and objectives."
- Keith Newhouse, Director of Business Development, Winfield Solutions
MarketsandMarkets
"Catherine’s expertise in the agricultural supply chain expanded MarketsandMarkets credibility with our clients. Her thoughtful analysis of current and future subject matter contributed to the strategic direction of client offerings. Both our clients and internal research and analyst teams appreciated her industry insights which translated in to account wins for our team."
- Will Polese, Director, MarkestandMarkets
Field to Market: The Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture
"Catherine has been an invaluable asset to Field to Market for the past six years. She has served as a consultant during one of the most critical phases of program development and growth for our organization. Catherine is highly knowledgeable on the data requirements and technical details of the Fieldprint Calculator, and she also helped with the design of Field to Market's Supply Chain Sustainability Program, including Fieldprint Project registration and reporting protocols. Catherine has established herself as one of the foremost experts on supply chain sustainability efforts for commodity crop production in the United States."
- Rod Snyder, President, Field to Market: The Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture
World Wildlife Fund
"I have had the distinct pleasure of working with Catherine for over five years as part of her work with Field to Market: The Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture. Catherine has always been responsive, a clear communicator, and is able to help set meaningful goals and drive progress while remaining grounded in the feasible. She can meaningfully contribute to both theoretical and technical conversations and has the ability to work with very diverse sets of stakeholders in the sustainable agriculture and agricultural supply chain space from producers to academicians to corporate representatives to NGOs. I look forward to more opportunities to work with Catherine in the future."
- Franklin Holley, Manager, Agricultural Commodities, Sustainable Food Team, World Wildlife Fund
Renewable Choice Energy
"Catherine was integral to building the professional services consulting arm of Renewable Choice Energy (RCE). She brought wisdom, strategic expertise, and incredible insights that enabled the sustainability consulting offerings to rapidly scale beyond greenhouse gas inventories, helping to put RCE on the map as a trusted sustainability partner to countless organizations. Much of her tenure at RCE concentrated on Walmart's Sustainability Index, supporting supply chain partners by translating the various concepts and completing the requirements needed to satisfy Walmart's KPIs. Catherine quickly became a go-to consultant for RCE's client base, in large part due to her exceptional customer service, driving 100% customer satisfaction through her clear, calm, and quality communication. Catherine was a pleasure to work with, and I wholeheartedly recommend her."
- Heather Porter, Director of Sustainability Services, Renewable Choice Energy