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Meghan Sheehan

Director and Head of ESG and Sustainability
Meghan leads the ESG and Sustainability practice, helping clients articulate their ESG story to capture the full value of their business.

She supports businesses at every stage of their sustainability journey to drive reputational reappraisal and demonstrate leadership, including issue-based campaigns, sustainability narratives and reporting and ESG-driven investor engagement.

She supports businesses at every stage of their sustainability journey to drive reputational reappraisal and demonstrate leadership, including issue-based campaigns, sustainability narratives and reporting and ESG-driven investor engagement.

“What I value most about Kekst CNC’s culture is the human factor. Strategic communications is a people business and Kekst CNC provides the flexibility needed to ensure they get the best out of everyone. Their support ensures I give the best for my clients and the best for my family.”


Meghan leads the ESG and Sustainability practice at Kekst CNC. She has more than a decade’s professional working experience in London, Dubai and West Africa. Meghan has advised leadership teams, Boards and CEOs on a variety of ESG and sustainability issues, including climate commitments, DEI strategies and governance issues.

Meghan has led external issues-based campaigns, developed corporate narratives, embedded sustainability in IR communications and developed ESG reporting frameworks for clients.

Prior to her work in consultancy, Meghan led the development of signature social programs for Barclays Bank and worked as a Vice President, Credit Risk at Barclays. She has also worked for the United Nations Children’s Fund and Peace Corps in Niger, West Africa.

She holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.


Experience

ESG and Sustainability

  • Supported global businesses to integrate ESG perspectives into their corporate narratives, financial communications and corporate communications strategies.
  • Created sustainability issue campaigns, including supporting the clean energy transition narrative campaigns of large energy and utility providers.

Corporate Reputation and Positioning

  • Advised companies on how to effectively navigate and incorporate ESG frameworks, metrics and targets into their external communications.

Financial Communications

  • Worked with a variety of early-stage and pre-IPO businesses to tell their sustainability story effectively and to integrate ESG into their financial communications, investor engagement and positioning.

Insights

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Biodiversity: Always the Bridesmaid, Never the Bride?

The topic of biodiversity has long suffered in the shadow of climate change. While the urgency of the biodiversity crisis facing us is just as pressing, we have yet to focus on it long enough to spark an adequate response.

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Are You Ready for COP28?

Tensions over COP28 discussions in Dubai are heating up, despite the fact that months remaining before the start of the event. Accusations of hypocrisy and calls for boycotts have risen, and many corporates are trying to thread the needle of ambition and realism. Indeed, COP28 looks to be the most contentious COP yet – and it hasn’t even begun.

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ESG Backlash: Walking the Tightrope

Attitudes towards ESG are undergoing a sea change. Not long ago, aligning business and investment practices with sustainability was regarded as sacrosanct, with individuals, businesses and governments everywhere falling over themselves to showcase their environment, social and governance (ESG) credentials.

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