For speaking engagements, media interviews, or press inquiries, please reach out via my contact page.
Select speaking engagements
- ESG and sustainability in the UK and EU contexts, Presentation to a Delegation from Japan to Connected Places Catapult, 2025
- Navigating European ESG requirements – a crucial guide for General Counsel, Trowers & Hamlin, 2025
- Navigating the new European sustainability reporting landscape, Submit.com, 2024
- Climate Resilience Measures: Perspectives from Insurance and Real Estate industries, Evintel’s 2nd Annual UK Real Estate ESG and Data Management Conference, 2024
- Unlocking the Path to Net Zero: Strategies for effective integration of sustainability, RICS Building Surveying Conference, London, 2024
- ESG in BTR: From strategy to practice on governance considerations, ARL annual conference, 2024
- Sustainability for SMEs, Southwark Chamber of Commerce, 2023
- How to avoid greenwashing in real estate, Re: Women, and The Society of Property Researchers, 2023
- ESG 2.0 and non-financial reporting in the built world, PiLabs, 2023
- No BS in real estate, Festival of Place, 2022
- Real estate and the UN SDGs, the District Show, Barcelona, 2022
- Value in real estate: Looking beyond the financials, FIABCI World Real Estate Congress, Paris, 2022
Interviews
- Sophie Taysom – Much more to ESG than box-ticking, Connected Places Catapult, 2024
- 5 minutes with Dr Sophie Taysom, Interview with Collingwood’s Head of Building Products & Construction, Mark Goldsmith, 2024
- Smart Homes for Healthier Ageing, The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2023
- Social climbing: How developers can help build equality, MODUS, the magazine from RICS, 2023
- Smart homes offer solutions for seniors ageing in place, E&T, the magazine of The Institution of Engineering & Technology, 2023
Writing
- It’s time to stop talking about the cost of social value and start talking about the added value, BENews, 2024
- The Urban Canvas – The social value of street art (with Moritz Tonn), The Property Chronicle, 2024
- ESG and taking a ‘retrofit first’ approach, The Property Chronicle, 2024
- Getting the finance right for retrofit, The Building Centre, London, 2024
- The Proof is in the Pudding: Staff turnover as a core KPI for ESG, The Property Chronicle, 2024
- Why is ESG so complicated? A plea for simplicity, The Property Chronicle, 2024
- Climate risk as insurance risk – ESG and materiality, The Property Chronicle, 2023
- Airing the dirty laundry (or greenwash at your peril), The Property Chronicle, 2023
- The ‘S’ of ESG is about more than just planting trees, BENews, 2023
- Delivering ESG through supply chains – It’s complicated, The Property Chronicle, 2023
- Sustainable Surcharge, Facilities Management Journal – FMJ, 2023
- ESG needs to become part of the DNA of new developments, Scottish Construction Now, 2022
- Making ESG Count – The role of proptech, The digital high street: Smart public space, 2021