Sustainability & Compliance Consulting
Practical, values-driven expertise for Food & Beverage businesses navigating the evolving landscape of sustainability, regulation, and responsible growth
DELV works across four interconnected pillars, identifying risks and converting them into concrete, lasting opportunities.
Regulatory Compliance — Navigating CFIA, FDA and evolving legislative requirements
Sustainability & Supply Chain — Responsible sourcing, due diligence and traceability
Market Access & Content — Positioning, storytelling and commercial infrastructure
Funding & Financing — Identifying and accessing growth programs (SR&ED, CanExport, AgriMarketing)
Embedded Strategic Partnerships
Best for: F&B SMEs building sustainability and compliance foundations..
Your embedded partner, providing integrated support from strategy to execution, including measuring and communicating the impact of your actions.
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Sustainability strategy & ESG roadmap
Regulatory compliance program development
Capacity building, training and integration
Ongoing advisory and decision-making support
Project-Based Engagements
Best for: Public or scaling F&B companies with a specific, defined challenge to solve
High-impact projects with clear timelines, defined deliverables and measurable outcomes
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Human Rights & Environmental Due Diligence (HREDD)
Bill S-211 Fighting Against Forced Labour and Child Labour in Supply Chain
ESG reporting framework
Supply chain mapping and responsible sourcing
Sustainability communications and impact storytelling
Multi-Stakeholder Partnership Design
Best for: Values-driven F&B brands ready to create authentic, measurable impact
Co+creating relationships between corporate clients, Indigenous and diverse suppliers and NGO partners, where commercial success, community benefit and internal transformation work together. Partnership as strategy, not optics
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Weaving multi-stakeholder partnerships
Reconciliation initiatives
Supplier diversity programs
Award-winning impact program design and implementation
PROVEN AT SCALE
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In 2022, I designed an award-winning partnership between DAVIDsTEA, Tea Horse (Indigenous-owned), and Reconciling Ways of Knowing (David Suzuki Foundation) — weaving together commercial success, community impact, and employee education into a single, cohesive program. It won the Sustainability Award at the North American Tea Conference.
In 2024, the program expanded — adding a new tea and deepening its impact through a partnership with NWAC, the Native Women's Association of Canada.
That's the kind of multi-stakeholder impact I help growing F&B businesses create
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As Sustainable Growth Advisor to Tea Horse — an Indigenous-owned F&B brand — we’ve worked on restructuring their pricing strategy, expanded their wholesale pipeline, developed B2B content materials, and built their sales tracking system. All within the first 3 month of our partnership.
That's what embedded, Director-level expertise looks like in practice — without the overhead of a full-time hire.
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I specialize in the tea and specialty beverage sector, with deep knowledge of food & beverage supply chains, multi-origin sourcing complexity, and the regulatory landscapes across Canada, the US, and export markets. All services are scoped and tailored to each client.
That's exactly what the discovery call is for! Let’s identify your most pressing priorities and whether DELV is the right fit for your business.