Katherine Ann Byam — Founder & Managing Director, Dieple Consulting & Training Ltd

Katherine partners with organisations that are restructuring, scaling, or improving how they operate.

Her work brings the financial rigour to evaluate costs and build robust business cases, the governance discipline to set up controls and accountability, and the delivery focus to see complex programmes through to measurable results.

She brings 20+ years leading change across finance, internal audit, supply chain, and operations in global organisations, including a decade at British American Tobacco (FTSE top 10).

Her track record includes millions in savings, a 25%+ lift in operational efficiency, and lasting capability built across distributed, matrixed environments.

Katherine is ACCA-qualified (FCCA) and holds an MBA with Distinction in Innovation Management, alongside certifications in ESG, sustainability management, and digital strategy from Berkeley Law and the University of Cambridge.

The result is an uncommon combination: a deep supply chain and operations core, real innovation experience, and the commercial instinct to lead transformation on hard terms to help clients get ahead of the sustainability and ESG expectations now reaching UK, CARICOM, and global markets.

She is available as an independent contract resource — in person or remote, across UK and CARICOM markets — for transformation, restructuring, and continuous-improvement mandates.

A sustainability advocate, she also hosts Where Ideas Launch, a globally top-5% sustainability innovation podcast, and is a published author on purpose-driven career transitions.

Delivery Offer:

• Programme and project management for transformation, restructuring, and continuous improvement — scoping through delivery and embedding
  • Cost evaluation, business-case development, and financial modelling (ACCA-qualified)
  • Organisational strategy and operating-model design
  • Governance, risk, and controls frameworks — internal-audit-grade rigour
  • Change management and capability building that makes change stick
  • Customer and commercial sustainability, carbon accounting, and ESG reporting as a forward-looking differentiator

• Career
  • 2019 – Present: Founder & Managing Director, Dieple Consulting & Training — transformation, strategy & ESG advisory
  • 2023 – 2026: Sustainability Strategy Manager, CooperVision (reporting into Global Technical Innovation)
  • 2016 – 2019: Regional Supply Chain Capability Manager, British American Tobacco (EMEA)
  • 2012 – 2015: Logistics Project Manager, British American Tobacco (incl. strategic DHL control-tower partnership; SAP change integration SME)
  • 2007 – 2012: Senior Internal Audit Manager, British American Tobacco (Group)
  • 2004 – 2007: Finance Manager, British American Tobacco
  • 2003 – 2004: Management Accountant, Bermudez Biscuit Company (Trinidad & Tobago)
  • 1999 – 2003: Financial Analyst, British American Tobacco (parent of West Indian Tobacco Company)
  • 1997 – 1999: Financial Analyst, Clico Investment Bank (Trinidad & Tobago)
  Education & Credentials
  • MBA (Distinction), Innovation Management — Grenoble Ecole de Management
  • FCCA — Fellow, Association of Chartered Certified Accountants
  • Sustainable Capitalism & ESG — Berkeley Law
  • Business Sustainability Management; Digital Disruption Strategies — University of Cambridge / CISL
  • PMP Certification (in progress, 2026–2027) and Six Sigma Green Belt (in progress, 2026–2027) — The Knowledge Academy
  • Nationality: British & Trinidadian