WHO WE ARE
Future Directions was established by Chris Gledhill in order to support the public, private and third sectors to find environmental management solutions that will improve their sustainability and profitability. With a desire to run his own company and to make his own contribution to our planet’s survival by making organisations aware and understand environmental management issues, Chris set up Future Directions in 2009 following a successful thirty year career in environmental and conservation management (the latter fifteen at General Manager and CEO level).
Chris Gledhill
Future Directions is headed by Chris Gledhill. Chris is a science graduate with post graduate qualifications in Management Studies, and Ecology and Behaviour. He has experienced aspects of environmental management challenges at all levels- from a countryside ranger dealing with front-line issues, to land management balancing the many different needs of major infrastructure projects, constraints and customer demands with the hard realities of managing to a multi million pound budget, to more recently as a CEO of a National Park Authority, dealing with the strategic and tactical goals of a large organisation.
Chris has extensive experience working across the public, private and voluntary sectors engaging with them on a variety of projects including economic and rural development, environmental management to embedding sustainable business solutions in a range of organisations and maximising on the economic benefits that can be acheived through the integration of emnvironmental management with operational procedures.
Chris brings a wide range of experience to Future Directions. In the environmental and tourism sectors this includes;
Working with businesses, to maximise on the opportunities that the environment offers and the successful achievement of green business accreditations.
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Future Directions provides a valuable service which is needed by most businesses. Future Directions provides opportunities for businesses to make significant savings, minimise waste, reduce energy consumption and avoid breaking environmental legislation. It often provides a significant competitive advantage.
Our Philosophy is simple
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Professionalism – we base our standards on those set by the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessors (IEMA) code of conduct
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Integrity – we only concentrate on our specialism in the field of Environmental Management and draw on our business experience and those of our clients.
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Commitment –we commit to 100% of our focus on your project.
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Honesty/openness – we’ll always be honest with a client. We’ll not duck an issue and will fully explain the issues we find with a range of suggestions for how to deal with them.
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Explains things in simple language – we endeavor to present complex issues in language that you will understand
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Environmental & Sustainable – we’ll lead by example in everything we do, from service delivery with an approach that encourages the use of ICT to minimize our Carbon Footprint.
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We use a stepped approach to help companies achieve environmental accreditation which is right for their business.
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A unique process – our environmental workbooks have been designed to help you get the maximum benefit from embracing environmental management
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Helping businesses understand the importance of the environment and the way that they interact with it.
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In a nutshell we:
“Support the environment, its people and their prosperity”
To contact us
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e-mail us at enquiries@futuredirections.org.uk
or telephone us at +44 (0)1874 638 979
or write to us at
Future Directions,
Madogfechan House,
Madogfechan,
Crai, Brecon.
LD3 8YT