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Erica is a Senior Advisor within Peak Services’ Professional Advisory team, bringing a rare blend of strategic advisory capability, sustainability expertise and real-world operational experience. Over the past four years, she has supported councils and organisations to secure almost $80 million in funding while providing broader advice across sustainability, infrastructure planning, community development and organisational strategy.
Known for her ability to build trusted, long-term client relationships, Erica works in close partnership with stakeholders to develop practical, resilient solutions aligned with community needs and policy settings. Her academic background includes a BSc. (Environmental Science with a double major in Env Planning and Marine Ecology) and advanced studies in business sustainability leadership and circular economy principles through the University of Cambridge.
Erica’s diverse career spans over a decade working internationally as a sailor and chef, including extensive offshore sailing experience, work on elite sailing yachts, and cooking for royalty on high-end shooting estates in Scotland. She is also a published writer, having contributed a food column to a Spanish magazine for ten years, experience that underpins her strong communication, storytelling and stakeholder engagement skills.
Recovery & Quality Team Manager – Ikea (2020 to 2021)
• Applied systems and methods for lowering business costs, increasing quality of outputs and handling individual case quality matters. • Led sustainability measures, applied solutions including sustainable divestment. • Cross-functional approach to sustainability, bringing together contributions across departments to streamline the recovery process. • Regular interaction with department functions, the Business Navigation & Operations Manager and the national recovery and quality matrix. • Established strategic partnership to divert waste from landfill.
• Managing the entire business from creation and start-up to marketing/socials and generation/retention of clients. • Ensuring corporate sustainability was central to business ethos and structure • Content creation (social and marketing) through to end-of-life cycle per event. • Client and supplier liaison and engagement, brand reputation and event delivery. • Product, menu, event creation and delivery. Website creation and maintenance.
Business owner in Scotland, the Mediterranean and the Caribbean including Catering, Events, Consulting / free-lance journalism (1999-2009)