About Sustainable Brands


For 20 years, Sustainable Brands has been the vanguard of brands enabling business and humanity to thrive in harmony with nature.

We understand the necessary transformation required to deliver successful brands to market in an increasingly strained world. And we continue to learn together through shared experiments and success stories how to bring integrated teams and cross-sector partners together to accelerate the transition from being a conventional brand to becoming a successful, future-fit, Sustainable Brand.

  • Delivery platforms
  • Conferences
  • Learning Circles / Peer Cohorts / Working Group offering
  • Global network of change-makers
  • Targeted research
  • Digital engagement / content

Sustainable Brands Global Impact

Since 2006, Sustainable Brands has been at the forefront of the sustainable business movement. Our network spans across continents, from United States to Japan, Thailand, Malaysia, Spain, Turkey, Uruguay and New Zealand, uniting a community of optimists who believe in brand-led market transformation.

Meet the Aotearoa team

Lewis Patterson

Conference Convenor

Country Director of Sustainable Brands Aotearoa

CEO of Latitude 45 Limited

JongKyu Jang

Conference Convenor

CEO of Latitude 45 Limited

Ioana Marin

Creative Communications Advisor

Founder of Inspirators

Advisory board of SB Aotearoa

Melissa Baer

CEO & Founder of Backstory

KoAnn Skrzyniarz

Founder & Chief Catalyst & Community Builder of Sustainable Brands (Global)