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Graham Gillen

East Midlands, East of England, Greater London, Northern Ireland, North East England, North West England, Scotland, South East England, South West England, Wales, West Midlands, Yorkshire and the Humber

B Leader at eccountinc. A forward thinking Business Advisory and Management Accountancy business, working with purpose driven companies to make a positive impact in the world.

Contact https://eccountinc.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/graham-gillen

B Leader bio

Graham founded eccountinc in 2012, where his aim is to help more purpose led businesses, by offering B Leader support and management accounting services that will not ‘cost the earth’ and leave a positive impact on people and the planet.

He has a practical background built up over 30 years in a broad range of industries having started his career in construction. He has a keen interest in a wide range of sustainability issues, which drew him to the B Corp movement and making eccountinc the first certified B Corp in Northern Ireland.

He works closely with his clients, across the whole of Ireland and the UK and into Europe, throughout the year to help and guide them build a business that has a strong triple bottom line.

As a B Leader he helps businesses with B Corp certification so they can commit to making business a force for good in the world.

Graham continues to develop his sustainability knowledge in areas such as impact reporting to make transparency core to every business.

Industry

Agriculture, Building, Business Products & Services, Consumer Products & Services, Financial Services, Media, Restaurant, Hospitality & Travel, Retail

Company size experience

SME, Start-up, Large, Multinational

Impact area expertise

Employees, Governance, Environment, Supply Chain, Diversity & Inclusion

Endorsements

"We worked with Graham at eccountinc to help our Distillery achieve B Corp certification. We couldn't be happier with the results, achieving not just a pass but one of the highest scores in our category.

Graham was extremely knowledgeable and provided us with a clear roadmap for meeting the full certification requirements. The team were always available to answer our questions and provided invaluable guidance throughout the entire process. We had regular catchups to make sure things stayed on track. As a B Leader, he also had inside information on any delays that were occurring for reasons out of our control.

Thanks to Graham's expertise and support, we were able to achieve our certification within the original planned timeframe. We highly recommend eccountinc to any company looking to become B Corp certified."

The Boatyard Distillery Ltd- Joe McGirr

"Our founding team engaged and gained help from Graham Gillen in his capacity as a B Leader to complete the B Corporation assessment. Graham was able to successfully guide our team and myself as a founder to help support our efforts to collate the required evidence to back up each aspect of the assessment.
Through this process of working with Graham, he was able to provide valuable feedback to our business around best practice as far as governance, mission statement clarity etc to be able to sharpen and refine several aspects of our mission and policies to align better with our customers' needs. Therefore, this has been extremely valuable to us as a business.

Graham has a good understanding of the B Corp certification process, but also had judgement around what is a priority for a business at our somewhat earlier stage of growth. He was also able to provide resources and examples to help our business build our data set out to share all of the commendable areas around sustainability, safety, consumer, and governance that we have already embedded within our business but that needed highlighting appropriately."

Plenaire - Namrata Kamdar

Companies taken through the B Impact Assessment

55

Companies taken through the B Corp Certification

26

Training cohort

Nov 2020

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