Tiffany Flaherty joins sustainability consulting firm RiskSphere

24 October 2024 Consultancy.eu

Dutch sustainability consultancy RiskSphere has welcomed Tiffany Flaherty as the newest member of its team.

Coming on board as a Managing Consultant, Tiffany Flaherty brings a decade of experience to the consulting firm. Over the past five years, she specialized in ESG risk ratings at Morningstar Sustainalytics, focused on product excellence and modelling of risk exposures across various sustainability topics and industries. Previously, she also contributed to ESG risk research for banks.

Originally hailing from Boston, Massachusetts, Flaherty boasts the Financial Risk Manager and Climate and Sustainability Risk certifications from GARP. Her educational background is in finance and mathematics, with a Master in Financial Planning from Bentley University.

RiskSphere is a boutique consultancy specializing in risk management. The firm assists financial institutions in managing risk, implementing regulatory changes, and developing comprehensive sustainability and ESG strategies for a wide array of clients.

Her move to RiskSphere marks her return to consulting. Earlier, she spent five years at KPMG in its Frankfurt office, where she worked on several large financial and regulatory transformations in the banking sector, including with the European Central Bank.

On her new role, she said: “It has become increasingly clear that companies need to carefully consider how ESG issues can impact the resilience of their business. By identifying and measuring the myriad sustainability risks that a company is exposed to and the sustainability impacts a company has on society and the environment, it is better positioned to adapt to a more robust business model and to comply with ever-increasing regulation.”

Indeed, ESG – and sustainability more broadly – have become a central concern for many businesses around the world that are increasingly not only required to comply with new climate-oriented regulations, but also many of which aim to go beyond mere compliance, adopting ESG initiatives to make their organizations more future-proof.

“I’m excited to join an organization that puts that understanding at the core of its identity and its approach to engaging with clients. We aim to support clients by taking a comprehensive view of the sustainability issues they face and then provide targeted, actionable steps to integrate that in their business,” said Flaherty.