Sustainability & Social Impact

Growing populations and shortage in resources make that governments, society, and consumers demand organizations to find ways to operate more responsibly and sustainably. We work with companies and non-profit organizations to develop business and communication strategies, aligning positive environmental and societal impacts with profitable business practices. Clients may expect a combination of deep subject matter expertise and industry experience with world-class communication and engagement strategies. Our team of communications experts and purpose strategists combines deep subject matter expertise and industry experience with world-class communication and engagement strategies to guide clients through the important nuances of sustainability strategy development, engagement, and communications. 

Speciality Services:

Brand Marketing 
Business Transformation  
Community Management 
Content Marketing 
Corporate Reputation 
Digital Solutions  
Employee Engagement 
Purpose

The Team

Ilse is an all-round strategic communications professional, who helps businesses secure their license to operate by effectively building and maintaining trusted relations with key stakeholders. Throughout her international career, Ilse worked and lived in Brussels, the USA and the Netherlands. During her 20+ years’ experience, she spent over 15 years in senior corporate affairs roles, covering the full spectrum of corporate communications from public affairs, corporate and (crisis) media relations, CSR and community engagement, to employee engagement and executive positioning.  

Ilse is driven by impact. Her solid business acumen and track record of activating integrated communications strategies to drive business results, both from an internal and agency perspective, enables her to be a true sparring partner for company executives, as well as helping corporate communicators engage with all stakeholders in a relevant and meaningful way.   

Her sector expertise in communications spans (renewable) energy, petrochemical (upstream & downstream), mobility & transportation, heavy industries and industrial services, semiconductor industry, hydrogen and fuel cell technology and sustainability. 

Marco Serra and Marcos Alves, our creative direction team also known as The Markos, were responsible for two big campaigns focused on Sustainability and Social Impact.

When scientists find a new species, they get to give it a name. A team of scientists from Newcastle University made a shocking discovery by finding plastic contamination inside a new deep-sea species. Together with WWF they then named this new prawn after this problem to deliver a message. This was the birth of “Eurythenes plasticus”, an idea that won more than 110 awards, including a Gold Lion in Cannes, a Grand Prix for Good at Eurobest, 4 Graphite pencils at D&AD, ranking Marquito and Markão as Top 6 Copywriter and Top 9 Art Director in the world, according to The Drum report in 2021.

For the Ministry of Foreigner Affairs of the Kingdom of The Netherlands, they created TheDropStore, a dystopian supermarket experience where its products were imagined as they were produced facing a water crisis. Floods, drought and lack of access to clean water changed shapes, prices, availability and ways of consumption of daily products. An idea recognized at global festivals like the Cannes Lions, and local Dutch ones like the ADCN.

Karlijn Marchildon is Managing Director Brand for Edelman Amsterdam, where she leads the cross-disciplinary Brand Division team geared towards driving conversation for ambitious brands. Her sector expertise spans tech, lifestyle, FMCG, retail, and e-mobility.

Prior to joining Edelman, she was Head of Brand at VanMoof – the fast growing designer e-bike brand – with half a million riders across 20 markets worldwide. Karlijn led the charge on the brand’s international breakthrough, expanding the brand into new markets across Europe, USA and Japan, helping grow VanMoof from 20M to 200M revenue.

Karlijn is an award winning brand builder with a track record of building brands and activating integrated communications strategies that drive business results, making her a true sparring partner for brand executives. Karlijn consistently ranks among the Netherlands Marketing 100 most influential.