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Cogent Action exists to support sustainable impact

Having spent decades developing skills, experience, capability and knowledge, our founding team are committed to supporting the decarbonisation and growth of sustainable business, contributing to our vision of a better tomorrow.

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MEET THE TEAM

SARAH EVANS

Sarah is a seasoned strategic transformation specialist with over 25 years of experience across diverse sectors including B2B, B2C, and B2B2C in the UK, EU, and the US markets.
Throughout her award-winning career, Sarah has earned a reputation for successfully navigating change, and turning commercially challenging situations into profitable success stories. She is a passionate advocate of people focussed innovation, bringing human behaviour and motivational science into the development of sustainable value propositions that connect meaningfully and deliver simply better solutions for the customer need.
Having worked in and with businesses of all sizes, Sarah understands the commercial pressure businesses face and delivers pragmatic solutions that are actionable and appropriate for the client.
As Co-Founder of Cogent Action, Sarah is driven by a belief that our children need to inherit a healthy economy as well as a thriving planet, and as such she is committed to supporting the transition to a post carbon world.
With client side and consulting experience, Sarah brings a wealth of proven skills, experience, and processes to support her client’s sustainability transformation. Outside of work, Sarah enjoys spending as much time as possible outdoors in nature with her young family.

Scott Armstrong

With over 30 years of experience in the UK energy and sustainability market, Scott brings a wealth of experience and expertise to the table. His sustainability journey began whilst working on the energy supply side, championing the use of energy interval data for use in energy efficiency.
Transitioning into energy and carbon risk management consultancy, Scott then spent the next spent 10 years collaborating with leading UK organisations on their decarbonisation strategies, notably serving as Operations Director at Utilyx, a leading energy and carbon risk management consultancy.
As the former Head of Energy and Sustainability at UK leisure group Bourne Leisure (Haven Holidays, Warner Leisure Hotels and Butlin’s Resorts), Scott spearheaded sustainability initiatives that reduced the company’s carbon footprint by an impressive 42%. His accreditation as an ESOS Lead Assessor in 2015 authorised by the Environment Agency underscored his lifelong commitment to driving impactful change through cogent actions.
As a former Chairman of the Energy Managers Association and a Fellow of this organisation, Scott has been deeply involved in shaping the landscape of energy management in the UK. His dedication to advancing corporate sustainability led him to the role of Chief Operating Officer at Planet Mark, a sustainable certification business. It was here that his desire to act with greater ambition and urgency led to the co-founding of Cogent Action Ltd with Sarah Evans, an accomplished business transformation specialist and former Chief Commercial Officer at Planet Mark. \
Scott is truly passionate about corporate sustainability compliance, energy efficiency, clean energy, nature-based solutions, net zero transition and sustainable technology. His committed to supporting sustainable business transformation and ambitious environmental action is evidenced in the tangible results achieved in the pursuit of net zero and beyond to a more regenerative world.

Simon Tempest

Simon has a keen interest in helping organisations and businesses thrive and prosper in a sustainable manner for the benefit of shareholders, employees, stakeholders and the environment.
Simon has extensive leadership, commercial and technical experience and has been lead executive responsible for sustainability in a large UK limited company. As a part of the board’s Sustainability subgroup, Simon developed the company’s first sustainability plan and later helped the business publish its first public sustainability report.
Simon now offers consultancy services, helping organisations and businesses develop and deliver decarbonisation plans, alongside the other vital business metrics. Together with partner, Jane, Simon is implementing a carbon reduction plan on their own land and grade II listed property in the North York Moors National Park.
Simon has:
Extensive experience in a variety of executive, commercial and technical roles, including board lead on sustainability.
Leadership positions in small enterprises, P/E environment and multi-national organisations
Worked in growth and turnaround situations.
International experience working in Europe, South-East Asia and USA.

Lord Redesdale

Rupert has been a passionate advocate for the environment and particularly climate change since entering the House of Lords, thirty years ago.
He founded the All Party Climate Change Group back in 2000, when the argument was whether climate change actually was a thing! Since then he has taken part in the passage through parliament, of many energy and Climate focused pieces of legislation, including the original Climate Change Act.
To promote renewable energy he founded the Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Association. He then moved into the energy sector founding the Energy Managers Association, which then led to creating EMEX, the Energy Managers Exhibition. EMEX has sought to bring together the energy management community for the last ten years.
He currently chairs the UK Metal Expo and The Water Retail Company, and has just finished Chairing a House of Lords Select Committee on Horticulture.

Roger Evans

With over 30 years experience as a professional marketing leader and consultant Roger has delivered assignments for a diverse group of clients from global giants to smaller UK organisations. His A to Z of clients includes Accenture, Aviva, BNY Mellon, Deloitte, Egg, Moore Global, PWC, RBS, Vodafone and Zurich amongst others.
His focus is primarily on helping organisations deal with change in order to drive enhanced commercial opportunity and driver great efficiency and effectiveness through their marketing activity.
A particular area of expertise is working with B2B and professional services firms to enhance their marketing focus, strategy, output and commercial impact.
Outside of work Roger is passionate about leaving the world in a better place for future generations and believes that both individuals and business have a vital role to play in that goal. As a keen salmon fisherman he is only too aware of the impact of both climate change and pollution on this once prolific species.