About
Elemental Sustainability is a client-centred consultancy with more than twenty years’ experience within the environmental, safety and social fields. Elemental Sustainability is committed to partnering with our clients to provide comprehensive solutions that carefully balance business goals with sustainability and safety imperatives.
Working with our clients, Elemental Sustainability applies innovative and financially feasible solutions to a broad range of sustainability and safety requirements across diverse sectors, to ensure compliant, and optimal sustainability and safety outcomes.
Elemental Sustainability is a proudly women-owned, B-BBEE Level One consultancy.
DIRECTORS
Kumari Pillay
Managing Director
BSc. HBSc. MSc Sustainable Development
DuToit Wilken
Operations Director
BSs. HBSc. MSc Environmental Science (Pr. Sci. Nat)
OTHER TEAM MEMBERS
Melissa Pillay
Group Operations Manager
BSc. HBSc Geographical Science
Liezl Landman
Senior Environmental Specialist
BSc. HBSc. MSc Environmental Ecology (Pr. Sci. Nat)
Suheil Hoosen
Aquatic and Environmental Specialist
BSc. HBSc. MSc Environmental Science (Pr.Sci.Nat)
Ludwig Geldenhuys
Environmental Specialist and Landscape Architect
BTech. HBSc Environmental Management (EAP)
Sonja van de Giessen
Manager Authorisations
BTech. BSc. MSc Environmental Management
(Pr. Sci. Nat; EAP)
Corrie Retief
Senior Environmental Assessment Practitioner
BA. HBA (Geography) (Pr.Sci.Nat; EAP)
Natasha Graaf
Junior Environmental Specialist
BSc Environmental Science
Jolandie Vermeulen
Finance and Administration
BComm. PGDA. PGDip (CA (SA), ACPA (BICA))
Legal and Consultants
Corlien Lambrechts
Specialist Assessments
BSc. HBSc Zoology (Pr. Sci. Nat; EAP)
Gerron Fraser
Legal Advisor Mining and Dispute Resolution
LLB. LLM Candidate
Davide Bishop
Legal Advisor Mining and Environment
BComm. LLB. LLM
Vision
Sustaining our tomorrow, today.
Mission
Purposeful partnership; providing comprehensive niche sustainability solutions to add business value that delivers for people and planet.
Values
Be Inclusive – thriving and empowering through inclusivity, equality, and diversity.
Have Integrity – being ethical, honest and transparent in everything we do, with everyone we engage.
Build Excellence – continually learning, growing and pioneering to provide the best solutions to our clients that deliver on people, planet and prosperity.
Be Accountable – being accountable to each other, our clients, service providers, and our shared planet.
Be Passionate – encouraging thought leaders who shape a better world.
Sustainability, being sustainable and living sustainably at its core is about respect; respect for self, people and planet. With respect, sustainability is achievable. Respect drives a pluriversal understanding, drives a commitment to not harm, drives purposeful debate and discussion, and drives creativity and innovation to protect our shared planet and live well within planetary boundaries.
Kumari Pillay, Managing Director
A Holistic Approach
Employing a holistic and integrated approach, Elemental Sustainability assists clients in the analysis of their business sustainability requirements.
We seek to identify those challenges and risks that must be addressed in order to ensure business compliance to legislative requirements, and to capitalise on opportunities, to progress towards continued sustainable development.
Consideration of the future environment of our clients informs Elemental Sustainability’s risk mitigation strategies, management solutions and eco-efficiencies that are developed through the application of practical and cost-effective solutions.