Helen Steiger

As Reporting Lead at Junxion, Helen brings together technical expertise and strategic communication to reveal the gap between what organizations say, and what they are set up to deliver, pushing leadership to close it.

Alongside reporting, she works across projects including strategy development and implementation, Double Materiality Assessments (DMAs), Theory of Change and impact evaluation, and purpose, values, and mission definition.

Helen is a GRI-Certified Sustainability Professional and has led the development of sustainability and impact reports for organizations ranging from global manufacturers to leading academic institutions, translating complex frameworks into clear stories and practical commitments.

Foundational Moments

Harnessing this knowledge as part of Junxion’s engagement with the United Nations Environmental Programme Financial Initiative (UNEP FI), Helen helped co-create the global communications strategy for the Principles for Responsible Banking. She distilled sustainable finance guidelines into key messages and actions needed, speaking directly to those with the power to effect change: an audience of 230 financial institutions. Helen connected technical content with storytelling while remaining aligned with international sustainability frameworks—and the messaging is now used to communicate the Principles in the international banking community.

What’s Your “Why?”

Helen believes reporting is one of the most underused tools in sustainability. Organizations invest heavily in gathering data each year, but only view this as a compliance exercise, rather than an opportunity to increase business value and impact. Helen’s client work uses those insights to shape strategy, expose risks and vulnerabilities, and rethink governance structures to ensure business resilience.

With the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia (ICBC), Helen used learnings from a comprehensive Double Materiality Assessment (DMA) to define KPIs and supporting measures for each material topic, assessing current data management practices, and co-creating a pragmatic roadmap and content plan for ICBC’s first impact report. This work provided practical ways to measure progress and bring material topics to life in operations and in public reports.

Initially engaged as an expert partner to write a leading academic institution’s first sustainability report, Helen expanded the work into a strategic engagement—using data, best‑practice frameworks, and clear storytelling to set a baseline, shape the content plan, and mature their reporting so it aligns with global standards, while continually raising sharper questions about impact and accountability.

Unique Positioning

Helen’s approach is shaped by a combination of technical sustainability training and deep experience in communications and behavioural insight.

Helen holds an MSc in Environmental Technology from Imperial College London, where she specialized in Business and the Environment. There, she focussed on the roles cities play in the climate crisis and how to engage citizens in large‑scale climate action, deepening her knowledge of behavioural change and communication through her thesis with C40 Cities, which developed a framework for engaging citizens in large-scale, difficult climate action within the city.

She then worked at the intersection of innovation, infrastructure, and the public sector with an urban innovation company, on projects such as electrifying municipal vehicle fleets and exploring new models for urban energy and transport. In these roles, she was constantly asking how local authorities could innovate in ways that benefit local authorities, people, and the environment—building the technical foundation that underpins her understanding of climate and business today.

For Helen, how you communicate is just as important as what you measure. Her distinctive perspective is in how to connect the numbers, the frameworks, and the narrative as catalysts for strategy and culture change.

In her spare time, Helen is a keen walker, swimmer, cyclist, gardener and general nature-lover, seeking out mountains to climb, seas to swim, and birds to watch. She is an impact reporting go-to specialist for the Future Planet community, and recently volunteered and cycled in the 4-day Ride the Change event with fellow sustainability professionals.

Credentials

GRI (Global Reporting Initiative)

GRI Certified Sustainability Professional

MSc Environmental Technology (Distinction)

Imperial College London – specialist topic Business and the Environment

Foundation Degree (Distinction)

Institute for Practitioners in Advertising (IPA) 

She is Sustainable 

Alumnus from course championing women and changing the world

Content Manager, Curious Earth

Regular writer and curator of engaging content for environmental newsletter

Runner-up ‘Best Team Fundraiser’ for Anthony Nolan for Ride4Lara campaign

Part of the wider Match4Lara campaign