Carolin Leeshaa

Founder, Managing Director

An acccomplished strategic leader and trusted advisor with 20 year career anchored in capital markets, risk-and impact management and transformation, Carolin has a passion for creating sustainable business value by harnessing the power of financial markets in service of economic agendas that positively impact both people and the environment. Carolin’s expertise is to convert ecological and social impact integrity into enterprise value, resilience and innovative product and investment strategies and strategic advantage. Carolin aligned ‘head, heart and hand’ and traversed the worlds of blue chip corporates, management consulting, international development and government, applying a systems-lens to design and right-size blended finance solutions along the full spectrum of the capital continuum and guided significant organisations towards purposeful and shared value business models, flagship programs and industry engagement initiatives.

Carolin is actively involved in national climate and nature policy, global accounting standard setting and reporting change and contributed to global systems change initiatives as a Taskforce Member of the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) and the International Advisory Panel on Biodiversity Credits (IABP). Carolin holds a Masters of Banking & Finance from the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management and post-graduate qualifications of Social Impact from the Centre of Social Impact, University of New South Wales. A Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors she serves as a Board Advisory member of various impact enterprises and investment committees.