“Slow fashion OG” Emma Slade Edmonson is a high-flying sustainability and marketing expert, an award-winning podcaster, a Forbes 100 environmentalist, a sought-after opinion leader, a tireless campaigner, a popular social media presence, and much more. She has worked with some of the biggest charity and business names in Britain — Cancer Research UK, Shelter, Westfield, and many more — and ensured significant coverage for projects in the likes of The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, Huffington Post, Grazia, and Vogue. The mixed-race podcast she co-hosts, Mixed Up, has won awards and spawned a spin-off book, The Half of It, which will be published by HarperCollins in 2024.
Having gained experience at some of the world’s most prominent marketing agencies, Slade Edmonson is now best known in the world of business for leading her own company, ESE Consultancy, which works with brands and businesses of all sizes and sectors who are looking to focus on genuinely improving their environmental impact. She has also been involved in creating campaigns that promote sustainable, thoughtful, fashion consumption, such as Love Not Landfill and Charity Fashion. Her prominence in this area has led to her becoming an opinion leader for Channel 5 News and being invited to speak at key industry events such as Retail Week, The Impact Summit, Drapers Sustainability Conference and more. If all this wasn’t enough, she also offers one-to-one coaching and masterclasses on how to develop ethically-minded marketing strategies.
Regarded by those in the know as one of the spearheads of the second-hand fashion movement, Emma Slade Edmonson is a true leader in many of the areas she works in.