Mandy Fertetics

Managing Director at Alternate Consulting, Hungary

Mandy Fertetics has over 20 years of experience in the field of corporate sustainability and responsibility as a consultant and expert in various industries (financial, pharmaceutics, chemicals, automotive, FMCG etc.) and all size of companies with diverse maturity levels and market challenges. This also includes 6 years of sustainable procurement expert positions in the global automotive industry (Knorr-Bremse Group, Kongsberg Automotive) and 4 years corporate affairs and sustainability manager at a SABMiller subsidiary Dreher Breweries. 

Sitting at all sides of the table she gained experience and is able to integrate all stakeholders’ perspective into the strategy development of companies. As Head of Corporate Programs at the Business Council for Sustainable Development in Hungary she worked with most influential companies in Hungary on the Action2020 program and developed further the Future Leaders’ Training Program. Other NGO experiences she gained with environmental focused KÖVET Association, on gender equality and family friendly workplace development with Well-Being Foundation, on addictions and corporate well being programs with the Blue Point Addiction Centre and on sustainable behaviour with the Conscious Consumer Association.

Her passion is social entrepreneurs, so she took the Supervisory Board role of Fruit of Care and later on advisory roles, and participates in the full time and executive MBA education programs of the Budapest Corvinus University. Currently also one of the main trainers of the Certified Sustainability Manager Training course powered by Green Brands Hungary. 

Her specialty fields are sustainability and ESG reporting, materiality analysis, ESG ratings, sustainability/responsibility strategies, stakeholder mapping and engagement, sustainable procurement and supplier engagement. Newly discovered passion area is social impact business model transformation and in training and development on all of these topics. 

Beyond as a topic expert and process-focused consultant, she also has experience is various researches, trainings and is a certified transformative team coach as well supporting individual self-awareness raising with psychodrama.