Approachable
I know how to meet people. Clients tell me I am approachable, easy to talk to and pleasant company for all participants.
About
I combine experience, networks and hands-on delivery so that your project or business can grow sustainably and successfully.
Background
Since 2006 I have helped create hundreds of connections related to sustainability and foreign trade — in business management, project management and consulting roles.
I am Martin Brandt, the founder of FinDera Consulting. FinDera grew out of hands-on work with sustainable solutions, sustainable development and international connections. My operations naturally build upon the powerful drive of both my home countries, Germany and Finland, to lead the way in energy and circular economy solutions.
My background spans several kinds of stakeholder. I have worked on sustainability from a number of different vantage points over my career, which gives an unusually complete picture of what the different players need and what actually works in practice.
Working in the public and private sectors as well as in central government sustainability has given me a deep understanding of what different actors need in my home countries and internationally — particularly in energy, the circular economy and environmental technology solutions more broadly.
I have created hundreds of new connections between organisations and, through them, an extensive personal network in Finland, Germany and across Europe. I have also lectured at Aalto University and Åbo Akademi, among others.
Broad experience means I can recognise workable solutions and choose the sites that genuinely benefit you — ensuring that every encounter is high in quality, smooth and worthwhile.
This background is what FinDera is built on. I find the right players and choose the sites that genuinely benefit you. I open doors, confirm the meetings and shape the encounters so that they produce learning and collaboration.
Career
My multi-stakeholder background brings realism, an overall picture and the ability to combine the needs of different parties — I have been, in turn, the client, the deliverer and the broker.
As project director I delivered projects and trips for the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs relating to energy, the circular economy and export cooperation.
Project director at the Southwest Finland service centre for sustainable development and energy, working at the interface between municipal and business collaboration.
Circular economy development and project manager on the infrastructure side, working directly with clients. Among other things I drew up master plans for circular economy areas.
Business manager at the commercial subsidiary of Motiva Oy, the Finnish state's affiliated sustainability body.
I have helped a large number of Finnish companies into German-speaking markets in particular, and created over 100 business connections. Alongside that I have delivered more than 70 study and benchmarking trips.
How I work
I know how to meet people. Clients tell me I am approachable, easy to talk to and pleasant company for all participants.
Years of German-Finnish cooperation have taught me how two working cultures are brought together. On trips I also act as interpreter — of the language and of the way things are done.
I handle the whole so that participants can focus on what matters: schedules, logistics and finding the right people are my responsibility.
Get in touch
Tell me briefly what you are aiming for and I will suggest a concrete way forward. I usually reply the same working day.