Welcome to Coral Compass
What we do
Turning sustainability ambition into meaningful impact.
Coral Compass helps sustainability professionals and organisations navigate complexity and move from policy to action.
Interim Management
Through interim management assignments, Coral Compass supports organizations in the financial industry and beyond with sustainability-related challenges, from regulatory implementation to policy creation, product strategy and stakeholder engagement.
Strategy & Advisory
Coral Compass helps organisations understand the bigger picture and identify the gap between sustainability strategy, policies and their real-world effects.
Facilitation
Strategy is rarely built alone. Coral Compass facilitates senior teams and group processes — helping leadership groups move from divergent views to a shared direction, and from strategy on a slide to something a team can actually act on.
Expertise
Regulatory Depth
Over a decade at the intersection of regulation, strategy and investment practice. Fluency in SFDR, the EU Taxonomy, ESMA naming guidelines, PAI, DNSH and CSRD isn’t just technical knowledge — it’s the ability to translate regulatory complexity into implementation beyond compliance.
Sustainability Transformation
Sustainability ambition often stalls at the point of execution. This is the work of closing that gap: understanding where strategy, incentives and day-to-day practice pull in different directions, and building the structures — teams, processes, governance — that let ambition survive contact with the organisation.
Innovation
Transformation rarely follows a straight line. Through incubator programmes, Coral Compass helped organisations test, fail fast and scale what works — building the willingness to experiment, and the resilience to keep going when the first attempt doesn’t. Structured experimentation, not top-down mandate, is often what turns ambition into practice.
About
Coral Compass is an independent practice founded by Anouk in ’t Veld.
Anouk is a sustainable finance professional with over a decade of experience at the intersection of regulation, impact and investment strategy. She has led complex implementation projects at Robeco, including the firm-wide rollout of SFDR, and advised a diverse range of clients at Steward Redqueen, from multinationals like Heineken and Coca Cola to mission-driven banks including the IFC, World Bank and Triodos. She co-authored academic research on biodiversity.
Known for bridging technical depth with multidisciplinary collaboration, she brings both strategic perspective and regulatory fluency to the organisations she works with. Anouk has an education from the University of Maastricht and Edinburgh University.
She lives in Rotterdam with her husband and two children, and loves being in coastal areas, and sharing nutritious food with family and friends.
Get in touch
Curious about a project, or just want to compare notes on where sustainable finance is heading? I’m always up for a coffee to brainstorm — whether it’s a concrete collaboration or an open-ended conversation about the field.
Reach out via email or connect on LinkedIn, and let’s find a time to talk.
info@coralcompass.nl