Magali Waterfield

Senior Consultant

Magali Waterfield, Senior Consultant

In addition to her consulting job, Magali is also a certified coach and qualified psychotherapist, and she runs her practice one day a week. She loves to understand why people make the choices they do and how the human psyche works. Spoiler alert – it is not that simple!

Magali is married to Milo, who is a chef, and she spends a lot of her free time thinking about delicious food, particularly cheeses from Haute Savoie, a mountain region in France where she comes from.

Meet Magali

Magali is a Senior Consultant in the ESG & Sustainability practice at Avyse. She has over 20 years of experience working in the asset management industry as a change manager lead, both in-house and within consultancies.

At heart, Magali loves to organise and implement ESG regulatory changes and excels at building relationships with clients to ensure that the desired outcomes are achieved according to the highest standards.

She is also a Prosci Certified Change Practitioner.

Experience:

Magali delivered projects of all shapes and sizes with a particular interest in ESG regulation and cultural changes in organisations.

  • Magali has led SDR regulation implementation, supporting a listed UK asset manager client in obtaining an SDR sustainability focus label for 10 funds and leading annual independent assessments of the evidence-based standard methodology. Her approach is pragmatic and hands-on.

  • Magali led the ESG strategy implementation for a luxury hospitality group, ensuring that the pillars defined by the clients were implemented at both group (governance) and resort (operational) levels. She particularly focuses on encouraging collaboration with client to improve efficiency.

  • Magali supported numerous s166 reviews at Avyse, coordinating the different outputs of each phase and managing interactions and relationships with the FCA. She has been excellent at managing clients’ concerns about FCA requests.

  • Magali assisted with remediation projects, ensuring delivery is on time and within budget, and sometimes organising new initiatives to ensure the program meets the regulator’s expectations.