Mia Overall

Founder
Overall Strategies

Mia Overall is a sustainable business consultant and founder of Overall Strategies, based in New York City.

Overall Strategies is dedicated to working with companies in the early stages of their sustainability journey. It offers support on foundational sustainability areas such as identifying material issues and engaging stakeholders inside and outside the company to craft sound, actionable strategies. It also leverages a network of professionals with expertise in a range of sustainability specializations through a platform for on-demand support.

Mia has worked with leading consumer goods companies around the world on developing their sustainability or CSR strategy, materiality assessments, stakeholder engagement, sustainability reporting and driving sustainability through supply chains. She is committed to creating shared value through social impact.

Mia Overall is tagged in 16 stories.

Do We Need Science-Based Targets for Plastic?

The Next Economy / How much plastic recycling is enough to save our seas? It might be time to do the math and set forth quantifiable expectations and accountabilities for plastic production, use and recovery, as we’ve started to do with emissions. - 4 years ago

Burgers for Biodiversity? How Much Difference Can the Impossible Burger Really Make?

Behavior Change / For a country that loves its burgers, the Impossible Burger’s swift uptake has been a bit of a surprise. But it shouldn’t be — Impossible Foods is giving people what they really want: taste, health and ethics. - 4 years ago

Reaching Deep Into Communities to Cultivate Tomorrow’s Changemakers

Organizational Change / Throughout the week at [SB’19 Detroit](https://events.sustainablebrands.com/sb19det), as we were regaled with tales of inspiring programs such as Dave’s Killer Bread’s [Second Chance Employment](/read/organizational-change/the-secret-sauce-of-inclusion-governance-inside-and-outside-the-brand) initiative, we were pleasantly struck by the theme that emerged of brands and other organizations cultivating leaders and changemakers from unlikely places and in unique ways. - 4 years ago

How Brands Are Influencing Better Behaviors, Legislation, Supply Chains

Behavior Change / On the fourth and final day of SB’19 Detroit, a host of brands shared lessons learned from efforts to engage stakeholders on a variety of topics — from more sustainable food choices and healthier masculinity to much-needed changes in policy. - 4 years ago

The ‘Secret Sauce’ of Inclusion, Governance — Inside and Outside the Brand

Organizational Change / At SB’19 Detroit, Burt's Bees, Caesars Entertainment, Dave’s Killer Bread, Gap, Kellogg, Patagonia, P&G and more shared insights and strategies aimed at addressing governance inside and outside their organizations. - 4 years ago

SB'19 Detroit: Transparency, Alliances Unsnarling the Tangled Webs We Weave

Supply Chain / [SB'19 Detroit](https://events.sustainablebrands.com/sb19det) was full of rich discussions from brands, technology providers and alliances driving holistic changes in supply chains and other complex systems — and shining light on problems along the way. - 4 years ago

Moving Targets: How to Set Truly Transformative Sustainability Goals

Walking the Talk / Reporting and goal-setting are inextricably linked, yet at opposite ends of the sustainability process. Rather than starting with past progress, sustainability leaders have realized that greater accomplishments start with a stronger and clearer vision of what the future should look like. - 4 years ago