A Different Kind of Sustainability Partner
We’re not here to drop a PDF and walk away. We’re here to walk with you—every step of the way.
Mission
To embed expert sustainability capacity into companies—so they can accelerate their impact reduction, while also expanding a return on investment.
Vision
To scale a more sustainable future by enabling our built environment financial models to incentivize impact reduction for all stakeholders, globally.
Why We Exist
No one should have to tackle sustainability alone.
Sustainability touches every part of an organization—but too often, it’s under-resourced, under-staffed, and siloed. Most teams are left to push the boulder uphill alone, without the support, structure, or strategy to turn effort into impact or business success.
Parallel was created to change that.
We embed as trusted, expert teammates—bringing the bandwidth, experience, and built environment fluency you can’t find in a single hire. Whether you need technical execution, strategic alignment, or go-to-market support, we help you connect your sustainability actions to actual business outcomes.
Our founder, Annie Bevan, spent years as a third-party verifier and traditional consultant, delivering reports that went nowhere. That frustration sparked the idea for Parallel: a partnership model that supports both the doing and the leveraging of sustainability. Because a certification is just the beginning—real value comes when you use it to flip specs, win trust, and drive sales.
We’re not generalists. We go deep—and wide—in the built environment. Our team has led and shaped some of the most critical systems to accelerate the business case within the sustainable materials space, including:
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USGBC LEED v4.1 Materials and Resources writing and facilitation as staff
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AIA Materials Pledge evolution
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LP50 leadership through ILFI
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And now, the mindul MATERIALs movement and industry's first common language, the Common Materials Framework.
That experience gives us an unmatched network, a strategic edge, and a front-row seat to what’s happening in the market—and what’s coming next.
We’ve helped clients close hundreds of millions of dollars in sales by aligning their sustainability investments with what end users actually value: healthier buildings, lower impact, and trusted performance. That’s the quadruple win: a win for you, your customer, the planet, and us—because success isn't truly "success" unless it's shared.
We built Parallel so no one has to tackle sustainability alone. Not anymore. We’re here to walk with you, through the wins and the mess, with the grit and clarity to help you move faster—and further—than you thought possible.
Say Hello to Your New Favorite Teammates
You can’t hire this kind of sustainability, marketing, and technical expertise in one person—or even a few. That’s why we built Parallel.
We embed as an extension of your team, bringing the depth, focus, and know-how you need to move faster, communicate better, and get real results. No ramp-up. No fluff. Just people who know the work and how to get it done.
Annie
Founder & CEO
Between her manufacturing experience as a Global Head of Sustainability, co-leading and supporting the creation of third-party certification schemas for products and projects, and leading a non-profit and Parallel, it might be more helpful to list what Annie doesn’t do. As a former D1 soccer player she believes deeply in the power of the team, and isn’t afraid of a little friendly competition.
Loves: USWNT, Coolest Aunting
Doesn’t Love: Black Pepper
Colleen
COO
Colleen is the organizational powerhouse who keeps Parallel Sustainability running like a well-oiled, eco-friendly machine. As COO, she blends strategic vision with operational excellence to ensure our green goals are met with precision and flair. With her at the helm, sustainability isn't just a mission — it's a well-executed plan.
Loves: Hiking desert trails, vintage cookbooks
Doesn’t Love: Single-use plastics
Ken
CFO
Ken is the financial maestro orchestrating Parallel Sustainability's fiscal symphony. As CFO, he ensures our green initiatives are backed by solid financial strategies, balancing technical accounting with timely performance analytics and back-office administration. With Ken’s stewardship, success in offering best-in-class sustainability services is not just a vision — it's a perpetually realized and financially supported achievement that we never take for granted.
Loves: Family, Friends, Golf, Skiing, Gardening, Hiking
Doesn’t Love: Bureaucracy
Rebecca
VP, Technical Quality
With a background in physics, sustainable engineering, and third-party auditing, Rebecca has a wide range of expertise to offer when it comes to sustainability. Largely focused on the technical side of things - Rebecca says she would rather calculate operational carbon than do anything “creative” (but ironically she tends to have amazing creative ideas). She is driven by setting and seeing tangible change.
Loves: Running, dogs
Doesn’t Love: Grilled Cheese
Victoria
Sr. Project Manager
Victoria is a sustainability strategist combining her expertise in sustainable design and engineering with experience scaling hypergrowth startups to help organizations embed sustainability into decision-making and operations. She’s passionate about helping business leaders connect their sustainability actions to strategic value, making positive-impact choices a no-brainer for business.
Loves: Travel
Doesn’t Love: Lost luggage
Taylor
Design Lead
Taylor has an incredible eye, unparalleled creativity, and the kind of turnaround time that makes you wonder if she has a secret clone supporting her (we’re looking into it). She’s here to help you show (and tell) your sustainability story.
Loves: Cats, Popcorn
Doesn’t Love: Cilantro
Luke
Sr. Project Manager
Meet Luke, once a diligent manufacturing waste auditor, now he gets to bring his dynamic approach towards transforming the world of unseen building materials – an area often overlooked, yet pivotal for environmental change. He specializes in sustainability program development, training and education, market communication, and any hobby you can think of.
Loves: Tinkering + Motorcycles
Doesn't Love: Sour Beer
Laurel
Director
Laurel is a licensed architect and Sustainable Design Leader with 10 years of industry experience. Her work as a volunteer for mindful MATERIALS led her down a materials sustainability rabbit hole and introduced her to the expansive community of sustainability changemakers in design. At Parallel she happily finds herself guiding others down that path. Laurel is a masterful facilitator and a sponge for words and ideas. We suggest a chat with her for an inspirational day.
Loves: Curling up with a good book
Doesn’t Love: Spaghetti
Dylan
Technical Project Manager
Dylan comes to us from the life sciences and product manufacturing industries where he worked alongside QC, QA, R&D, Engineering, Product Development, and Production departments. At Parallel, Dylan manages critical sustainability data, assesses product materiality, conducts comprehensive carbon accounting, develops and implements end-of-life strategies programs, and manages supplier assessment. He can also talk to anyone, and has a wild anecdote for anything.
Loves: Skyline chili
Doesn’t Love: Celery
Lauren
Executive Assistant
Lauren started her career in planning and organization at the age of 10 when she founded a neighborhood summer camp in her backyard that continued annually for 7 years. She’s as passionate as ever about delivering the perfect event (including our 2x annual CAMP!) and has serious calendar and organizational skills, keeping us in line and in order at all times!
Loves: Singing her heart out
Doesn’t Love: Cooking
Jen
Content Strategist
Jen is a wordsmith wizard, message wrangler, and strategy sleuth — aka the content strategist who can take your sustainability vision and turn it into powerful, plainspoken magic. If you’ve got a story to tell, she’s already drafting it in her head.
Loves: Golden retrievers, needlepoint
Doesn’t Love: Loud chewing
What We Stand For
Our values guide how we show up—for our work, each other, and the change we want to see.
Sustainability is too big to do alone.
We value collaboration over competition—because real change takes alignment. This work can feel isolating, but we show up as a team, time and time again. We believe progress is collective.We lead with empathy and show up as people first.
Sustainability is a human challenge—and our differences are a strength. We seek connection, tell stories that resonate, and turn data into meaning.
Expertise doesn’t mean having all the answers.
We keep a beginner’s mindset, ask good questions, and stay open to what’s changing. Curiosity keeps us agile, evolving, and relevant.
Trust is how change happens.
We guide others the way we want to be guided—with integrity, clarity, and consistency. We listen first, act thoughtfully, and show up for the long haul.
This work isn’t easy—and that’s why it matters.
We invest in our people so they can bring their best. We support each other through the tough stuff and use every challenge as fuel to push forward.
We aim beyond checkboxes.
We look past the task at hand to the system it sits in—and focus our energy where it can drive the most meaningful, lasting change.
Careers at Parallel
We’re not hiring at the moment—but we’re always up for meeting great people.
If you’re passionate about sustainability, storytelling, and systems thinking, drop us a line at hello@workinparallel.com. Tell us who you are and why you’d be a good fit. No formal role required.
We love keeping good people close.