Sustainability.
Made fluent in the languages of your teams.

  • A design-led sustainability consultancy.
  • Based in Wales. Global reach.

We exist to close the gap between sustainability commitment and operational delivery.

Our approach

Sustainability is the discipline of designing for the long term

Sustainability works best when it lives inside how the organisation runs. Not in a document. Not in a separate function. Not in a quarterly report.​
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We design how sustainability strategy actually gets delivered. The work that turns commitment into how every team plans, decides, and operates.​
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That includes environmental impact, social value, and the communities you serve. ​

In practice

A water company sets its 2040 leakage and pollution targets. The design question is not the target. It is which decisions being made right now need to be reshaped around it, so that every step builds evidence and improvement the regulator can use today.

  • Translate sustainability into the language every team already uses
  • Design what good looks like, then stress-test it before you commit ​ ​
  • Build social value into how you deliver, not into a separate report
  • Design for the long term, not the quarterly report​
  • Build capability that lets change continue after we leave
  • Digital estate audits
  • Carbon-aware service redesign
  • Lifecycle assessments for digital products
  • Sustainable-by-design product development
Why Lantela

What we bring to the work.

Design Council Skills for Planet qualified trainer

Through Cory Hughes, Lantela is qualified to deliver Design Council Skills for Planet training. The qualification is national, issued against a published blueprint. It is the foundation of our Design for Planet training offer.

Testing before committing

Many sustainability programmes ask you to commit to the long term while working with current uncertainty. Lantela designs in increments you can test before they scale across the organisation. So your next move is a considered path to the future, with a realistic plan that delivers today

Welsh roots, global reach

Wales has pioneered some of the most ambitious sustainability legislation anywhere, from the Well-being of Future Generations Act to the Procurement Reform Act. We work with these frameworks in practice, and we understand what it takes to translate their principles into operational change.

Lantela and Perago

Led by specialists. Powered by a whole team.

Lantela is a specialist sustainability consultancy powered by Perago. Shared foundations, different discipline. The consultancy is led by Cory Hughes, with a network of specialists behind her drawn from across Perago and our Associate Network.

CORY HUGHES

Lantela's Managing Director and sustainable design lead

A Design Council expert, Skills for Planet trainer, with over ten years embedding sustainable decision-making across organisations. Cory shapes every engagement, from discovery to delivery.

The wider team

Multi-disciplinary experts

Lantela draws on the multi-disciplinary team at Perago – service designers, researchers, strategists, communications specialists – and a wider Associate network of practitioners with deep sector experience in sustainability, ESG, and regulated industries.

Workshops

Diagnose your sustainability delivery gap in a two hour pro-bono workshop.

You committed. Now you must deliver. This summer, we are running a limited number of workshops to help sustainability leads, UK boards and exec teams close the gap between sustainability strategy and operational delivery.

Insights

Thoughts on sustainability, design and the long-term thinking that shapes better services

The Lantela Diagnostic Workshops – apply now

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Lantela works with commissioners, transformation directors and sustainability leads across public, private and third sector organisations. If you have a brief, a commitment that needs putting into practice, or a question about where to start, we would welcome the conversation.

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