We are pleased to share that Claire Lynch Consulting has been recognised in the Corporate Vision Global Business Awards 2025 as Most Trusted Business & Human Rights Advisory Firm 2025 – UK.
Awards are not why we do this work. Still, external recognition matters when it reflects how clients and peers experience the practice: practical, multi-disciplinary, and focused on systems that actually change how organisations treat people in their supply chains. You can read the official winner profile on the Corporate Vision winners page (opens in a new tab).
What this category means to us
Trust, in business and human rights advisory, is earned in the unglamorous middle of a programme — when a risk assessment has to be prioritised honestly, when purchasing practices are part of the problem, and when leadership needs a clear route from insight to action. The Global Business Awards category names that work directly: not a generic “ESG consultancy” badge, but recognition for a firm whose day job is helping organisations identify, assess, and act on human rights risks with integrity.
Claire Lynch Consulting was founded in 2020 as a multi-disciplinary business and human rights practice. We specialise in human rights due diligence (HRDD) and human rights and environmental due diligence, responsible sourcing, social impact measurement, training, and technical writing. Much of our work sits with practitioners in fashion, food & beverage, and FMCG supply chains — sectors where commercial pressure, complex tiers, and worker vulnerability collide every day.
Our approach is deliberately not off-the-shelf. Legal, operational, behavioural, and procurement perspectives sit in the same room, because human rights risk rarely fits a single discipline. The through-line is worker dignity: understanding where harm can occur, prioritising by severity for people, and building management systems that hold under commercial pressure.
“Our team brings together a wide set of expertise into a unique collective with a shared goal: protecting the dignity of workers. Combining complementary — and sometimes clashing — perspectives fuels our commitment to curiosity, and to solutions that work in practice for clients.”
— Claire Lynch, Founding Director
Those same values — integrity, inquisitiveness, and innovation — shape how we design due diligence with clients. When a requirement arrives framed as compliance, we still ask what would strengthen stakeholder relationships, improve sourcing practices, and build longer-term resilience. Recognition does not change that method; it is a public signal that the method is landing.
What we continue to focus on
Winning a category does not finish the work. Mandatory due diligence regimes, forced labour import controls, and litigation trends keep raising the bar for what “good enough” looks like. Our focus remains the same:
- Risk-based HRDD that practitioners can run with the resource they actually have
- Responsible purchasing practices as a driver of — or barrier to — decent work upstream
- Measurement and training that help teams move from policy language to operational decisions
If you want a fuller picture of the firm’s story, standards, and recognition, see our Awards & recognition section and the wider About page. For how we support programmes in practice, explore our services.
If you are building or strengthening human rights due diligence and want a practical, multi-disciplinary partner, we would be glad to talk.
Claire Lynch is the founder of Claire Lynch Consulting, a business and human rights advisory practice specialising in human rights due diligence, responsible purchasing practices, and supply chain accountability.