About

Purpose-Driven People. Practical Results.

BetterHumanity is a You3 initiative founded by Edward Foord — a Brisbane-based sustainability consultant with two decades of real-world experience in business transformation, safety systems, and human development.

Our Mission

BetterHumanity helps businesses and communities turn sustainability into a competitive advantage through strategy, culture, and connection. We believe sustainability should create value — not complexity.

CORE VALUES & BELIEFS

Purpose
To build a human-first space for real-world collaboration. We help purpose professionals and businesses grow smarter, more sustainable, and more connected, sharing insights that lift performance, reduce waste, and create meaningful change.
Vision
A living network of curious, courageous leaders designing a better future, where growth is joyful, continuous, and shared.
· Build living best practice through shared, lived experience
· Spark real talk about progress, barriers and what matters most
· Help impact-driven teams grow results with joy and purpose
· Share practical tools and lessons that work across industries
Mission
To create and sustain a psychologically safe, practitioner-led community that:
· Facilitates actionable knowledge sharing across industries, roles, and business sizes
· Support for impact businesses in scaling sustainability, impact, and joy
· Fosters real-time dialogue around challenges, results, and emerging trends
· Builds a legacy of world-class best practice through lived experience and shared wisdom Values
· Purpose unites us: Our differences strengthen the mission.
· Led by us: Everyone has a voice and a role.
· Safe and stretching: We grow through challenge and celebration.
· Real before theory: Lived experience leads the way.
Principles
· We lead with energy and empathy, And always leave things better.
· We share what works, and what doesn’t: No filters, just growth.
· We speak truth kindly: With curiosity, not ego.
· We give first: Generosity fuels momentum.
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· We give first: Generosity fuels momentum
· We speak truth kindly: With curiosity, not ego
· We share what works and what doesn’t. No filters, just growth
· We lead with energy and empathy, and always leave things better

Meet Edward Foord

Edward Foord has over 20 years of experience in corporate sustainability, leadership programs, and safety systems. He founded BetterHumanity to help organizations achieve real impact through practical sustainability strategies and a strong people-first approach.

OUR STORY

Countryside UK – wanting to protect and conserve natural beauty and inherent value not ‘capital’
Advanced automative iso 14001 implementaiotn
Cconsulting with BAE land systems, Aqua Gib, Bong, Yotk hand made bricks, GreenCore Sanwiches on Sustainabilty
Move to Taiwan
Worked in national and state psotions around sustianblity
Consulted to companies around safety, occhealth, environment and carbon mapping
Over 400 audits in 90 sectors and coaching support to QLD companies
Australia wide audits - safety and cultre
Carbon profiling of the QLD tourism industry with a team anc creating a model for 2030 / 2050.
Featured at QODE 2020 – AR remote support for veterans - Solar Vantage
Circular economy projects
Generative AI apps for Sustainability support
Product Life cycle Analysis
Occupational Health studies and reviews across Australia for multiple industries

You³ is built on the idea that when the right support, systems, and guidance surround you, your impact multiplies. We combine two decades of experience across sustainability, safety, culture, environmental systems, AI innovation, and organisational development into practical, human-centred solutions for industry.
Our work spans ISO systems, AS 4024 machinery safety, carbon profiling, circular economy projects, and nationwide audits across 90 sectors. At You³ we help organisations protect people, improve performance, and create genuine, sustainable change — multiplying their impact across teams, communities, and the environment.