Sustainability for SMEs and Solopreneurs
Sustainability is no longer optional – it’s a competitive advantage. Owner-led SMEs and solopreneurs that integrate sustainability into daily operations build stronger brands, win client trust and discover new business opportunities.

SEASTAR is a clear path to building a sustainable business: Strengthen PURPOSE by identifying driving forces, mapping resources, and connecting them to global needs. Sharpen FOCUS by analyzing impact, setting goals, and creating shared value for greater societal benefit. Identify stakeholders to build long-term RELATIONSHIPS. Develop a STRATEGY to refine your offering, create new business opportunities, and find your niche in the market. Finally, strengthen your brand through storytelling with relevant messages and trustworthy COMMUNICATION.
SeaStar – Smarter Business Through Sustainability
For over 35 years I have been an entrepreneur and I grew up in a family of small business owners. With a background as a copywriter and journalist, I know how to turn complex ideas into clear communication.
In recent years I have specialized in sustainable business development, circular economy and writing business client studies. Today I combine my skills in communication and sustainability to guide small companies and solopreneurs here in Sweden.
I have created the concept SeaStar – Sustainable Business as a Competitive Advantage to support small owner-led companies and solopreneurs to kickstart and communicate their sustainability work.
SeaStar Online Course – for solopreneurs who do everything themselves. Step by step you learn how to create a sustainability policy, build an action plan and strengthen your communication through a storyboard. The course includes films, worksheets and personal coaching sessions.
SeaStar Coaching Package – for SMEs that need to get started, engage employees and make sustainability part of daily business. Together we create a policy, an action plan and a clear direction that links sustainability to business value.
Sustainability Copywriting – I help SMEs showcase their work through client case studies. These business stories make sustainability tangible, credible and easy to share – on the web and in social media- to enforce marketing and sales.
Maria Lindberg Howard
Sustainability Coach & Copywriter
+46 (0)708 85 05 28
maria@beep.se
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Sustainability Coach & Copywriter
Throughout my professional life, I have worked with communication. My clients are companies of all sizes in a variety of industries. It has given me a deeper understanding of different organizations’ challenges and opportunities.
As a copywriter, journalist and marketing specialist, I am accustomed to seeing things in a larger context and quickly getting acquainted with business ideas, products, and services. Depending on the channel and message, I write commercially and editorially and adapt texts to the recipients.
VOCATIONAL EDUCATION: Copywriter (Berghs School of Communication), journalist (Poppius Journalist School), and a wide range of further education in communication. Certified Business 4SDGs Change Leader in sustainability according to Agenda 2030 (VATI Academy), Coaching leadership (Coach2Coach Academy), and 8 Steps for Circular Business (CirEko Academy), and several courses in entrepreneurship, business development, sustainability, and circular economy. I continue to immerse myself in the area of sustainable enterprising and communication.