Torus is a collective impact consultancy delivering future-forward research & development, strategic leadership, and program execution for the textile & broader materials industries. Moving from insights to action, we’re motivated to build the bio-compatible systems of the future.
CAPABILITIES
leveraging the intelligence of living systems
Program Architecture
Project Management
Stakeholder Engagement
Coalition Building
Supply Chain Activation
Business Strategy & Planning
Operational Scaling
Material & Product Development
Design for Manufacturing
Product & Process Innovation
Sustainability + Circularity
Green Chemistry
Risk Mitigation + EPR
Technical
Material, Product, and Supply Chain R&D
Innovation Landscaping & Due Diligence
Alternatives Assessments
Business
Strategy
Regeneration + Circularity
Global Value Chain Resilience
Roadmapping
Project Management
Program Design + Resourcing
Role Definition + Recruiting
Partner Coordination + Governance
Program Execution
Collective Action
Theory of Change / Concept Development
Fundraising + Networking
Equity-Driven Rightsholders Engagement
Place-Based Solutions Orientation
SERVICES
TORUS HAS PARTNERED WITH A CONSTELLATION OF PIONEERING BRANDS, INDUSTRY ORGANIZATIONS, AND START-UP COALITIONS TO BRING HOLISTIC SUSTAINABILITY PROJECTS TO LIFE.
HEAR FROM SOME OF OUR CLIENTS & PARTNERS
Working with Torus Consulting has been a transformational process and an accelerant to the work on which we partnered. They organized teams, managed complex datasets, and held strong when the going got rough to help navigate the project into a success story that everyone is proud of.
REBECCA BURGESS
Founder and Executive Director,
Fibershed
OIA's Climate Action Corps Impact CoLabs were developed to galvanize industry partnerships which reduce shared supply chain emissions. Projects range from high-impact material alternatives landscaping to various implementation opportunities such as renewable energy, electrification, efficient manufacturing, supplier decarbonization and more.
OUTCOME: ~7 Impact CoLabs scoped and executed across CAC brands, resulting in lower emissions strategies and industry tools for decarbonization
Co-Founded by Torus, Fibershed, White Buffalo Land Trust, and Materevolve, the California Cotton and Climate Coalition was one of the industry's first soil-to-market initiatives that centered soil health, farmer livelihood, farm-forward supply chains, and deep industry learning for US cotton systems.
OUTCOME: Evolved into the Climate Beneficial Verified Fibers program and was a recipient of the USDA's Partnerships for Climate Smart Commodities grant.
PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS
The Nature of Fashion:
Design for Transformation
(D4T) | The Biomimicry Institute
California Cotton & Climate Coalition (C4) + Climate Beneficial Verified Fibers | Fibershed
Climate Action
Corps CoLabs | Outdoor Industry Association
Building on TBI's Nature of Fashion report, Design for Transformation was a series of interconnected research projects and implementation pilots that transformed disqualified textile waste into biocompatible outputs—including next-generation materials, agricultural amendments, and feedstocks for biosynthesis.
OUTCOME: Industry resources, municipal buy-in, and funding acquired to assess scaled feasibility through higher volume pilots.
Biostretch | Ellen MacArthur Foundation x Materiom
Collaborative project focused on assessing the challenges and opportunities of developing 100% bio-based and bio-compatible alternatives to elastane. Innovation landscape and key learnings from across the value chain created a pre-competitive environment that strove to encourage knowledge sharing, unlock participation, speed up innovation, and drive toward scaling high-potential solutions.
OUTCOME: Adoption of Biostretch next steps into 2025+ Fashion for Good trials
GET TO KNOW TORUS
Lauren Bright
Principal Consultant
As a Multidisciplinary Engineer and strategic consultant, Lauren has fifteen years of experience leading, influencing, and being an agent of change in cross-functional, ambiguous, and high-volume multinational manufacturing environments. Known for fervently driving toward results and long-term [eco]systems change, she is a publicly-recognized ideator, complex problem-solver, and industry catalyst for high-impact innovations. Her reliable, adaptive, and collaborative working style is fueled by diversity of thought, insatiable curiosity, and drive to empower multidisciplinary interactions which accelerate strategic initiatives.
Through her leadership at Torus and brand experience at Fiat-Chrysler Automobiles, Columbia Sportswear Company, Nike, and Gap Inc., Lauren has architected and directed cross-industry initiatives, built material and business strategies for the circular economy, commercialized numerous industry-leading material and process technologies, and uncovered many of the critical barriers for a successful transition away from degenerative industrial practices toward a more equitable future. In alignment with her experience and working style, Lauren has an extensive network of industry-revered colleagues who often come together to form Torus project teams.
WHY TORUS?
NATURAL SYSTEMS DESIGN: TOROIDAL FLOWS
Inspired by donut economics, ecology, and the natural phenomena of self-organizing, regenerative flows of energy and matter, the torus shape symbolizes the multi-dimensional nature of circularity. From magnetic fields to DNA, the torus ensures that, even with complex, entangled inputs, the system remains orderly. The embodiment of this structure and the harmonization of opposing forces represents how Torus architects collaborative efforts: with intention to untangle nuance and drive toward place-based implementation which strengthens both operational and climate resilience.
