"You are what you eat — so don't be beige, fake and lifeless!"
Steph Ley, BANT Registered Nutritionist, BSc, DipION, mBANT mGNCt
I'm a BANT registered nutritionist, former event catering business owner — and someone who has been genuinely obsessed with food her entire life.
Not just the science of it. The joy of it, the craft of it, and the enormous, underestimated power it has to change how people feel.
That combination is what makes my nutrition consultancy different. I know what a truly great dish looks and tastes like. I know how a kitchen actually runs under pressure. I've costed recipes, negotiated with suppliers, managed catering teams across busy events, and felt the commercial pressure that makes most "just serve more salad" nutrition advice completely useless in the real world.
Whether you need a full audit to boost the health of your workplace food environment, a strategic nutrition partnership for your food brand, or expert nutritional insight for recipe development and PR — I can help.
My work is anchored in my signature Four Pillars Framework for workplace nutrition: metabolic stability, sustained cognitive energy, stress resilience, and immune support.
Everything I recommend is built to move the needle on all four.
SERVICE 01:
OFFICE FOOD & CATERING REVIEWS
For HR Directors, Facilities Managers, and People & Wellbeing Teams
Because you can't run an effective wellness strategy while your vending machine is full of Haribo.
As corporate nutrition consultant, I can carry out a workplace nutrition assessment and look at how the food available within your business is either working for your team — or quietly working against them.
Most employers already spend money on workplace catering. Very few ever stop to check whether it's truly healthy and actually helping your employees.
Ultra-processed snacks in meeting rooms, glucose-spiking lunches, vending machines full of sugar-laden drinks. These aren't small things. They are eroding your team's energy, focus, and resilience every single day.
Employers have enormous power to nudge staff toward better healthier choices simply through environment design. I help you use that power well, making the healthy option the easy option, without turning your workplace into a wellness bootcamp or your kitchen team into reluctant health evangelists.
The result? No 3pm slump. Better stress resilience. Fewer sick days. A team that actually performs.
WHAT A WORKPLACE NUTRITION HEALTH AUDIT CAN COVER
The Full Food Map I can review everything your employees eat or drink on-site — from the lunches served in meetings down to the exact brand of biscuits sitting in the staff kitchen.
We call it The Food Map: a 360° hunt for hidden energy-drainers across your entire food environment.
Things we can include in the healthy food review:
Corporate Nutrition Workshops & Seminars: Pair your audit with an interactive workplace wellness session for maximum employee engagement.
WHAT WE CAN DELIVER
Turns out, you can buy better productivity. It's called good food.
🛒 A Procurement Guide That Actually Gets Used A curated list of clean-label, nutrient-dense swaps — drawn from UK supermarket brands your team already recognises — to replace energy-crashing snacks and drinks. Practical, budget-conscious, and ready to hand directly to procurement.
🥗 Chef-Friendly Menu Advice Actionable, operationally sound feedback on your menus: portion balance, healthier fat sources, fibre content, hidden UPF reduction, and recipe modifications that flatten glucose curves & pack in the nutrients— without creating headaches for your kitchen team. No faff, no impossible-to-source ingredients, no disruption to supply chains.
🎯 Targeted Wellness Menu Solutions Bespoke seasonal specials and menu additions designed around your specific workplace health priorities — whether that's Type 2 diabetes prevention, burnout recovery, immune support during winter, or hormone health.
🧠 Behavioural Nudge Strategy Guidance on menu design, naming, pricing psychology, and food placement to ensure the healthiest choice is always the most visible and attractive option (for both staff and the business's bottom line.)
📊 A Measurable Baseline An optional staff energy and wellbeing snapshot survey before and after implementation, so you can demonstrate ROI to stakeholders and leadership.
Book a free call to see how I can help make healthy eating the tasty default in your workplace
SERVICE 02:
FOOD BRAND & COMMERCIAL NUTRITION CONSULTANCY
For: Food Brands, Wellness Start-Ups, Caterers, and New Product Development (NPD) Teams
The food industry is full of 'healthy' products that aren't. Don't be one of them
If you're building, scaling, or repositioning a food brand, you need more than a nutritionist who can read a label.
You need someone who genuinely loves food, understands commercial development, and can give your brand credible, science-backed nutritional authority that doesn't sound like it was written by a committee (or AI).
Food has been my world long before I qualified as a nutritionist. A business management degree taught me how organisations make decisions. Running a catering company taught me how food businesses actually work — the margins, the logistics, the gap between a great recipe and one that actually delivers at scale.
And years of studying nutrition science gave me the tools to make food that's not just delicious but genuinely, meaningfully good for people. I bring all of that to every brand I work with.
WHAT I CAN HELP WITH
Consumers are savvier than ever — and they can spot a hollow health claim a mile off. As a corporate nutrition consultant, here are some ways I help your brand earn their trust:
A genuine health claim may just be your best marketing strategy.
WHY WORK WITH STEPH LEY
Food isn't just my profession. It's been my obsession since long before I had the qualifications to back it up — the kind of obsession that means I genuinely care whether a recipe works, whether a menu is exciting, and whether what ends up on someone's plate is actually worth eating.
My business management degree gave me a commercial lens most nutritionists don't have. I understand margins, procurement decisions, operational constraints, and why the cheapest option usually wins unless someone makes a compelling case for something better.
I know how to make that case.
Running catering at large-scale events gave me something else: real credibility in a food environment under pressure. I've sweated the menu costs, managed the supply chain on-site, and dealt with the gap between what a recipe looks like on paper and what actually comes out when you're feeding hundreds of people.
I'm a BANT registered nutritionist (BSc, DipION, mBANT mGNC) — which means everything I recommend is grounded in current evidence, not wellness trends. And I bring a refreshingly direct, no-jargon approach that resonates with both leadership teams and kitchen staff.
My Four Pillars Framework keeps every recommendation focused on what actually matters in a working environment:
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⚡ Metabolic Stability — eliminating the glucose spikes that steal your team's afternoon
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🧠 Sustained Cognitive Energy — fuelling the brain for deep work, not just getting through the day
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🛡️ Stress Resilience — the nutritional foundations that help people cope, adapt, and recover
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🌱 Immune Resilience — reducing sick days and keeping your workforce robust through every season
Find out more about me or get in touch to see how I can help spread the joy of food!
GOT A BIGGER APPETITE FOR CHANGE?
Some organisations don't want a one-off audit — they want a retained nutrition consultant in their corner for the long game.
My nutrition retainer partnerships are bespoke, ongoing, and designed for multi-site operations, contract catering environments, and growing food brands who need credible nutritional oversight without hiring in-house.
TESTIMONIALS: DON'T JUST TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT
"I spoke to Steph for an expert perspective on food in the modern workplace — incredibly knowledgeable, with a refreshing philosophy.
Highly recommend speaking to her"
Sam Burton @Forkful Magazine
" Steph is so knowledgeable and able to tailor her work. to the organisation's needs.
Would highly recommend."
Aidan Kerr @ Cancer Research UK
"Steph really knows her stuff.
I highly recommend working with Steph."
Emily Harding @ Differently Wellbeing
READY TO BUILD A FOOD CULTURE THAT ENERGISES YOUR STAFF?
Stop letting an unsupportive food environment silently undermine your team's energy, focus, and performance. Whether it's an overhauled vending machine, a smarter canteen menu, or a credible nutrition strategy for your food brand — let's build something that actually works.
Book a Corporate Strategy Call →
📍Available for UK-wide projects. In-person audits across London, Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Berkshire. Virtual advisory partnerships available nationally and internationally.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
01 How do I make my workplace canteen healthier without disrupting my contract caterer?
This is exactly where I work best. I act as an expert nutrition consultant lens alongside your existing catering provider (whether that's Compass, Sodexo, Elior, or an independent) reviewing menus and making practical, operationally sound recommendations without touching workflows, supply chains, or existing contracts. Having worked within catering, I understand the pressures your caterer is under. I work with them, not around them.
02 What is a workplace healthy eating audit?
A workplace healthy eating audit is a structured review of everything your employees eat and drink on-site & how it is impacting their health. This can include anything from vending machines and canteen menus to meeting room catering and the snacks in the staff fridge. The goal is to identify where your food environment is quietly undermining your team's energy, focus, and health and to produce practical, implementable recommendations that fix it, making the food & drink you offer genuinely healthier.
03 What should a healthy office vending machine have in it?
Mixed nuts, seed bars (under 8g sugar), olive pouches, crispy chickpeas, Greek yoghurt pouches, real jerky, oatcakes, nut butters, and low-sugar drinks like coconut water, unsweetened kombucha, or kefir. What it shouldn't have: anything with sugar or pro-inflammatory processed oils in the top three ingredients, ultra-processed "protein" bars that are essentially sweets, or standard fizzy drinks. I can provide a full curated procurement guide (drawn from widely available UK supermarket brands if preferred) just let me know what you need help with.
04 What areas do you cover for your corporate nutrition consultancy?
I can travel to workplaces across the South East of England including London, Bucks, Berks & Oxfordshire. I can also carry out workplace nutrition consultancy online to teams across the UK and internationally.
05 How do I find a nutritionist to work with my food brand?
Look for a BANT-registered nutritionist with demonstrable commercial experience, rather than just clinical practice. The gap between nutrition science and commercial food development is significant. If a nutritionist hasn't costed a recipe or worked to a commercial brief, it can be difficult for them to provide actionable advice for a growing brand. My background bridges this gap: I am BANT-registered, hold a First Class Business Management degree, and have run my own food business. I understand both the science and the commercial realities your brand operates in.
06 How do I reduce ultra-processed food in my workplace canteen?
Start with an audit of your current menu to identify where UPFs are hiding — and they do like to hide! Often in bread, sauces, dressings, drinks and snacks that seem innocuous. Then work with your kitchen team on practical swaps: lower-processed bread alternatives, scratch-made sauces, whole food snack options. The key is making changes that work within your kitchen's capability and budget — not imposing a wishlist that gets ignored by week two.
07 Do you offer nutrition consultancy for senior leaders or executive health?
This is a service I'm developing — one-to-one nutrition consultancy or small group coaching for senior leaders and executive teams, focused on cognitive performance, energy management, and stress resilience. Get in touch if this is of interest and we can have a chat!