Raise and Deploy Capital to Forest Investment Faster – with less risk, more impact and more value

As an independent strategic advisor – The ForestLink helps Investment Managers and NbS Developers raise and deploy capital faster

Moving from pitch decks and spreadsheets to capitalized forests that deliver real impact and profitable investment outcomes

When you want to get capital to the ground sooner – I can help

You’re trying to raise capital for your forest and land-use strategies—but you’re navigating investor scrutiny, peer competition, evolving sustainability expectations, and the challenge of building a strategy that stands up to investor needs and holds up in implementation.

The ForestLink helps you gain clarity, credibility, and momentum—whether you’re still shaping your strategy or aiming to deploy capital ahead of the next planting window.

For Asset Managers
For NbS Developers
Shauna Matkovich, The ForestLink

I typically support clients with these needs:

workshops & advisory services

1. Getting Your Strategy Investment-Ready

When you’re shaping a new strategy – or repositioning an existing one – and need to stand out, satisfy investor expectations, and align your team around both financial and impact goals. The ForestLink’s Workshops and Advisory Services are structured to help.

Core Offers Include:

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  • Workshops to build internal alignment and teams investors want to back,
  • Strategy design support for combining financial and impact objectives that attracts investors,
  • Sustainability, ESG and Impact training and advisory,
  • Business development support to ensure your backend documentation and analysis are complete and that your investment case and impact narrative are compelling.
Workshops & Advisory

2. Building the Infrastructure to Move Capital

When your strategy is gaining traction, but you need the right systems, policies and tools to meet investor standards and keep capital flowing—without delays or credibility risks. The ForestLink’s Done-for-You Services combine advisory and execution to build what you need.

Core Offers Include:

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  • Sustainability or ESG policy frameworks and Environmental & Social Management System (ESMS) development,
  • Pipeline development,
  • ESG risk and Impact due diligence,
  • Investment process design or improvement,
  • Sustainability and impact reporting systems.
Done-for-You Services
Building the Infrastructure to Move Capital
fractional services

3. Filling Senior Gaps Without Full-Time Overhead

When you need in-house leadership on sustainability or business development to maintain momentum – but don’t have the need or budget for a permanent hire. The ForestLink’s Fractional Services give you senior leadership on a part-time, non-permanent basis.

Core Offers Include:

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  • Fractional Sustainability Directorship
  • Fractional Business Development Directorship
  • Investor engagement and fundraising strategy
  • Mid-term strategy reviews and performance evaluations
Fractional Services
Client-testimonials

After the workshop our approach to defining sustainability targets is more structured

… which will enable more coherent and consistent communication with investors. I would absolutely recommend Shauna, highlighting that her strong, hands-on sector experience and deep understanding of the core business, combined with a solid theoretical and analytical approach is a powerful combination from which anyone operating in the forest sector would benefit.

Jyri Hietala, CapMan

Shauna was an invaluable advisor to our research effort

… covering the emerging landscape of impact forestry real asset funds. She adeptly helped us identify key fund attributes, market trends, and impact strategies to watch, weaving insights into a narrative relevant to our family office membership base. We’re grateful for her professionalism, expertise, and collaborative spirit.

Gabriela Leslie, CREO

Our team benefitted from working with Shauna in a number of ways

… specifically on providing detailed feedback to a deal we were due diligencing, supporting a harmonized development of our team’s investment process and assessing and evaluating risks. I very much appreciated her highly structured approach in building the team’s capacity on going about transactions.

Markus Grulke, Arbaro Advisors

Shauna gives big picture advice looking at a situation holistically

… rather than getting over focused on one point or detail. She also provides a good balance between an international perspective while also understanding and reflecting on local perspectives and needs.

Alan Knight, Drax

Shauna has been a great support in drafting and developing the Fund's sustainability strategy

… She has been leading group meetings, bringing a sustainability perspective to various workstreams. She has a professional approach that combines ESG and impact themes with her commercial mindset.

Erik Anderzen, International Woodland Company

Shauna has the ability to distil complex technical concepts into actionable strategies

… her engagement has proven instrumental in providing invaluable insights into how we look at quality of carbon credits for afforestation, reforestation and revegetation (ARR) opportunities. Her contributions have not only elevated our decision-making processes, but have also added a distinct strategic advantage to our company.

Maria Filmanovic, Abatable

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