Sustainability

We work with our clients to integrate more sustainable practices in to every stage of their value chain. We support our clients through the following 3 steps:

Prove the Business Case

We assist in the development of a strong business case for sustainability and greater corporate responsibility, helping to answer the questions: What is sustainability? Why is it important to business? How will the organization's stakeholders benefit from it? How will it be addressed? We guide an organization's executives and internal resources in developing compelling arguments for sustainability and greater corporate responsibility, which will help to galvanize broad-based support for the initiative within the organization.

Develop A Sustainability Strategy & Align the Organization

We meet each organization 'where it is' and assist leaders to develop a sustainability vision, strategy, set of guiding principles, and a detailed implementation plan. We help assess the current level of sustainability in its operations. We assist identification of areas where greatest exposure to risk exists. We help spot best opportunities for early wins so that immediate impacts on revenues, expenses, and market share can be demonstrated and used to sustain focus and support for the initiative. We assist the responsible persons in planning how the organization can best integrate sustainability upstream and downstream in its industry value chain, in alignment with and supporting the organization's current vision, mission, and success factors.

Support Implementation of Sustainability Strategies

We guide senior teams to prioritize the organization's initiatives and provide ongoing consulting support throughout the implementation of sustainability strategies and plans. We build the organization's internal capability so that sustainability thinking becomes woven into the fabric of the organization.

Dr. Brian F. Nattrass

Managing Partner, Sustainability Partners Inc. Batten Fellow, Darden Graduate School of Business, University of Virginia

Inspiring, empowering, and informative, Dr. Brian Nattrass is an internationally acclaimed pioneer and innovator in the areas of corporate social responsibility, sustainable business, and values-based leadership.

Lawyer, businessman, author and speaker, Nattrass advises many of the most prominent organizations in the world on more responsible and sustainable values-based business practices. Current clients include Fortune 500 companies, NASA, the U.S military, and all levels of government. A former All-American athlete, Nattrass had a twenty-year career in corporate law and business prior to dedicating himself to sustainable development and corporate responsibility. Having served as both CEO of a public manufacturing company and Chairman of Earth Day International, he brings both passion and an informed perspective to the issues of corporate social responsibility and values-based leadership. He is Managing Partner of Sustainability Partners, Inc., an international consultancy, and a Batten Fellow of the Darden Graduate School of Business, University of Virginia.

Dr. Nattrass is the coauthor of four books including the highly acclaimed DANCING WITH THE TIGER: Learning Sustainability Step by Natural Step, which features original case studies on many of the heroes in the growing movement of corporate social responsibility. It features some of the latest learning on values-based business from his clients such as Nike, Starbucks, the US Marines, the City of Seattle, and the international mountain resort of Whistler-Blackcomb. A previous book, the sustainability bestseller, THE NATURAL STEP FOR BUSINESS: Wealth, Ecology and the Evolutionary Corporation, has become one of the leading references internationally on sustainable business and values-based leadership, and is used by businesses, government agencies, and universities around the world.

The achievements of Dr. Nattrass have been the subject of articles in such publications as Newsweek, TIME, The New York Times, Small Business and Venture. He has also appeared on the Financial News Network (FNN), the British Broadcast Corporation (BBC), the Canadian Broadcast Corporation (CBC), the Canadian Television Network (CTV), and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC).