We provide specialist consultants to work with organisations building their sustainability skills to drive effective sustainability strategies that are deliverable
Are you a corporate leader whose organisation is facing mounting pressure to have a credible sustainability strategy and operations?
Whether due to regulatory requirements, investor expectations, or supply chain demands you know you need better ESG and sustainability capability and performance.
Use Rhizome Strategy to resource short-term sustainability senior talent, or hire a consultant or coach and we will get you ahead fast in the new, complex world of ESG and sustainability.
We ensure your sustainability strategy complements your business strategy with an implementation plan bespoke to your firm. We will get your firm sustainability fit fast, leaving you perfectly poised to continue to deliver.
Strong and confident leadership underpins every successful strategy. We make this happen in ESG and sustainability.
Our specialities in sustainability are leadership, strategy and its implementation and execution, and ESG accountability including governance, disclosures and reporting.
We focus on the mitigation of ESG risk and long-term competitive advantage and are always mindful of how sustainability initiatives can increase revenues, reduce costs and be an effective way to create resilience.
We believe creating financial value can be aligned with responsible and ethical business practices.
Our Services
Fractional & Interim
Chief Sustainability Officers
Engage a senior professional to fast track your sustainability competency
Sustainability
Consulting
Our services are across sustainability strategy, implementation and reporting
Sustainability Leadership
Coaching
Lead with authority: coaching for CEOs, Board members, CFOs and the C-Suite
Sustainability Maturity
Assessment
Our diagnostic tool is designed for firms seeking improvement in their sustainability competency and for investor ESG due diligence
Non Executive Director &
ESG Committee services
Our qualified and experienced consultants serve as Non Exec Directors and on ESG and Audit/Risk Board Committees
Other services:
Expert speakers
We enjoy sharing our expertise and are pleased to provide speakers and panellists across a range of sustainability and ESG topics
If your organisation is facing new ESG expectations but is lacking in internal expertise and capability, we can help you build the required leadership skills, processes and competencies to turn sustainability from a challenge into a competitive advantage.
- We help build capability in sustainability strategy and execution from the top-down and ground-up.
- We bring unique experience from being top tier strategy consultants who have worked in house as hands-on sustainability leaders.
Our capabilities and how we can help
Developing a sustainability strategy aligned to your corporate strategy
An effective sustainability strategy is fully integrated into your business strategy, addressing your most material ESG impacts over the long term and across various future scenarios. It should incorporate both risk mitigation and value-creating opportunities internally and throughout the supply chain.
Embedding sustainability in your operations
Embedding sustainability in your operations targets data provision, resource efficiency, innovation and future preparedness. Optimally, your organisation’s internal processes will incorporate sustainability in design, procurement, manufacturing, service provision, distribution and end use. This is supported by effective processes for ESG data gathering, collation, analysis and monitoring.
Optimising your sustainability organisation and management structure
The ownership and responsibility for sustainability should be clearly defined both as a functional area and embedded within other roles across your organisation. Governance structures should ensure sustainability is regularly discussed by your Board and there is consistency in your organisation’s actions, employee behaviours and reward mechanisms aligned with your organisation’s sustainability aspirations.
Engaging with your stakeholders
Stakeholder engagement is an integral component to materiality analysis that looks at how sustainability factors impact a company and its financial prospects, and how the organisation is impacting society and the environment. Once material impacts have been identified and included in the sustainability strategy, the organisation should have regular dialog with both internal and external stakeholders on its progress against goals.
Excelling in your ESG reporting and disclosures
The sustainability ecosystem has ways organisations can signal their commitments and impact, from mandatory regulatory disclosures to voluntary frameworks, accreditations and scorecard ratings. Meeting these disclosure requirements necessitates mastery of complex ESG reporting which serves an important function to provide transparency and accountability.
