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Nicolas Ceasar

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Alexandra Stubbings

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The challenges of sustainability are multifaceted and deeply interconnected. Our organisational responses have to be too.
Alexandra Stubbings, Sustainability Practice Group Co-leader.

Sustainability doesn't do hierarchy, boundaries, silos, fiscal years or politics. It’s time to embrace it.
Nicolas Ceasar, Sustainability Practice Group Co-leader.

Leading organisations have realised that sustainability and its discontents are a key driver of strategy. This determines how they think about leadership, culture and purpose, how they collaborate with their customers and stakeholders and how they innovate, plan for the future and evolve. Embracing the opportunities inherent within sustainability allows our clients to look at their organisation with fresh eyes and enables new opportunities to emerge.

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What we offer

Our four main services include:

  • Strategic engagement - we help executive teams engage with issues material to their organisation in a way that empowers them to have high quality discussions, develop strategic responses, engage with others and reap the benefits from swift action
  • Stakeholder engagement - we support organisations in taking a whole system approach to sustainability issues which go beyond organisational silos and boundaries. We help to create the conditions for generative stakeholder dialogue, collaboration and even use stakeholder engagement as a vehicle for innovating new products and services
  • Integrated change programmes - we bring our extensive organisational change knowledge and experience together with our sustainability know how to support clients to use sustainability as crucible for employee engagement, sense-making and culture change
  • Executive education - we work with our clients to develop highly tailored workshops, retreats and planning away days for senior leaders keen to understand specific sustainability issues more deeply and how to take action. Please see our article on Climate Change workshops for politicians as an example.

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