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Workplace training and strategy

• Employee learning and development workshops- Improve staff understanding of sustainability, so they know:
  • What it means & what to do
  • How it links to corporate strategy & success
  • How it reduces costs and delivers better outcomes for customers
• Sustainability leadership so your organisation can ‘grow’ sustainability leaders
• Building team based solutions to sustainability issues

Marketplace

• Identify, consult and partner with the key influencers – from all sectors – who can make or break your participation in the sustainability developments in your sector
• Partnerships with suppliers, development of company and supplier alignment

Community

• Consultations and discussion with communities where you operate, hire or seek supplies
• Partnerships between commercial, government and community providers to deliver innovative services and solutions.
• Sustainable community partnerships and sponsorships – targeted to match purpose and values so the relationship delivers on expectations and meets measurable social and environmental outcomes.

Benefits

• Improving recruitment, retention and performance
• Behaviour changes – Company’s sustainability stance is experienced not just talked about, reinforcing and improving retention and recruitment of high performing candidates
• Increased consumer loyalty, staff engagement, improved social reputation and standing with like-minded business leaders
• Enhanced relationships with government, communities, special interest groups

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Sustainable Cities, Precincts & Infrastructure

• Sustainable City and Precinct Strategies based on tangible and targeted outcomes
• Implementation to deliver sustainable outcomes at the precinct and project levels; and through the administration authority of the city
• Infrastructure sustainability planning- key elements such as trunk infrastructure, alternative energy sources and transport and community services.
• Measurement and monitoring

Green building expertise

• Advising developers on meeting standards from design to operational stages
• Co-development of  Pearls Rating Method for Buildings and Communities, part of Abu Dhabi
• Independent assessment of green building star ratings

Climate Action – facilitation, consultation, presentations  and behaviour change programs

• Presentations to companies and World Business Council on Climate change as a business risk
• Facilitation & consultation on climate change and energy efficiency opportunities
• Behaviour change programs  – to reduce energy costs and spending on costly new infrastructure
• We partner with proven providers to measure carbon emissions and to offer advice on international developments, climate change adaptation and emissions trading and on regulatory compliance in Australia with National Greenhouse Energy Reporting Scheme  and the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme

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Scope the opportunities to celebrate your sustainability successes and increase your profile.

• Internally, take sustainability out of its silo and promote it across your organisation through internal communications to employees, managers, senior teams and Board Directors
• Externally, join the sustainability conversation in your sector or industry, such as by releasing a sustainability report

Coaching in communications

• So the communications team delivers the right message in the right medium and the right time to achieve the right results
• Leadership handling media interviews, developing strong media messages, persuasive public speaking and presentations

External communications

• Develop the stories you can tell your consumers
• Identify all the touch points where you can leverage sustainability – on packaging, in media, on sites
• Target the right media to reach your desired audiences whether they are investors, customers, stakeholders, government decision makers  or industry peers
• Meet the different needs of print, radio, television or online
• Proactively achieve positive media coverage rather than just managing risks and issues

Check your brand heartbeat.

• Competitor analysis- measure your reputation against competitors
• Global or sectoral benchmarking-  against leaders in your sector, the journalists and influencers in the media, and the relevant indexes

Benefits

• Company wide understanding of your sustainability, better sustainability reporting, and culture change programs to lower your energy and water use and operational costs
• Wins investors, clients and government support
• Reinforces your company reputation and brand marketing and positioning
• Raises your profile and influence as a good corporate citizen

Previous clients for these services include

Over 10 global companies including oil, steel, automotive, property development and investment companies, 50 national companies, 25 state government departments, 7 national media networks offering TV, radio and online media shows and an international magazine company.

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Governance

• After your Board approves a sustainability vision and charter, we show you how your corporate structure and decision making processes can support this vision
• Manage risks by identifying environmental and social issues in the risk process
• Sustainability Due Diligence for potential acquisition targets

Management & Business Planning –

• Integrate social and environmental issues in business planning and budgets, with a consistent approach across business units and divisions

Accountability

•    Improve sustainability performance of individual managers, divisions, company and projects with by setting measurable key performance indicators in individual employee performance agreements and annual reviews

Monitoring performance

• Use customised computer software to track progress against actions, to make reporting easy and to drive behavioural change. Track sustainability performance data at the building, project, business unit and corporate level

Benefits – what gets measured gets done

• Identify current and future opportunities and risks for the business
• Set clear direction, results and accountability with measurable key performance indicators
• Achieve consistent  approach across business units and divisions
• Improve sustainability performance of individual managers, divisions, company and projects
• Link sustainability performance to financial performance and return on investment
• Employees manage their sustainability actions to optimise sustainability outcomes

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“There is growing evidence that companies most engaged in social and environmental sustainability are also the most profitable.”
Richard Petty, President of Certified Practising Accountants Australia

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Cost savings

• Resource efficiency programmes to reduce and manage energy, water, waste costs

Short term think tank and Guidance:

• Presentations on the business case for sustainability – to make sure everyone’s on board
• Guidance- Whether you are contemplating commencing your company’s sustainability journey or need resources to implement an immediate project

Business strategy – using sustainability as a growth driver

• 21st century audit – to check your company’s current pulse quickly – we offer a visual radar that shows your gaps
• Prioritising issues – what are the key sustainability intiatives required
• Strategy- articulating direction for internal and external delivery
• Developing a Sustainability Vision your Board and senior managers can sign off on

Sustainability mentoring to implement the strategy

• Making the strategy tangible and relevant across the organisation, to each business unit
• Targeted implementation- driven by your business priorities- such as sustainable procurement & supply chain.

Benefits

• Operational cost savings of 20%-40% in reduced energy, 30% in reduced indoor water, 50% reduced outdoor water, 50% reduced waste
• Reduced costs by $US 10 million after supply chain audit
• Financial performance and return on investment linked to performance [link to Performance]
• Alignment between sustainability and business activities

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