Why is achieving internal ESG alignment so important?
Successfully integrating environmental, social, and governance factors into the core business strategy can be very challenging for leadership teams to manage.
The process often reveals other governance and managerial gaps that have gone unaddressed in the business. Examples include lack of business processes, missing policies, and outdated data management practices . In addition, functional managers may lack the necessary resources, skills, incentives, roadmap and vision to drive progress on their own. We can help.
Our proven process helps business leaders take the first critical steps to overcoming common ESG and sustainability planning challenges. The first step to success with ESG alignment is to understand the origins, evolution, and current state of corporate sustainability best practices for your sector, size, and position in the value chain. Then, we can help your team begin to achieve a common vision or ambition on each major social and environmental issue. It may take competitive benchmarking, cost-benefit analysis, technical studies, and other planning steps to validate that a vision is feasible in the first place.
Common ESG Alignment Challenges that
Third Partners Can Help With
Third Partners Can Help With
ESG can be complex – get experienced outside advisory to help your team move forward with confidence and clarity
Third Partners specializes in ESG alignment for companies in all sectors and stages of maturity with sustainability planning. We design and help implement powerful long range programs that prove leadership and performance on the social and environmental issues that matter most to your business and stakeholders. Learn more about how to set up effective ESG working groups as a tool to facilitate internal alignment on your corporate sustainability strategy.
ESG can be complex – get experienced outside advisory to help your team move forward with confidence and clarity
Third Partners specializes in ESG alignment for companies in all sectors and stages of maturity with sustainability planning. We design and help implement powerful long range programs that prove leadership and performance on the social and environmental issues that matter most to your business and stakeholders. Learn more about how to set up effective ESG working groups as a tool to facilitate internal alignment on your corporate sustainability strategy.
How Third Partners Creates Internal Alignment on ESG and Sustainability Strategy
Our team leverages decades of combined business and management experience to empower leadership teams with a comprehensive range of management consulting services.
Source: Adapted from Managing Complex Change Model, © 1987 Mary Lippitt of Enterprise Management, Ltd.
Managing Complex Change: A blueprint for success in ESG planning and implementation
This time-tested management model informs everything we do together. From developing a vision to providing new skills, incentives, and resources, Third Partners collaborates with leadership teams to design functionally complete ESG & Sustainability strategies that are successfully integrated into the core business strategy.
Source: Adapted from Managing Complex Change Model, © 1987 Mary Lippitt of Enterprise Management, Ltd.
Managing Complex Change: A blueprint for success in ESG planning and implementation
This time-tested management model informs everything we do together. From developing a vision to providing new skills, incentives, and resources, Third Partners collaborates with leadership teams to design functionally complete ESG & Sustainability strategies that are successfully integrated into the core business strategy.
ESG Alignment Testimonial
“They helped us create a step-by-step sustainability roadmap that has already lived through a number of major growth milestones including new acquisitions, leadership changes, and new market launches. When I look at where we are today and where we started with ESG planning, I am confident that we are on the right track. Bringing customer insights and external market research into the process was a benefit that increased our level of confidence and helped with prioritization. We have now been through a formal ESG reporting cycle with our investor and they are also satisfied with our year-over-year progress.”
Eric R.
Chief of Staff and Project Management Officer, Profile Products
ESG Alignment Testimonial
“They helped us create a step-by-step sustainability roadmap that has already lived through a number of major growth milestones including new acquisitions, leadership changes, and new market launches. When I look at where we are today and where we started with ESG planning, I am confident that we are on the right track. Bringing customer insights and external market research into the process was a benefit that increased our level of confidence and helped with prioritization. We have now been through a formal ESG reporting cycle with our investor and they are also satisfied with our year-over-year progress.”
Eric R.
Chief of Staff and Project Management Officer, Profile Products
ESG Alignment Case Study: Nice-Pak
Nice-Pak, a category leader in consumer-packaged goods, aimed to stay ahead of consumer and retailer expectations in sustainable packaging, responsible sourcing of forest-derived materials, end-of-life impacts, and other ESG issues in key areas of business operations. Third Partners was hired to integrate with their team as an outsourced chief sustainability officer. Through a maturity audit, materiality assessment, executive workshops, and other best practices, Third Partners enabled Nice-Pak to align their executive team on a comprehensive long-term sustainability plan. We also strengthened Nice-Pak’s current operations to outperform retailer expectations for environmental performance and disclosure, and enabled the company to confidently communicate data-driven sustainability claims to B2B and B2C audiences as part of their launch of sustainable product and packaging innovations.
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