Building impactful, high performing purpose-driven businesses
In an increasingly competitive business environment, experienced advisory is more important than ever.
Leverage the right combination of people, process and technology to turn sustainability ambition into action and become a more responsible and profitable business.
With our Business Planning and Advisory Services, our clients benefit from tailored advice that will meet their needs at any stage of their business’ life cycle - we can help you to make the right decisions to support your organisation’s growth.
Business has a pivotal role to play in solving the greatest challenge of our time and shaping a safe, just and thriving future for people and planet. With innovative thinking and revolutionary action, organizations can realize the best version of their businesses — successful, sustainable and prepared for the future — and drive systemic change. To achieve this, leaders need to make sustainability core to their enterprise strategies and business models.
We know that’s easier said than done. But that’s why we’re here. Sustainable Business Consulting can serve as your expert guide on the journey to sustainability-driven transformation.
To form actionable strategies, you have to start with a solid diagnostic using the best available data and metrics. What is known? What is unknown?
What’s your ambition, and how will you meet it? Setting clear, attainable objectives that are well-understood within the organization is a prerequisite to meeting them
Sustainable transformation cannot be achieved by maintaining the status quo, but by executing initiatives that result in a measurable — and meaningful — positive environmental impact to operate within planetary boundaries.
We assist clients in creating a strategy that helps enable sustainability to deliver long-term value for shareholders and wider stakeholders. Through this, clients understand the opportunities for competitive advantage and the journey to get there.
Business strategy - the term is discussed all the time, but what does it really mean? At SBC, we believe that no organisation is the same. And that means no business strategy should be the same either. That's why our strategic advisory team takes the time to get to know your organisation and understand its needs. Using this information, we'll provide a completely bespoke set of services that addresses your unique strategic requirements, whatever those might be.
There are several essential strategy questions businesses should (but don't always) know the answer to:
Our strategic advisory team will help you answer these questions.
The first stage of any strategic advisory engagement is to get to know your business or organisation at the deepest level possible. This involves getting to know you and your business, what makes it tick and what success looks like for you. Through in-person meetings as well as sending you a range of questionnaires and other materials, we'll also conduct our own market research, using both our national and global network to assess industry conditions. Often specific issues that your organisation may not have been aware of can emerge.
Once we've developed a thorough understanding of your business and the industry you operate in, we'll work out exactly what strategic advisory services your business will benefit from, with the aim of helping you answer the questions above.
Because no organisation is the same, there are a wide range of strategic advisory services you might benefit from. These include:
We help clients embed and adapt their governance so that the value created by their competitive advantage sustains over the long term . We bring experience of supporting boards and management teams in designing frameworks, team processes and leadership dynamics to support delivery of sustainable value to stakeholders.
Expert guidance that helps you build quality governance structures and improve your resilience.
Insight and technical expertise that helps you evaluate the effectiveness of your board.
Do you need guidance on reviewing and improving your corporate governance best practice?
Expert guidance that helps you build quality governance structures and improve your resilience. The right governance structures are critical to efficient decision-making that delivers successful outcomes.
Aligning your governance framework to your strategy gives you the structure and agility to move forward at the right pace and react to significant change events.
Insight and technical expertise that helps you evaluate the effectiveness of your board
Do you need guidance on reviewing and improving your corporate governance best practice?
Performance metrics and monitoring processes are in place to track progress in advancing sustainable business practice. Help implement and execute your transformation projects, provide high-impact mandatory and voluntary reporting, and tell a credible story through your engagement with stakeholders, regulators and investors.
Communication to external and internal stakeholders offers an accurate and holistic view of the organisation’s sustainability performance.
Enable your supply chains to reduce carbon footprint, risk, build brand equity and ultimately build on a sustainable future for your enterprise.
Plan your business' future
Succession planning can mean different things to different people. It can also be a stressful time if you’re not backed by the right team.
Regardless of your situation, whether it’s protecting your personal wealth or exiting a business, succession decision making is rarely straightforward. But having SBC behind you means it can happen as smoothly as possible. SBC ’s succession planning specialists can provide an objective perspective and support when you’re planning your future.
SBC can help with:
Get ahead of the game with tailored, proactive advice from SBC succession planning experts. to find out more.
Is your business generating the returns you want?
Every growing business can go through phases where profit is minimal or cashflow is strained. How you prepare for and respond to such times is what determines a business’ success and, ultimately, owners’ returns.
Whether your business is emerging or well established, we can help you with a range of services.
How SBC can help:
We support you with optimising your HR function by advising you, guiding you and finding solutions for your HR challenges in matters such as strategy definition, HR audit and effectiveness/maturity assessment, process review or design, job description and job evaluation.
We also develop HR tailor-made policies and procedures fitting your working environment and requirements such as mobility, homeworking, working time, travel or secondment, amongst others.
We also accompany you in adopting your organisational changes through customised change management strategies, action plans and operational support.
In light of this, we develop tailor-made HR & Employment Advisory services to assist our clients in integrating their people challenges with their business strategy.
We offer various sustainability consultancy services for our esteemed clients. These include; Sustainability Assessment, Sustainability Strategy, Sustainability Training, Sustainability Investment...
We believe in the potential and ambitions of young entrepreneurs across the globe. As an entrepreneur, you are in a unique position — you not only own the business, but you are...
Adding value into investment decision making, raising capital, financial product design, operations and asset ownership
The sustainability reporting and disclosure landscape is complex and evolving – we make it simple.
Transforming production & consumption with real world expertise to deliver a resilient circular economy, and a healthy, sustainable future for all.
