Key Services

SAP - Sustainability Action Plan

How do I build sustainability into my core business strategy? How do I align my employees and stakeholders to the overall sustainability vision? Where do I start?

Background/Who Needs a SAP:

Many organizations simply create a laundry list of environmental and social initiatives, which is often a short-sighted approach. The SAP is for organizations that are transitioning from traditional to transformative business practices, and ready to move to sustainability at the core. Perhaps your company has environmental and social awareness, but is not getting recognized or having difficulties in authentically communicating the sustainability message throughout the organization and to all stakeholders. Or, perhaps you feel your organization is stagnating or losing momentum in environmental or social initiatives.

Benefits:

Sustainability provides a unique lens through which to evaluate your business and drive innovation at every level of your organization. Sustainability is just good business, it’s no longer about environmental “do-gooding”; it is a cornerstone of operating in a new, collaborative economy. It enables you to:

create benefits for your own bottom line
engage your stakeholders
enhance the planet while creating new opportunities such as:
- reductions in operating costs and business risk
- increased productivity and employee morale
- strengthened business leadership amongst peer
- an increase in favorable publicity and customer retention

The Plan:

An organizational SAP will encompass a visioning process, stakeholder and employee engagement, an environmental assessment and strategic planning, including a three-five year implementation plan.

The SAP

Visioning
Human systems
Environmental assessment
- LCA - Carbon Labels
Strategic Planning

Sustainability Leadership - Spiral Table™

Spiral Table™ is a year long, intimate, monthly forum that brings together SME industry peers in progressive, confidential, collaborative discussions that help them move to the next level with their sustainability and strategic efforts. The premise is that running and operating a business from a sustainability lens and collaborating with peers is making the best strategic business decision that will enhance the organization for years to come.

It is similar to going to a conference at your desk whereby you connect to industry leaders, get the latest sustainability trends and stimulate the exchange of ideas and practices through generative dialogue processes. Spiral Table uses the latest teleconferencing technology.

Are you ready to be a SPIRAL TABLE™ participant? This program is specifically designed for the following people:

Leaders of mission-based, independently owned businesses
Entrepreneurs at heart that want to feel valued and connected and want their businesses to reflect their best values
Leaders who are committed to moving to the next level of sustainability for their business, but don't have the time to research all the latest trends to move to the next step
Businesses that are regularly innovating new products or services
Leaders who have participated in a mastermind/CEO Alliance group
Business that value strategic processes and systems and building internal and external leadership opportunities

Are you a business leader ready to collaborate with 6-8 industry peers? Let us help coordinate and facilitate this one-year long process we call Spiral Table™.

Incubator and line extentions.

We help start businesses from sustainability fundamentals. We assist with accessing grants, patient capital fundraising, B-Corp applications, and strategic growth. In order to best lend our experience and expertise in helping businesses start from the best possible position, we only work with 2 start-ups per year. Click here to apply to be one of the businesses we work with in Fall 2010.

To have us speak at your conference or tradeshow please click here:

Past speaking engagements:
- Talks (past)
  - Organicology - KPI
  - CHFA - Greening your supply chain
  - Purchases Association of Canada - Greening your supply chain
  - University of Calgary - Green Careers
  - Calgary Board of Education
  - Green Careers - Green Building Technologies - Building a Conscious Brand™
- Talks (coming-up)
  - Mount Royal University Continuing Education courses
  - Green Jobs and Social Innovation workshop - Key note, April 30, 2010