“Since we’ve started this journey, I am seeing small improvements and exciting shifts on an almost weekly basis.” Celeste van Tonder, Sustainability Lead, Pepkor Group

Sustainability integration is a long term, cross-functional initiative. If done badly, it runs the risk of destabilising the organisation before it fails. If done effectively, it is transformative. This cannot be done in five easy steps. Several of our clients learnt that the hard way, before they found us.

We partner with your internal lead or team to make integration simpler, more conscious and effective. It might be a challenging prospect but sustainability practitioners have worked long and hard for decades to make it easier.

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To account to stakeholders, organisations report their progress and prospects.  Effective reporting bridges the gap between disclosure and communication, and helps drive a process of internal reflection on company strategy. We’ve been helping our clients do this for more than two decades.

As disclosure expectations are standardised, this is becoming easier. But standardisation runs the risk of promoting ‘tick box’ compliance rather than meaningful interrogation of what is material to your business and your stakeholders.

• We have advised companies across Africa in structuring their integrated and sustainability reports; many of these reports have been  publicly acknowledged for their pioneering approaches
• We have worked with the stock exchanges in South Africa (JSE), Botswana (BSE), Uganda (USE) and Ghana (GSE) to develop their Sustainability and Climate Disclosure Guidance aligned with global reporting standards and the local context
• We have engaged with global organisations such as the GRI, IIRC, CDP and ISO in developing and promoting standards to encourage  greater corporate transparency
• We have designed and led materiality processes and innovative stakeholder engagement activities to ensure meaningful disclosure

While we still draft a few integrated and sustainability reports every year, our primary focus is on providing reporting and disclosure support:

• We engage with Boards and executive teams to assist them in developing meaningful disclosure practices
• We facilitate highly effective materiality processes and stakeholder engagements
• We undertake gap analyses against recognised disclosure standards and frameworks, including IFRS S1 and S2
• We share our experience to help your reporting team hone their process and product.

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“Putting Shared Value into practice helped TFG boost speed-to-market and capacity, while creating jobs in a rural area and the economy as a whole.” Graham Choice | Head of Design, Manufacturing and Prestige Clothing at TFG

Your company has a unique pathway to scaling its positive social and environmental impact. We’ll work with you to find it and make it happen. Along the way, we will help you grow your resilience too. It won’t be overnight. But we can help you make it more likely and more cost effective.

We start by focusing the opportunity space using pattern analytics. We identify opportunities by analysing the need and by drawing on diverse perspectives. Once we have narrowed the options, we test possibilities using safe-to-fail methods. We amplify what works; we learn from failures.

This is not the orthodox approach of the big consultancies. We will never tell you to take big risks for big rewards. When things are complex, we take small steps forward until we have found a way to manage the uncertainty. If you want to innovate, we will work with you to find a better pathway to scale.

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