How we can help you:
Sustainability services
We have exceptional people - professional and personable - and match them with our own people-centric methods and tools to achieve your goals more predictably and consistently. We are skilled at tackling a variety of sustainability management challenges including:
Develop a sustainability strategy
We help leaders determine their material topics to establish and implement a sustainability strategy
Develop a sustainability program and governance
We help leaders to understand their sustainability program maturity and to craft a pragmatic improvement action plan
Develop sustainability policies and frameworks
We help leaders and teams prioritise, develop and implement sustainability policies and frameworks
Deliver a Project
We can lead your projects through planning and delivery
Assess readiness or performance
We help leaders understand how to improve their work
Recover a Project
We help leaders turnaround troubled projects
Conduct sustainability risk and opportunity analysis
We help leaders to determine their unique opportunities and risks profile and plans to harness sustainability opportunities, and to address or mitigate risks
Embed sustainability
We help leaders to embed sustainability into system, process, people and culture to truly see positive change in your business
Define sustainability metrics, reporting, disclosures and analytics
We help leaders and teams define, source and report on sustainability metrics to enable empowered decision making
Develop a sustainability strategy
We help leaders determine their material topics to establish and implement a sustainability strategy
Society’s expectations of sustainability are rapidly and significantly changing. Stakeholders are demanding that companies deliver value beyond traditional financial returns and do it through a much longer-term lens. However, these demands are not always clear and may at times be inconsistent. There is a need to clearly articulate your organisations response and the business, environmental and social value that will be delivered.
We work with leaders to:
-
Understand what sustainability means for your business and industry
-
Identify your unique key sustainability material topics considering your corporate strategy, purpose, values, and understanding your stakeholder expectations
-
Determine the current state of your sustainability strategy and its appropriateness
-
Ensure the Board, management and key functions are aligned on the sustainability strategy. Build team’s understanding of sustainability and its impact on your organisation
-
Translate strategy into actions and leave you with the capability to deliver business, environmental and social value
Develop a sustainability program and governance
We help leaders to understand their sustainability program maturity and to craft a pragmatic improvement action plan
In addition to understand your unique organisation sustainability strategy, it is crucial to set up a supporting sustainability program and governance for the ongoing success of delivering to the strategy and to ensure that an organisation can thrive in the long-term.
We work with leaders and teams to:
-
Complete a sustainability maturity assessment to determine current and desired maturity in areas including leadership/culture, integration, systems, people, risk management, audit, metrics and reporting
-
Establish or ensure that an appropriately resourced sustainability team and governance structure is in place (e.g. Sustainability Working Group, Sustainability Committee)
-
Craft a pragmatic sustainability program improvement action plan and roadmap to sequence the program – we work with you to understand context, risk appetite, drivers, resources and budget to prioritise the right work
-
Build broad capability and understanding of sustainability across your employee base, and ensure collaboration is enabled and encouraged
Develop sustainability policies and frameworks
We help leaders and teams prioritise, develop and implement sustainability policies and frameworks
Leaders need to understand and respond to international, national and local legislation expectations and best practice to ensure compliance, and to determine areas to go beyond compliance to differentiate your organisation. We help leaders develop well-defined structured policies and frameworks ready to be implemented.
We work with leaders and teams to:
-
Develop high quality sustainability policies and frameworks that can delivered in clear and simple ways e.g. climate, environmental, sustainable procurement
-
Clearly communicate the sustainability policies and frameworks to ensure successful implementation
-
Establish review schedules to ensure currency of policies and frameworks
Deliver a Project
We can lead your projects through planning and delivery
Not every organisation has the resources and skills ready to go – we are often called upon to lead a challenging project through planning and delivery. PQ can provide a safe pair of hands to take a project through the lifecycle from idea to delivery or any part in between. We have experience in delivering major mergers or capital projects through to smaller scale strategic and business improvement undertakings.
We work for leaders and with teams to:
-
Ensure project leadership is effective, be it PQ resources or your own
-
Extrapolate objectives, a clear scope and agreed approach
-
Setup work plans and team structures for success
-
Drive delivery discipline and team performance
-
Lead the use of proven methods in governance, risk management, project controls, commercials and reporting as relevant for your work
-
Establish clear boundaries, delivery targets and operations performance targets
Conduct sustainability risk and opportunity analysis
We help leaders to determine their unique opportunities and risks profile and plans to harness sustainability opportunities, and to address or mitigate risks
Sustainability covers a wide range of topics (economic, environmental, social and governance) and as such requires concerted effort to analyse the unique opportunities and risks for a business.
We work with leaders to:
-
Determine, understand and rank sustainability opportunities and risks for your organisation including climate transition and physical risk assessments
-
Design plans to harness sustainability opportunities, and to address or mitigate sustainability risks
-
Identify and avoid the major risks including regulatory, reputational, shareholder and stakeholder backlash
-
Set up ongoing risk management practices to track known opportunities and risks, and to ensure future/emerging opportunities and risks are discovered in a timely manner
Embed sustainability
We help leaders to embed sustainability into system, process, people and culture to truly see positive change in your business
While it is simple to start designing and implementing new systems and processes, senior leadership is required to reinforce desired behaviours in people and progressively shift the culture into a virtuous cycle of sustainability.
We work with leaders and teams to:
-
Consider sustainability in all decisions including procurement, business planning and capital project development processes
-
Design a sophisticated yet simple sustainability governance and work structure fit for your organisation
-
Build implementation plans to convert the sustainability program and strategy into a solid basis for business success
-
Build structured communication and training programs to create highly professional, empowered and passionate internal resources – feeling enabled to make the right decisions at all levels
Define sustainability metrics, reporting, disclosures and analytics
We help leaders and teams to define, source and report on sustainability metrics to enable empowered decision making
In a rapidly changing ESG reporting landscape where the number and complexity of reporting frameworks and disclosures are proliferating, there is a need to define and track sustainability metrics and develop reports – to ensure reporting compliance, track sustainability strategy successes and empower future decisions.
We work with leaders and teams to:
-
Determine sustainability metrics and reporting requirements to ensure compliance obligations and stakeholder expectations are met
-
Conduct system, data and reporting gap analysis to determine pragmatic sustainability reporting roadmap – and complete peer analysis
-
Establish ongoing tracking and monitoring to meet undertakings made in disclosures with internal capability to understand and track e.g., annual reports, sustainability reports and climate action plans
-
Ensure what you need to say externally is said with substance: short term actions with long term ambition, and business priorities with sustainability imperatives, to ensure you avoid any perceptions of ‘greenwashing’