Work
We develop and champion strategies to help businesses accelerate and benefit from society’s shift to sustainability.
Since 1987, SustainAbility has helped many of the world's leading companies anticipate and create business value from sustainable development trends and issues. Our unique, hybrid approach – part think tank, part consultancy – provides agenda-setting foresight on the critical environmental, social and governance issues facing business and society, and catalyzes transformative innovation and leadership in our clients. Our diverse team and network allow us to look creatively at business and societal challenges, and enable us to help clients think more strategically and creatively themselves about the products, services and business models that will ensure their long-term competitiveness.
- Anticipate
- Strategize
- Activate
- Evaluate
Services
We help clients anticipate the future, develop strategic responses, act upon and embed such responses, and evaluate progress to shape ongoing strategy.
Engaging Stakeholders
Engaging Stakeholders provides direct access to leading-edge insights and expert advisory from our team and partners, and an exclusive network of fellow members and experts also working to address sustainability challenges.
Key Themes
Our work focuses on shaping business and societal responses to the world’s most urgent sustainability issues.
Clients
Our clients include a wide range of leading global companies with great potential to generate the solutions essential to meeting the world’s most pressing social, economic and environmental needs.
Featured Case Studies
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Abbott
Strategy and Reporting
Our work has included collaborating on development of a water management strategy, and ongoing support for corporate citizenship reporting and stakeholder engagement.
Consultancy
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Tata Power
Community Engagement Strategy
Heavy expansion in the Indian utility industry has underscored the need for effective engagement with affected communities. We worked to develop and implement a community engagement framework consistent with the company’s core values.
Consultancy
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Shell
Strategic Advisory
Initially retained to help with Shell's groundbreaking first sustainability report in 1998, we now have engaged different Shell people and divisions on a range of sustainability issues over more than a decade.
Consultancy
