Our advice and consultancy programmes seek to address sustainability issues deep within organisations. We understand that all businesses need to be confident risk managers as well as innovators. Every client situation is different and our approach is to work from a rigorous understanding of specific business contexts to explore, develop and deliver exceptional opportunities through strategic and practical advice. Embedding sustainability processes within organisations creates powerful platforms that will maintain and create longevity for sustainability. Our programmes works with the key building blocks of organisational sustainability and it is this process based approach that provides frameworks for sustainability audits, training and management programmes as well as integrated sustainability reporting.
Our consultants combine in-depth sustainability expertise with knowledge of key industry sectors. We work with companies across geographies, functions, products, services and brands to develop sustainability strategies and ensure a coherent approach.
Our Sustainability Development services include the following:
- Organisational responsibility, sustainability, and citizenship strategy development, integration, implementation, communication and reporting
- Enterprise, organisational and institutional development
- Capacity building and skills development through training and facilitation
- Stakeholder engagement and analysis, review and management, partnership development, reporting, implementation, auditing, facilitation, research, coordination and monitoring
- Research, development, analysis and benchmarking
Sustainability Strategy development – Our strategy advice is wide-ranging and practical. This includes defining sustainability vision, identifying material issues and management strategies, undertaking strategic stakeholder engagement and developing performance indicators, metrics and roadmaps.
Strategic Stakeholder engagement – Stakeholder engagement is core to many of our consulting projects. Our services include identifying and engaging key parties, who can help frame and define a company’s risks and opportunities. Stakeholders are drawn from a range of sources, such as particular communities, consumer groups, non-governmental organisations, financial analysts, regulators, political opinion-formers and investors. We are also able to access our own diverse network to enable clients to hear diverse, expert perspectives on a range of challenges and opportunities.
Governance and management internal appraisals – Next Generation Consultants governance advice helps to ensure that an appropriate framework of policies, checks and balances is in place within the business – alongside senior management and board-level oversight – to enable the systematic accounting of sustainability dimensions across operations. Review and audit is an essential starting point in any consultancy process. By accurately identifying what this baseline will be against which indicators to measure progress is an important part of the process. The next step is to understand what the organisation wishes to achieve, from this then flow strategy and the practical management programmes. We design programmes that draw on blends of training, development, advice, audit, review and reporting.
Sustainability Reporting and Assurance – Reporting and assurance knowledge is the staple of our stakeholder’s engagement program. Clients receive guidance and recommendations on reporting strategy, best practice, benchmarking and how to improve the effectiveness of their reports. We also advise clients on options available in the complex world of reporting strategy and assurance, including devising and facilitating stakeholder assurance and report review panels. We assist with sustainability reporting training to writing of actual reports.
Supply Chain Management- We work with clients to identify, prioritize and manage sustainability risks and opportunities throughout the supply and value chain. This includes goal/target setting, supplier and customer engagement, developing sustainable supply chain tools such as policies, standards and labels, auditing and supply chain reporting.
Industry Review and Best Practice – Strategy development requires us to understand the competitive landscape of the industry in which our clients operate. Next Generation Consultants provide clients with the competitive information they need to stay aware of industry best practices.
Training – Capable individuals and teams have enormous potential to contribute to organisational growth and sustainability. The power of an organisation arises from the extent to which an organisational climate has been created in which the great potential of those individuals can be liberated. Many individuals see and understand global trends, the imperative that sustainability represents and seek the opportunities to contribute to improvement. This represents a very powerful motive capable of releasing great energy into organisations who are seeking to become more sustainable. Given the right organisational conditions, inspiration and freedom, teams and individuals can make an enormous contribution to creating a sustainable organisation. We provide well structured training and development processes that will enable and empower people to act within the organisation. It is essential that especially influential leaders and managers are provided with the opportunity to explore sustainability. Sustainability has a core property of being organic and naturally lends itself to engaging individuals and organisations in the search for and development of a more sustainable future.
We are extremely proud of our sustainability strategy and report. We are now regarded as one of the leaders in our industry. We get to share our experience and our sustainability journey with others and your part in helping us get there has been amazing.
