Simplifying your journey to sustainable value
A major food brand positions itself for stronger sales and reputation by making its product portfolio healthier and its sourcing policies more sustainable. A leading apparel company measurably accelerates profitability and customer loyalty through a strategy that includes engaging social issues and reducing environmental impacts. A technology manufacturer seeking preferred vendor status with its most important customer, a $60B company, finds a novel way to stand out from its competitors as a responsible partner.
Our expert support helps FrameworkESG clients like these understand, address, and communicate about the specific emerging issues that pose the most financial risk and opportunity. And the leaders we work with are finding that their business fundamentals are strengthened, rather than compromised, when strategically aligned with monetizable goodwill, resource-efficient operations, and positive social impacts.
What sets FrameworkESG apart in doing this work? A unique perspective fueled by nearly 20 years of specialization. Integrated solutions that adapt to your specific needs and simplify the process. Attention to cultural fit in our collaborations. And a focus on always ensuring relevance to your specific business objectives and stakeholders. We also strive to keep our approach lean and affordable, and can generally begin providing valuable insights as soon as a few weeks of being engaged. Which makes us a high-return investment—especially compared to the high cost of standing still.
To learn more about our work or request a complimentary consultation on your current needs and objectives, contact Sun McElderry, Chief Engagement Officer.
Partnering with your executive team, we’ll customize a balanced and pragmatic journey that delivers the insights, implementation, measurement, and disclosure best suited to your unique business and stakeholder needs.
Our Services
Recognize your most important risks and opportunities
Material Issues Analysis (Materiality) uses internal and external stakeholder engagement as well as a variety of specialized data sources, define the issues to be addressed in planning strategy, goals, metrics, and disclosure. A virtual requirement for any substantive strategy or reporting effort, particularly if applying the GRI reporting standard.
Be better prepared for questions, information requests, and resolutions
Investor ESG Expectations Analysis identifies how your largest shareholders are integrating ESG considerations into their decision-making and assesses the likelihood that they will engage you on key issues.
Improve your scores
Ratings Performance Assessment determines how your company is being evaluated on ESG/sustainability by leading investment and ESG ratings services, and how to enhance your profile.
Leverage industry learnings to your advantage
Peer Practices Benchmark assesses where you stand relative to peers and what practices can accelerate your performance.
Look ahead
Trend and risk forecasting tracks the development and speed of emerging trends and determines how you can address them in business planning.
Go deeper
Custom Research Support assists you in answering specific questions and better understanding the correlations between ESG and financial performance through custom one-time or ongoing analysis projects.
Build key relationships
Shareholder engagement and outreach to other stakeholder groups gathers insights and creates opportunities to deepen trust, build alliances, and identify new solutions to challenges.
Brief and align leaders
Executive and Board of Director Workshops help senior leaders and/or board members to understand what is now expected of them in the era of ESG disruption What does the ESG journey look like? What are the key practices, tools, resources?
Define KPIs and targets
Goals Development combines the findings of your assessment work and facilitated engagement with leaders to set the standards the organization with strive for in the coming 3-5 years.
Chart your course
Comprehensive ESG roadmap develops an overall vision of how ESG management contributes value for your organization and an attainable 3–5 year work plan aligned with your business strategy. Meaningfully improves performance on material issues and other important gap areas and increases trust and retention with investors, employees, and customers.
Structure for success
Office of Sustainability support provides a senior consultant or team to function as your “outsourced chief sustainability officer” in convening and coordinating functional area representatives to develop and execute your roadmap. A solution for clients seeking dedicated interim support while developing the appropriate organizational structure to implement initiatives.
Close gaps
Program and Policy Development helps your functional area leaders and managers to research and develop positions and practices that reduce risks, improve operational performance, and achieve results aligned with your goals and targets.
Consider special impact opportunities
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Alignment leverages the global effort convened by the United Nations to make strides towards more resilient economies in the coming decades. For those businesses looking to accelerate their goals and partnerships by applying a high-profile framework expected to help catalyze billions of dollars in new economic activity and business opportunities.
Strengthen retention and productivity
Employee Engagement processes have been shown to improve key talent metrics when they harnesses your employees’ desire to feel their input and work make a difference for the state of the company and the world.
Track progress and build a strong ongoing narrative
Sustainability Reporting provides a transparent, balanced, and engaging view of your achievements and challenges, establishing the core platform for all other disclosures and evaluation by rating organizations. Support available from light advisory level to comprehensive production, and applying standards including GRI, UNGC, and SASB, among others.
Enhance your reporting to keep pace with the field
Disclosure Improvement and Standards Adherence identifies gaps in reporting, compares efforts to peers, prioritizes the most relevant standards, and helps you apply them effectively. Includes options to assess and improve performance on frameworks including GRI, SASB, UNGC, and the increasingly important TCFD.
Strengthen your brand by integrating ESG stories
ESG Branding and Messaging Strategy provides clear, easy-to-understand visibility of your values and corroborating efforts. Bringing ESG/sustainability/responsibility messaging and stories into your overall brand and positioning can also be a powerful way to capture value from your investment in this work.
Participate in the cultural conversation
Thought Leadership Content helps your stakeholders understand your positions and commitments, influences peers, policy makers and other important parties. Benefits your talent recruitment and retention efforts and customer loyalty by making your values more visible, credible, and impactful in the world.
Excel on customer and investor data requests
Questionnaire Support helps your company maintain a competitive profile with key customers, partners, and investors through accurate, effective responses to individual data requests as well as systematized ones such as DJSI, Ecovadis, Bloomberg Gender Equality Index, Know The Chain, and CDP. Experienced guidance simplifies the process, identifies efficiencies by aligning multiple disclosures, and allows your personnel to remain focused on other priorities during the busy spring months crowded with multiple disclosure deadlines.
Convey your complete performance strategy by joining financial and ESG reporting
Integrated Reporting is the ultimate tool to express how your financial and “non-financial” efforts align for stronger and more sustainable performance. While still in its infancy in the U.S., it’s gaining traction around the world and will be increasingly common here in the coming years, with the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) guidelines as the primary standard, which Framework has monitored closely.
Deepen your understanding of customer expectations
Customer Engagement is stakeholder engagement focused on gaining customer input and buy-in for your ESG vision. Helps detect important concerns and beliefs that can be missed by traditional customer sentiment measurement as their preferences and expectations evolve to increasingly include ESG factors.
