youdo Consulting:
Building Commercial Value

ESG and Sustainability is now mission critical.  With increased regulation and scrutiny from investors, customers and employees, businesses need a well-defined, viable ESG strategy that delivers commercial value.

youdo offers a consultancy service with answers.

With strong cross sector experience, our team understand the requirements, benefits and pitfalls of ESG strategy and programme development.

We also recognise that organisations need answers rather than never-ending questions. We’ve developed a series of light touch, consultancy products which help determine an organisation’s ESG direction and how best to develop it.

Strong ESG leads to  STRONGER COMPANIES

Increased Trust

Solid ESG reporting strategies demonstrate good governance, transparency and future-readiness to customers, employees, suppliers and investors, strengthening overall trust in the company

Stronger Reputation

Knowing how to communicate well with customers about ESG performance and strategy can help solidify brand reputation, avoid greenwashing claims and improve overall market perception.

Better Performance

McKinsey analysis finds that ESG reporting increases equity returns 63% of the time while a Nasdaq report revealed that companies were less volatile in the 30 day period after making public ESG disclosures.

Employee Retention

Marsh & McLennan reports that “ESG performance will become increasingly important to attracting and retaining talent in the coming years.

ESG: The Silos of Activity

ENVIRONMENTAL

How are companies using energy and managing their environmental impacts? How prepared are they to face the challenge of climate change?

Examples: Carbon emissions, Climate change effects, Pollution, Waste disposal, Renewable energy, Resource depletion.

SOCIAL

How are companies fostering people and culture, and what kind of impact does that have on their own employees and the wider community?

Examples: Supply chain, Discrimination, Political contributions, Diversity, Human rights, Community relations.

GOVERNANCE

How are companies directed and controlled and how are leaders held accountable?

Examples: Roles and Responsibilities, DE&I policies, Compensation, Shareholder’s rights, Board structures.

youdo Consulting Framework

1. Market Check - customer, competitor, supply chain positioning

2. Analysis & stakeholder reporting

3. ESG/Sustainability - Defining the need

4. Building the value case

5. Board involvement & sign off

6. Employee engagement

7. Programme(s) implementation & management

8. Programme reporting, development & communication

youdo Consulting Packages

DEVELOP

ESG Strategy-in-a-box package

Lightweight process to help clients add organisation structure and support to their existing ESG / Sustainability initiatives.

DIVE

Discovery, Environmental, Social & Governance packages

How to  use sustainability to create a competitive advantage for your business and what’s needed to make this happen.

EDUCATE

Board-level education package


A lightweight training framework to help Board Members and Directors get up to speed with ESG.

ESG Strategy-in-a-box

Lightweight process to help clients add organisation structure and support to their existing ESG / Sustainability initiatives.

Key Outputs

  1. Topline market analysis

  2. Stakeholder focus and priority

  3. Proposed ESG strategy and year 1 programme – activities and ballpark costings

  4. Org structure, responsibilities, stakeholder management

  5. KPIs / success criteria

  6. Measurement & reporting

  7. Stakeholder presentation preparation

Discovery

How to  use sustainability to create a competitive advantage for your business and what’s needed to make this happen.. 

Key outputs:

  1. Marketplace overview - presentation of where the client’s market is in terms of sustainability. What aspects are mandatory, what’s voluntary. Where the competition are, is there incoming regulation?

  2. Risk / opportunity assessment - what is the cost to client if they do nothing, what is the size of the opportunity if they act?

  3. Company vision - Definition of a 3 year sustainability vision for the company, identifying key priorities for each year, estimated financials.

  4. Implementation plan - create high-level plan to deliver objectives set for each year

  5. Success metrics - define measurement criteria

Environment

  • Carbon emissions: Scopes 1,2 & 3

  • Business case: Day-to-day savings

  • Benchmarking & measurement

  • Employee engagement

  • Stakeholder communications

Full Plan Development

Deep dive into the 3 pillars of ESG to determine what action your organisation needs to take and in what order.

Social

  • DE&I

  • Company culture

  • Employee lifecycle development 

  • Volunteering programmes

  • Stakeholder communications

Governance

  • Roles and responsibilities

  • Board evaluation

  • Policies and procedures

  • Communications strategy

Board Education

A lightweight training framework to help Board Members and Directors get up to speed with ESG.

Delivered as a 1-to-many training module (online or F2F) over 3-5 hours

Key Outputs

  1. The core concepts of ESG.

  2. The business case for ESG.

  3. How ESG relates to key stakeholders (Investors, Customers, Employees)

  4. Real world examples of ESG strategies in action

  5. Board responsibilities