Sustainability Starts with Us
ESG
Empowering Ethical Excellence
Unlock the power of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) with our expert consulting services!
We help organizations navigate the evolving sustainability landscape by integrating ESG principles into your business operations. From crafting a customized ESG roadmap to staying ahead of regulatory changes, we’ve got you covered.
Our team supports your efforts to achieve compliance, build resilience, and create long-term value while managing sustainability risks, engaging stakeholders with transparent communication, and enhancing your corporate governance and social impact strategies.
Let’s build a greener, more equitable future together—because sustainability starts with us!
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Sustainability Governance
Governance: Your Secret Weapon for Success!
Governance is the backbone of performance, productivity, risk management, and compliance assurance. We offer a variety of services with one goal: to seamlessly integrate sustainable development principles throughout your organization.
Let's make sustainability your superpower!
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Supply Chain Risk Assessment
Streamline Your Supply Chain, Sustainably!
Tackling your supply chain can be one of the most daunting tasks within the ESG framework, but we're here to make it a breeze. With dedicated staff support, supply chain audits, scorecard development, policy and statement drafting, public communications support, and more, we've got all your needs covered. Let's turn your supply chain into a sustainability success story!
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ESG Disclosure Strategy
Disclose with Confidence, Shine with Integrity!
Crafting a comprehensive ESG disclosure strategy can be a balancing act, but we've got you covered. Our team helps you manage risk, align with your organization's goals and culture, and optimize time, cost, and brand reputation. From data reporting to creating a strategy that works, we're here to make your ESG journey seamless and successful. Let's disclose with confidence and shine with integrity!
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Investor & Peer Benchmarking
Benchmark to Lead, Align to Succeed!
Conducting benchmarking is a critical step in understanding how your peers and competitors publicly measure their ESG successes. Equally important is determining how your strategy aligns with key investors. Let our team help with your stakeholder benchmarking, so you can lead the pack and succeed with confidence!
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Net Zero & Decarb Transition
Zero In on Net Zero
Building upon your existing inventory, we can help develop net decarbonization roadmaps to guide your organization towards a net-zero or carbon-neutral future. Our customized solutions will allow you to visualize step-changes in your operations and project future emissions. Let's zero in on net zero together!
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Regulatory Support
Navigate Regulations with Ease
Our team’s core foundation is built on regulatory analysis, with many of our staff bringing years of experience in air permitting and compliance. Leveraging that expertise, we are equipped to conduct regulatory applicability, gap assessments, and compliance implementation. Let us help you navigate the complex world of sustainability regulations with ease!
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Target Setting
Set Goals, Achieve Greatness!
Our team can assist in setting internal Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), goals, and targets across multiple areas, including carbon, supply chain, pay gap, diversity/equity/inclusion, Science Based Targets (SBT), emissions intensity, and more. Let's set ambitious goals and achieve greatness together!
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Data Analytics and Visualization
Data Done Right, Future in Sight!"
Our team includes experts in managing large, complex datasets and transforming them into customized solutions that meet you where you are in your climate strategy today and help you visualize tomorrow. Let's turn your data into a powerful tool for a sustainable future!
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GHG Verification
Verify to Amplify
Ready to take your sustainability efforts to the next level? Our GHG verification and assurance services ensure your data is accurate and reliable. Whether you need limited or reasonable assurance, trust our experts to give your carbon footprint the green light. Learn More.
Meet Our ESG Practice Lead
Denise earned a Bachelors’ degree in Environmental Technology with a minor in Environmental Toxicology from North Carolina State University and a Master of Environmental Management (MEM) from Duke University. Denise is a sustainability professional with 15 years of experience providing advisory services for environmental, climate and sustainability programs. She has extensive experience in project management, climate strategy, ESG disclosures and is an expert in conducting Scope 1, 2 and 3 greenhouse gas emission inventories.
Denise supports strategic planning at the programmatic and project level as it relates to corporate sustainability and climate strategy. Her experience ranges from establishing processes for corporate programs that involves collaboration across cross-functional client teams, assessing mitigation options to reduce impacts, and strategy around advocacy and stakeholder engagement on ESG related topics. Denise also has experience with designing and implementing holistic environmental data collection and reporting systems, third-party validation efforts for environmental data, marginal abatement cost curves, forecasting emissions and tracking key performance indicators against a baseline, benchmarking studies, supporting materiality assessments, and submitting compliance reports. She is most satisfied when she helps clients improve their ESG rating/ranking scores, develop solutions along the company’s path to net zero and evaluate options that will decarbonize supply chains.
Denise Grubert, MEM