Sustainability Plan & Roadmap
A right-sized CSR approach for your business
You care about doing the right thing for your customers, your team, and the wider impact of your business, yet you’re not sure what “good” looks like or how to make it practical.
That’s where I come in.
What you need isn’t more ideas – it’s a clear, right-sized strategy that brings together your intentions, your impacts, and your opportunities into a plan you can actually follow.
I'll guide you
Through a done-with-you process that brings structure, focus, and momentum to your sustainability efforts.
We’ll combine your team’s insight with my 20 years of sustainability expertise to create a strategy and roadmap you can actually use.
Who It's For
This service is ideal for small to medium businesses who:
Want to align their sustainability efforts with their values and stakeholder expectations
Are looking to move from ad hoc actions to a clear, intentional approach they can credibly articulate
Need a practical, streamlined approach that works for their size and capacity
Are ready to take committed action to differentiate their business.
How It Works
This process is guided by my HERO Method – a simple, practical approach designed to help small businesses define what matters, plan effective sustainability actions and get their team on board.
We'll walk through 4 key considerations:
Done With You
This is a collaborative process designed to build understanding, alignment and ownership across your team, not hand you a report that will sit on a shelf. We'll do this through:
Meetings with the project lead and key decision makers
to understand the business needs, goals and limitations
Workshops with the wider team
to engage your employees in the topic, raise awareness of the business' goals, and seek input and ideas
Meetings with the people who will implement action
to ensure any recommendations are practical and have buy-in.
How many meetings and workshops are required will be determined based on your size and interest levels of your employees.
You'll walk away with
Tangible deliverables:
Outcomes & benefits:
Why work with me:
Not sure this is right for you?
Here are a few other options depending on where you’re at:
FAQs
A sustainability plan identifies priority environmental, social and governance focus areas for your business, goals and the actions you plan to take to achieve them. It’s a practical way to turn your intentions into something clear, achievable and credible.
In practice, they’re closely related. A strategy is the high-level approach of what you want to accomplish, why, and broadly how you'll achieve it.
But instead of something theoretical, this service turns that thinking into a right-sized plan of action and roadmap, so you're clear on what steps to take.
A roadmap outlines actions against your key priorities and sets out timing across the short, medium and long term. It helps you focus on one step at a time without trying to do everything at once, while seeing how those steps will achieve the goal.
This service is about establishing a clear CSR approach and prioritising your efforts within a small business. The ESG Impact & Systems Review is for more advanced businesses that already have an approach in place and want to refine, strengthen or benchmark it to take things further.
No. This is about setting direction and building a practical plan, which can include how to start collecting data if it's not yet in place. We can also add-on the collection of data to establish your baseline performance if desired.
Most projects run over a few weeks, depending on your availability and how many people you’d like involved. We’ll tailor the process to suit your team and capacity.
How much engagement is needed is dependent on the size of your business, progress on sustainability to date and the level of interest among the broader team. Generally key functions such as facilities, finance, product, procurement and HR should be involved at a minimum, but we'll work with you to identify the right people and design an engagement plan.
No. The goal is a right-sized approach that fits your business and your needs. We take your capacity and opportunities to drive business outcomes into account to prioritise the most impactful actions.
It depends on your business, but for most small businesses sustainability starts with environmental hygiene like energy use, water use and waste and ensuring the wellbeing of your employees and community. Then we'll look at what you can influence in your product and supply chain, moving from 'do less harm' to 'do more good' where possible.
Let’s map your next step
Book a free 30-minute chat and we’ll explore your goals, challenges, and the best way to get you moving forward with confidence.
