BLA Sustainability helps businesses to be more sustainable, through delivering effective and engaging strategy and comms.
Whether you want to…
Better understand your impact
Build your business purpose
Make sense of your ESG activities
Prioritise your ambitions
Set your future direction
Create a compelling sustainability strategy
Engage your stakeholders
Communicate the right things to the right people
I can work with you through the whole strategic journey, or support on individual projects.
How I can help
Need to make a start but not sure how?
DISCOVERY
Workshops & ideation sessions
Stakeholder mapping & insights
Materiality & gap analysis
Need to create a strategy?
STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT
Strategy & framework creation
Commitment & target setting
Governance & ownership
Want to engage with the right people?
EMBEDDING
Stakeholder engagement plans
Messaging strategy
Driving cultural change
Need great comms to bring it to life?
COMMS & ENGAGEMENT
Internal & external comms
Projects & campaigns
Reporting
I can work with you through the whole journey, or support on individual projects
Packages
Not sure what you need? Here are some easy ways to start
Free Initial consultation
Sometimes, it’s difficult to define what you need. If you’ve been feeling like you need to do more in this space, but don’t quite know where to start, let’s meet for a 1hr consultation. Post the session you’ll receive some actionable recommendations on what to do next.
Creating a plan and taking action
I work with organisations between 5 people to over 5000. Each type of business has its own unique challenges, but on the whole, similar issues tend to affect most businesses to a greater or lesser degree. However, I’ve found that a different approach is needed when working with larger vs smaller organisations - whilst all will benefit hugely from creating and embedding a plan; the size of the business will impact the approach to ambition and target setting, governance, stakeholder comms, and importantly, when and how action can be taken.
I’ve designed a set of packages to suit both larger and smaller businesses.
Better Business workshop
£3000
Designed for larger businesses, this is a comprehensive and interactive day-long workshop which will increase your knowledge and provide you with a draft plan and the tools to move forward. By the end of the day we’ll have identified and prioritised your areas for action, and created a first draft of your framework and ambitions. The day is built around your industry, and includes a competitor review, and bespoke ideas for how you can bring your strategy to life. It also includes pre fact-finding and post review sessions.
Sustainability Action workshop
£750
This day-long workshop has been created specifically for smaller businesses, providing the opportunity for upskilling on all things sustainability, defining priorities and a simple plan that will allow you to focus on the issues that matter. We’ll focus on areas where small businesses can take action, and where support is available for projects and initiatives. You’ll also receive a small business comms toolkit to help you communicate your progress.
Sustainability Action monthly support plan £75 PER MONTH
Designed with smaller businesses in mind. this is a pay-monthly package - you’ll receive a monthly email that provides actionable support, templates, news and inspiration to help your small business on its sustainability journey and to build sustainability into your brand and operations. The cost also includes 4x consultations through the year to give you advice and extra help on the challenges you may be facing.
Sustainability comms audit
£1500
How well are you communicating the things you’re already doing to positively impact people and planet? How do you stack up against your competitors and where are the opportunities to do better? This comprehensive audit reviews your comms channels and provides you with a detailed report including recommendations for improvement.
Why sustainability matters to your business
(apart from it being the right thing to do)
Business growth
There is growing evidence to suggest that purpose-led businesses perform better across a number of metrics. Research by organisations like Harvard Business Review, McKinsey and GRI has found positive correlations between purpose-led companies and financial performance metrics such as profitability, ROI and stock market performance.
Recruitment & retention
Your employees care about your approach to people and planet and the actions you’re taking. And this is especially true of Millennials and Gen Xs. If they don’t see you as sharing their values, they just won’t work for you. Having your strategy in place - and communicating it - is therefore vital to recruiting - and keeping the best people, and more so as time goes on.
Customer demand
Whether working in a B2C or B2B business, your customers needs and interests will be at the heart of your strategy. Consumers are increasingly choosing to buy from brands they see as doing the right thing; and B2B customers will be increasingly looking at you as their supplier to step up and help them deliver their sustainability goals.
Focus on innovation
Focusing on doing things better for people and planet means thinking differently about how you run your business. Sustainable business think more creatively to improve processes and products, though pairing creativity and technology. And this innovative take on processes and services often leads to cost savings in the long term.
Risk mitigation
Understanding both how your business impacts the world around it, and how climate change impacts on your business helps you mitigate risks associated with climate change, resource scarcity, and regulatory changes. Through adopting sustainable practices, you can future-proof your operations against potential disruption.
Improved reputation
Taking action on sustainability will drive increased credibility with the people that matter, enhancing your brand reputation and driving competitive advantage, though increased customer loyalty, and positioning you as a better option for potential collaborators, partners and investors. Knowing what to communicate, how do so, and to whom, is key here.
The importance of strategy + comms
Starting with a clear, actionable strategy and framework that you and your stakeholders can buy into will set you up for success and provide a direction of travel for you to take your business into the future.
Communication with your stakeholders – be they customers, suppliers, investors or employees - is vital, for driving both credibility, and engagement and collaboration to help you deliver your goals.
