What We Offer

Organizations with a clear and inspiring mission/commitment to contribute positively to the planet and people are strong attractors, whether for customers choosing a product, talented people deciding who to work for, students deciding which university to attend, or people deciding what town to live in. Yet a worthy mission or bold commitments are only the beginning; these need to be backed up with action by embedding sustainability into all facets of operations, products, and services.

New Directions Collaborative uses innovative techniques to help clients define their socially-responsible mission and develop and implement the sustainability strategies and climate action plans to deliver on their goals and commitments. We offer a range of services to help organizations develop, assess, and improve their sustainability/social responsibility commitments and strategies:

• Facilitate development or refinement of your organization’s mission and values to align these with sustainability and social responsibility.
• Conduct assessments to generate a baseline of environmental and social impacts, rank these for where improvement action could have the most impact, and evaluate current status of activities compared to other leaders in your sector.
• Train employees and engage them in innovation brainstorming sessions to make improvements to products, program, and operations.
• Work with senior leadership, Green Teams, and employees to prioritize objectives, action plans, and road maps for implementation.
• Create internal measurement and accountability processes to provide regular feedback on performance and ensure it is on track and conduct audits to provide an independent verification of the effectiveness of implementation of your strategy.
• Facilitate collaborations and partnerships beyond the organization to advance key initiatives.

Our experience working with over 100 companies across diverse industries, with universities, state government, and municipalities enables us to provide well-tested road maps and knowledge of best practices, as well as coaching to help avoid common pitfalls.

Click here for case studies of some of our sustainability and strategy projects.

Or you can check out our blog posts about sustainability and strategy.