Environmental impact is often most strongly associated with sustainability, but championing thriving businesses and communities goes beyond climate change and the environment. Strong social and governance policies build standards for employee health and safety, diversity and inclusion, as well as labor and human rights. While more difficult to define, quantify, and implement, these social and governance procedures are vital to sustainability. These social and governance policies impact people, and we believe people are your business, no matter your industry. Whether customers, suppliers, teammates, or community members, people are intrinsic to your success, profitability, and organizational health. Over the past several years the market pressure has mounted for companies to internally and externally engage in social issues.

We believe in approaching social responsibility with a growth mindset. Every company’s genesis is unique, and so is its starting point for social governance guidelines. Our first step is to assess your company’s existing policies and procedures (i.e., a company handbook) and collect data on the demographics and experiences of your employees. We then compare this information to census demographics data for your community to determine gaps in existing governance policies. Aligning with your value structure and mission, we will support you in developing initiatives, statements, codes of conduct and metrics around issues of diversity, equity, inclusion, health and safety, and human rights. We will focus on social impact with the highest value for your stakeholders, employees, and community within which your organization operates. Finally, we will help educate your employees and supply chain partners so the added policies and procedures will create the most impact possible.

• Identify gaps in social policies/standards
• Benchmark and strategize social sustainability
• Supply chain engagement and education
• Respond to growing market pressure