The document discusses a new generation of businesses that focus on long-term value creation and sustainability. These businesses consider their impact on society and the environment. They collaborate with stakeholders and anticipate long-term risks and changes. Innovation is key to their success. The company described helps organizations embed sustainability through deep transformation processes involving self-awareness, vision, alignment, and ensuring the right skills. Their approach is tailored for each client through dialogue and challenging questions.

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2. A new business agenda
A new generation of businesses are achieving more than short term
profitability - they are creating long-term value.
While focusing on operational excellence and cost efficiency, the new
company has a vision for the world beyond the next generation. They are
creating long-term value by focussing on solutions that benefit society as a
whole. The new company has a light footprint on the earth. They continuously
focus on doing better.
The values of respect for people and nature lie at their core. They match
personal goals with business goals, and business goals with being a better
neighbour, a better boss, a better corporate citizen, and a better
environmental steward. They listen and collaborate with their stakeholders:
employees, suppliers, investors, peers, think tanks, governments,
communities and customers.
The next generation of businesses think and act for both now and the long
term. They are resilient – their DNA enables them to anticipate and transform
with changing circumstances. They harness diversity; they regard change as a
constant. They understand long-term risk and prepare for it today.

3. Innovation is the
lifeblood of their success

4. What we do
We help organisations embed sustainability using deep
transformational change processes. We have worked
with companies at the beginning of their sustainability
journey as well as those ahead of the curve. The
process is comprised of four key steps:
• Self-Awareness - Baselining your current position to
inform strategy development
• Clarity of Vision - Identifying your aspirations and
priorities, and how to get there
• Connectedness - Aligning core decision making and
management processes to enable efficient delivery of
your sustainability vision
• Growth and Capacity - Ensuring that you have the
right people and skills in place to implement change.
We are guided by the sustainability lens and have a
powerful suite of sustainability tools. Our IRIS™
methodology tells you where you are, pinpoints your
risks and opportunities and where your priorities for
action lie.

5. Benefits delivered to clients
• Delivered numerous strategies, road maps, and implementation guides for use by our
clients on their path to transformational change
• Guided organisations to realise opportunities and manage risks for current and future
markets
• Ignited employee passion by increasing their understanding and capacity to act through
mentoring, learning and development programmes, and engagement
• Established deep linkages between sustainability commitments and our clients’ brand,
communications and reporting delivering enhanced credibility and profile
• Broadened the business planning process to reflect a focus on material sustainability
issues Developed web-based platforms for real time management of sustainability
performance at the corporate, project, business unit, and individual levels
we listen we challenge we guide we direct

6. What makes us special?
We have diverse expertise
Sustainability Advisory Group is an international alliance of
sustainability strategists and specialists. Our network-based
business model enables us to design teams that respond to our
clients’ diverse needs. Every assignment is different and requires
a tailored set of technical, sectoral and cultural skills. Our skills
span business strategy and planning, human resources,
stakeholder engagement, supply chain, environment, reporting
and communications.
Every assignment is a dialogue
Our approach is tailored to each client. We don’t provide pre-
packaged solutions – that’s not what sustainability is about. Each
assignment is a new challenge and we passionately believe in
partnering with our clients to achieve sustainable results. We
focus on capacity building within your organisation to transfer
skills and knowledge.
We don’t hold back from a challenge
Sustainability is a complex issue and we don’t believe in quick
fixes. We listen and learn from our clients – but we don’t shy
away from asking tough questions. Getting real results requires a
relationship of deep trust and mutual respect.

7. Founding directors
Maria Sillanpää
Maria is an internationally recognised corporate responsibility
and sustainability leader and practitioner. She has worked
exclusively in this field for over 20 years in pivotal roles at The
Body Shop, KPMG and AccountAbility. Maria has made
pioneering contributions especially in the areas of strategy,
stakeholder engagement, supply chain, reporting and
assurance. Her recent number three ranking in CSR
International’s global advisory leaders category reflects her
profound and continuing impact in this field.
Georgina Legoe
Georgina leads transformational change processes in
companies of all shapes and sizes. She does this by helping
clients integrate sustainability imperatives into strategic business
planning, and by developing practical implementation uides for
use across business units. er unique perspective helps
companies emerge as successful 21st century businesses.

8. Here are some of the organisations our
network has worked with:
• AccountAbility
• Barclays
• BBC
• British Telecom
• Gap Inc
• Global Reporting Initiative
• ING Bank
• Investa Property Group
• John Lewis/Waitrose
• Jupiter Asset Management www.sustainabilityadvisory.net
• Nakheel
• Nestle
• Nike
• Novo Nordisk
• Pfizer
Contact:
• Port of Melbourne Corp
Maria Sillanpää
• Santos Mobile (UK) +44 7710 597 498
• Shell Mobile (UAE) +971 50 719 4042
• Siemens maria@sustainabilityadvisory.net
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• The Body Shop
• United Nations
• Westfield
• Westpac