Environmental Social Governance Consultants
Succeeding in business is more than just generating a financial return. More than ever, it is essential to consider the wider impact of business and the ESG agenda. We support you in considering a wide array of factors in building the business to achieve your goals.
Environmental
In today’s world, the impact your business has on our environment is important to customers, investors and employees. The modern business takes its environmental responsibilities seriously.Investors look for business opportunities that not only provide a financial return on investment but are also ethical in their approach to environmental impact. Customers look to build sustainable relationships and work with businesses that are aligned on environmental targets.
Social
Any organisation is only as good as the team of people driving it. It is essential to not only communicate with employees but to find ways to genuinely engage with everyone. We share methods that give people opportunities to contribute to shaping the direction of the business and how it performs. We support you in the process of ethically sourcing materials and being a positive member of the community, all of which are more important than ever.
Governance
Setting the Tone
The Board set top priorities and the tone of behaviours and culture. We support you with a structure for regular board meetings and review process to ensure overall coherence and joined up actions. This process gives you an opportunity to think about short-term and long-term goals together, with an overview of the business so you can select the initiatives that will have the biggest impact.It’s a forum where key stakeholders can contribute towards both financial and non-financial goals of the organisation. A Board with a mix of different functional and industry skills can carefully review proposals, challenge thinking and assumptions to give insightful feedback and improved outcomes. We have a range of expertise to bring that give you different views and enhance your options.
Staying Ahead of the Game
Reviewing performance against goals is essential to keeping on track and staying alive to the changes in the business environment. As the market moves with changes in customer requirements and the industry shifts with new competitors emerging to challenge the status quo, the board review process gives you regular checkpoints to look outward and adjust your approach.
If you are not moving ahead of your competitors then you are falling behind
..standing still is not an option!
Oakwood provide commercial insights – not just support. The Oakwood team really understood our business and were able to give options that translated to profitability and bottom-line growth
Oakwood helped us create a 5-year strategy to take our business up to $10 million from just over $1million, becoming a market leader. This strategy focused on making our proposition more compelling and how we would communicate and then deliver this to the end user. Oakwood have a wealth of experience and real-life examples which is a refreshing change from other businesses used in the past. I would not hesitate in recommending the Oakwood team
Establishing the right strategy often remains the key delta between business success and failure, particularly when you are evaluating new markets and targeting strategic growth. Partnering with Oakwood enabled us to prioritise and focus our efforts and to ensure the sustainability of our key goals. I have recommended Oakwood to several colleagues within my network as a first-class partner for strategic assessment and support.
Oakwood gave us an excellent insight into our capacity for growth, the sustainability of our business model, the opportunity for efficiency improvement and the capability of our management