Bridging the Sustainability Gap

Delivering tactical and strategic sustainability solutions, to build impactful, resilient and enabled business.

The Sustainability Gap

Definition: ‘The mis-alignment between a company’s actual sustainability position and the needs of its key stakeholders’.

How the gap happens

The Sustainability Gap occurs where investors, lenders, regulators and customers require you to have strong sustainability credentials, yet in reality, there is a mis-match between what they need and what has been done.

In fast-moving markets, evolving regulations, rising costs, geo-politics, recruitment challenges, and changing consumer preferences have made it difficult to navigate sustainability and ESG issues.

This creates the opportunity for gaps to arise, as resources and attentions are directed elsewhere.

The issue with sustainability gaps

Having a Sustainability Gap can lead to:

Unclear messaging = Failure to launch
Misleading content = Mistrust
Regulatory fines = Financial / reputational damage
Restricted access to finance = Harming growth
Falling behind = Lost opportunities
Employee losses = Increased operating costs
Reactive responses = Inefficiency and risk exposure
Failure to adapt = Stranded assets, redundancy, market closure

What we do

We find and fix the Sustainability Gap.

From tactical quick fixes to re-thinking and enabling your strategic approach, we help your organisation become better prepared for future change and more attractive to key stakeholders.

Who you are

We like to work in the space between business and supply chains, and their key stakeholders.

You are likely right for us if you recognise some of these in your own organisation:

Providing ‘last minute’ or incomplete sustainability responses to customers.
Having downsized the sustainability team, you have an expertise and credibility gap.
Uncertain if product and marketing sustainability claims can be defended.
Need a solid sustainability / ESG strategy, but don’t know where to start.
Due an external ESG audit and not sure how to prepare.
A portfolio company needs closer alignment with your investment thesis.
The company is being sold and needs a credible picture of sustainability status and value.
Suppliers need help and you need a consistent approach to across them all.

What makes us a good partner

Pitchstone Consulting’s mission is in enabling your company to be impactful and more resilient.

Lived Experience

Pitchstone Consulting offers something valuable that larger consultancies cannot provide.

It is our ‘lived’ experience working within start-ups, SMEs and mid-cap companies, where the sustainability function was either new to the company or the path forward was ambiguous, coupled with sustainability & ESG consultancy experience at the lending, due diligence and investing interface.

Having successfully navigated the difficulties first-hand, we understand what works.

This blend of senior-strategic experience and deep technical expertise is hard to find. It becomes part of your business when we work together.

This is how we help

Two core strategic solutions that help bridge the Sustainability Gap.

The Fixer

Hire ‘The Fixer’ to identify, gap-fill and align your immediate sustainability & ESG needs.

Validating Approaches & Claims
Technical Gap Fill
Investor & Customer Readiness
ESG Due Diligence & Audit
Capacity Building & Upskilling
Fractional Integration Service

The Strategist

Hire ‘The Strategist’ to develop and build-out your sustainability positioning and value proposition.

Review & Benchmarking
Sustainability & ESG Strategy
Business Planning
Performance Metrics
Supply Chain De-Risking
Disclosures & Reporting

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