Our Approach
ESG Consulting matches people with the required expertise and experience to each project and assignment via virtual or face-to-face teamwork. Way back in 2018, it seems our business model was anticipating the hybrid and remote working trends, subsequently prompted by COVID-19 lockdown.
We said then: “And while the so-called ‘gig economy’ gets mixed press, we have turned this business model into a virtue. The benefit for our clients is that they don’t pay for bricks and mortar infrastructure that they don’t need. And while they do have access to top environment, social, governance, resilience and sustainability talent, they don’t pay for the service – or the people who deliver it - until they need it.”
This is still our model.
We have also forged relationships with experienced and talented professionals, academics and other consultancy companies around the world. These relationships bring quality-assured, complementary capability in areas where ESG Consulting clients have the need for input.
Why ESG Consulting?
Every business needs a clear vision and programme for corporate sustainability, and there’s never a wrong time to start – or move from risk management to capitalizing on the opportunities of running a cleaner, more ethical and resilient business.
Often companies need high levels of expertise to formulate, integrate and pressure-test their sustainability strategy, but don’t need these skills for the years of implementation. This is a resource and an expertise challenge for many businesses. Companies need people with the experience and holistic knowledge of corporate sustainability in order to devise a strategy, but they don’t need this capability 24/7, once the sustainability machine is spinning.
ESG Consulting is the ideal partner for this journey, with our range of experienced consultants who are familiar with the sustainability route and have learned lessons on the way. Our work ranges from the big-ticket items, like integrating sustainability into a corporate strategy, to advising on stakeholder dialogue and supply chain sustainability in challenging countries and setting up sensible and business-oriented risk management approaches to doing business on sensitive projects and in sensitive countries.
We have a flexible approach and agree with the client how best to engage on projects and assignments. Consultants and experts from ESG Consulting can work alone - with minimal input from the client, as part of a client/ consultancy team or embedded for periods within a client’s business on an interim management basis.
In short – our clients get the playbook fast and can be confident that it’s been pressure-tested and is fit for purpose.
The steam engine wasn’t originally intended to power locomotives, generate power, or run mills; it was first invented to manage an environmental issue affecting the mining industry. Man’s ingenuity adapted and applied the technology of coal-fired steam engines to many applications, with the consequence that industry generated huge wealth and became highly efficient at producing CO2. And now, to counter the effects of climate change and to build resilience and sustainability into the power generation mix, we’re harnessing the power of the sun, wind and water to make electricity in a way that better respects the wider environment.
Adam Roscoe
The ESG Consulting team is led by managing director Adam Roscoe, a top-level international consultant specializing in environment, social and governance, sustainability, issues and crisis management drawing on experience gained in a 15-year career as head of sustainability and head of communications with a Fortune 500 company with operations in more than 100 countries.
Adam has a successful track-record of leading change, delivering targets, integrating sustainability and corporate strategy; establishing and growing sustainability and resilience capability across cultures and dramatically improving safety performance.
He harnesses the power and capability of a network of domain experts to deliver programs for a range of clients.
Recent or current experience:
- Working with world’s largest building materials company, to optimize investment in corporate sustainability, influencing multiple stakeholders for maximum impact;
- Supporting selected clients on crisis response, organizational resilience and HSE (health, safety & environment) strategies, plans, processes and testing;
- Communications and engagement consultant for a research-based NGO on the strategy and programme to support the launch of their first global governance report;
- Keynote speech, report writer for the world’s leading HR services company, covering issues related to the future and sustainability of work, D&I, re-skilling and up-skilling, AI & tech
Prior to moving ‘in house’, Adam was a main board director of world-leading public relations consultancy, Hill & Knowlton UK for six years, following a career as a newspaper and television reporter and editor.
He is a guest lecturer on corporate sustainability at Switzerland’s leading technical university, ETH, Zurich. He is a member of both the Chartered Institute of Public Relations and the Institute of Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability, and a PECB Certified ISO37001 (Anti-Bribery Management System) Lead Auditor.