Connecting sustainability to business performance
Unless is a boutique consultancy that helps organizations navigate the sustainability transition and build resilience in their strategies, teams and decisions. We aim to connect sustainability directly to business performance, mitigating risks, generating value, and driving implementation as a lever for positive change and long-term resilience. We embed, we convene, and we educate, and, most of all, we care, working alongside our clients as trusted partners until the work is done.
The way most companies handle sustainability isn't working… We think there's a better way.
Learning from nature
Corporate decisions travel far, through supply chains, communities, ecosystems and generations. This level of influence demands resilience. At Unless, we are inspired when we see resilience in the natural world, where systems thrive because of diversity, interconnection, roots, redundancy, and boundaries.
We value diverse perspectives. We help cross-functional teams build trust. We equip business leaders with the knowledge and skills to make brave decisions, to play the long game, and to bring important stakeholders into the discussion. We build buy-in to ensure that there is no single point of failure. We work at the edges, between sectors, disciplines and perspectives, to facilitate innovation, solve problems and support change.
Unless companies choose resilience…
We work with companies who choose resilience. Companies who see sustainability not as a cost, but as the foundation. Unless it is, nothing else holds.
Unless strategies are resilient to upheaval
Unless teams are equipped with the right knowledge and skills
Unless decisions reflect diverse viewpoints
Unless impacts, risks, and opportunities drive action
Unless the work is authentic to a teams’ values and identity
…until change has taken root.
We are small enough to care about each client and experienced enough to know what it means to do this work well.
“We choose this work because we care about people and the planet, and because someone has to. Let’s get started.”
—Emily & Katia, co-founders of Unless
