Part guide
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Fully on your side
Every engagement begins with listening and understanding your context. We build trust first, then work alongside you and your team to define challenges clearly, align priorities, connect key stakeholders, solve problems, and build and integrate knowledge and understanding.
Here are the forms our engagements tend to take.
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We slot into your team and get the work done.
Convene
We bring the right people into the room and make the conversation count.
Educate
We build the knowledge and confidence that makes change stick.
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Unless operates as an extension of your team, bringing clarity, strong execution, and positive energy to whatever the work demands. Engagements range from project management and strategy (re)design to implementation, change management, and impact, risk, and opportunity assessment. Our clients trust us to get the work done.
Typical engagement: Retainer or project-based, medium to long duration, deeply integrated into your team.
Examples:
New project, not enough hands?
Are you seeing the sustainability landscape shift in unexpected ways? Do you need help navigating these changes?
Does your sustainability strategy need a refresh?
Does your sustainability reporting have the impact you want it to?
We are here for you.
Convene
Unless designs and facilitates high-stakes conversations, including internal leadership sessions on sustainability risks and opportunities, industry-wide roundtables building consensus on complex sustainability topics, and business-NGO alignment. We create the conditions for honest dialogue, collective insight, and effective decisions. Teams come to us when they need someone they trust to build a process, hold the space, and facilitate a real discussion.
Typical engagement: Discrete event or series of events, short to medium duration, high preparation intensity. Always includes design, preparation, facilitation, and synthesis of outcomes.
Examples:
Do you need to build consensus around a tricky topic?
Does your leadership team understand the business value of sustainability?
Do your sustainability and finance colleagues speak a common language?
Are your value chain partners aligned with your corporate sustainability ambitions? Are your suppliers and customers on board?
Are you an NGO, multilateral organization, or industry group trying to engage companies on sustainability issues?
We’ve got you.
Educate
Unless designs and delivers programs that help teams understand the latest developments in sustainability, and what they mean for their specific function, organization and sector. Formats range from in-person workshops to online programs and immersive learning games. We make complex ideas feel relevant, accessible, and worth acting on.
Typical engagement: Standalone session or multi-module program, can be repeated across teams or geographies.
Examples:
Do non-sustainability colleagues understand key sustainability concepts and what they mean for the business?
Does your leadership team know the basics of sustainability?
Do your finance and risk colleagues have questions about sustainability topics?
Can your sales team position sustainability with potential customers?
We’re on it.
Meet the Unless teamAre you curious to learn more?
It all begins with a conversation.