Sustainability
We support you in developing business-oriented sustainability strategies and innovative sustainable processes, business models and products, anchoring sustainability effectively in your company in the long term and achieving market success through creative communication. In this way, we can work with you to help accelerate the transformation to a more sustainable yet successful economy and society.
Legal regulations create pressure to take action
CSRD, LKSG; EmpCO and the planned Green Claims Regulation pose numerous challenges for companies. The complexities of ESG legislation affect many issues: environmental ones such as CO2 emissions and resource efficiency, but also social ones such as diversity, governance and business ethics. Comprehensive sustainability strategies are required, complex digital performance measurement systems must be installed and sustainability must be practiced throughout the entire company. This is the prerequisite for honest reporting and fact-based communication that avoids greenwashing.
Discovering opportunities for economic success
We support you not only in meeting the legal requirements, but also in optimizing the sustainability transformation, which is geared towards a secure future for the planet, the next generations and specifically for your company. We look specifically for opportunities for economic success and view sustainability from a business perspective. Don't just comply with regulations, inspire talent, investors and customers with your sustainable approach and creative communication. This allows you to tap into new market and customer segments while reducing costs through improved processes. Sustainability thus becomes a competitive advantage.
Why Waechter?
Our team with its diverse expertise - whether in creation, strategy, HR, organizational development, science or sustainability management - provides you with comprehensive and holistic support throughout this complex and demanding process. In addition, our extensive experience from brand development and numerous transformation projects and the preparation of our own DNK report qualify us. Proven collaborations with specialists such as Edler & Stiegler (IT); Sest (AI) or Dr. R. Czichos (ideation and transformation) complete our portfolio of solutions, as does our global orientation with the Worldwide Partners network. The key is that we use creativity for impact.
Creative transformation processes
As creative trusted advisors, we work with you to develop an economically successful sustainability strategy that is an integral part of your corporate strategy. With our creative change approach, we overcome internal barriers and involve important stakeholders. We successfully anchor sustainability in brand identity and organizational culture, ideally combined with a stronger customer or quality focus and digital transformation in a cost-effective way.
Innovative business models for sustainable growth
In our ideation labs, we develop new ideas together with you, improve your innovation processes with our co-creation approach and strengthen the commitment of cross-functional teams. In this way, we drive the development of business-relevant and sustainable business models or processes and accelerate the transformation into a sustainable company that achieves competitive advantages, sustainable growth and a positive ROI despite all the bureaucratic hurdles.
Creative, compliant communication
As creative communicators, we navigate through the jungle of legal regulations. With honest communication, we cushion reputational risks and get people excited about sustainable brands, products and processes. For reporting, we prepare the collected information objectively and present it creatively. In this way, we convey complex relationships and facts in a clear way. With creative brand communication without greenwashing, we create growth and competitive advantages, as we have done for 40 years for sustainable companies in the energy, construction, food, mobility, pharmaceutical and social organization sectors.
Efficiency, effectiveness and business success
Our holistic approach, the use of data and AI and the use of creative methods and creative communication ensures efficient and lean processes, helps to achieve climate, environmental, social and governance goals - but the focus is on your business success and future viability. Let's create sustainable value! Together.
Holistic sustainability consulting by Wächter
Services
We prefer to offer the following services as a holistic process, but we also offer individual modules, always keeping your business goals in mind.
Kick-off workshop
We start the project with a joint workshop. We will work on the following topics:
- Introduction: What criteria does sustainability include (Ecological+Social+Governance, SDG )
- Legal requirements
- Maturity level assessment
- Sustainability process and strategy development
- Project goals and KPIs
- Responsibilities and roles in the teams involved
- Collecting the stakeholder commitments
- Project plan & roadmap
- Budget presentation
Priority analysis and strategy development process
The priority analysis examines which sustainability issues are most important for the company and where the greatest impact can be achieved. This answers the question of how sustainability aspects affect the company and what the company can influence. The strategy involves prioritizing goals and defining measurement criteria.
- Status quo, SDG + ESG maturity analysis
- Desk research
- Benchmark studies
- Stakeholder interviews
- Inside/out materiality analysis, dual materiality
- Conflicting objectives, risk and opportunity assessment (SWOT, SVIDT)
- Mission, vision, values, realistic goals and measurement criteria
- Hierarchy of objectives (SMART-ROI)
- Integration of the strategy into the business and marketing strategy
- Transformation roadmap
Making sustainability sustainable
Corporate culture, attitude and corporate governance play a key role in the successful implementation of a sustainability strategy within a company. We support this process as coaches and moderators with inspiring moderation and clear communication of the complex topic in a way that is understandable for all target groups. We use interactive formats to involve the relevant stakeholders and thus ensure that the sustainability strategy and the associated attitude are firmly anchored within the company. In this way, we can take people with us and inspire them on the path to greater sustainability.
- Participation in the analysis & strategy process
- Workshops
- Education incl. train the trainer
- Moderation & coaching
Innovation and ideation
In order to leverage the full business potential of the sustainability strategy, we initiate innovation processes, organize creative ideation labs and scenario workshops and provide targeted support in the implementation of innovation projects as part of cross-departmental activities. We work together with all those involved on the following topics:
- Product and process improvements from a sustainability perspective
- Development of new products and business areas
- Specific sustainability projects
- Suggestion scheme, idea clouds
- Prototyping
Performance management
Selection of certification institutions and selection and implementation of digital sustainability tools together with our IT partners. In performance workshops, we clarify which data and key figures are required and what challenges are to be expected when collecting them. As part of performance management, we provide support on the following topics:
- Definition of standards in accordance with European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) or Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)
- Collection and analysis of data
- Development of AI-supported measurement, analysis and control systems
- Real-time data collection, synchronization/integration and preparation for regulatory purposes in accordance with the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) incl. social, personnel and compliance data, greenhouse gas balance sheet, supply chain due diligence obligation
- Climate protection and compensation
- Certification according to DNK, Common Good Balance Sheet, EcoVadis or B-Corp
Sustainability communication
Only if process optimizations, new business models or sustainable products are accompanied by transparent, credible and convincing communication can they develop their full potential and thus contribute to growth and business success. We do it for you:
- Creating sustainability reports
- Communication strategies including media and tool selection
- Concept development for internal and external communication
- Employer branding
- Development of creative key ideas and campaigns
- Crisis and risk communication
- Clarification of legal regulations such as EmpCo or Green Claims Directive
