THE ESG ADVANTAGE: A Guide to Building a Sustainable Business

Are you looking to future-proof your business for the tectonic market shifts underway while maximizing performance? This practical ESG guide is your playbook to gain a competitive edge through world-class environmental, social, and governance leadership. 

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ESG (environmental, social, and governance) excellence is rapidly becoming mandatory for resilience amid changing societal expectations, investor pressures, regulations, climate impacts, and technology disruption. Companies failing to take responsibility for issues like ethical conduct, diversity, emissions reductions, product sustainability, and data privacy now face existential risks to reputation, talent retention, operations, and profits.

But when done right, strategic ESG management also offers huge chances to create value, lower risk, come up with new ideas, grow in new markets, make brands stronger, hire top talent, plan for the future, and do better than competitors who stick to old, profit-first ways of thinking.

This complete guide gives CEOs, executives, board members, managers, and business owners the knowledge and a plan they can use to create, implement, measure, and communicate an ESG strategy that fits their specific industry and business goals.

You’ll learn high-impact tips and best practices for:

• Mapping your current ESG position through audits and benchmarking
• Determining the most material ESG factors to prioritize based on stakeholders, risks, and value drivers
• Setting ambitious ESG targets on key performance indicators (KPIs) like emissions, pay equity, governance and more
• Designing operating, capital and technology initiatives to achieve sustainability goals
• Building cross-functional competencies and organization structures
• Training employees at all levels on ESG imperatives
• Disclosing your ESG practices and progress through annual sustainability reports
• Getting ahead of coming regulatory mandates on ESG transparency
• Responding to changing consumer sustainability values and expectations
• Leveraging ESG capabilities for talent recruitment, reputation enhancement, and strategic growth
• Tying ESG metrics to executive compensation for accountability
• Overcoming common ESG implementation hurdles

Featuring insights from global ESG experts and executives at leading companies, this indispensable guidebook makes the case for sustainability and profitability going hand-in-hand. It provides the information and tools to convert ambitious commitments into measured progress through culture transformation and disciplined execution.

Leaders who prioritize ethical business practices, inclusivity, environmental responsibility, transparency, and good governance as core strategies rather than nice-to-haves will shape the competitive landscape of the future. Is your company ready to tap the myriad ESG advantages those changing realities will confer? Get this book today to set your organization’s course toward sustainable value creation!