Turning ambition on social and environmental issues into action

Sgorio LLC helps companies to set ambitious commitments and deliver meaningful action on environmental and social issues including human rights, climate change and nature. We can help navigate the many tensions within businesses and from external stakeholders on what to do and how to do it, including:

  • On approach: be responsive to all issues vs prioritize and act on only the most relevant

  • On ambition: reflect the need for just and regenerative outcomes vs set realistic goals

  • On delivery: drive systemic change vs focus on company impacts

  • On transparency: use reporting for innovation vs comply with frameworks and laws

  • On advocacy: reflect stated values & commitments vs speak out less

We know this context, and the many other internal and external challenges that businesses face. Let us help you address them.

Services

We work with companies to understand new and emerging issues, set strategies and commitments, overcome barriers to delivery and ensure that reporting and advocacy support their commitments.

Strategy

  • Identify and prioritize risks & opportunities

  • Create strategies to address prioritized issues

  • Set ambitious and deliverable targets and commitments

Delivery

  • Understand implementation needs to meet commitments

  • Embed strategy internally across departments and geographies

  • Build external support and capacity with value chain and other actors

Advocacy

  • Develop a credible and leading approach to reporting

  • Support systemic change through public policy engagement

  • Convene experts to inform strategy and delivery

We also work with investors, civil society and others to help their engagement with companies and to shape the external environment for business action, such as through research and report writing, issues advocacy plans and advice on engaging the private sector. .

About

Andrew Slight, Founder

Andrew has spent over 20 years creating, delivering and communicating public policy and sustainability strategies and commitments for large multinational companies. He has worked across human rights, climate change, health & wellness, agriculture and biodiversity, amongst many other issues.

He is excited to apply his experience to help other companies identify and act on their most salient social and environmental issues, and to help them drive the systemic change needed to respect human rights, contribute to a just transition on climate change, and take a regenerative approach to nature.

While every project is different, the need for internal consensus building and alignment, meaningful stakeholder engagement, and creativity on process while keeping ambitious targets, are common factors. Andrew brings these skills, along with positivity and humor to all his work.