Defining Sustainability Strategy and Roadmap
Sustainability goes beyond mitigating risk; it’s about creating positive impact and business value. What’s more, there’s momentum and growing urgency to act on sustainability, on Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) factors. This isn’t just a societal imperative, but a business opportunity, to reduce risk and costs while increasing revenue, impact and value.
And while sustainability is increasingly understood as something that should be embedded in everything a business is engaged in, value chain included, many businesses still need to define a clear roadmap to achieve their ESG and sustainability goals.
At dss+ we’ll meet you wherever you are on your sustainability journey, whether you’re looking to manage risk, optimise your approach, integrate it into performance, or be impact-driven. We’ll support you in identifying the material ESG issues for you, building a strategy framework, defining KPIs, targets and a roadmap to achieve them. We’ll work with you to ensure this is grounded in an understanding of your stakeholder expectations, business processes and culture.
By leveraging academic insights and combining them with our strategic expertise, we deliver pragmatic end-to-end solutions pertaining to how best you can integrate sustainability into your business.
Making sustainability count for your business
We will work hand-in-hand with you to define a sustainability strategy and an operational roadmap to get there, informed by the market and industry and your stakeholder expectations. We’ll support you every step of the way on your journey.
Sustainable strategies, target setting and operational roadmaps
We can help you identify your material issues, develop tangible sustainability strategies (including achieving B-Corp certification), net zero roadmaps and the financing mechanisms to deliver lasting value and impact across the value chain.
Corporate governance and operating models
We help boards to integrate sustainability at the board level, set the right operating model and organisational structures to deliver your ESG and sustainability strategies.
Impact measurement, management, and communication
We deliver pragmatic, accurate and decision-useful metrics, identifying impact pathways, metrics & management plans that meet your strategic objectives.
ESG reporting and disclosures
We advise you on the corporate ESG KPIs and disclosures that meet different regulatory requirements that matter most to your investors and key stakeholders. We may help you report according to GRI, SASB, Framework, TCFD, EU Taxonomy, NFRD etc.
How we create sustainability strategies and roadmaps
Meet the team
Explore the background and specialties of the experts who’ll be working with you.
Melissa Barrett
Global Director, Sustainability Services and Corporate Impact
Senior advisor with a focus on strategic sustainability transformation and innovation, helping organisations leverage their assets, capabilities and potential to deliver commercial, social and sustainable impact.
Tina Passalari
Global Lead ESG and Sustainable Strategies
Tina has more than 20 years of experience in sustainability and management consulting, including business performance, governance, risk and compliance services. Tina specialises in working with corporations on integrating sustainability in their business models and has worked in advisory, assurance, business development, client relationship and project management roles in Europe, the Middle East and the USA. She has worked with policy makers, non-profit organisations and corporations from different sectors and industries such as energy, financial services, food and beverage, IT, infrastructure, mining, telecommunications, gaming, transportation, tobacco and textiles. Tina holds an MBA from the Henley Business School at the University of Reading; an MSc in Environmental Technology from Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine in London; and a BSc in Geology from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
Senior advisor with a focus on strategic sustainability transformation and innovation, helping organisations leverage their assets, capabilities and potential to deliver commercial, social and sustainable impact.
Tina has more than 20 years of experience in sustainability and management consulting, including business performance, governance, risk and compliance services. Tina specialises in working with corporations on integrating sustainability in their business models and has worked in advisory, assurance, business development, client relationship and project management roles in Europe, the Middle East and the USA. She has worked with policy makers, non-profit organisations and corporations from different sectors and industries such as energy, financial services, food and beverage, IT, infrastructure, mining, telecommunications, gaming, transportation, tobacco and textiles. Tina holds an MBA from the Henley Business School at the University of Reading; an MSc in Environmental Technology from Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine in London; and a BSc in Geology from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
Melissa Barrett
Global Director, Sustainability Services and Corporate Impact
Senior advisor with a focus on strategic sustainability transformation and innovation, helping organisations leverage their assets, capabilities and potential to deliver commercial, social and sustainable impact.
Tina Passalari
Global Lead ESG and Sustainable Strategies
Tina has more than 20 years of experience in sustainability and management consulting, including business performance, governance, risk and compliance services. Tina specialises in working with corporations on integrating sustainability in their business models and has worked in advisory, assurance, business development, client relationship and project management roles in Europe, the Middle East and the USA. She has worked with policy makers, non-profit organisations and corporations from different sectors and industries such as energy, financial services, food and beverage, IT, infrastructure, mining, telecommunications, gaming, transportation, tobacco and textiles. Tina holds an MBA from the Henley Business School at the University of Reading; an MSc in Environmental Technology from Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine in London; and a BSc in Geology from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.