Our Services
SEED Consultants offer sustainability know-how, coupled with commercial experience, to address your needs in a holistic manner.
By broadening your corporate vision, values and strategy to encompass the social, economic and environmental pillars of sustainable development you will expand your economic base and enhance your long-term performance and sustainability.
Social Pillar of Sustainability
SEED Consultants’ Social Sustainability Service provides the latest findings from research in organisational behaviour. A robust combination of first class research and industry benchmarks underpin our tailored solutions and enable us to identify industry opportunities for your organisation.
SEED Consultants has a successful model of evidence based consulting that delivers results for our clients. Our consultants are well versed in the evidence based approach to problem solving and consulting.
We source the best evidence and best experience and match these to your organisational priorities and values. SEED Consulting strongly believes in a collaborative approach for successful organisational change.
Human Capital Management and Strategic Human Resources Management (SHRM)
Many managers conceptualise sustainability in terms of the physical environment. However, companies and their management practices strongly affect the human and social environment too. Sustainability is fundamentally a people management issue that involves lasting change embraced by all employees.
Socially responsible organisations address the effect of management practices on employee physical and psychological well-being. Indeed, there is an increasing body of literature suggesting there are important organisational effects on human health and life span.
SEED Consultants can work with you on a broad range of organisational development initiatives focused on improving employee well-being and engagement.
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
CSR cultivates positive, mutually beneficial relationships with stakeholders, employees, customers, suppliers, financiers and communities in order to resolve complex problems which require multi-stakeholder initiatives (e.g. Ethical Trading Initiative, Social Accountability International).
A CSR strategy for your company can reduce headline risk, boost stakeholder trust and improve your public image.
At SEED consultants we can develop a framework that helps identify and respond to social issues that can positively or negatively impact the sustainability of your company and work with you to implement the cultural change and sustainability initiatives which reinforce your corporate strategy.
Stakeholder Engagement
We use a variety of surveys and tools to assess your corporate culture and climate and provide you with a gap analysis to improve upon employee and stakeholder engagement. By determining the areas which do not meet stakeholder expectations, appropriate response measures can be developed and implemented to improve the effectiveness of overall corporate strategies. Key to this is the use of targeted communications and human capital reporting programs which will measure improvements and incorporate the initiatives into the organisational culture.
Environmental Pillar of Sustainability
Our Environmental Services focus on providing you the latest global initiatives and frameworks to assess and address the environmental impacts of your organisation. By providing the latest research and industry benchmarks we can identify industry opportunities and develop this into business value.
Carbon Footprint
SEED Consultants prepare carbon footprints bound by NGERS(Australia) and in accordance with the GRI(International).
A Carbon Footprint aggregates the total set of greenhouse gas emissions produced by an organisation, event, product or person and is expressed in carbon dioxide equivalent emissions. SEED Consultants can provide a footprint that breaks down your company’s emissions in such a way that facilitates decision making. The Carbon footprint will also be the benchmark for strategies recommended in the Carbon Management Response Plan and provides the basis for ongoing reporting.
Carbon Management Response Plan (CMRP)
Our CMRP focuses on five Key Result Areas within an organisation so that the links across departments are fully assessed on a qualitative and quantitative basis.
By addressing organisational learning, internal processes, customers & markets, products and the financial perspective, we ensure our strategies strengthen your existing corporate strategies. This allows you to incorporate proposed initiatives into business planning and budgeting cycles.
A CMRP is a performance management tool used to manage carbon emissions reductions across entire business operations without risking commercial business outcomes. This forms the basis for the organisational carbon reduction strategy.
The advantages of developing and implementing a CMRP are the following:
Improved operating margins through improved resource management;
Achievable targets that reduce carbon emissions;
Identification of environmental suppliers and supply-chain efficiencies;
Improved staff motivation, recruitment and retention rates;
Compliance with environmental demands of key stakeholders;
Compliance with regulatory and legislative requirements; and
Demonstrated organisational commitment to local communities.
SEED Consultants can carry out a thorough review of your company’s activities and identify the most cost effective strategies for reducing your environmental impact and maximising the return on opportunities specific to your industry.
Carbon Offset Management
SEED Consultants can work with you to select the right offsets for your company, recommending those most aligned with your corporate strategy. SEED can investigate offsets from Australia and around the world in order to ensure that the underlying projects are valid projects that effectively reduce your carbon footprint, whilst providing co-benefits to the community aligned with your corporate strategy.
Certification
SEED Consultants is able to recommend the most appropriate and relevant certification for your business. Having the right certification has a positive impact to your brand, as stakeholders increasingly value sustainability factors when making decisions. We help you define your stakeholder engagement strategy and identify gaps in stakeholder satisfaction which may be bridged through the assurance offered by certification. An effective communication strategy is developed targeting the specific audience to maximise the impact of the initiative.
Economic Pillar of Sustainability
Our Economic Services focus on providing you with Business Intelligence tools for your sustainability initiatives. Developing and implementing social and environmental programs for your organisation will result in improved long term economic outcomes that need to be monitored.
Research and Analysis
Through market and competitor analysis focused on sustainability issues we identify emerging trends and work with you to develop your organisation’s Situation Analysis and alternative responses.
We provide you with the qualitative information and tools to develop and sustain your competitive advantage to drive your overall corporate strategy.
Communication and Branding
Through the development of tailored social and environmental response plans we identify new sources of competitive advantage yet to be commercialised.
We also assist you to identify new sources of brand strength and stakeholder loyalty and help you to communicate sustainability initiatives to internal and external stakeholders.
Reporting
Ongoing voluntary disclosure and reporting mechanisms provide stakeholders with valuable information with which to make decisions that directly impact your organisation.
At SEED consultants we work with you to ensure your organisation is accountable and able to comply with your sustainability reporting requirements as well as the framework provided by the GRI in order to maximise the return on your sustainability initiatives.