In any successful venture there is a time to “sweat the details”, but first you must chart your course. We help our clients create a vision of the future that is uniquely their own – and we help them do it again and again to take advantage of the rapid and non-linear change in the world around us. We engage your stakeholders, leverage your core competencies, and create superior shareholder and societal value – we make your organization better.
Rather than build a business in the traditional sense, with talent under one roof, we have worked hard to create a business web to integrate the output of specialists scattered around the world. We don’t use it every day, but it’s good to know that we can seamlessly weave a product or presentation together with the support of virtual colleagues in the U.S., Europe and Australia. It’s all about leveraging the right kind of experience and expertise we need to create superior value for a client.
We bring a wealth of experience and expertise to our work, but we don’t bring "canned" solutions; every client has a different organizational culture, a different political sensitivity and different objectives. We work with our clients to identify tailored opportunities to support those objectives that are rooted in sustainability.
What do you want to do?
We often find that our clients, especially those with subsidiaries, can point to several discrete programs or activities that seem to be “about” sustainability or CSR, but seldom is there an overarching strategy or point of view about the future that glues these activities together.
We help our clients focus on the big picture, or as some prefer to call it, the “big hairy audacious goal”. What is it that you want to do as an organization? What do you want to be known for? What is the immediate visceral response you want your organization’s name to evoke?
Sustainable Mining Now
It is often said that “If it’s not grown, it’s mined”, a telling reference to the fact that human society is more dependent than many might like to think on mining. Indeed, virtually every electronic and mechanical device in a home or office; school or hospital; plane, train or automobile would be difficult or impossible to create without the products of mining. And so it is that my friend and colleague, Gord McKenna of BGC Engineering, and I have a very particular interest in contributing to a dialogue about the evolution of the mining industry – an industry that is increasing resource extraction geometrically – such that we better reconcile the need for the products of mining with the need for natural capital assets and the flow of life-sustaining ecosystem services provided by nature. Very shortly we will be publishing our new book, Sustainable Mining Now, that we hope will spark real dialogue within the industry globally about how to think about, and achieve the seemingly impossible: sustainable mining – mining that creates financial and social wealth and wellbeing in a way that does not undermine or otherwise damage the aesthetic and productive capacity of natural capital for present and future generations.
