70+
internal and external stakeholders engaged; 19 material topics prioritised
SHAPE
Shape: making sustainability relevant to business direction
Strategy, maturity assessment, double materiality and E&S due diligence that connect sustainability to how your business grows, invests and manages risk.
The problem
Why this matters
Many organisations have sustainability commitments, but the priorities are not yet tied to how the business grows, invests and manages risk. Materiality becomes a reporting exercise, the drivers become unclear over time, and lenders expect E&S due diligence to international standards.
What you get
- ESG maturity assessment, baseline and roadmap
- Double materiality assessment: stakeholder engagement, topic register and prioritised matrix
- Sustainability strategy informed by material risks and opportunities
- E&S due diligence review for IFI-funded projects
Approach
How we work on Shape
Find where you are
A maturity diagnostic, a PESTLE horizon scan of policy, market and technical developments, and peer and industry benchmarking.
Decide what matters
A materiality or double materiality assessment with internal and external stakeholders, structured around business-relevant priorities.
Set the direction
A sustainability strategy and roadmap informed by material risks, opportunities and stakeholder expectations, with owners and milestones.
Related result
Designing a first double materiality assessment that functions owned
Large Indian telecom operator · from Shivani's previous in-house and advisory roles
- Challenge
- The business needed to identify its priority sustainability impacts, risks and opportunities, and connect them to strategic decision-making rather than to a reporting cycle.
- Approach
- Designed and led the organisation's first Double Materiality Assessment with a Big Four team, structured around business-relevant priorities, with one-to-one discussions across every function.
- Outcome
- 19 material topics with all functions represented, which ensured strong alignment with the business, and readiness developed for meeting the business's double materiality needs. The results were presented and reviewed by senior leadership.
More related results
3
maturity diagnostics, from a value-chain sustainability diagnostic to a telecom ESG maturity review
Undertaking maturity diagnostics: value chain, product stewardship and enterprise ESG
47 companies
benchmarked on 49 indicators across about 11 resource-intensive sectors
Benchmarking 47 companies on environmental practice in value chains
FAQs
Questions about Shape
What is a double materiality assessment?
It looks at sustainability topics from two directions: the company's impacts on people and the environment, and the sustainability risks and opportunities that affect the company's financial performance. Topics that matter on either side are prioritised.
How do we get started?
With a free, no-obligation 30-minute introductory call. We talk through where your organisation is today and what you need, and if it makes sense to work together we agree the scope and timing that fit. Book a 30-minute call.
Do you work on IFI-funded projects?
Yes. Shivani's experience includes the ESIA for a 192 MW IFI-funded Category A hydropower project and E&S due diligence on an ADB-funded renewable energy project.
Other pillars: Strengthen · Cultivate · Disclose
Next step
Talk to us about Shape
Start with a 30-minute conversation about where you are today and what would make the biggest difference.