The new administration whether you like it or not, no matter how myopic or damaging the decisions maybe puts all ESG professionals in “Survival Mode” for a while, but you are not doomed and we can help.

4 + years is a long time, but the mid-terms come up in two years so as we have all had it made very clear to us, the US is a money based country.

So, if your ESG team can basically earn your keep based on cost savings and brand protection you will get through this. Your mantra however is to make sure whatever you do is based on driving shareholder value and sales. All the other stuff is off the table for now.

Remember, there are still lots of folks who wish to do business with “Clean” companies, still want drink clean water…but it must make “dollars & cents”.

ESG goals or at least influence still can survive but you will have a far better chance by doing what we have been advocating for the last few years.

It’s simple. ESG needs to be monetized to survive. That means that all money spent on ESG initiatives:

1. Must make or save money from an operations standpoint.

2. Must protect the company from regulatory or brand damage.

The other stuff is off the table for now, and like most of us in N. America, you need to “Moonlight” as an extension of the CFO’s core efforts.

None of that can happen unless you mold yourself into a support or innovation group for the CFO.

The good news is that all that scientific and measurement training can be transformed into a formidable financial skill set. So that is the path to weather this current storm!

You get there by providing ESG financial models that make / save money and protect the brand so they get funded. There is still an ESG path however it must be very practical, like controlling packing costs, which saves money but still is good for your core ESG goals.

You cannot do that unless your data is integrated, and your master data is cleaned up and you leverage AI to slash costs.

We do that part, plus we integrate your work into the existing budgeting planning systems which allows your work to be monetized.

This is very affordable, we work with an AI ad hoc reporting tool that costs 44X less than an FTE. That gets funded other things will not. We have a Master Data tool that is Free regardless of record or user count. – so you can survive this period of time.

We have a six-point solution that cuts the cost of ESG reporting by HALF and provides an accelerated delivery of value that has an immediate impact.