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We work with the leadership team to understand a company’s commitment and ambition in strengthening ESG performance. When the client’s project is realistic, we can assist with the development of a suitable corporate sustainability strategy as follows:​

• Alignment | We map alignment, synergies and trade-offs between the company’s current vision, mission, and values and the UN SDGs, and how these may need to evolve to support greater ESG performance.

• Prioritisation | We design and facilitate consultation and engagement with internal and external stakeholders to identify and prioritize issues that matter most to them and add value to business.

• Ideation | We identify leverage points and innovative approaches that cut across the prioritized issues and offer different sustainability scenarios.

• Development | We define goals, targets, key performance indicators and an oversight system before elaborating the initial strategy document for stakeholders' input.

We help companies develop and promote bespoke sustainability programmes.

• Design | With a small group identified with the client, we guide a design thinking process ensuring alignment of the future programme with the UN SDGs and principles of the UN Global Compact. Facilitated as a non-linear process, together we map stakeholders' expectations, define scope and boundaries, brainstorm new ideas, prototype different options and test the preferred design with stakeholders.

• Buy-in | We create briefings, guidance documents and training programmes for senior staff and employees to build internal buy-in for the new programme and support implementation.

• Integration | We provide advice on necessary adjustments to align existing policies and processes with the claims of the new programme.

• Promotion | We help with communications and partnership building with NGOs and UN agencies.

Bringing best practice and perspectives gained from other fields, we help clients analyse and strenghten gender responsiveness, diversity, and inclusion in their crew management strategies, policies, and processes.

Our guidance covers recruitment, management, development and retention of skilled seafarers and high-performing officers.

Our work often includes:

• Analysis | We analyse, map, and create a shared understanding of the systemic root causes behind the underperformance of an existing crew management system. This diagnostic is used as a framework to identify leverage points for short- to long-term improvements.

• Solutions | Based on our findings, we advise companies on possible solutions including the development of client-specific gender inclusive strategies, identifying suitable gender KPIs, improving policies and processes, profiling benefits of gender equality, promoting career pathways, developing awareness-raising or bespoke management training programmes, etc.

We create bespoke learning solutions for maritime employers and educational institutions. These support their talent management strategy and prepare seafarers to face sector change with a modern leadership mindset that builds on and complements their scientific, technical, and technological learning and expertise.

Our learning solutions are action-oriented and include training, collaborative learning, blog writing, coaching, and shadow management to develop an expanded set of leadership knowledge, skills and attitudes.

Besides enabling companies to attract and retain a skilled workforce and shape future maritime leaders, our learning solutions help seafarers (women and men) embrace diversity, get a balance between hierarchy and inclusiveness, explore different management practices and leadership styles, develop an inquisitive mindset, and integrate economic, social, and environmental imperatives in their profession.

Knowledge: | Understanding gender, inclusion, diversity, power relations, complexity, and sustainability. Skills: | Working with conflict, communicating across cultures, solving problem collaboratively, etc.. Attitudes: | awareness of self, worldviews, prejudices.

On people and governance issues, we support the development and implementation of projects and collaborative processes as well as the strenghening of policies in two areas:

• Protection of seafarers' and fishers’ human rights.

• Crime in fisheries and other maritime activities.

On environment and governance issues, we support the design and facilitation of processes of consultation and collaboration in two areas:

• Protection and sustainable use of marine biodiversity.

• Reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from shipping.