THRIVE Programme

Our 6 month Programme is designed for organisations who are still looking for their clearly defined north star in sustainability.  It’s for those who have started their journey but lack clarity and guidance on how to progress at pace, with efficiency and with the team firmly on board the electric bus.

Being on your sustainability journey, often without an in-house expert or limited expert resources, can feel like a bit chaotic and somewhat discombobulating.  You think you’re moving forward but you know it’s not the lean and focused route to change that it could be.

THRIVE is a 6 month programme that takes a cross-functional squad from your organisation through a series of co-creation workshops.  This means the outputs are owned and understood by the team who built them.  We’ll use our expert knowledge to input, shape and guide you to transformation.

6 co-creation workshops deliver you 3 key outputs:

  1. Your Pillars To THRIVE

Your sustainability strategy, likely around 5 focus areas across humanity & ecology, rooted in your Double Materiality Assessment, so you and your organisation can be crystal clear where your precious resources should and shouldn’t be prioritised.

  1. Pathways to THRIVE

Your sustainability roadmap for the next 3 years, detailing your next steps to becoming a more regenerative, distributive & successful organisation.  This is a tangible plan the whole team can buy into and embed across functions.  This is something you and your stakeholders can take accountability for.

  1. Baking into your Business Strategy

We partner with you to overlay your Pillars to THRIVE with your business strategy.  This is critical if sustainability is to be embedded into the core of the organisation for the long term.  It prevents sustainability becoming a nice to have or something to review in quieter, budget richer moments.  Sustainability has to be baked into the core, come rain or shine.

If you’re reading this, you probably get the moral compass and the business case for more sustainable business already.  We’re here to help you share that understanding and passion across your organisation and bring it to life.

The THRIVE programme helps unlock business winning benefits such as:

  • Pitching for new business where sustainability credentials are now a must & sustainability is a desirable & competitive advantage
  • Reducing costs through efficiencies
  • Attracting new talent, as more and more individuals say no to working with or for organisations who don’t align with their values
  • Communicating with confidence because you’re clear on what you stand for and have transformative plans to make a real difference
  • Engaged & energised teams who want to work for an organisation who is clear on the positive impact it is leading for
  • Accountability through clear goals so you reduce the risk of greenwashing or losing trust by not walking your talk

We won’t shy away from the fact that THRIVE is about doing sustainability properly.  Yes, we take an approach of progress over perfection (we have to in sustainability!) but we have very carefully crafted the 6 stepping stones workshops to enable due diligence to be done, to bring your team on the journey with you and to really think transformatively and holistically across humanity & ecology.

If you’re someone who likes a little more detail and to understand how the mechanics work underneath the bonnet, here are our 6 stepping stones workshops to THRIVE:

W1: Building a Stakeholder Ecosystem – bringing clarity on who thinks, feels & does what in your sustainability landscape

W2: Establishing Equity, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) Foundations – embedding EDI into business plans and operations

W3: Developing the Risks & Opportunities Action Matrix (ROAM) – Exploring the intersection of business & impact priorities to mitigate risk & discover new opportunities

W4: Exploring the Doughnut Economics Framework – discovering bold transformational ideas through a tried & tested framework

W5: Emissions Assessment – taking your emissions planning to the next level, no matter where you are on your road to Net Zero

W6: Double Materiality Matrix – your sustainability landscape mapped into clear priority themes to deliver for your organisation, alongside humanity & ecology

The THRIVE Programme has been crafted by Ali Fisher, Founder of Plans With Purpose, and Nancy Hyne, Founder of True Horizon.  Ali is a marketer by background and Nancy an engineer so we find real benefits in our blended backgrounds & experiences.  We met over B Leader Training for B Corp & knew we were destined for a long term partnership when we discovered the wonders of the Doughnut Economics Action Lab together and founded our first joint venture, as DEAL practitioners, of Doughnut Economics Workshops for Businesses Who Dare!

No surprise then that the theory of Doughnut Economics is at the heart of the THRIVE Programme.  At its core, THRIVE is an invitation to redesign and rethink your approach to a thriving organisation – the value you deliver for stakeholders, ecology & humanity.  The programme explores the interconnectivity of humanity & ecology through the lenses of a more regenerative & distributive approach to progress.