Who We Are
A strategic business and sustainability consultancy helping leaders and organisations balance commercial, environmental and social priorities to protect and enhance long-term value.
Complex issues, events and changing stakeholder expectations are increasingly challenging organisational resilience and relevance. In some cases, this is threatening their licence to operate. But they can also be a catalyst for positive change.
A sense of regulatory fatigue and a perceived disconnect between sustainability, core business and the ‘real economy’ can cloud leaders’ appreciation of an organisation’s environmental and social dependencies.
Clarity on how sustainability is integral to business strategy, fiduciary responsibilities and shareholder value can help organisations to simplify and strengthen their strategy to navigate challenge, innovate and evolve.
We help leaders distil and translate complex issues to strengthen strategy and governance, to drive positive change.
Our purpose.
Demonstrate how businesses built on sustainability are more resilient, impactful and valuable.
Our belief.
‘Business as usual’ is unsustainable and a wasted opportunity.
Our philosophy.
Challenge the norm, find your role, lead the change.
What We Do
We provide a holistic perspective, constructive challenge and independent thinking to help address critical strategic questions.
Our modular approach is designed to inject new thinking, skills and expertise to help organisations successfully develop and execute strategy at any stage of their journey. Our framework helps guide thinking and decision-making to achieve short and longer-term outcomes.
INSIGHT
- Landscape analysis, pinpoint issues & impacts
- Identify opportunities for alignment & integration
STRATEGY
- Challenge assumptions, create case for change
- Anchor strategy and plan for value & impact
GOVERNANCE
- Hone governance framework & metrics
- Assess impact to adapt & evolve
How We Work
We see the big picture, identify the connections, frame the opportunities and develop pathways forward.
Whether a specific issue or an organisation-wide challenge, we work in partnership with client teams to create bespoke strategic solutions.
Our partners include Little Blue Research an independent consultancy specialising in environmental economics and social impact valuation. We are a member of the fluid-collective a global collective of independent senior consultants who solve communication-intensive business issues across the world.
What We Deliver
Fresh thinking and market-based collaborative solutions to help organisations thrive in a sustainable future.
Sector-wide environmental materiality assessment and sustainability roadmap
We had the right team for this project – the research team bringing deep environmental impact expertise and rigour combined with Helena’s strategic perspective – to generate and translate the findings and trends into the commercial, systemic and board room agendas to ensure they landed well with senior stakeholders. Throughout the two-and-a-half year project, Helena helped cut through the complexity of the research for our senior leaders and really drill down to the messaging that we need to give to investors and other stakeholders across the sustainability agenda.
Ben Wielgus, Head of Sustainability
Little Blue Research worked with A Bird’s Eye View throughout the 18-month project. This included helping conduct stakeholder research and frame key findings and critical impacts to address. Helena provided strategic guidance and valuable insights to the project helping to build goals and next steps for the project steering group to consider. Her industry experience helped to take the outputs of the assessment further and provided the support needed to develop an overarching set of shorter-term and longer-term actions for the US and Canadian B2B events sector to take forward. We look forward to working with Helena and ABEV in the future.
Dr. Stephanie Hime FIEMA, Managing Director
Sustainability roadmap to further embed strategy and accelerate organisational change
A Bird’s Eye View has provided invaluable support in the strategic refresh of our sustainability framework.
ABEV was particularly responsive in conducting a review of our framework to assess its future readiness, links to our core business model and how we can further embed our strategy. As part of this work, Helena assessed the maturity of our framework, and in doing so, suggested a roadmap for how we could further enhance our integrated plan in the context of organisational change.
We particularly valued ABEV’s ability to interpret our needs swiftly, whilst always keeping the customer and our purpose at the heart of all deliverables – this ensured high quality and focused outcomes.
Helena’s wealth of experience and knowledge, along with her appetite for supporting organisations in achieving sustainable growth, is a winning combination that ensures outputs of the highest standard.
Bukky Bird, Group Sustainability Director