• Purpose & labelling acculturation : Workshops on acculturation to ESG issues (analysis of opportunities and risks on “Société à Mission” status, ESG labelling, with highlighting via market benchmarks)

• CODIR impact journey: definition of B ambitions (declination of commitments into numerical evidence with pilot KPIs), transformation levers and team leaders commitment

Our conviction: B Corp certification is a collective pledge that should involve all stakeholders. It is a learning path, with B Corp as a guide, towards a company envisioned as a collective project, aiming at serving the common good. 

With our DNA, our B Corp experience, and know-how of business transformation, we have accompanied firms in their first B Corp steps: express the “why B Corp”, discover the BIA with our insights, define how to approach the amplitude of the subjects, define where to put efforts and how to mobilize the company with organized teams, shared milestones and how to measure works. 

As founders and leaders of B Corps and the B Corp movement, many NOW partners bring first-hand experience with what it means to create and continuously improve B Corps.

NOW’s partners Marcello Palazzi and Leen Zevenbergen co-founded the B Corp movement in Europe. Pedro Tarak, Maria Emilia Correa and Tania Rodriquez co-founded the Latin American equivalent called Sistema B. And our partner Olivia Muiru founded the B Corp office in Africa.

NOW includes many experts who can advise corporations locally and globally on how to become a B Corp and how to continuously improve their B Corp certification scores. NOW’s BIA experts include Ryan Honeyman and Dr. Tiffany Jana who co-authored the award-winning ‘The B Corp Handbook,’ a.k.a. ‘the BIA bible’.

NOW also supports its clients in their overall B transformation to optimize positive impact on people, planet and business performance. Their clients include multinationals and large family companies that are already B Corps, as well as those committed to evolve but not ready for certification.

NOW offers a full range of ‘must have’ transformation services, including B purpose, living values and vision, strategy, leadership and culture development, innovation, supply & value chain transformation, corporate venturing, alliance building, and more.

With their ‘client-partners’, NOW co-designs locally adapted and global scale approaches that can transition any of their business activities within an integral perspective.

When NOW’s contract ends, they leave behind empowered teams who continue to innovate and model B business success that contributes to the co-creation of a regenerative, B economy.

Testimonial, Natura & Co.:
”(NOW’s partners) co-designed (our transformation) process with key leaders from the different companies, including their CEOs and founders. (NOW) intentionally supported the integration of our very diverse company cultures, which originate in Latin and North America, Australia and Europe. By involving leaders from all business functions, the group’s overall vision is now being integrated into our core strategy. Their extensive experience and seniority made them not only expert advisors and facilitators but committed partners.”
~Andrea Alvares, Senior VP of Sustainability, Brand and Marketing, Natura, a multinational B Corp

Our strategic consulting services for corporates include senior-level advising on CSR/sustainability initiatives, where we work with company boards and sustainability/CSR departments to help them define or review their overall social impact strategy.

Through this form of collaboration, we use our flagship Impact+ methodology to provide a comprehensive assessment of the company’s potential positive social impact. Based on this 360° assessment, we then deliver actionable recommendations and assist the company to turn these into an effective Social Impact Strategy.

Examples of our services include working with the CEO and Board of a leading investment firm to embed social impact into the company’s investment strategy as well as processes, tools and capacity building for investees (this also included support with the firm’s B Corp certification process). We’ve also developed impact frameworks to support Board level discussions on the company’s strategy and approach to social impact measurement, and we’ve worked with the Founders of a leading tech company to translate their philanthropic vision into reality by building and operating their corporate foundation.

Aktio carbon platform is Carbon B Radical for 3 main reasons :
1/ We propose an integrated solution for a concrete carbon emissions reduction roadmap: the platform covers all the steps allowing a company to control its emissions: (i) project set-up, (ii) data collection, (iii) calculation of the carbon footprint, (iv) definition of the carbon trajectory, (v) definition, implementation and monitoring of the action plan.

2/ We empower all stakeholders: the platform makes companies autonomous so that they no longer need expensive external expertise, to measure their carbon emissions.

3/ We automate carbon calculation and enable supply chain collaboration: automatic selection of emission factors to convert your data to greenhouse gases emissions, automatic regulatory reporting, collaboration with suppliers & customers, etc.

We help companies celebrate & reveal their B Corp certification.
Celebration & reveal towards employees, key opinion leaders and clients/consumers.
Through events, websites, films, PR we build the bridge between B Corp and the company strategy, we deliver the proofs, we engage people in the movement.
This service has been designed for every type of companies: start up, SME and global companies.
We have been working on such topics with Laboratoires Expanscience and different brands in the groupe Rocher.

We help companies to increase their value thanks to B Corp
Integrating B Corp into the Brand platform + experience shared with clients/consumers.
We work with marketing teams to build consistency between their brands and B Corp : defining or updating the brand purpose and platform, co designing new types of marketing actions such as packaging, social media, highlights in store, etc
This service has been designed for every type of companies: start up, SME and global companies.
We have been working on such topics with Herbatint, Squiz, Danone Group, etc

We help B Corp to improve their score
Engaging people in the B Corp roadmap to do better.
Through workshops we help people within the company to act and change their habits day after day, to innovate, to build interdependence with other B Corps, etc
This service has been designed for every type of companies: start up, SME and global companies.
We have been working on such topics with Innocent Drinks, Bjorg Bonneterre, Bledina, etc

For many years, E&H has been assisting companies of all sizes (SMEs and large international groups) in their BCorp certification process (initial certification or reinforcement of their approaches). For large companies with different activities, entities, or subsidiaries, we have developed tailor-made methodology to accompany the change and target certification.

Our value proposition is to:
– Raise awareness and get executives and managers on board to explain the label and its implications for the company
– Develop an international pool of experts and referents within the company’s headquarter and international entities to enable smooth implementation of the project
– Assess your existing performance by deploying B.Corp assessment tools within your company
– Identify the strong elements of your company and/or the different entities that you involve in the process (factories, headquarters, subsidiaries, etc.) and the points to be consolidated (quick wins, medium term actions…) to improve your performance and target certification
– Set up and train the internal networks that will carry the project and then manage your performance over time (custom-made training)
– Organize working sessions and monitor your entities throughout the project, to facilitate the implementation of an action plan adapted to the company’s ambitions and reality
– Support the formulation of your purpose

We assist Board members and leadership teams to define the contribution that your company wishes to make to the main social, societal, environmental, and economic issues in its field of activity by involving its main stakeholders. It is a strategic direction to guide the way in which the company intends to develop its activity to contribute positively to society, using BCorp as a central tool to drive change.

We help companies to:
– Encourage Board members and leadership teams to address the question of the company’s contribution to society by challenging the long-term vision of the company’s strategy
– Support and train executives in fixing the right level of ambition (in line with B Corp tools)
– Set up the governance system, in line with B Corp criteria
– Support the formulation of the purpose of the company