About Us

We started Strategic Sustainability Consulting (SSC) in 2005, with the express mission to deliver sustainability expertise to these under-resourced organizations.  Our goal was—and still is—to provide state-of-the-art consulting services that can be scaled to meet the needs of all kinds of organizations.  And that’s our vision: sustainability for every organization.

Today, SSC is represented by sustainability professionals across six continents, ready to contribute to our clients' success. Our ability to draw on experts in every field of sustainability is one of the things that sets us apart from our competitors.

We're proud to work with some of the best people in the industry, and thrilled to offer our clients a customized team of experts ready to tackle any sustainability challenge.  

20 years later, the sustainability transformation is just warming up. And we’re ready for it.

Jennifer Woofter
SSC President

Our Client Base

Our Approach

We believe that sustainability must be closely tied to your business strategy. Only by integrating sustainability into your organizational goals, milestones, job descriptions, and values will you reap the benefits of innovation, competitive advantage, operating efficiencies, and brand awareness.

  • Customer Focus: sustainability must be framed in a way that demonstrates customer value. It must be responsive to industry trends, and communicated in a credible, consistent way that resonates with key customer groups.

  • Finance Driven: sustainability must create tangible business value, and sustainability efforts must be aligned with investor and financial market priorities.

  • Human Dimensions: sustainability strategy must include an employee engagement component to ensure the enthusiastic and long-term buy-in from staff.

  • Quality is Key: sustainability must be integrated into the quality systems of the company, and sustainability must be perceived to complement and enhance quality.

  • Ethical Standards: Sustainability fits naturally with the company’s ethical standards, and a sustainability strategy must include systems to ensure responsibility and accountability at all levels of the organization.

Our Focus

The sustainability consulting field is bifurcated in today’s market. The large accounting and service firms have acquired most of the boutique sustainability consulting companies and absorbed them into their larger structures—with cadres of young consultants in dark suits with MBAs and exorbitant hourly fees. At the same time, there are hundreds of individual freelance sustainability consultants who work primarily on a single project at a time, usually for a local company near their place of residence. Their rates are generally lower, but they often lack industry expertise and are disconnected from the larger sustainability marketplace.

SSC is different – we sit in the middle of the field. We are big enough to have deep expertise in delivering outstanding value to our clients across a wide range of sustainability needs. But we’re small enough to have a deeply personal and attentive relationship with our clients and their teams. We work in true partnership with our clients to find the best ways to maximize their sustainability goals over time.