Stories from the path
Real progress is rarely linear. These are the moments that moved — where clarity, courage, and collaboration created traction.
Beyond Tech: Building a Responsible Digital Future
The story:
A major European IT provider recognized that its growing influence came with increasing responsibility — not just toward clients and shareholders, but to the planet and society. Leadership committed to a long-term transformation that would embed sustainability into the core of how the company works and grows.
Why it’s sustainable:A 2030 sustainability strategy was defined, grounded in four pillars: ethical business, environmental impact, people development, and digital responsibility. These were aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals and backed by concrete KPIs, internal governance, and a roadmap for scaling impact across decentralized operations.
Why it matters:
Rather than treating sustainability as a side program, this firm placed it at the center of its future readiness. It now serves as a benchmark in the European tech sector — not only for its environmental commitments, but for its human and ethical approach to digital transformation.
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Embedding Sustainable Culture in a Science-Driven World
The story:A global workplace technology company, grounded in Japanese values, was seeking to align its 20th-century founding philosophy with 21st-century sustainability imperatives. With Sustainable Development Goals shaping regulatory and societal expectations, leadership wanted a way to translate purpose into strategy — without losing the company’s soul.
Why it’s sustainable:The organization developed a materiality map around seven key issues — four related to social impact and three to governance infrastructure. Sustainability was framed as both a risk lens and a future finance enabler. Leaders engaged in internal storytelling, making sustainability a natural evolution of the company’s long-standing identity.
Why it matters:
The company continues to earn global recognition for its sustainability trajectory, including repeated inclusion in a top-200 clean economy ranking. Most importantly, ESG is no longer a box to check — it's a way of working. A cultural asset. A source of cohesion across markets and generations.
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From surplus to solidarity
The story:
In a country known for precision and prosperity, food waste and poverty quietly coexist. One grassroots initiative decided to turn that contradiction into action — redistributing surplus food to communities in need while tackling climate goals from the ground up.
What began as a local food bank has grown into a nationwide circular food economy effort. By rescuing edible surplus from farms, retailers, and producers, the organization supports 1,000+ people weekly while preventing over 500 tons of food waste per year.
Beyond logistics, the work connects sustainability to equity — aligning with multiple UN SDGs including Zero Hunger, Reduced Inequalities, and Climate Action.
Why it matters:
The initiative now operates 10 weekly food banks, powered by 200+ volunteers, and aims to expand across Switzerland. Its model blends waste reduction, social inclusion, and environmental care — proving that regeneration isn’t just possible, it’s scalable.
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Embedding Sustainable Culture in a Science-Driven World
The story:
A global engineering group had values on the wall — but struggled to make them land in daily practice across labs, factories, and offices.
We helped local teams translate these values into specific behaviors. Leaders coached. Teams experimented. Over 100,000 employees began shaping culture through what they did, not just what they said.
Why it’s sustainable:
This wasn’t a campaign. It was systems change. When values inform daily behavior — from energy efficiency on the floor to inclusion in meetings — culture becomes infrastructure for sustainability.
Why it matters:
Long-term value creation isn’t built on posters. It’s built on habits that hold, even when the pressure’s on.
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When Purpose Becomes a Path to Regeneration
The story:
In a company known for precision and performance, a grassroots initiative quietly sparked something unexpected: emotional resonance.
Employees launched “Projects with a Heart” — small, self-led acts of care for communities, the planet, and each other. What started as volunteering evolved into a deeper shift in how people showed up, connected, and led.
Why it’s sustainable:
This was culture regeneration from the inside out. Trust was built, not mandated. Social impact was driven by personal agency, not policy. Sustainability became a shared story, not a corporate message.
Why it matters:
When people are given space to act from the heart, sustainability becomes more than a target — it becomes a habit.
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Resilient Culture for a Moving World
The story:
As COVID disrupted a global mobility company, the leadership team didn’t just shift operations — they tuned into culture.
A custom Culture & Capabilities Index helped teams sense where energy, trust, and clarity were strong — and where new behaviors were needed. What followed wasn’t just adaptation. It was alignment.
Why it’s sustainable:
Culture is one of the most overlooked levers in sustainability. By building behavioral insight and dialogue into the way teams work, the company increased its capacity to navigate complexity, not just survive it.
Why it matters:
In uncertain times, resilience is sustainable advantage — and culture is how you carry it.
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Right-Sized Innovation for Sustainable Competition
The story:
In a market where "bigger" often wins shelf space, small-scale brewers faced a challenge: How to compete without scaling up or selling out.
A recyclable two-can solution offered a quiet revolution — giving brewers the freedom to promote, differentiate, and grow without machinery upgrades or wasteful materials.
Why it’s sustainable:
This wasn’t innovation for show. It was sustainability as access: packaging that matched production scale, reduced plastic, and required no energy-intensive investment. Circularity met craft.
Why it matters:
Real progress isn't always high-tech. Sometimes it’s the small, smart move that changes what’s possible — and who gets to play.
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