Sustainability Advantage

Certified B Corporation
Headquarters

Ontario, Canada

Certified Since

January 2011

Industry

Management consultant - nonprofits

Sector

Service with Minor Environmental Footprint

Operates In

Canada

The Sustainability Advantage is the company behind leading author Bob Willard that has a two-fold mission: 1. To inspire business leaders to integrate sustainability strategies into company strategies. 2. To provide useful resources for legions of sustainability champions so that they have the competence and confidence to accelerate the transformation toward a sustainable global society. To date, Bob Willard has delivered over a thousand talks that have helped companies re-imagine their role in sustainability issues. Specifically his work includes the following: ¥ Presentations about the sustainability business case and culture change, delivered remotely or in-person. ¥ Six books about the sustainability business case and culture change ¥ Three DVDs about the sustainability business case and culture change ¥ Spreadsheets tools that quantify the sustainability business case ¥ A master set of hundreds of slides about the sustainability business case and culture change

Overall B Impact Score

Based on the B Impact assessment, Sustainability Advantage earned an overall score of 132.6. The median score for ordinary businesses who complete the assessment is currently 50.9.
132.6
132.6 Overall B Impact Score
80 Qualifies for B Corp Certification
50.9 Median Score for Ordinary Businesses

Governance 11.1

Governance evaluates a company's overall mission, engagement around its social/environmental impact, ethics, and transparency. This section also evaluates the ability of a company to protect their mission and formally consider stakeholders in decision making through their corporate structure (e.g. benefit corporation) or corporate governing documents.

Mission & Engagement4.5
Ethics & Transparency4.1
+ Mission Locked2.5

What is this? A company with an Impact Business Model is intentionally designed to create a specific positive outcome for one of its stakeholders - such as workers, community, environment, or customers.


Community 80.5

Community evaluates a company’s engagement with and impact on the communities in which it operates, hires from, and sources from. Topics include diversity, equity & inclusion, economic impact, civic engagement, charitable giving, and supply chain management. In addition, this section recognizes business models that are designed to address specific community-oriented problems, such as poverty alleviation through fair trade sourcing or distribution via microenterprises, producer cooperative models, locally focused economic development, and formal charitable giving commitments.

Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion4.2
Economic Impact14.0
Civic Engagement & Giving17.0
Supply Chain Management2.7
+ Designed to Give38.4

What is this? A company with an Impact Business Model is intentionally designed to create a specific positive outcome for one of its stakeholders - such as workers, community, environment, or customers.


Environment 19.5

Environment evaluates a company’s overall environmental management practices as well as its impact on the air, climate, water, land, and biodiversity. This includes the direct impact of a company’s operations and, when applicable its supply chain and distribution channels. This section also recognizes companies with environmentally innovative production processes and those that sell products or services that have a positive environmental impact. Some examples might include products and services that create renewable energy, reduce consumption or waste, conserve land or wildlife, provide less toxic alternatives to the market, or educate people about environmental problems.

Environmental Management2.8
Air & Climate6.1
Water0.7
Land & Life2.0

Customers 21.3

Customers evaluates a company’s stewardship of its customers through the quality of its products and services, ethical marketing, data privacy and security, and feedback channels. In addition, this section recognizes products or services that are designed to address a particular social problem for or through its customers, such as health or educational products, arts & media products, serving underserved customers/clients, and services that improve the social impact of other businesses or organizations.

Customer Stewardship0.8
+ Impact Improvement20.4

What is this? A company with an Impact Business Model is intentionally designed to create a specific positive outcome for one of its stakeholders - such as workers, community, environment, or customers.



Previous Overall B Impact Scores

2023 Overall B Impact Score132.6
2019 Overall B Impact Score116.6
2016 Overall B Impact Score131.8
2014 Overall B Impact Score107.3
2012 Overall B Impact Score149.8

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