“The maturity model is of tremendous value. The Sustainable Growth Navigator does not tell you what is right or wrong. I love that Stage 4 is the next frontier – where the standard is moving. “
Jane Schindewolf – Vice President, Sustainability – DuPont [retired]
From 2018 to 2025, the Sustainable Growth Navigator Handbook was the C-suite “pocket guide” to sustainability.
In 2025, with publication of Navigating Sustainable Growth: A Roadmap for Boards and Corporate Leaders, everyone has access to an award-winning summary of how companies can win in the marketplace by pursuing a truly sustainable growth strategy. The book is available on Amazon.
- The book is available on Amazon. It is an easy read – just 165 pages plus appendices.
- Part 2 of the book includes separate chapters on Governance, Strategy, Environment, and Social – following the Navigator framework.
- In those chapters, we walk through the 100 KPIs (which we call Key Sustainability Indicators or KSIs – and share over 300 best practices.
Since 2015, we have conducted and annual comprehensive review of the Sustainable Growth Navigator rating criteria.
- We continually sharpen and simplify the KSIs and the four stage descriptors to retain the integrity for year-over-year comparisons.
- The updates include changes suggested by over 100 CSOs and other corporate sustainability leaders; changes based on latest business news; and input from our research partners.