"I've always viewed the Sustainable Growth Navigator as a powerful platform for corporate leadership to assess readiness for success in a carbon-constrained world."
Dave Stangis - Chief Sustainability Officer - Apollo Global Management
"We cannot let ESG ratings dictate our strategy. We must first honestly know our material issues, our strengths and vulnerabilities; put actions in place to address those weaknesses - and then toggle to the ESG ratings to see where they can add value."
Scott Tew - Vice President, Sustainability - Trane Technologies
“The Navigator provides benchmarking insights that other frameworks simply cannot give.”
Michel Washer - Deputy Chief Sustainability Officer - Solvay
“Using the Navigator, we laid out a roadmap and took it to our Board. They were fascinated! This changed our planning process.”
Kathy Gerwig – Vice President – Kaiser Permanente (retired)
"Investors want to know how we plan to grow our business while addressing critical ESG factors. The Sustainable Growth Navigator is the most robust tool we’ve come across.”
Jon Newton - Senior Director, Sustainability, MKS Inc.
"Gib's Navigator is my library. It organizes current and emerging sustainability topics in one place; helps us assess the relevance to our business; shows our organization's maturity; and identifies improvement opportunities."
Edan Dionne - Vice President - IBM
"The Sustainable Growth Navigator is a roadmap. It shows us what best practice looks like (with hundreds of examples) - and helps us understand where we should be headed."
Tim Woodall - Director, Corporate Responsibility - Merck
"With the Sustainable Growth Navigator, Gib has developed and refined a tremendous toolkit to help company leaders and boards increase their fluency and management of topics critical to their company."
Jane Schindewolf, VP Corporate Sustainability
“External ESG ratings focus mostly on environmental and social risks – with hardly any focus on governance or strategy. That’s where the Sustainable Growth Navigator is especially helpful.”
Linda Hilbert – Executive Director – Consumers Energy
“The data are confidential; no other company can see our ratings. We can candidly assess where we are in our sustainability journey - and where we should focus to improve.”
Nancy Kralik – Fluor
“The Navigator is much more than a tool. Gib has brought together a diverse group of leading companies to discuss and address the latest sustainability topics companies are wrestling with.”
Dan Fitzgerald - Director, Product Sustainability - Stanley, Black & Decker
Below are additional comments shared during recent webinars:
Measures Sustainability Integration
“Every company I know has an overarching goal of integrating sustainability into the core of business -- governance, strategy, etc.”
"This tool actually measures sustainability integration."
Saves Money
“Instead of paying ‘a million dollars’ to BCG to assess sustainability governance and strategy, we can just use this.”
“I was going to hire a MBA summer intern to analyze TCFD – but you are already doing it.”
Aligned with Investor Interests (and TCFD)
“The Sustainable Growth Navigator aligns perfectly with TCFD (and was developed long before TCFD).”
"Investors increasingly want to know how we plan to grow our business revenue from sustainability; this tool is the most robust out there."
By Industry - For Industry
“We can be brutally candid in our scoring, knowing the data is completely confidential. No other company will see our ratings.”
“The Navigator is an organized compendium of world-class practices globally.”
“We like seeing concrete examples of companies that are in Stage 3 or Stage 4 on areas highly relevant to us.”
Board-Friendly
“The Sustainable Growth Navigator speaks the language of our C-suite and board.”
“External ESG ratings focus predominantly on risks – with hardly any focus on governance or strategy."
“We showed our CEO the rainbow charts and she loved them.”
Internal Alignment – Gets Us On the Same Page
