ESG & Sustainability

Conducting our Work with a Commitment to Society

Positive and Lasting Impact

At EFESO, we believe that responsible business practices can contribute to a more inclusive and sustainable society. While our core work is in helping clients improve performance and operations, we recognize that this influence extends beyond business metrics. We strive to support our clients in generating broader value, from strengthening employment and industry resilience to improving operational sustainability.

Environmental Sustainability

We are committed to reducing our environmental footprint and promoting sustainable business practices. As a consulting company, we recognize the influence we can have through both our internal operations and the advice we provide to clients. We promote responsible travel, support digital collaboration to reduce emissions, and monitor our resource consumption. We also aim to help our clients drive sustainable transformation in their industries.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

EFESO Management Consultants recognizes that everyone has a contribution to make to our society and a right to equal opportunity. We are committed to promoting equality, eliminating discrimination, and fostering a culture of inclusion and respect across all aspects of our work. Furthermore, no job applicant, employee, volunteer, or service recipient will be discriminated against on the grounds of gender, race, disability, sexual orientation, religion or age.

Sustainability & CSR in our Services to Clients

Integrated (PHDS) assessment

In each assessment, EFESO will integrate sustainability aspects along with the Process, Human and DigiTech dimensions. Systematically assessing the environmental and social footprint of the client’s activities helps to reduce the related impacts throughout the projects.

Smart product design

Many negative impacts on the environment or on Society could be avoided by a better upfront consideration of products and services by integrating sustainability at outset.

Characteristics such as circularity, recyclability, reliability, re-use, dismantling and minimal resource consumption are becoming increasingly important in product design. Especially in discrete manufacturing, EFESO will help clients to design their products in a way that alleviates their impacts along the value chain. We will look at partnerships for certain sectors.

Future-proof manufacturing

Not just to fit the ideal stereotype of your employer. We value diversity and will do our best to provide you with the necessary mindset, skills, and maturity to become a better consultant, line manager or entrepreneur. With our support, it’s up to you to decide how you want to direct your career.

We are driven by results, so we expect concrete and outstanding impact for the companies we support. You will be equipped with tools, support and an impressive knowledge toolkit to perform, deliver results and grow at your pace. We build trust in a friendly environment – where you’ll be surrounded by a top management and colleagues who genuinely respect and help one another.

Circular and ethical value chain

In a production system, many impacting elements occur outside the direct scope of the company. Social or environmental issues are often upstream, related to the sourcing and the supply chain of a production. Decreasing those impacts starts by gathering extra information, implementing circularity concepts (including recycling) and ethical behaviors (managing and improving working conditions in the supply chain).

EFESO will help clients review end-to-end value chains, designing shorter, safer, and circular supply processes. In some industries, decentralization and increased use of regionally produced components and services can offer solutions. Responsible procurement also ensures sustainability performance among suppliers, increasing respectful and sustainable practices at both ends of the value chain.

Systematic collaboration and transfer of capabilities

New skills (for instance – innovation in the long run while managing day-to-day operations) and knowledge (e.g. GHG emissions, source of materials and their ecological footprint) are key to addressing current sustainability challenges. Ready-made solutions are rare. Organizations needs to explore, cooperate, innovate and spread capabilities to solve today’s issues.

EFESO transfers knowledge to clients in different ways. We involve client teams in solution design. We create a capability development plan based on a gap analysis done in the integrated assessment. We involve key experts at the right moment in the process to bring outside-thinking and breakthrough ideas. We integrate new ways of learning and working by anchoring sustainability in the client’s key practices and organization, helping people in a fast-changing world to be more confident, resilient and capable to respond to these new situations.

Make it happen, beyond borders

Making a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) policy is one thing. Truly realizing and embedding sustainability in reality is another. It requires companies to review key processes and management and operational rituals, overcoming resistance of both managers and employees. Furthermore, to be successful from an end-to-end perspective, requires other collaboration practices with all relevant players.

With both our technical and human dynamics expertise, we give our clients a holistic approach to short-term business results as a long-lasting impact. To get people on board, we go into the field, listen to different populations, identify possible resistance and define together how we can overcome them. EFESO helps and encourages clients to reach beyond their own borders; harnessing the power of the eco-systems it contributes to.

Sustainability & CSR in our own Operations

Light environmental footprint

New technologies enable new and more proximity. They are changing requirements towards travel. Different ways of working are possible, like remote working and video meetings reducing travel and commuting, which have an impact on C02 reduction. Although broadband and data storage themselves consume energy, they make it possible to cut time and carbon-intensive travel. Alongside travel, are the offices. Smarter office management can positively impact energy consumption, waste and material use.

By embracing intelligently new technologies and new management practices with regard to remote working and office management, EFESO will not only reduce its environmental footprint, it will also improve the work-life balance of its talent.

Respectful work patterns

Flexible working conditions, such as remote working, home working or self-chosen rhythm contribute to the wellbeing and healthy lives of workers and their families. Well designed, flexible conditions promote and facilitate the inclusion of professionals without blurring excessively the boundaries between professional and private life.

Within the limits of necessary performance, EFESO will give broad autonomy to its talent to organize themselves. It will encourage healthy work patterns and environments to promote work-life balance and respect privacy.

Sustainable procurement

Sustainable procurement is like voting with your budget. Well managed procurement stimulates sustainable consumption and production patterns, for example by opting for greener or fairer products and suppliers, reducing energy consumption, waste generation and encouraging better working conditions and ethical behavior in the supply chain.

Being exemplary is key in consulting. Internally, EFESO will engage in sustainable procurement for its office equipment (furniture, electronics, PCs, phones, no plastic bottles,…), mobility solutions (reducing travel when possible, promoting low CO2 mobility solutions,…) and to select its service providers (bankers, partners).

Rich collaboration and diversity

Diversity and collaboration create a fruitful and rich working environment for all talent. A wide variety of profiles, gender, origin, age, … put together generate innovation, a rich dialectic of ideas and iteration that contribute to both individual and corporate development and creativity.

EFESO will ensure that its rich diversity of people is regarded as valuable and stimulating. We will harness the power of diversity through exemplary collaborative behaviors (empathy, respect for each other, adapting to each culture, connect different levels in an organization,…). We want to be recognized for our natural and authentic levels of cooperation, both within the company, and with our clients and partners communities.

Continuous personal growth

Lifelong learning ensures personal growth and employability opportunities for all.

EFESO will invest in making its talent ready to become tomorrow’s sustainable leaders, through structured personal development. Improving employee skills will be designed to benefit not only EFESO’s ambitions, but also our employees’ long-term employability in the wider Society.

Meaningful transparency and confidentiality

A sound balance of transparency and confidentiality create a peaceful and inclusive working environment for sustainable development. Transparency generates trust and confidence within teams and client relationships. Respecting confidentiality, privacy and protecting sensible data are of primary concern in a digital era of fast-moving information and big data. An intelligent management of both aspects is a sign of respect.

EFESO will ensure its talent always knows where the company stands, what it is trying to achieve, how things are done. At the same time, the necessary investment and effort will be made to protect private and confidential information, coming both from clients and employees.