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Outlasting business as usual will require some unusual thinking...

Our backgrounds mean we approach sustainability with a purpose-led, commercial and innovation lens, not an environmental science lens.

We’re not saying that’s a bad thing, we’re just not that.

We bear a wild mix of strategy, ESG, innovation, brand, sustainability and systems thinking skills. It means our approach is uniquely aligned with what’s to come, not just ‘what’s been before’.

Boldly facing up to the harshest reality...

The crisis we’re facing is more than a climate one. If we continue with ‘business as usual’ the risk is not simply that we’ll have a few rough years ahead. It’s our very existence at stake.

The science is clear: we have until 2030 to overhaul the global economy to one that operates within planetary and social boundaries. That means assessing our capabilities, aligning them with real-world needs and reorienting to serve those opportunities.

Organisations that are bold enough to accept this will gain first-mover advantage on a global scale. 

Sustainability is more than a box-ticking exercise. It must become core to strategy. 

Now is the time to get wild. We can help you do that.

How Wild-Built’s approach differs from other solutions

approach

Innovation-led approach

Marketing-led approach

Environmental impact-led approach

✓  Helps understand environmental impacts for compliance

✗  May be solely measurement-focused

✗  May not be focused on creating overall value

✗  May not be focused on a whole-of-business approach

✗  Props up ‘business as usual’ by plugging in sustainability as an add on to core business

✓  Looks and sounds great and draws eyeballs to your business

✗  May present risk of greenwashing

✗  May not be focused on genuine, long-term sustainability

✗  May not be focused on a whole-of-business approach

✗  Props up ‘business as usual’ by viewing sustainability as purely a communication opportunity


✓  Meets immediate consumer/ customer needs

✗  May be focused on generating short-term wins

✗  May not be focused on genuine, long-term sustainability

✗  May not be focused on a whole-of-business approach

✗  Props up ‘business as usual’ by viewing sustainability as something a discrete innovation can ‘solve’


✓  Innovate for true future fitness

✓  Understand the root cause of impacts linked to your business model

✓  Focused on sustainable stakeholder value creation

✓  Takes a whole-of-business approach through systems thinking

✓  Recognises that ‘business as usual’ is not sustainable or strategic

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✓ Holistic and systems-led 
✓ Future-fitness 
✓ Genuinely sustainable 
✓ Purpose-driven 
✓ Activating imagination 
✓ Bringing humanity back into business
✓ Accountability and responsibility 
✓ Creating real, enduring stakeholder value 

Not this

✕ Vanity or ‘feel good’ changes
✕ Greenwashing
✕ Marketing claims
✕ Discrete sustainability initiatives
✕ Box-ticking
✕ Profit above all else
✕ Offsetting to hide negative impacts
✕ Creating short-term wins 

This is how we do strategy:

Our signature strategic framework

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These are the wild ideas that shape our approach: 

The “sustainable development” and “green growth” narratives are problematic because they tell us we can continue to grow if we solve the emissions challenge.

The crisis we’re facing is not just about emissions, so we can’t look to solve the emissions issue in isolation and expect ‘sustainability’ as a result.

The window to solve these converging crises is rapidly closing. Our generation of decision-makers is tasked with ensuring a liveable future for our descendants.

Sustainability is therefore not a nice to have, it’s an urgent commercial and moral imperative. There is no business on a dead planet.

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