A company’s approach to sustainability is an essential component of corporate strategy—that’s where InspIR’s sustainability integration advisory services come in. InspIR specializes in translating your sustainability objectives and initiatives into clear and compelling communications that not only meet stakeholder expectations, but also offer a distinct, investor-focused perspective.
Management and communication of sustainability-related risks and opportunities are key differentiators in today’s capital markets.
Investors, creditors, credit rating agencies and insurers are increasingly incorporating sustainability data into their risk and valuation analysis; customers are increasingly incorporating it into their decisions as well.
Not calculating or failing to mitigate sustainability-related risks may have serious implications with regard to sustainability-linked shareholder demands, which could result in institutional investors voting against the management and board directors of companies with poor sustainability performance and disclosure.
InspIR Group offers a range of strategic sustainability advisory services to help companies advance on their sustainability journeys.
We advise on how to integrate sustainability disclosures into investor communications and help companies with their sustainability integration & communications programs. This includes:
- Workshops to educate senior management, operating managers and finance teams
- Peer benchmarking to identify disclosure gaps and opportunities
- Perception research to understand how your sustainability performance impacts investor decisions
- Materiality analysis to determine key topics to monitor and report
- Sustainability and ESG integrated reporting, with a strategic messaging approach
- ESG factsheet and specific topic summaries to complement your suite of sustainability-related publications
- ESG presentations and roadshows to attract ESG-dedicated investors and drive incremental share demand
- Integration of ESG messaging and IR communications, including earnings calls, investor days and website content development
- Policy review and benchmarking to review or update your policies according to best practices
We work with clients to build highly customized, industry-specific communication platforms that enable effective sustainability integration into all forms of investor communications.
As in our other practice areas, we help clients establish and maintain a strategic and high-quality approach to investor messaging, which is vital to readily access capital markets and continue building shareholder support.
Zelmira Silva, ESG Advisory and Strategic Narratives Practice Lead
Zelmira leads InspIR Group’s ESG Advisory and Strategic Narratives practices, working with the Firm’s clients on articulating integrated business and sustainability strategies across all stakeholder communications, with particular focus on the investment community. She believes elevating Sustainability and IR Communications is vital for capital market readiness and to establish shareholder support.
As an Economist and former consultant with experience in market and investment research, public policy, and investor relations and communications, she brings over 30 years of global client advisory to her practice. Zelmira has worked at local consultancies in Argentina, McKinsey & Co and the World Bank.
