Our favorite clients care about outcomes – financial outcomes, social outcomes, often both. They like to use resources wisely, and they want their ESG efforts to be efficient and effective.
We love sustainability skeptics because a critical eye is the best way to leapfrog the ineffective approaches typical of today’s ESG industry. Aligning sustainability initiatives with financial interests maximizes results for both investors and society.
Sara Schoen is an organizational change agent who helps executives utilize sustainability to create business value. She founded Schoen Sustainability to help investors and companies integrate long-termism into strategy and process and focus on performance instead of distractions. Sara is passionate about the power of long-term opportunity/risk focus to advance organizational and societal health and prosperity. She can be reached at sara@schoensustain.com.
Sara’s approach is informed by her experience working inside companies, which has afforded her an intimate understanding of how sustainability initiatives play out on the ground as well as exactly where the levers are and how current sustainability industry initiatives miss them. She has managed sustainability for developers, property managers, public REITs, and private equity investment managers and holds a B.A. in Sociology from the University of Maryland, College Park and an M.S. in Energy Policy from Johns Hopkins University.
Schoen Sustainability helps investors and companies consider long-term impacts on internal and external parties to maximize both financial and societal prosperity.
Our enemies are, in the words of Hank Paulson, short-termism and hopelessness.
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Uncommon thoughtfulness and attention to detail produce unusually high-quality work. We specialize in deep critical thinking and recommend that clients call on us for priority items for which they desire and value the greatest quality and thoroughness.
Utilize long-termism to strengthen your organization: sara@schoensustain.com