Feeling like the lone voice on sustainability in your organisation? Sustainability Insights is where in-house sustainability professionals come together to swap ideas, tackle challenges, explore innovation and drive real sustainable change.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead
Why join the Sustainability Insights Group?
Over the past 5 years hundreds of senior sustainability professionals have taken part, contributing to and benefiting from our monthly meetings.
Terrafiniti insights and solutions
For over 25 years we’ve supported and advised some of the world’s leading companies and not-for-profits. In each session we’ll share insights on best practice and the things organisations typically find challenging or get wrong.
Peer Collaboration
The meetings attract international sustainability specialists from diverse sectors. They provide a unique, safe, Chatham House Rule-based setting to engage with other sustainability professionals and learn from each other.
Personal and Professional Resilience
Members tell us that taking part in meetings provides supportive connections, builds motivation and reinforces resilience. The format of combining themed content plus discussion helps enhance sustainable business knowledge and navigate ever-changing sustainability challenges.
How does the Sustainability Insights group work?
Sessions are hosted by Joss and Dominic, Terrafiniti’s founding partners. Here’s how the group works …
A Featured Theme
Each session focuses on a featured sustainability theme and often focuses on topical issues. We use our knowledge, insights and experience to prime each session.
Group Discussion
Ask us difficult questions, engage with other senior sustainability professionals, share and explore challenges and opportunities. These are meetings, not webinars.
Trust & Share
We host small groups and follow the Chatham House Rule. While ideas are shared, personal identities are not and sessions aren’t recorded
Who
The meetings are for in-house sustainability professionals working in companies and charities – so if this is you, you’re welcome to join us!
Free to attend
The only cost is your time. We just ask that you make a constructive contribution (however small) and share your ideas and feedback.
When
Meetings are held online on the second Thursday of each month at 2pm (GMT/BST) and last for 1 hour. They are followed by an additional 30 mins Q&A where we can share learnings from our work with clients.
NEXT MEETING
Communicating sustainability: developing a meaningful narrative
19 Nov 2026 | 2pm (GMT) | 60 minutes + 30 minutes further Q&A
A sustainability strategy can be sound but still fail to gain traction if people do not understand or trust it. Turning complex commitments and performance into a clear, credible narrative is where communication can build real value.
For many organisations, sustainability communication is assembled around reporting cycles, individual initiatives or stakeholder requests. The result can be fragmented, over-technical or too polished to feel credible, and increasingly sceptical audiences are quick to notice the gaps.
So, the question facing sustainability professionals is a practical one. How do you develop a coherent narrative that is accurate, meaningful to different audiences and robust enough to withstand scrutiny?
November’s session will look at how to move from sustainability activity to a clear and coherent story, and how to make sure communication builds understanding and trust.
- How to build a compelling and coherent sustainability narrative
- How to tailor the narrative for different audiences while retaining a consistent core message
- Where it commonly goes wrong: claims that run ahead of evidence, messages that lack relevance, and communication that creates reputational risk rather than trust.
This is an interactive working session, not a webinar or presentation. Come ready to compare thinking with peers, share the communication challenges you are navigating, and bring questions you have not yet resolved.
Participants consistently cite the peer exchange in these sessions as one of their most valuable sources of practical insight, especially the chance to hear how others are building trust, handling scrutiny and adapting sustainability messages for different audiences.
Joss and Dominic will lead the session and stay online for a further 30 minutes to continue the discussion, explore specific situations and share what they have seen working, and not working, across organisations.
Join us to test your approach, learn from peers and strengthen the narrative that connects your sustainability strategy, actions and performance.
Book your place now …
Want to join us at our next Sustainability Insights group meeting?
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Future Sessions
TBC | 10 Dec 2026
What have people said about the group?
It’s a great opportunity to share with peers. Joss and Dominic share a fantastic amount of knowledge with the Group.
Everyone was involved in the conversation and had the opportunity to contribute to the group dynamic.
Your approach is the best way to shape a network of experts ready to help each other. This is invaluable!
This is great - being surrounded by amazing minds.
Probably the best thing I've clicked
into in several years!
What have we covered?
We've explored materiality and what that means for sustainability professionals and their businesses, engaging with people in different roles on sustainability and greenwashing in business + much, much more ...
After Materiality - turning findings into strategy
October 2026
A materiality assessment tells you what matters. It does not tell you what to do about it, how far to go, or where to put your money. Moving from a prioritised list of material issues to a strategy which the organisation can act on, is where you can build real value and make the most of materiality.
Materiality Assessment - from complexity to clarity
September 2026
Materiality assessment is central to a complete approach to sustainability/ESG, it demonstrates that you have thoroughly analysed and prioritised the social and environmental issues that represent impacts, risks and opportunities for you and your stakeholders.
Setting Long-Term Targets for Sustainability
June 2026
Long-term targets sit at the heart of credible sustainability strategy. But right now, for many organisations, they are also a source of significant pressure. The gap between ambition and delivery is not primarily a problem of intent. It is a problem of how targets are set, structured and translated into plans that the organisation can execute.
Greenwashing – How to spot it and avoid the risks
May 2026
Greenwashing remains one of the most significant risks facing sustainability professionals right now. While regulators are taking increasingly tough stances, greenwashing remains common. A 2025 Which? study found that 62% of products still fail checks against the UK Competition and Markets Authority’s (CMA) Green Claims Code — and the CMA now has the power to fine companies up to 10% of global turnover through direct enforcement.
ESG Headwinds – Maintaining momentum in challenging times
April 2026
Corporate ESG and sustainability have faced growing headwinds across the UK, Europe and Asia. Political pushback, regulatory recalibration and more sceptical capital markets have contributed to softer public and investor sentiment. We explored these trends, and what they mean for sustainability professionals.
Preventing Greenwashing – what’s the role of sustainability professionals?
March 2026
This month, we explored what sustainability professionals could and should do to help drive out greenwashing - and the skills and competencies needed.
People in Sustainability
February 2026
As sustainability faces a range of challenges, it’s more important than ever to ensure buy-in, engagement and mobilisation of different people across your organisation.
Why Context is Critical for Strategy
January 2026
To succeed, companies need to understand their operating environment - the issues, trends and challenges that they need to navigate to deliver success. This means that context assessment should be the first step to effective strategy development.
Sustainability Management – what does good look like?
December 2025
What are the core elements of sustainability management, and how do they align to keep your efforts focused, embedded in your organisation, and primed to drive performance, transparency, and accountability?
Setting Sustainability Ambition
November 2025
Understanding and defining ambition is a crucial element of sustainability strategy and management. Sustainability Ambition relates to areas and aspects where the company has a degree of choice to decide what, where and how it acts.
Sustainability and Value Creation
October 2025
Recognising the full value of sustainability is now a strategic imperative. Missed opportunities can expose you to financial, legal, market, and reputational risks, but seizing them can enable innovation and future-proof your business.