The Sustainability Professionals Resilience Group (SPRG) is an innovative, international online community, bringing in-house business sustainability leaders together to discuss challenges, explore solutions and share ideas and expertise. Want to become part of it?
Why join the Sustainability Professionals Resilience Group?
By becoming part of our online business sustainability community you’ll have the opportunity to meet with other senior sustainability professionals across the corporate and NFP/NGO sectors – once every month, for an hour per session.
If you sometimes feel like an isolated voice in your organisation, or if you’d value other perspectives on the challenges you face, SPRG is a welcoming community that will offer you:
- A mutually supportive collective of sustainability professionals in similar roles
- The chance to focus on the future and achieve your ambitions
- A platform to engage, connect and collaborate with experts from across the world
- A creative community where you can discuss and share challenges and ideas
- The support needed to increase personal and professional resilience
- The motivation to maintain and increase momentum
How does the professional sustainability group work?
An unparalleled opportunity to meet with business sustainability professionals from a breadth of sectors, locations and organisational roles, SPRG works to broaden perspectives and provide community members with insight from other dedicated experts across the globe.
Combining conceptual thought-leadership with practical and pragmatic solutions and applications, the only agenda is open dialogue and sustainability. Here’s how our business sustainability group works…
A Featured Theme
Each session focuses on a featured sustainability theme, often with a guest contributor sharing an interesting, valuable and stimulating viewpoint.
Group Discussion
Meet other senior sustainability professionals, ask each other questions, share and explore challenges and opportunities.
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
Our SPRG meetings are for sustainability professionals working in companies and charities – so if this is you, please join us !
Free to attend
The only cost is your time. We just ask that you make a constructive contribution and share your ideas and feedback.
When
SPRG meetings are held online on the second Thursday of each month at 2pm (GMT/BST) and last for 1 hour.
Next meeting
SPRG NEXT SESSION | Setting Sustainability Ambition
Thursday 13 November 2025 | 2-3pm (GMT)
60 minutes + 30 minutes further Q&A
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 ambition is the fundamental basis for describing what sustainability means for a company: where you want to get to (what success looks like) and how fast you will move (by when).
Ambitions may involve major transformations or more modest, incremental goals. Regardless of scale, they serve to align to stakeholder requirements, clarify your intentions for internal and external audiences, and lay the foundation for a clear, compelling sustainability narrative
Why?
Because the right level of ambition for should be informed by a clear focus upon the challenges you seek to address, your competitive environment, commercial objectives and company values.
Understanding this provides a strong link between addressing material issues, risks and dependencies and the changes needed to address these – ranging from incremental to truly transformative.
Without a clear sustainability ambition, companies risk disconnecting their plans from strategic priorities. This gap can lead to initiatives that overlook key material sustainability issues as well as commercial needs, making weaknesses visible to investors and other stakeholders and potentially exposing the company to criticism for ineffective action or greenwashing.
Join us for an insightful discussion
On November 13th, join Dominic and Joss, Terrafiniti’s founding partners, along with other senior sustainability professionals, to explore setting sustainability ambition. We will discuss:
- Why establishing an understanding of sustainability ambition is important in developing sustainability strategy
- How you can explore and identify sustainability ambition
- How/where the organisations you have worked for have identified critical success factors for ESG/sustainability.
Sustainability strategy is one of our core areas of expertise, and we will share some of the most valuable insights we have gained over the last 25 years in helping businesses and non-profits pursue their objectives.
Hosts: Joss and Dominic, Terrafiniti’s founding partners.
Our live meetings also provide opportunities to gain insights from other participants – sustainability experts from diverse sectors.
Insights Q&A: After the main session, Joss and Dominic will stay online for an additional 30 minutes, you can ask more questions and we can share how we have helped our clients develop their strategies and approaches.
Don’t miss this opportunity to share experience and learning and find solutions to your sustainability challenges.
Want to join us at our next SPRG sustainable business group meeting?
Register here to join the group and receive future invitations.
Future Sessions
What does success look like? | 11 Dec 2025
TBC | 15 Jan 2026
What have people said about the group?
Probably the best thing I've clicked
into in several years!
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.
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 ...
Sustainability and Value Creation | 16 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.
Communicating Sustainability – navigating the challenges and building trust | 11 September 2025
In this interactive session, we explored the complexities of sustainability and ESG communication and discussed how to build credibility and clarity.
Sustainable Transition | the fundamentals of good practice | 12 June 2025
Extending the theme of sustainability strategy from our May meeting, in June we focused on the topic of sustainable transition – how organisations articulate, plan and undertake the journey from where they are now to where they need to be in the future.
Building Sustainability Strategy – the most important aspects for success | 8 May 2025
If your organisation doesn’t have an up-to-date, relevant and integrated sustainability strategy then it can be open to multiple risks, but more importantly you might be missing out on valuable sustainability and business opportunities.
In May's meeting we discussed the key components of sustainable business strategy – and what’s often overlooked or missing.
Reputation management – how to manage risk by association | 10 April 2025
Reputation is widely regarded as one of the most valuable assets of an organisation – and sustainability can be an important contributor to both reputation and other dimensions of business value.
In April’s meeting we explored different dimensions of reputational risk, how it can be affected, and how you can protect it.
ESG Backlash – what are we seeing, and what matters? | 13 March 2025
Recent months have seen some push back against ESG / sustainability policies, with shifts in company commitments and government attitudes.
Setting Long-Term Targets for Sustainability | 13 February 2025
Setting – and importantly, declaring – long-term targets has always been a critical component of sustainability/ESG strategy and management.
These targets, typically set 5-10 years in advance, or even longer for climate commitments, allow companies to align with global frameworks such as Net Zero goals or SDGs and provide the scaffold for planning and implementation plans.
The role of sustainability professionals in preventing greenwashing | 23 January 2025
Much greenwashing is often the result of overenthusiastic or poorly informed marketeers. However, a significant amount arises from far more fundamental strategic challenges.