Situation

While a large, leading office supplies retailer had made significant headway on many sustainability initiatives, it lacked top-down commitment and cohesive strategy. How might Blu Skye engage executives to lead and deliver? 

Goal

Educate and empower leadership to integrate sustainability into corporate culture.  

Our Role

Assess

Led significant research, analysis, and competitive benchmarking to contextualize internal sustainability performance within external trends. 

Align

Established cultural readiness by engaging with company leaders, exploring what sustainability meant to them, their employees, and the company at large.

Execute

• Educated and trained the buyer community on key sustainability information and a rollout of the strategy to key vendor partners.

• Supported the initial implementation planning efforts and managed four primary workstreams focused on product, packaging, metrics, and associate engagement.

Results

• Identified $100M in savings from sustainable packaging improvements.

• Developed cohesive sustainability strategy comprising four strategic pillars relevant to the client’s environmental impacts and two foundational planks to guide corporate culture.

• Built a roadmap with key activities and milestones for the company to finalize, adopt, and implement strategy.

• Co-created business plans with internal teams for major workstreams and led sustainability 101 training.