Sustainable Business & Circular Strategy workshop
A facilitated workshop for CSR teams, ESG-focused businesses, and purpose-driven organisations that want to connect impact with strategy instead of keeping them in separate boxes.
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CSR teams, ESG-focused businesses, and purpose-driven organisations.
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Two days in person or a four-week online programme, tailored to your organisation and ambitions.
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Circular Economy Design, ESG Strategy Framework, and Stakeholder Mapping.
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In person or online for teams, organisations, institutions, and leadership groups.
The challenge
Many organisations treat sustainability as a report, a project, or a department. Meanwhile the real choices about products, suppliers, and growth are made elsewhere. This workshop brings impact and business strategy into the same conversation, so sustainability shapes decisions instead of following them.
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A structured process to connect sustainability goals with business strategy, stakeholders, and concrete initiatives.
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Not a compliance audit, a reporting exercise, or a substitute for specialist legal or ESG advice.
Why it works
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Mapping the wider ecosystem shows where value, resources, and impact really flow.
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Making influence and interests visible helps decide who to involve and how.
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Circular design questions reveal new ways to create value with fewer resources.
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Initiatives are chosen for both impact and business value, not for good intentions alone.
Process
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We clarify your sustainability ambitions, obligations, and the decisions the workshop must support.
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The group maps the ecosystem of actors, resources, and dependencies around your business.
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Stakeholders are mapped by influence and interest, with their expectations made explicit.
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Circular design questions open up new options for products, services, and partnerships.
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Initiatives are assessed for impact, feasibility, and business value.
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The chosen initiatives become a roadmap with owners, milestones, and measures.
In practice
Systems on the table
Ideas into initiatives
Seeing the bigger picture
Outcomes
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A shared picture of the actors, resources, and dependencies that shape your impact.
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A clear view of who matters, what they expect, and how to engage them.
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A set of options to create value with fewer resources or less waste.
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A short list of initiatives chosen for both impact and business value.
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A plan that connects initiatives to owners, milestones, and measures.
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The evidence, data, and specialist input still needed before committing.
Facilitated by
I’m Christian Vernaschi, founder of From Ideas to Impact. I combine more than 20 years in creative strategy with facilitation, Design Thinking, brand strategy, and leadership development. My work focuses on helping teams move from vague alignment to visible decisions they can actually act on.
Christian Vernaschi, Trained Certified Facilitator of LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® method and materials
FAQ
People who shape both strategy and sustainability: leadership, CSR or ESG leads, and key functions such as operations, procurement, or product.
It helps connect sustainability to strategy and decisions. It does not replace specialist reporting, legal, or audit advice, which remains essential for compliance.
It can, when the group needs to build a shared picture of a complex system. The final mix of methods depends on your challenge and the time available.
Yes. The in-person version typically runs over two days; the online version is spread over about four weeks of shorter sessions.
You receive the maps and roadmap from the session. A follow-up session can be added to review progress and adjust priorities.
It helps, but it is not a requirement. Where specialist knowledge is missing, we capture the open questions so they can be resolved after the session.
When impact and business value sit in the same picture, better choices become possible. That is when sustainability stops being a promise and starts becoming practice.
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