Corporate Sustainability Workshop: Building Executive Fluency in Climate Strategy and ESG
Challenge
In 2021, Mighty Buildings was preparing for rapid growth—and doing so with a sustainability-first mindset. The company had aligned its mission with the UN Sustainable Development Goals and publicly committed to achieving carbon neutrality by 2028. To meet that target, its executive leaders recognized the need for a shared understanding of sustainability concepts across the company’s globally distributed workforce, including carbon accounting, business circularity, and ESG reporting.
TripleWin was hired to facilitate a two-part sustainability learning experience for the company’s executive team that would then be rolled out as new-employee onboarding training. The first session focused on corporate sustainability and carbon strategy; the second focused on personal sustainability and employee agency. This case study details the corporate sustainability workshop.
Solutions Delivered
TripleWin designed and facilitated a half-day, in-person workshop for around 30 executive leaders across the organization’s key business units. The session was titled Corporate Sustainability, Carbon Accounting & Beyond and served as an introduction to key sustainability frameworks and concepts, tailored to the specific topics that were top-of-mind for Mighty Buildings, an innovator seeking to transform the building and construction industry.
The workshop focused on building strategic understanding and shared language around the following core topics:
- Corporate Sustainability and Stakeholder Value: An overview of how sustainability creates long-term business value and how it aligns with Mighty Buildings’ core mission and value proposition.
- Business Circularity: A look at circular economy principles with emphasis on reducing material waste, optimizing design, and rethinking production systems.
- Carbon Accounting: A practical guide to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and how they apply to the company’s operations. Workshop participants worked together to identify potential carbon “hot spots” in Mighty Building’s value chain.
- Carbon Neutrality Roadmap: An exploration of the steps needed to reach net zero—Measure, Mitigate, Compensate, and Disclose—and how each could be integrated into Mighty Buildings’ long-term strategy.
- Sustainability Reporting and Messaging: A discussion of greenwashing vs. greenwishing, with real-world examples, and exercises to build stronger transparency and accountability in ESG communications.
Project Learnings
The workshop surfaced insights that helped align leadership perspectives on sustainability while anchoring the content in the company’s unique industry challenges and opportunities. Key takeaways included:
- Clarity on Scope 3 emissions: The team identified that the majority of the company’s emissions would likely come from Scope 3 categories, such as purchased materials and product use. This reinforced the need to embed carbon reduction into the company’s core decisions—such as design, sourcing, and supply chain strategy—rather than treating it as an external or secondary concern.
- Understanding of carbon accounting as a strategic tool: Leaders saw carbon inventories not only as a reporting requirement, but as a way to guide innovation and business planning. By revealing emissions “hot spots”, the inventory process helped align sustainability goals with financial and operational priorities for the company.
- Heightened awareness of sustainability messaging risks: The team explored the reputational risks of overpromising on ESG claims and brainstormed ways to avoid greenwashing while maintaining the company’s strong business ambitions.
Client Outcomes
The workshop gave Mighty Buildings’ leadership team a practical framework for integrating sustainability into business decisions. With a stronger understanding of carbon accounting, material circularity, and ESG risks, leaders were better equipped to evaluate options and set direction in the months that followed:
- Material inputs: Began validating carbon-negative materials and recyclable insulation foams for use in structural components.
- Facility improvements: Transitioned its Oakland facility to 100% renewable energy as part of its carbon neutrality roadmap.
- Design decisions: Prioritized product innovations like carbon-capturing coatings and low-carbon fillers to reduce embedded emissions.
- Stakeholder transparency: Strengthened public-facing commitments to carbon neutrality by 2028 and aligned reporting with UN SDGs.
The shared foundation created during the workshop enabled leaders to align environmental priorities with technical innovation and business growth. Together with the personal sustainability workshop, the series provided a complete learning arc—from big-picture strategy, to the technical and operational knowledge needed to act, to the personal motivation that sustains engagement over time.
Experts
TripleWin Advisory is a boutique corporate consultancy focused on circularity solutions for industry. TripleWin offers a suite of tools to support clients in charting a practical, circular and sustainable course for their business. These tools include:
- Carbon inventories and setting science-based and Net Zero carbon goals
- Materiality assessments and sustainability roadmaps
- Building circular business models supported by financial analysis
- Risk scenario models using the TCFD framework
- Workshops and courses to build employee agency and corporate competency
We work with leaders in the following industries: apparel, footwear & textiles; information technology; metals; beauty; food & beverage; healthcare; building construction; human resource management; and retail.
TripleWin Advisory is an approved CDP climate change consultancy Accredited Service Provider (ASP). We are woman-founded, owned and led; a public benefit company.
Mighty Buildings is a 3D designer, fabricator, and builder of sustainably made homes and ADUs. Based in Oakland, California, the company is working to address two global crises: climate change and the lack of affordable housing in urban settings. The company uses advanced manufacturing technologies, including 3D printing and prefabrication, to reduce emissions and construction waste.
Headquarters:Oakland, California
Industry:
Construction technology
Main Product:
3D-printed, prefabricated homes and ADUs
In their words
"TripleWin and team have an incredible gift for making the complex appear simple without being simplistic. I was skeptical at first that they could deliver passion and excitement around ESG in a corporate workshop for our leadership team but they did and provided a goldmine of practical information for our organization and the client entities we serve. TripleWin is a pleasure to work with. They deliver to an exceptionally high standard and are a great resource and strategic advisor to any company seeking to advance their corporate sustainability journey."