Consulting for sustainability with impact
Sustainability ensures long-term success and requires a rethink within companies. Technology, culture, and processes are changing. These changes often meet with resistance from employees. Change management helps to overcome barriers—through clear communication and involvement at all levels. It promotes understanding, new behavior, and acceptance. Our tried-and-tested approach is the key to successful sustainability and lasting change within companies.
We identify and shape change
Our consulting services support your technological, cultural, and organizational transformation—for greater sustainability, innovative strength, and future security.
Our sustainability consulting builds trust
We reduce uncertainty and resistance, strengthen knowledge, and shape change together with your employees—for genuine participation and motivation.
We ensure the success of your sustainability project
With our experience and expertise as Germany's leading change management consultancy, we ensure that you achieve your sustainability goals.
We identify and shape change
Our consulting services support your technological, cultural, and organizational transformation—for greater sustainability, innovative strength, and future security.
Our sustainability consulting builds trust
We reduce uncertainty and resistance, strengthen knowledge, and shape change together with your employees—for genuine participation and motivation.
We ensure the success of your sustainability project
With our experience and expertise as Germany's leading change management consultancy, we ensure that you achieve your sustainability goals.
Our customers
How we start your transformation: Developing the sustainability strategy
With our sustainability consulting services, we support you in defining your own practical sustainability strategy and planning and implementing all associated tasks. This results in a whole range of benefits for you: your company remains future-proof, builds trust among stakeholders, makes a positive contribution to society and the environment, and much more.
Your advantages at a glance:
Meet requirements
More and more legal regulations and international standards, such as Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG), are making sustainability a requirement. With your sustainability strategy, you can ensure that you meet these requirements as well as your own goals.
Secure competitive advantages
Increase resource efficiency Increase resource efficiency
Your sustainability strategy and the goals derived from it promote the targeted use of resources. This allows you to cut costs, reduce waste, save energy, and improve your procurement—sustainably and economically.
Retaining and attracting employees Employees are the most important asset of any company.
Risk management Improve
Our sustainability consulting services help you mitigate risks arising from environmental damage, resource scarcity, or social pressure. This strengthens your resilience and secures the future viability of your company.
Meet requirements
More and more legal regulations and international standards, such as Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG), are making sustainability a requirement. With your sustainability strategy, you can ensure that you meet these requirements as well as your own goals.
Secure competitive advantages
Our sustainability consulting strengthens your position in the market. You stand out from the competition, consolidate your brand, and convince investors with strong sustainability performance—a plus for your capital raising and long-term financing.
Increase resource efficiency Increase resource efficiency
Your sustainability strategy and the goals derived from it promote the targeted use of resources. This allows you to cut costs, reduce waste, save energy, and improve your procurement—sustainably and economically.
Retaining and attracting employees
A strategic focus on sustainability strengthens your corporate culture and ensures greater employee retention. At the same time, your company attracts new talent who are looking for a responsible employer.
Risk management Improve
Our sustainability consulting services help you mitigate risks arising from environmental damage, resource scarcity, or social pressure. This strengthens your resilience and secures the future viability of your company.
"With their own sustainability strategy, companies ensure that they remain future-proof and build trust."
Diana Herr, Senior Manager at CPC
We support your sustainability projects with change management
Does your company want to stay ahead of the competition and become an industry leader in sustainability? Do you want to stop reacting to regulatory changes and start taking proactive steps? Once you have defined and agreed on your sustainability strategy and transformation goals, the next step in our sustainability consulting process is implementation: setting up specific projects that will enable you to achieve your goals step by step.
Top management plays a crucial role in this process: it forms the "guiding coalition" that initiates, steers, and takes responsibility for the transformation. It ensures that the right sustainability projects are launched in the right order and staffed with the right people. This is because the necessary adjustments are far-reaching. They typically affect technological developments, cultural issues, organizational structures, processes, key performance indicator systems, and incentive models.
Effective change management is essential for success. Only by actively involving, motivating, and empowering departments, managers, and employees can the sustainability transformation be a success.
What matters is:
"Only with professional change management can the rollout of the sustainability strategy and the transformation of companies succeed."
Tanja Fischer, Manager at CPC
Our SustainABLE approach: How to make your sustainability transformation a success
With the SustainABLE approach, we identify specific areas for change – and our change management experts then work with you to implement these changes consistently.
Your advantages at a glance:
- You gain transparency and a clear understanding of your sustainability goals and the key levers.
- Your organization continues to develop sustainably and responds more resiliently to change.
- Your change processes actively involve employees and encourage participation.
Our approach to sustainability consulting follows five clear steps. This iterative and flexible approach ensures that your sustainability goals are successfully achieved:
The SustainABLE approach consists of five clear steps:
1. Clarify strategy and objectives
2. Perform analysis
We assess your organization's current status in terms of sustainability goals and identify necessary adjustments. Our SustainABLE Focus Areas (Anchor, Building Blocks, Leadership, Employees) provide structured guidance in this process.
3. Plan the concept
Based on the analysis, we work with you to develop a suitable implementation approach. We involve all relevant stakeholders in order to develop viable solutions. We then implement the resulting backlog of measures iteratively.
4. Implement measures
Step by step, we implement the defined measures together with the parties involved and the employees affected. We test new approaches, evaluate their impact, and flexibly adapt the process to changing conditions.
5. Measure success
Sustainability transformations are dynamic and require adaptability. That's why we conduct regular interim assessments, evaluate progress made, and adjust the approach as needed—so you can be sure to achieve your goals.
1. Clarify strategy and objectives
2. Perform analysis
We assess your organization's current status in terms of sustainability goals and identify necessary adjustments. Our SustainABLE Focus Areas (Anchor, Building Blocks, Leadership, Employees) provide structured guidance in this process.
3. Plan the concept
Based on the analysis, we work with you to develop a suitable implementation approach. We involve all relevant stakeholders in order to develop viable solutions. We then implement the resulting backlog of measures iteratively.
4. Implement measures
Step by step, we implement the defined measures together with the parties involved and the employees affected. We test new approaches, evaluate their impact, and flexibly adapt the process to changing conditions.
5. Measure success
Sustainability transformations are dynamic and require adaptability. That's why we conduct regular interim assessments, evaluate progress made, and adjust the approach as needed—so you can be sure to achieve your goals.
In steps 1 and 2 of our SustainABLE approach, we analyze your organization holistically based on four key focus areas. We conduct a comprehensive assessment for each focus area. The results help us develop the right change approach for your organization. We consider the following questions:
anchor
Building Blocks
Which existing structures and processes support the sustainability strategy? Which additional ones are needed?
leadership
How are executives committed to the sustainability strategy? What role model should they play in the future?
Employees
How are employees shaping the culture of sustainability today? And how should they shape this culture in the future?
anchor
Building Blocks
Which existing structures and processes support the sustainability strategy? Which additional ones are needed?
leadership
How are executives committed to the sustainability strategy? What role model should they play in the future?
Employees
With our focus areas, we precisely analyze the current situation and identify specific gaps between the current situation and the desired target. This allows us to create a solid foundation for deriving effective measures for a successful transformation.
"With SustainABLE, we identify your potential for change and support you in your sustainability transformation."
Michael Kempf, Partner at CPC
We would like to express our gratitude for these awards.
- CPC is five-time No. 1 hidden champion for change management
- Year after year, Brandeins/thema names us Germany's best management consultancy for change management.
- We have been Focus Top Consultants for many years.
- HR Excellence Award and European Training Award winner together with Deutsche Telekom and Lufthansa Technik
- We are ranked No. 1 on the Great Place to Work list in the 51–100 employees category and are a Kununu Top Company.
Discuss your project with us!
The first step is very simple—and don't worry: we don't send boring newsletters or annoying advertising emails. Instead, we focus on what's important: your desire for change and how we can help your business move forward.
Step 1
Call back or email.
We will contact you within 24 hours, record your requirements, and coordinate an appointment with one of our experts.
Step 2
Free initial consultation.
Step 3
You decide how to proceed.
Offer, pitch, or project launch? You decide the next steps.
Questions and answers
What is sustainability?
Since the beginning of this century, sustainability has become the starting point for one of the greatest transformations in the economy. Its urgency and significance are reflected in numerous political initiatives: the Kyoto Protocol, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and the EU Climate Law of 2021.
This is not just about climate protection, but about the holistic sustainable use of all resources – ecologically, economically, and socially. Only through a future-oriented economy can we ensure that future generations also have access to these resources.
Why is the pressure on companies to transform increasing?
The increasing pressure to innovate harbors great disruptive potential for all industries. Against this backdrop, it is important to position companies in an innovative and adaptable manner. However, when successful companies change structures that have grown over decades, professional support is necessary. In addition to the organizational structure, it is also important to adapt the corporate culture and anchor the topic of sustainability. Only when managers convincingly represent the sustainability vision will the transformation be successful.
What are the particular challenges involved in the sustainability transformation?
When it comes to sustainability projects, companies quickly realize that they are reaching the limits of their usual tools and methods. This is because customer requirements, legal regulations, and employee values are changing very rapidly. As a result, companies need an organization that can respond much more quickly and flexibly than it has in the past. The resulting changes often affect not only the company itself, but all partnerships along the entire supply chain.
What typical changes does the sustainability transformation bring with it?
An important step is to make it clear to employees what goals the sustainability strategy is pursuing and what benefits it brings. They should understand why changes are necessary and how they will have a positive impact on the company, society, and the environment. At the same time, it is crucial to take concerns and uncertainties seriously, as change triggers resistance in many employees.
With clear communication, exciting experiential formats, and targeted support, change management helps teams to actively participate in implementation. It promotes employee engagement and creates a culture that supports openness, collaboration, and continuous improvement. In this way, a strategy becomes a shared process that drives your company forward in a sustainable manner.
Is CPC the "right" partner?
We are the leading change management consultancy in Germany. We have been supporting international corporations and large medium-sized companies in a wide variety of change projects for more than 30 years.
Is CPC's change consulting tailored to our individual needs?
Individuality is important to us: we believe that every sustainability project is unique. That's why we work with you to put together the right change building blocks for your specific needs. At the same time, with over 30 years of change management experience, we have a large toolbox of methods at our disposal. And because we are confident in our best practices, we don't have to reinvent everything for your sustainability transformation. This saves time, money, and stress.
Sustainability Use Cases
In our use cases, you will find specific examples of how companies have applied our approach and examples of our concrete procedures. Click on the respective case to learn more:
Use case: Implementing a company-wide sustainability strategy
A DAX40 company has developed a strategy that sets out the direction for its future sustainability journey. However, it is still unclear how this will be implemented in the various departments. The teams are expected to understand the sustainability issues and support the associated changes.
Use case: Getting employees on board with sustainability
A large technology group aims to become the most sustainable company in its industry within five years. The company is launching a sustainability project with clear sustainability goals. Employees are expected to make a significant contribution.
Use case: Overcoming resistance from specialist departments
Those responsible for sustainability want to make collaboration within the company effective and promote good ideas. However, despite daily meetings on the topic of sustainability, most employees show little interest. There is a lack of effective mechanisms to get started properly.