Business & Human Rights

We work with businesses, from local businesses to complex multinational enterprises and supply chains, to develop strategic, socially responsible business practices. We prioritize a risk-based approach with a focus on social responsibility and human rights due diligence, supporting clients in risk and reputational management.

  • We partner with businesses and key decision makers to develop and implement strategies to align with international due diligence, labor, and human rights standards, including proactive social governance.

  • We work with companies to develop governance, policy, and decision-making structures to support human rights and to credibly integrate human rights due diligence into business operations.

  • We work with partners to develop or strengthen and implement labor and human rights policies across operations and the value chain to align with legal and international standards and stakeholder expectations and to increase impact for identifying, mitigating, and remediating adverse human rights impacts.

  • We work with you to develop a risk based approach to identifying and addressing human rights risks

  • We develop and host trainings to build employee and supplier capacity to understand and protect labor and human rights, in line with company values and international standards

  • We serve as a liaison and third party to connect businesses to labor and civil society stakeholders, to build stakeholder engagement strategies, and to coordinate between businesses and labor and civil society organizations to identify, mitigate, and remediate adverse human rights impacts.

  • We work with businesses to build programs to mitigate and remediate adverse human rights impacts and connect businesses with relevant stakeholders to design and implement credible and inclusive human rights programs

  • We review ESG reporting for credibility, work with companies to strengthen ESG reporting scores, and provide training to staff to understand human rights reporting requirements

  • We serve as labor and human rights subject matter experts to help understand and develop solutions, in line with international standards and government regulations.

  • We have forced labor experts with direct U.S. Government trade and regulatory experience able to design strategies to identify, mitigate, and remediate forced labor in accordance with U.S. forced labor legislative requirements.

  • Both preventative and reactive, we support clients to understand, meet, and effectively communicate socially responsible business practices. Our work in this field is built on robust relationships, longstanding stakeholder engagement, and qualitative and quantitative data with a deep understanding of diverse stakeholder expectations.

Local Business Starter Package

We support founder-led local businesses to launch or expand socially responsible business, with a focus on integrating social responsibility into new or existing business practices.

Starter packages provide support from foundational efforts to initial integration, meeting company needs where they are and working with clients to take a purpose driven approach to business, meeting media, consumer, and legislative expectations. Work is rooted in international human rights due diligence standards.

An example of issues within scope of business and human rights include cultural appropriation, inclusive business environments, staff equity and inclusion, supply chain risks, socially responsible management practices, support for third party certifications like B Corps, and more.

Initial Insights

$349

The package includes a snapshot of brand risks related to human rights and social responsibility. Deliverables include:

  • An overview of potential risks

  • High level, actionable recommendations

Essentials Toolkit

$999

Includes everything in the Initials Insights package, plus:

  • Custom human rights policy

  • Three strategy sessions with the company founder/owner to support a decision making framework to identify, mitigate, and remediate risks

Tailored Consulting

$2500

Includes everything in the essentials tool kit, plus:

  • Tailored language supporting brand ethos as it relates to business and human rights

  • Training to understand international and national standards underlying media, consumer, and government expectations

  • Support to integrate brand ethos into business practices

Human rights due diligence, forced labor, partnerships, stakeholder engagement, CSR, social responsibility, child labor, gender based violences, indigenous, cultural appropriation, inclusive, ESG, social governance, identification, mitigation, remediation, impact assessment