Climate and Sustainable Growth Briefing
One-hour briefing: A comprehensive update on the current climate and business landscape, focusing on immediate actions for businesses. Typically involves ~40 minutes of presentation and ~20 minutes of discussion.
Tailored Board and/or Leadership Team Learning Session
One-to-three-hour session: A deeper dive into what the current trends embedded in The Climate Story mean for your company and sector. Involves confidential discussion of the latest trends, strategic implications, risks, and opportunities.
Targeted Governance Support
Scope TBD: Gib has participated in over 70 board of directors’ meetings across many industry sectors. He has researched and written about leading corporate sustainability governance practices for decades. You can draw upon this experience for tailored governance support.
PUBLISHED JULY 2025
Navigating Sustainable Growth: A Roadmap for Boards and Corporate Leaders
How do tomorrow's winning companies address climate change while advancing sustainable growth? The easy-to-read, practical guide is full of graphics and useful tips. Over 325 best practice examples from 150 companies support the latest research on enhancing board fluency and aligning the board and C-suite.
The Climate Story
A free, data-rich, simple, logical summary for business leaders and anyone interested in better understanding the immediate climate challenges facing all of us.
Special Focus Engagement
For 30 years, Gib has advised boards of directors at major companies about environmental, health and safety, climate, and broader sustainability issues.
Gib is often asked to speak to board committees or full boards - providing an overview of sustainability risks and opportunities. But most of his involvement in over 70 corporate board meetings is as an adviser, counsellor, trusted sounding board.
To explore ways Gib might be of assistance, please contact him below.
ESG Navigator
The Sustainable Growth Navigator (also ESG Navigator) is a corporate sustainability assessment and strategic planning platform - designed in Fortune-500 boardrooms. It is the preeminent tool for S&P 1000 companies to honestly assess performance and to deliver business value from sustainability.
Our Value Proposition: The Sustainable Growth Navigator empowers C-Suite executives and your teams to fully embed sustainability into corporate strategy:
- Know where your company stands today on ESG (vs. peer companies and major ESG ratings)
- Build robust governance and a winning strategy to capture value from ESG tomorrow.
The Conference Board endorsed and licensed the platform because “ESG Navigator distills 30 years of industry knowledge, interactions with dozens of CEOs, board members, and ESG expertise into an easy-to-use, online assessment tool.”
NACD Virtual Briefing Desk
A one-hour course on Sustainability Oversight: Cutting Through the Noise, is being launched by the National Association of Corporate Directors in 2025.
Learn more about the course by setting a short call with Gib Hedstrom. To schedule a session, contact NACD Board Advisory Services.
