Business & Organisations

What if we knew the root causes of all environmental problems? What if we knew their positive opposites?

Then we could use this knowledge to stop causing these problems in the first place.

RoundView is a toolkit for sustainability thinking and learning.
Build a shared language for positive engagement.

What is brilliant about the RoundView is that we are also the potential answer.

Train-the-trainer feedback - Sustainability champion, Tesco

Creating sustainable businesses is actually possible when approached systematically asking the right questions.

RoundView workshop feedback - Siemens Energy sponsored workshop

I am surprised how much I have changed my work and personal life with the knowledge I have.

Workshop participant - Tesco staff member

RoundView: a practical toolkit for positive innovation

- from silos to productive sustainability dialogue

Productive sustainability dialogue and decision-making is hard. Sustainability often means something different in every part of the organisation. Strategy sees opportunity. Compliance sees risk. Operations sees cost.

Staff hear urgency, but engagement is often shallow or uneven. Sustainability knowledge concentrates in pockets. RoundView gives your people a positive, shared language to break through silos.

A shared language for what good looks like

ESG reporting, net zero targets, and Scope 3 obligations create pressure to demonstrate progress, but don’t always give a clear, agreed understanding of what progress actually means.

RoundView acts as a compass, giving a way to ask what ‘good’ looks like. This helps us move beyond incremental improvements and the risk of greenwashing.

RoundView’s simplicity means it can be applied and shared across your whole organisation and value chain. Meaningful engagement with sustainability builds commitment and makes it easier to recruit and retain talent.

The positive view is why I’ve been so interested in the RoundView, because everything about sustainability is usually being told what we should stop doing, not what to do. As human beings we rile against that. This can be very powerful, especially as it says we can carry on living and enjoying ourselves but in a better and more clever way.

Build staff capacity and confidence

With RoundView, you don’t have to be a sustainability expert to facilitate meaningful discussions, both internally and across the value chain. Colourful, hands-on learning tools encourage dialogue.

Sustainability and systems thinking develop through use, a way of thinking that people carry into future decisions.

Creating sustainable businesses is actually possible when approached systematically asking the right questions.

Grounded in research

RoundView builds on rigorous scientific dialogue from The Natural Step. It is grounded in decades of organisational testing, including running workshops with Siemens Energy, Fujitsu and over 250 staff from the shop floor to senior management in Tesco, with evidence of genuine skills development, improved understanding and motivation.

What this can look like in practice

Internal transformation

There are multiple entry points and ways to embed RoundView:

Team-building exercises at staff away-days
Orientation for design and strategy meetings
Cross-functional workshops bringing staff together to explore new approaches
Including RoundView analysis in evaluation and review sessions
Train-the facilitator programmes to scale up capacity building through the organisation

The key is to start building shared understanding across teams and departments, then innovation and engagement flows.

Corporate social responsibility

You can impact thousands of young learners, families and the wider general public through sponsorship of:

Providing RoundView toolkits to libraries, museums, schools and FE colleges
Supporting workshops in local schools and libraries
Staff volunteer days running RoundView events in the local community

RoundView provides you with a unique social value opportunity, highly visible and impactful sustainability engagement in your local community.

For sustainability professionals

RoundView complements your existing expertise and toolkit, with:

Hands-on learning tools to bring workshops and meetings to life
Way to reach many more people in effective workshops

It provides a a way to build capacity in your wider team, at the same time as exploring sustainability direction and options.

Bringing sustainability to life