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Collaboration

High-impact collective action to address global challenges

BSR’s business-led, collaborative forums provide a safe, trusting environment for companies to learn from their peers, see a changing world more clearly, and move forward as a group to accelerate progress and achieve impact at scale.

Collaboration is more important than ever before.

Businesses today are operating in a rapidly changing, and unsettled context—one marked by a decline of multilateralism, and the resulting disorder produced by a lack of international alignment on how to address our most pressing challenges.

BSR helps bring together “coalitions of the willing” to build knowledge, pool insights, and drive impact on common sustainability agendas. Our membership network, cross-sector collaborations, and grant-funded partnerships are here to help, ensuring that no company need go it alone.

This, combined with BSR’s strategic leadership, subject-matter expertise, and effective secretariat support services, help steward our multi-company collaborations to address highly complex environmental and social issues. BSR has more than 30 years of experience launching, facilitating, and scaling high impact collaborations. We’ve served as secretariat, strategic advisor, and facilitation partner for over 50 initiatives.

BSR brings companies together in a variety of ways:

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Collaborative Initiatives

Year-on-year, pre-competitive, multi-stakeholder collaborations with a variety of forms and approaches, ranging from learning communities to action-oriented collectives, across a wide range of issues and challenges.

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Roundtables and Multi-Company Opportunities

Shorter-term convenings which connect business sustainability leaders with their peers to discuss, and problem solve, the most pressing issues in the world of sustainable business today.

BSR’s current portfolio of more than 20 collaborations brings together more than 400 companies, spanning multiple sectors and geographies, to strengthen company performance, coordinate collective action across value chains, and contribute to systemic change towards achieving a world in which all people thrive on a healthy planet.

Our Impacts

56

Number of collaborations BSR has designed and led to date.

430

Number of companies involved in our collaborative initiatives.

56

Percent of BSR members involved in our collaborative initiatives.

20

Number of partners involved in collaborative initiatives.


Our Experts

Depth of Experience and Knowledge

Our Collaboration team consists of global experts across multiple focus areas, bringing a depth of experience and knowledge to designing, operating, and facilitating high impact collaborative initiatives.

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Nicolas Ronderos

Associate Director, Collaboration

Paris

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Cameron Steagall

Manager, Collaboration

New York

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Alexandra Kolev

Associate, Collaboration

Paris

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Charlene Collison

Director, Collaboration

London

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Marion Fischer

Coordinator, Collaborative Initiatives

Paris

Let’s talk about how BSR can help you achieve your sustainability goals through collaboration.

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