Join an SB Peer Cohort

• Validate real-world approaches with practitioners facing the same hurdles
• Learn what’s working and what isn’t — without theory or sales pitches
• Build practical insights you can apply back at your company

How It Works
 

Peer Cohorts Are: 

• Small, curated groups of sustainability professionals 
• Structured around real issues you're currently facing
• Focused on shared learning, candid discussion, and real operational insights
• confidential (Chatham House Rule) to support open, practical exchanges

• Sharing challenges from your own work 
• Providing and receiving insights from peers
• Suggesting topics and case examples that shape future conversation threads

For anyone within the member community embarking on a roadmap to adopt AI for sustainability.

Discussion themes include:

• How to leverage AI to advance operational efficiencies and sustainability goals (supply chain, packaging, product design, data for ESG reporting, marketing) 
• How to plan for environmental impact of AI deployments

Sustainable Finance Cohort

For finance, sustainability, and business leaders working at the intersection of sustainability and financial decision-making who want to:
 

• Translate sustainability priorities into financial value, risk management, and ROI
• Navigate the shift from voluntary to mandatory ESG reporting and assurance
• Integrate sustainability into enterprise risk management, capital allocation, and strategy
• Understand emerging approaches to transition finance, carbon markets, and incentives

Discussion themes include:

• Mandatory ESG reporting and regulation
• Data and assurance readiness
• Sustainability and enterprise risk management
• Climate risk and resiliency
• Transition finance and carbon pricing
• Building the sustainability business case
• Supplier engagement on decarbonization

Brand / Retailer Communications Cohort*

For sustainability communicators, brand, and marketing leaders who want to:

• Elevate internal and external sustainability messaging
• Build stronger alignment with cross-functional partners
• Understand emerging practices in segmentation and stakeholder engagement

Discussion themes include:

• Audience strategy
• Internal communications
• Business case framing
• Media relations 

Brand / Retailer Business Integration Cohort*

For professionals embedding sustainability deeper into business operations, governance, and strategy.

Focus areas include:

• Cross-functional goal setting and integration
• Regulations and enterprise alignment
• Using data for decision making
• Workforce readiness for sustainability