Join an SB Peer Cohort

SB Member Network Peer Cohorts are exclusive, ongoing peer-to-peer working groups designed for sustainability professionals to engage in guided discussion, meaningful exchange, and collective problem solving with their counterparts across the industry.

Built on direct member feedback and trusted peer learning principles, these cohorts help you:
  • 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 from consumer brands and retailers
  • 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
You'll Participate By: 
  • Sharing challenges from your own work 
  • Providing and receiving insights from peers
  • Suggesting topics and case examples that shape future conversation threads

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

​​​​​​Fill out the form to reserve your spot in one or both of these high-impact cohorts.


*The Marketing & Communications and Business Integration Cohorts are currently open to Brands and Retailers only

SB Peer Cohorts are open to those in the SB Member Network only. 

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*The Marketing & Communications and Business Integration Cohorts are currently open to Brands and Retailers only