For enterprise leaders
Get more from your EHS, Sustainability, and Product Stewardship investments.
Independent advisory for leaders of EHS, Sustainability, and Product Stewardship, and their teams, in Retail, Grocery, Consumer Packaged Goods, Industrials, Chemical and Manufacturing.
Executive summary
Do more with what you already spend.
- Annual budgets being set
- Software and data renewals coming due
- Overlapping systems and subscriptions
- Internal AI teams setting priorities
- Leaner teams, same mandates
- C-suite pressure to do more with less
- Find where value leaks in what you own
- Design one roadmap across EHS, Sustainability, and Product Stewardship
- Select, consolidate or renegotiate with an operator’s view
- Guide internal AI builds: what to build, buy or partner on
- Fixed-scope, fixed-fee engagements
The challenge
More mandates, more tools, more spend, and not always more value.
Rising spend
Licenses, data subscriptions and services that grow every renewal.
Overlapping tools
EHS, Sustainability, and Product Stewardship platforms that duplicate data and features.
Siloed data
Chemical, product and supplier data that never reaches ERP or reporting.
Expanding mandates
Regulations, customer requirements and disclosures arriving faster than systems adapt.
The unlocked opportunity
The same investments can do far more than keep you compliant.
Commercial advantage
Meet customer and retailer requirements, and consumer expectations, faster: from chemical transparency to ecolabels and sustainability claims. Get compliant products to market, and onto physical and digital shelves, sooner.
Reduced risk
Fewer regulatory, supply chain and reputational surprises, backed by credible, defensible data and disclosures.
Operational efficiency
Fewer overlapping tools, less manual data work, and more value from every dollar of software and data spend.
One shared foundation
Three functions, one set of data.
Designed together, one investment serves all three. Designed apart, you pay three times.
EHS
- SDS & hazard communication
- Chemical inventory & approvals
- Worker & site safety
- Hazardous waste programs
- Environmental compliance
Product Stewardship
- Product safety
- Product compliance
- Ecolabel certifications
- Marketing claims
- Industry & customer RSLs
Sustainability
- Product footprints & LCA
- Supplier & Scope 3 data
- Decarbonization targets
- ESG disclosures
- Circularity
Connected to ERP · Procurement · Supply Chain Management · PLM & LCA · Master Data Management · Business Intelligence · AI
By function
What each leader is up against, and how I help.
For EHS leaders
- Platform subscription fees that rise every year
- Solutions that don’t quite fit your specific needs
- Hours lost to manual data entry
- Systems that don’t talk to each other
- C-suite pressure to do more with less
- Pressure-test your spend, usage and contract terms
- Build the business case your CFO will back
- Design one architecture across EHS, ERP and sustainability
- Negotiate new subscriptions and renewals with deep domain knowledge
- Cut overlap and reinvest the savings where they count
For Sustainability leaders
- More ESG scrutiny from customers and investors, yet pressure to say less
- Annual reports that are stale on arrival
- Claims that need hard data, not marketing gloss
- Supplier and product data scattered across systems
- Tools that don’t connect to ERP, PLM or procurement
- Build an audit-ready data foundation for claims and disclosures
- Move reporting from annual snapshots to always-on data
- Connect sustainability to EHS, ERP, PLM and procurement
- Choose platforms on evidence, not just demos
- Prove the value: customers won, risk reduced, costs avoided
For Product Stewardship leaders
- Regulations changing faster than your team can track
- Customer and retailer data requests piling up
- SDS and labels authored by hand, product by product
- Formulation data locked in PLM, ERP and spreadsheets
- Launches and new markets held up by compliance
- Map where formulation and regulatory data lives, and where it breaks
- Choose the right tools to automate SDS, labels and compliance checks
- Answer customer and retailer requests from one source of truth
- Connect stewardship to EHS, sustainability, PLM and ERP
- Turn compliance into faster launches and customer wins
AI innovation
Building with AI? Bring in someone who has shipped it.
Enterprises are standing up internal AI innovation teams and funding them fast. EHS, Sustainability, and Product Stewardship leaders belong at that table: your work is document-heavy, data-rich and rules-driven, exactly where AI pays off most. I’ve helped ideate and commercialize AI-powered solutions across all three, and now help internal teams decide what to build, what to buy and who to partner with.
Ideation
Find and rank the use cases worth building, tied to real workflows and data.
Strategy & Roadmap
Build, buy or partner, data readiness, governance and a phased plan.
Vendor Selection
Test AI vendors and platforms on what they can actually deliver for your data.
Partnerships
Shape partnerships with software and data providers to move faster.
Not new software. Smarter workflows.
Most enterprises aren’t using AI to rebuild their platforms. They’re using it to speed up the workflows around them, where data is messy and the work is still manual.
Procurement & Supplier Risk
Supplier onboarding and document review · Certification and risk screening · Spend and contract analysis
Supply Chain & Logistics
Dangerous goods classification · Shipping and transport compliance · Returns and reverse logistics
Product Compliance
SDS and regulatory data extraction · Ingredient and product screening · Customer RSL and green procurement checks · Regulatory change monitoring
EHS Operations
Incident and observation triage · Inspections and corrective actions · Permits, training and audit prep
Waste Management
Waste profiling and classification · Hauler, manifest and cost data · Store-level waste determinations
Sustainability & Claims
Data collection and assurance · Product marketing claims substantiation · Ecolabel certification assessments · Regulatory disclosure prep
The inside view
Where I’ve seen value leak, from the vendor side.
I spent 25+ years selling, implementing and scaling these programs for enterprise clients. I know where to look.
Shelfware modules
Add-on modules licensed at signing and never switched on.
Unfinished integrations
Connections to ERP and other systems scoped in the deal but never completed.
Automatic uplifts
Annual price increases that roll through at renewal without review.
Duplicate subscriptions
EHS, Sustainability, and Product Stewardship teams paying separately for overlapping content and data.
Idle licenses
User seats still assigned to people who changed roles or left.
Day-one sizing
Implementations built for launch, not for how the program grows.
How I’m different
Analysts tell you about the market. Big firms run the program. I help you make the decision.
| Compared on | Analyst firm | Systems implementer | Big 4 consultancy | Former EHS / Sustainability executive | Sustaina Partners |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| How vendors really work | From the outside | Deep, but on the platforms they partner with | Varies by practice | Limited, mostly as a customer | From the inside: 25+ years and 150+ enterprise clients |
| The buyer’s reality | Indirect | Project by project | Strong at the C-suite | Deep, from one company and usually one function | EHS, Sustainability, and Product Stewardship, across six industries |
| Vendor, buyer and investor perspectives | Mostly vendor and market | Mostly buyer | Separate practices | Buyer only | All three, kept separate |
| Who does the work | Analysts, inquiry calls | Delivery teams | Partners sell, teams deliver | The consultant | Me, directly, from start to finish |
| Best for | Market maps and shortlists | Building what you’ve chosen | Enterprise-wide programs and assurance | Running a function day to day | The decision in front of you: what to keep, fix, buy or build |
How vendors really work
OthersMostly from the outside, or limited to the platforms they partner with
Sustaina PartnersFrom the inside: 25+ years and 150+ enterprise clients
The buyer’s reality
OthersIndirect, project by project, or from one company and one function
Sustaina PartnersEHS, Sustainability, and Product Stewardship, across six industries
Vendor, buyer and investor perspectives
OthersUsually one side of the market
Sustaina PartnersAll three, kept separate
Who does the work
OthersAnalysts, delivery teams, or partners who sell while teams deliver
Sustaina PartnersMe, directly, from start to finish
Best for
OthersMarket maps, implementation, enterprise-wide programs, or running a function
Sustaina PartnersThe decision in front of you: what to keep, fix, buy or build
Engagements
Six ways to engage.
Start here: a complimentary intro call to review your tools, data and upcoming renewals.
Book an intro callSystems Diagnostic
First stepWhether your systems and tools fit the business’s needs, plus gaps and quick wins. Part of the fee is credited toward an Advisory Retainer.
2–4 weeksOnsite Strategy Day
First stepYour agenda, your team, a focused working day.
1 dayTotal Spend Analysis
ProjectSubscription and professional services spend across all three functions: more value, less cost. Also runs as an annual planning review before budgets are set. Success-based option available.
3–5 weeksSystem Design & Roadmap
ProjectFuture-state systems and a phased plan your teams can execute.
4–6 weeksAI Innovation Sprint
ProjectPriority use cases, a build-or-buy plan, and a vendor and partner shortlist.
6–8 weeksAdvisory Retainer
Ongoing · RecommendedOn-call advice for any software, data or AI decision, with license and utilization reviews and renewal readiness twice a year built in.
12 months, or 6Easy to engage: NDA, contract or PO · insured · quick to set up as a supplier
From enterprise customers I’ve served
In their words.
His expertise and knowledge have proven to be invaluable resources to our core business… Matt is truly [an] expert in his field.
His proficiency in chemical inventory management is unparalleled… his deep understanding of the global impacts of regulations… is truly impressive.
Matt… is always willing to put in extra effort to ensure that it is done right… Matt has always been a trusted advisor.
He and his team responded quickly and professionally to an urgent request to identify and classify tens of thousands of products.
I leveraged Matt’s expertise to design a go-to-market strategy… I received positive feedback from all that worked with Matt.
Matt significantly accelerated the development of our commercial strategy through his insights and connections.
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A short deck on how I work with EHS, Sustainability, and Product Stewardship leaders. Independent advice, with your interests first: how I handle independence.
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Let’s see what your EHS, Sustainability, and Product Stewardship investments could be doing.
A no-cost conversation about your tools, data and upcoming renewals, with quick wins you can act on.