Ecosystem Services, Biodiversity, & Business Strategy:

Ecosystem Change and Business Sustainability

Today's leaders recognize the need to address our planet's ecological condition as a component of business strategy – Landen Consulting provides the next generation of environmental business strategies, helping your organization definitively connect the dots between ecological change and your business results.

Our approaches and tools fill significant strategic, ecological, and financial gaps left by existing environmental management systems and sustainability initiatives; we change the language of the sustainability conversation from ‘cost savings and efficiency’ to ‘revenue generation and risk mitigation’ by helping your organization incorporate ecosystem interaction and ecosystem health into your corporate balance sheet and strategic decision-making toolkit – we help you realize and unlock the business value hidden in your organization’s environmental assets and relationships!

Explore our range of leading approaches for maximizing revenue, mitigating risk, and developing new markets by addressing your organization's dependence and impact on the natural environment and ecosystem services:

Corporate Ecosystem Services Review (ESR)	Identify and address your organization's unique portfolio of ecological risks & business opportunities. Create top- and bottom-line value by addressing ecosystem health and degradation. Understand the strategic business case for biodiversity.
Public-Sector Ecosystem Services Review (ESR)	Powerful tools that help guide public decision-makers and advocates in their economic development, land-use planning, and natural resource management decisions.
Ecosystem Services Business Integration	Enhance, extend, and integrate company Environmental Management Systems, sustainability programs and corporate responsibility platforms, strategy & decision support approaches, and core company processes to incorporate ecosystem services and ecosystem-based planning.
Ecosystem Economic Valuation	Incorporate the economic value of your organization's ecological assets into decision-making processes and tools.
Organizational Transformation	Ensure the sustainability of your sustainable business initiative: Transform company culture, processes, and operations to make ecosystem services & sustainability part of the core fabric of the company: change management, large-scale behavior change, process design & integration, organizational development.
Customized Environmental Business Strategy Development & Support	Extend your sustainability position & program. Explore and enter new markets. Develop new ecosystem-friendly products or pursue certification for existing products and lines. Capture value from your sustainability programs and environmental assets. Develop market-driven conservation initiatives.

What do we mean by 'the next generation of environmental business strategies'?

We help your organization understand the relationship between your core business operations and the natural environment (ecosystems) in a fiscally-compelling manner that many of today's wave of 'green' strategies do not even begin to address.

Many of today's 'green' sustainable business initiatives tend to focus on energy efficiency, recycling/waste reduction, and tons-of-carbon-saved as their core components, and consider the business benefits of their environmental policies primarily in terms of energy/cost savings and marketing opportunities. While this is a great start, it is missing the true value and potential of 'green' ecosystem-focused business opportunities.

And more importantly, current business sustainability practices have not reversed the global trend of widespread environmental degradation & deterioration that threatens the very existence of business and society.

We take a deeper systems view of a company's interaction with the natural environment, and help organizations realize that not only do they impact ecosystems, they also depend on them for critical functions that support a company's operations --- therefore ecological change is a source of both risk and opportunity.

We provide guidance on the ecological and the economic aspects, helping you identify, articulate, and respond to the portfolio of risks & opportunities that stem from your organization’s unique environmental profile.