Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) strategy is creating new challenges and opportunities for leaders to create sustainable, inclusive growth. Successful companies are implementing ESG strategies that increase financial, societal, and environmental impact as well as ensure long-term competitiveness. Achieving bold ambitions requires understanding current state performance and sector trends, managing diverse stakeholder interests, valuing risks and opportunities, and setting distinctive and measurable goals that build capabilities and broaden impact.
McKinsey brings a unique approach to ESG focused on value creation that involves benchmarking, strategy development, initiative design, program execution, investor and external communications, and reporting. Our capabilities are bolstered by unique, data-driven, and proprietary solutions supporting clients throughout each ESG journey. Our approach combines expertise of what drives values and impact within sectors, and our domain and social expertise stretches across ESG dimensions, such as sustainability, net-zero, culture and talent, diversity, equity, and inclusion, economic development, public health, education, and future of work, among many others.