Sustainability & Innovation Consultants
Workshops, Training, & Programs for Greater Sustainability Outcomes
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Are Your Sustainability Efforts Stuck Between Ambition and Action?
Whether your thing is reducing carbon emissions, cleaning up the oceans, defending biodiversity, eliminating poverty, making waste circular or some other social or environmental challenge – sustainability is a complex issue.
You’ve probably got ambitious targets like net zero emissions, zero waste or going circular.
But … you are finding that progress is difficult, attracting the right resources and investment is a constant struggle, stakeholders are dug into positions and the status quo feels impossible to change.
Without the right tools many sustainability efforts start off with positive beginnings but eventually get stuck and are unable to scale.
New 1 Day Circular Economy Kickstarter Course Coming Soon
Our Circular Economy Kickstarter workshop is coming soon where you will learn how to turn your circular economy ambitions into actionable projects so you can start kicking some circular economy goals!
In this workshop you will:
- Get hands on experience in systems thinking tools;
- Discover how to quickly identify circular economy opportunities;
- Understand the data you will need to track and report on your circular economy outcomes; and
- Map out a plan to develop your own Circular Economy Action Plan.
By the end of the workshop you will know how to move your circular economy objectives from ambition to action.
What we do
We offer a range of workshops and programs to help businesses unlock their innovation potential whilst achieving their net zero and circular economy targets.
Whether it’s a new strategy, a policy initiative, a digital transformation, a service delivery innovation, a change to your organisation, or a research need to guide decision-making, we help leaders from the public, private and NGO sectors change things for the better.
To help you tackle challenges, we rely upon a vast toolbox of workshops and programs, with world-leading approaches to design thinking, research, innovation, transformation in complex systems, and even behavioural science.
Popular
Here are some of our most popular workshops and programs. To view all of our workshops and programs explore our Menu of Services.
Need something a little more customised? Explore our Consulting Services.
Rapid Strategy Planner
Helps teams define a sustainability vision of where they want to go. Then, the exercise will help them identify risks, what slows them down, and what contributes to them achieving their objectives. This exercise is a great way to get key people from within your business engaged (finance, procurement, engineering etc) and does not require any specific level of maturity.
Duration – 2 hours
Format – Online or In-person
Lightning Idea Jam
Need to quickly generate ideas for your sustainability action plan? Don’t waste time with useless brainstorming sessions. This workshop includes an incredibly flexible combination of activities, taking the best of the world’s problem-solving processes (Design thinking, gamestorming, Design Sprints, and Agile, to name a few) and crushing them down to their absolute essence to help you rapidly create game-changing ideas.
Duration – 3 hours
Format – Online or In-person
The Apprentice
If the TV show ‘The Apprentice’, ‘Shark Tank’ and ‘The Amazing Race’ had a baby it would look a lot like this workshop. A fun challenge based workshop where teams work to come up with the best sustainability ideas possible, implement them, and get results in under 8 hours!
Great for a team building day.
Duration – 1 day
Format – In-person
Behavioural Design
This 2 day training program will teach you the fundamental skills of how to use behavioural science to improve the performance and impact of your sustainable product, initiative or program.
Duration – 2 days
Format – Best done In-person but a modified online version available
Sustainability Accelerator Program
Our accelerator programs are designed to bring cross functional teams together to quickly and efficiently develop your sustainability or circular economy initiatives. The accelerators include four modules that take your team from foundational knowledge and skills through to building a business case for the accelerator outputs.
Duration – Typically 12 – 26 weeks
Our Work
Here are some exampes of projects that have used a combination of our workshops and programs to make real impact in the world.
Unlocking the Value of Solar Panel Waste
In this project we created a new whole-of-supply chain business model and secondary marketplace to divert serviceable decommissioned solar panels from landfill for reuse in community solar gardens.
Behavioural Science to TV Show
We worked with the New South Wales Government, CSIRO, and the Co-operative Research Centre for Low Carbon Living to develop a behaviour change program with the objective of getting consumers to build more sustainable housing – the result was an award winning lifestyle TV show.
The Urban Farming Hub
In this project we helped researchers from the University of Sydney to develop a strategy to progress their urban farming research towards commercialisation.
How Projects Work
Start a Project
Getting started is as easy as 1-2-3
Schedule a Call
Schedule a free 15min online consultation where we will get a bit more information from you on your needs. After this consultation we will identify the best workshop or program to meet your needs and send you a proposal.
Accept the Proposal
Simply accept the proposal and we’ll get started on creating more impact together.
Unleash your Sustainability Superpowers!
We’ll deliver the workshop/s or program, you can tick that project off your list and start to measure and report on the outcomes. You might do a little happy dance, submit your project for an award and then start to tackle your next game-changing initiative.
You’ll be in Good Company
Here are some of our awesome clients.
Here’s what some of our clients have to say
Working in the highly competitive solar market both Energy Matters, our extensive network of professional installers and technology partners experience very real challenges with cutting through the noise and reaching consumers in an engaging way. The Blue Tribe team created an innovative opportunity for Energy Matters to reach a mass market audience, promoting our brand in a way that aligned with the values of our business and presenting the public with a range of incredible technology. Plus it was a super fun experience and incredibly well executed.
We were wanting to understand some high level options for solar energy access that we could provide to customers. The process was easy to understand and apply to our business and agile enough to accommodate working with different and challenging stakeholders. Your research and process made these decisions easier and informed.
I don’t have a background in business or marketing but I have a huge passion for what I do. A fantastic part of this program is that it pushed me to talk to end users to find out exactly what they need to create more sustainable low carbon developments. The experience was amazing.”
It is so easy for us to sit on a good idea and not do anything about it. But the Blue Tribe team didn’t allow that to happen. They kept driving us forward.
Our researchers focussed on first-class research outcomes but didn’t have the time or opportunity to hone their street smarts to effectively engage with industry and communicate the practical value of their research. The team immersed themselves in our operation, working closely with us and our cohort to develop a tailored and intensive innovation training program which transformed minds, abilities and outcomes.
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Where you may have heard about our work
Did we mention our awards?
Yep, we have used our innovation framework to help our clients win a few of these
We Get It – Sustainability is Complex
Hi, I’m James McGregor, Founder of The Blue Tribe Company.
For the past 24 years I have worked with amazing entrepreneurs, change-makers, thought leaders and sustainability professionals to create solutions to some of the most challenging environmental and social issues.
Whilst I love what I do, sometimes working in sustainability feels like you are stuck between a rock and someone you want to hit with it!
It can be a very frustrating vocation because you and I both know that we can’t afford change to be slow and incremental. We need to accelerate our impact because of the scale of the issues facing our community.
Over the past 24 years I have observed a number of recurring patterns when it comes to sustainability programs. Most start off with positive beginnings and lots of enthusiasm and then something happens – sustainability programs get stuck, targets get downgraded or pushed back for years. The credibility of the sustainability plan takes a hit and this has long term consequences for all future initiatives.
So, what makes sustainability objectives so difficult to achieve? The answer lies hidden inside companies’ methods and practices.
Most organisations have methods and practices designed for a different era – governance, methods, skills and metrics from a bygone age.
The problem is these practices are not fit for purpose when you are trying new and more complex things like working towards net zero emissions or circular economy outcomes because these old ways do not cope well with new, innovative or disruptive things.
Developing successful sustainability solutions requires a different approach because no one has ever had to solve the scale of problems we are facing today. There is no rule book where you can simply pick a solution that is tried and tested and press go.
That’s where innovation methods and processes come into play. Innovation provides a framework for managing the uncertainty and complexity associated with sustainability.
Of course you can choose to continue to keep doing what you are doing right now (this is a choice), but I believe sustainability is a team sport and that we have a better chance of creating more impact by working together.
I hope you make the right choice by getting in touch and lets GSD (get sh*t done) together and change the world.
James McGregor, Founder