Sustainable Design
Workshops for Product Teams
Turn sustainability into a driver of innovation, performance, and business value.
We design and facilitate custom, hands-on workshops that align sustainability with business strategy. Working directly with your team, we will identify high-impact opportunities early in the design process where decisions shape cost, risk, and long-term value.
Why Sustainable Design Matters
Investors, regulators, and customers are pushing businesses toward more sustainable products and services. Many companies still treat this as a compliance cost. The data says otherwise: companies that embed sustainability into core strategy outperform those that treat it as an afterthought.
The leverage point is timing. Roughly 80% of a product's environmental impact is locked in during the design phase, which means early decisions create the most room to improve cost, performance, and impact together. The same early-stage decisions shape a product's social impact too.
What We Help Your Team Do
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Integrate sustainability directly into the product development process.
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Identify high-impact opportunities using systems thinking and life cycle modeling.
We work with your team to turn sustainability into better product and strategy decisions with measurable business outcomes. Here is what your team will achieve.
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Align cross-functional teams around a shared vision for value creation.
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Build a clear, provable business case for sustainability-driven decisions.
Our Workshops
Sustainable Design Foundations
For executives and product teams exploring what sustainable design means for their business, but not sure where to start. We help you understand the landscape, the options available, and what sustainable design looks like in practice for your specific industry. A single, focused workshop gives your team a shared foundation and clear next steps.
Best for: Organizations early in their sustainability journey who need clarity before committing resources.
Format: 1 workshop, tailored to your industry.
Outcome: A shared understanding of sustainable design and how it applies to your market.
Sustainable Design Opportunity Sprint
For teams ready to move from interest to action. We help you map your product portfolio, identify high-impact opportunities, and align cross-functional stakeholders around what to prioritize. By the end, you'll have a clear business case for where to focus.
Best for: Organizations need to identify and prioritize where to act.
Format: 4 workshop sessions.
Outcome: A prioritized set of sustainable design opportunity spaces grounded in impact and business value.
Sustainable Design Lab
For teams ready to take one high-impact concept and build it into a fully scoped initiative. We work with you to define sustainability and business objectives, success metrics, and the business rationale needed to secure buy-in. Cross-functional teams are then aligned on shared KPIs and methods for tracking relevant data are created, so your departments have a coordinated path to measuring impact once the pilot begins.
Best for: Organizations with a clear opportunity that need a concrete plan and stakeholder alignment to move forward.
Format: 8 workshops and meetings on as-needed bases
Outcome: A pilot brief with the roadmap, KPIs, and cross-functional alignment needed to validate and launch your initiative.
Not sure where to start?
Take our 5-minute sustainable design maturity assessment to understand what might benefit your organization the most.
How Our Workshops Work
Our workshops are built for groups who influence product development or sustainability strategy. Whether you’re exploring sustainability for the first time or looking to go deeper, we meet teams where they are.
Built for Your Business
Every engagement is tailored to your products, markets, and constraints. No generic frameworks or off-the-shelf content.
Hands-On and Contextual
Teams work on real products or concepts in your business, using practical tools to surface opportunities and test ideas.
Cross-Functional by Design
We design sessions to bring the right people into the room, helping teams align faster and make better decisions together.
Example Focus Areas
We customize each series to the needs of your organization. Workshops can be run as single sessions, multi-week series, or embedded within ongoing product development work. Common focus areas include:
Setting a sustainable product vision aligned with business goals
Making the business case for sustainable innovation
Mapping value chains to identify risks and opportunity hotspots
Concept generation and evaluation under sustainability constraints
Using LCAs to inform early design and strategy decisions
Communicating impact to internal and external stakeholders
What Teams Walk Away With
Ready to explore what sustainable design could unlock for your business?
Let’s design a workshop that meets your team where they are and helps you move forward.
Clear, prioritized opportunities tied to business outcomes.
Practical tools teams can use in their day-to-day work.
Strong cross-functional alignment and a shared vision for sustainability as a business value driver.
A shared language for sustainability and product-level decision-making.
Momentum to move forward with confidence!