2025
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Sustainability and Management Consulting
SWCA helps organizations reduce risk, create value, and demonstrate progress through expert-led planning, measurement, and advisory support rooted in natural and cultural resources expertise.
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Robert Kloepfer
Global Strategic Management Officer
John R. Platko
Sustainability and Management Consulting Vice President
Overview
As a global consulting firm dedicated to advancing organizational sustainability and resilience, we partner with clients at every stage of their sustainability journey—whether they’re launching foundational initiatives, refining strategic direction, or building persuasive business cases that demonstrate the financial value of sustainability investments. Our customized approach helps organizations define strategic priorities, allocate resources effectively, and implement solutions that drive long-term impact. SWCA’s multidisciplinary team of strategists, scientists, and economists collaborates closely with clients to navigate complex sustainability and resilience challenges. We design and execute strategies that mitigate risk, uncover new opportunities, and deliver measurable, financially sound, and sustainable results.
To deepen our impact, SWCA’s sustainability and management consulting practice is guided by a distinguished Advisory Board. This group of thought leaders—drawn from business, academia, industry, NGOs, and consulting—offers diverse perspectives and strategic insights on the most pressing sustainability issues. Together, we empower organizations to make meaningful progress and achieve lasting success in an increasingly dynamic and challenging sustainability landscape.
Our Services
From Insight to Impact: Building Sustainable Strategies That Deliver Value & Positive Impact
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Prioritization
We help prioritize strategic topics based on impact and likelihood, aligning with organizational goals to guide strategic decision-making.
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Strategy Development
We collaborate with executives to diagnose the current state, identify opportunities, and create a strategic blueprint that aligns with organizational goals and readiness.
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Strategy Deployment
We ensure strategic initiatives are translated into actionable plans with clear milestones, resources and accountability, guiding organizations through project management and change leadership.
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Monitoring and Disclosure
We develop performance measurement systems and dashboards for real-time strategic insights and assist in creating disclosure frameworks for clear stakeholder communication.
Business Case for Sustainability Investments
We build business cases for investing in sustainability initiatives that deliver financial, environmental, and social returns. We leverage the Return on Sustainability Investment (ROSI)™ framework, developed in collaboration with NYU-Stern Center for Sustainable Business, to help our clients quantify value and achieve strategic benefits from prioritizing sustainable practices.
Collective Action Facilitation
SWCA convenes stakeholders from across the value chain to co-create solutions for complex sustainability challenges. By leveraging shared expertise and resources, we facilitate collaborative action programs that drive scalable, lasting impact.
Data, Disclosure, Reporting
We guide our clients through effective data analysis, disclosure, and strategic communication. We ensure transparency, regulatory alignment, and clear messaging that builds stakeholder trust and reinforces credibility.
Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR)
With EPR legislation accelerating, SWCA helps clients navigate compliance and seize opportunities in circularity and packaging sustainability. We support producers with core compliance obligations, strategy, collaboration, and business case development to advance circular economy goals.
Nature-Based Solutions
SWCA delivers nature-positive strategies that enhance biodiversity and restore ecosystems. We collaborate with clients to implement projects that contribute to environmental stewardship and align with global sustainability frameworks.
Organizational Resilience
We help our clients develop and embed sustainability and resilience strategies that align with their core business goals to deliver positive environmental and social impacts. Our holistic assessments identify key levers for integrating sustainable practices across operations—driving long-term resilience and competitive advantage.
Strategic Planning
Our team conducts integrated risk and opportunity assessments across environmental, social, and governance dimensions. These insights support strategic planning, decision-making, and enhance organizational resilience and competitiveness.
Sustainable and Resilient Value Chains
Our experts design and implement sustainable and resilient value chains that optimize resource utilization and minimize environmental impacts. SWCA works with clients to enhance supply chain stability and sustainability, ensuring operations are prepared to meet future challenges and opportunities.
Meet the Experts
Global Strategic Management Officer
Robert Kloepfer
Bob has worked with top corporations for more than 35 years to maximize effective environmental, health, and safety performance assurance, organizational review and optimization, risk management and control, sustainability, and ESG.
Sustainability and Management Consulting Vice President
John Platko
John has more than 35 years of business, sustainability, environmental, health and safety leadership experience. His client engagements involve the development and implementation of strategies, plans, and programs that emphasize simultaneous creation of business, environmental, and social value for private sector clients, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and multilateral organizations operating domestically and internationally.
John has led projects in more than 40 countries in North America, Latin America, Europe, and APAC. He has been a thought leader and problem solver on topics such as business sustainability/resilience, water security/water stewardship, climate change, circularity/waste management, environmental and social impact measurement/monitoring and operational environmental, health, and safety (EHS) risk and performance management in developed and emerging economies. Additionally, John co-developed the Return on Sustainability Investment (ROSI) model with the New York University (NYU) Stern Center for Sustainable Business, which through business case and monetization tools enable better, more sustainable investment/resource allocation decisions.
Prior to consulting, John served on the corporate environmental staff for Scott Paper Company and Bristol-Myers Squibb and was a facility-level environmental engineer and safety director for a multi-site manufacturing operation. His current clients include Global 1000 organizations in the food and beverage, consumer products, energy, and business-to-business sectors.
Strategic Growth Director
Rebecca Wisniewski
Becky is a senior consultant and engineer with more than 20 years of experience providing global sustainability services to private and public multinational clients on strategic environmental management.
Strategy Management Technical Director
Peter Penning
With more than 30 years of international experience in sustainability and EHS management, Peter is uniquely qualified to address the sustainability needs of multinational clients.
Strategy Management Director
Tristan Steichen
Tristan has more than 25 years of experience collaborating with global consumer product and industrial manufacturing companies and other partners to address the practicalities of circular economy strategy and implementation.
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