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1. www.thinkpaydirt.com

2. A New Sustainable Frontier
 Paydirt helps companies build and communicate
sustainability programs that improve
environmental performance, establish market
differentiation and advance key business
objectives
 Our core consulting services include sustainability
strategy, environmental assessment, program
design, project management and strategic
communications
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3. Why Sustainability?
“Sustainability is an emerging business megatrend,
like IT and quality, that will profoundly affect
companies’ competitiveness and even their
survival.”
- The Sustainability Imperative, Harvard Business Review
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4. Hybrid Thinking
 Our team brings a broad range of experience in
management and environmental consulting
 Using sustainability as a lens, we holistically
assess operations, new ways of doing business
and new ways of serving customers
 Our diverse talents and versatility allows us to
bring integrated solutions and a fresh
perspective to complex client opportunities
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5. Proven Approach
• Strategic
• Customized
• Data-driven
• Measurable
• Replicable
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6. Charting a Course
 Sustainability is no longer a luxury investment or an
eleventh-hour consideration – it’s a strategic
imperative.
 Our programs are centered around your organization’s
unique positioning and key stakeholder demands.
 We devise powerful strategies that align stewardship
initiatives with your core business objectives and
catapult you to your desired market position.
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7. Capitalizing on Success
 Compelling communications and fact-based
education are vital to the success of any
sustainability initiative
 Paydirt’s strategic and integrated approach to
communications ensures that our clients are
responding to the needs of internal and external
stakeholders in meaningful and effective ways
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8. Paydirt Sample Clients
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9. The Sustainability Journey
Transformation,
Where Clear Competitive Advantage
are Institutionalizing,
you? Driving Innovation
Pilot Initiatives,
Eco-Efficiency Efforts
Recognize Opportunity,
Considering Action
Contemplating Value
of Sustainability
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10. Accelerate Your Progress
Paydirt Service Offerings
Sustainability
Executive Opportunity Green EcoHive
Education Analysis Team Portal Reporting
Contemplating
Value
Recognize,
Considering Action
Some Initiatives,
Efficiencies
Institutionalizing
Transformation
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11. Executive Education
An interactive educational workshop to:
 Educate your leadership team on sustainability trends within
your industry as well as among your key competitors and
customers
 Identify sustainability-related business drivers, issues, risks
and opportunities for your company
 Enable senior leadership to define the business case for
sustainability and develop a strategy to focus efforts and
derive additional business value in the coming year
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12. Opportunity Analysis (SOA)
 Yields a Strategic Sustainability Roadmap that identifies
prioritized, actionable environmental initiatives
 A “quick hit” cost saving or revenue generating
recommendation and checklist for implementation
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13. Green Team Services
 An ever-increasing number of people want to work
for companies that are good stewards of the
environment
 This enthusiasm can be a powerful force if it’s
mobilized around a common goal and process
 Rather than trying to Within three months of launching a
green team at an 8,000-employee
boil the ocean, we company, Paydirt and the team
design manageable, identified sustainability initiatives that
would result in annual cost savings
fact-based programs of more than $1M. Similarly, a
to build momentum Paydirt-led green team at a 370-
employee company identified annual
and drive quick results savings of $34,000.
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14. EcoHive Portal
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15. Reporting
 Benchmark reporting against customers, competitors and peers
 Establish a roadmap for future reporting
 Assess materiality and relevance of KPIs
 Validate quantitative data
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16. Other Specialized Services
 Sustainable product marketing
 Environmental footprint assessment
 Greenhouse gas inventory
 Communications and eco-themed events
 Litecycle Analysis™
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17. For More Information:
jkolling@thinkpaydirt.com
612.840.5673
www.thinkpaydirt.com