Sustainability consulting

Sustaining the activities of organizations in the face of environmental challenges

In brief

Dinéjí’s mission is to help public and private organizations integrate environmental challenges into their operations:

“mitigation”: reducing negative impacts on the environment;
“adaptation”: anticipating hazards, reducing exposure and vulnerability, particularly in relation to climate change.

I propose a global, generalist vision of these complex issues, and help in understanding, defining and implementing the necessary transformations. Wherever possible, my aim is to transform constraints into opportunities.

My main role is that of strategist or project owner support, working in collaboration with others as required.

A 5-pillar offer

mobilised as needed

1. Raise awareness of phenomena and challenges

with tools such as:

En-ROADS climate simulator

En-ROADS is a freely-available online climate change policy simulation model that provides policymakers, educators, businesses, the media, and the public with the ability to

The Biodiversity Collage

“A collaborative, engaging and science-based workshop to explore biodiversity, the pressures bearing upon it, and the consequences of its erosion. All data are drawn from

The Adaptation Workshop

“Climate change is here. Its impacts are becoming both widespread and more intense. In three hours, the Climate Change Adaptation Workshops provide participants with the

2. Establish an environmental diagnosis

Identify and measure the organization’s impact on the environment
Assess its exposure and vulnerability to hazards (physical risks), in relation to regulatory, image and transition risks…

3. Identify necessary / desirable strategic shifts

Define a transition trajectory (or scenarios) by questioning: raison-d’être, missions / business model, professions, value chain, organizational ecosystem…

4. Prepare transformations

Draw up concrete action plans: transforming activities and governance, acquiring skills, mobilizing stakeholders, developing cooperative ventures…

5. Support implementation, evaluate results

Monitor transformations as a project manager. Involve the organization in a process of continuous assessment and improvement of its environmental practices and resilience.

Who am I?

Strategy consulting and project management are the foundation of my professional skills, first acquired in the field of web services, provided to international groups and SMEs for a dozen years.

These roles have taught me to understand a wide range of issues, propose innovative solutions, implement tools and procedures, and lead change in organizations where digital technology has brought about far-reaching changes.

I have worked on environmental issues at various stages of my career as a local authority civil servant since the end of 2013, on both mitigation and adaptation issues, as well as in the context of voluntary commitments.

As an occasional trainer to local authorities for the Centre National de la Fonction Publique Territoriale (CNFPT), I have a toolbox that enables me to offer tailor-made sequences to raise awareness of planetary boundaries.

I carry out this consultancy activity on an ancillary basis, as part of an authorized combination of activities. I only make a limited number of commitments, in order to ensure the famous triptych: quality, cost, deadline.

Approach

The nine planetary limits are critical challenges that call for a profound transformation of human activities, and therefore of the structures that organize them.

The interconnections between these limits, and the scale of the changes required, call for cross-disciplinary, “systemic” approaches. This is the approach I propose, based on a few principles.

Realism: neither magical thinking nor catastrophism. While some “solutions” are relatively accessible, the level of difficulty is generally quite high. However, action is “a remedy for fatalism” (cf. The Adaptation Workshop)!

Method: use of reference tools and frameworks, in particular those proposed by ADEME (The French Agency for Ecological Transition).

Vigilance and tailoring: interventions calibrated to each context and objective, aimed at preserving and strengthening the organization’s long-term viability.

Listening and sincerity, corollaries of the previous point.

“Dinéjí” is borrowed from the Navajo Indians, whose culture embodies the ideal of harmony with the environment.