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Author, The Value of Values (MIT Press 2024). Expert on quantifying Submerged Value and Submerged Risks.
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You and Daniel are both in Sustainability & Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) , Sustainability: Green Tech, ESG, CSR, Net Zero, and 2 othersYou and Daniel are both in Sustainability & Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) , Sustainability: Green Tech, ESG, CSR, Net Zero, and 2 others
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Business/sustainability thought leader / strategist / keynote speaker. Originator, True Plastic Impact™ (TPI) and Submerged Value.
Experts in sustainability strategy, valuation, and impact, Valutus is focused on surfacing and quantifying the immense submerged value usually missed in thinking about business, sustainability, and the value of values.
For 25+ years, Valutus personnel have quantified the value of projects, processes, and impacts that others missed or thought unquantifiable.
We’ve also developed unique, proprietary tools for dramatically accelerating processes that usually take months – such as materiality, carbon and water footprint, total impact, and science-based targets – in most cases reducing the time required by 95%.
· We have created the first comprehensive standard for plastic impact and plastic neutrality, True Plastic Impact (TPI), already in use by a billion-dollar corporation.
· Valutus measures the total impact a company makes – including the impact of its products and its catalytic leadership – using our proprietary Impacts Science™ approach.
· We’ve taken materiality to a new level using our 3D Materiality™ process and tool – delivering dramatically more valuable results in under half the time.
It is not enough for companies to act within their own ‘four walls' – they create dramatically more value for themselves and the world when they act as catalysts. Valutus created the first concrete process for becoming a catalyst (the 4W™ process, used with multiple $10B+ companies) and the first toolkit of 80+ catalytic techniques.
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daronson@valutus.com Business/sustainability thought leader / strategist / keynote speaker. Originator, True Plastic Impact™ (TPI) and Submerged Value. Experts in sustainability strategy, valuation, and impact, Valutus is focused on surfacing and quantifying the immense submerged value usually missed in thinking about business, sustainability, and the value of values. For 25+ years, Valutus personnel have quantified the value of projects, processes, and impacts that others missed or thought unquantifiable. We’ve also developed unique, proprietary tools for dramatically accelerating processes that usually take months – such as materiality, carbon and water footprint, total impact, and science-based targets – in most cases reducing the time required by 95%. · We have created the first comprehensive standard for plastic impact and plastic neutrality, True Plastic Impact (TPI), already in use by a billion-dollar corporation. · Valutus measures the total impact a company makes – including the impact of its products and its catalytic leadership – using our proprietary Impacts Science™ approach. · We’ve taken materiality to a new level using our 3D Materiality™ process and tool – delivering dramatically more valuable results in under half the time. It is not enough for companies to act within their own ‘four walls' – they create dramatically more value for themselves and the world when they act as catalysts. Valutus created the first concrete process for becoming a catalyst (the 4W™ process, used with multiple $10B+ companies) and the first toolkit of 80+ catalytic techniques. www.valutus.com daronson@valutus.com …see more
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The Value of Values: How Leaders Can Grow Their Businesses and Enhance Their Careers by Doing the Right Thing (Management on the Cutting Edge)The Value of Values: How Leaders Can Grow Their Businesses and Enhance Their Careers by Doing the Right Thing (Management on the Cutting Edge)
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What's the most under-appreciated source of business and career value? Acting on values.
The Value of Values shows you why this is – and how to capture the power of values for yourself.What's the most under-appreciated source of business and career value? Acting on values. The Value of Values shows you why this is – and how to capture the power of values for yourself.
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Author, The Value of Values (MIT Press 2024). Expert on quantifying Submerged Value and Submerged Risks.Author, The Value of Values (MIT Press 2024). Expert on quantifying Submerged Value and Submerged Risks.
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Sustainability: What works across the political spectrum?
Sustainability needs support from people with different viewpoints. Especially now.
The business case can really help bridge the divide.
1️⃣ ROI resonates with potential skeptics in a way that other factors don’t.
👉 Even with strong Trump supporters.
As I’ve written previously, a friend of mine interviewed members of the Trump transition team. Which sustainability initiatives did they say wouldn’t bother them? Those that increased profits for the business.
2️⃣ Other arguments in favor of sustainability are not resonating like they used to.
👉 When others are backing away or staying silent, talking about momentum or saying the case for sustainability is clear doesn’t persuade like it used to.
But the business case still matters. In fact, more than ever – as the economic environment becomes less certain, the emphasis on what can help increases.
3️⃣ The business case also helps level the playing field.
People sometimes say that talking about ROI distracts from other aspects of sustainability, like doing the right thing. But real-world evidence shows this is a mistake.
👉 Financially oriented people will always bring up economic value in discussions about sustainability, and so will skeptics. Whether sustainability champions do or not.
Evidence shows that when supporters don’t use economic numbers and opponents do, decision makers are less likely to support social and environmental action.
💲 But when supporters include financial benefit among their reasons for sustainable action, they are more likely to sway decision makers.
👉 What you can do:
» Broaden support for sustainability by showing how it helps the business.
» Remember that if you don’t bring up the business case, others will. Don’t let their voices be the only ones talking about it.
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Not getting enough resources for sustainability?
👉 Here’s the # 1 barrier.
If you feel like you’re not getting enough resources and support for your social or environmental efforts, you’re not alone.
1️⃣ The # 1 barrier:
👉 Not demonstrating ROI.
That’s what over 500 managers and execs told KPMG. And it’s more true than ever today.
2️⃣ In an era when many companies are cutting back on social and environmental programs (and many more are going silent about them), arguments about momentum or what others are doing don’t hold up.
But what’s good for the business still matters.
The problem is, most people don’t think sustainability helps the business. That’s a recipe for cutbacks.
3️⃣ Another part of today’s reality is the political environment around social and environmental action. That means sometimes saying just that “it’s the right thing to do” will be met with the skeptical (or anxious) reply: “According to whom?”
Unspoken is the question: And how powerful are they? Which can change.
Example: one writer previously praised Apple for statements supporting DACA (a US immigration policy), even though it’s “an incremental issue that there is no obvious business case to address.” But the company appears to have gone silent on the issue in 2024 & 2025.
Meanwhile, the business case has support across the political spectrum.
How did Apple defend its policies on diversity and inclusion? According to AP, by contending “that fostering a diverse workforce makes good business sense.”
97% of shareholders voted in support of the company’s position.
👉 What you can do:
» Do the right thing. But to get resources and broaden support, also show how it helps the business.
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Apr 2014 - Present · 11 yrs 5 mosApr 2014 to Present · 11 yrs 5 mos
New York City Metropolitan AreaNew York City Metropolitan Area
Valutus is the expert on the value of values.
We use proprietary tools and data to help organizations quantify and capture dramatically more value from their sustainability and responsibility initiatives – in radically less time. We also help consulting firms and agencies offer these capabilities to their own clients.
“Valutus is addressing two compelling needs for corporate sustainability practitioners:
(1) A toolset that allows one to get past the ‘concept ideation’ stage to an action-oriented game plan for change;
(2) A data-driven means for quantifying the business case for initiatives that previously were often only seen as offering intangible benefits.”
- Head of Sustainability, $100B+ CompanyValutus is the expert on the value of values. We use proprietary tools and data to help organizations quantify and capture dramatically more value from their sustainability and responsibility initiatives – in radically less time. We also help consulting firms and agencies offer these capabilities to their own clients. “Valutus is addressing two compelling needs for corporate sustainability practitioners: (1) A toolset that allows one to get past the ‘concept ideation’ stage to an action-oriented game plan for change; (2) A data-driven means for quantifying the business case for initiatives that previously were often only seen as offering intangible benefits.” - Head of Sustainability, $100B+ Company…see more
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Leader, Sustainability Transformation & Sustainability Strategy
Leader, Sustainability Transformation & Sustainability Strategy
DeloitteDeloitte
2011 - 2014 · 3 yrs2011 to 2014 · 3 yrs
New York City Metropolitan AreaNew York City Metropolitan Area
Assisted clients with:
1. 'Hard wiring' sustainability and corporate responsibility into the business
2. Proving the ROI of their sustainability and responsibility efforts - and improving it further
3. Integrating sustainability and responsibility strategy into business strategy
4. Using technology - e.g., mobile technology, crowdsourcing, social media - for sustainability and social responsibilityAssisted clients with: 1. 'Hard wiring' sustainability and corporate responsibility into the business 2. Proving the ROI of their sustainability and responsibility efforts - and improving it further 3. Integrating sustainability and responsibility strategy into business strategy 4. Using technology - e.g., mobile technology, crowdsourcing, social media - for sustainability and social responsibility…see more
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Global Offering Leader, Sustainability Strategy & Leader, CSR Consulting Community
IBM Global Business ServicesIBM Global Business Services
Jan 2005 - May 2011 · 6 yrs 5 mosJan 2005 to May 2011 · 6 yrs 5 mos
Led IBM's sustainability strategy consulting offering. Also led IBM's corporate responsibility consulting community.Led IBM's sustainability strategy consulting offering. Also led IBM's corporate responsibility consulting community.
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1999 - 2002 · 3 yrs1999 to 2002 · 3 yrs
Global Thought Leader for $750M practice and member of the US National Strategy Consulting PracticeGlobal Thought Leader for $750M practice and member of the US National Strategy Consulting Practice
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Sustainable Value Chain: What Doesn't Work - And A Few Alternatives That Do
Deloitte · Nov 7, 2013Deloitte · Nov 7, 2013
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Out of dozens of practices designed to promote sustainable value chain, quite a few failed to have any significant effect on sustainability success of cost savings, according to research that looked at almost 1,000 organizations.
There is real value in knowing (1) what the evidence doesn't show working and (2) where organizations can redirect their with greater promise of effectiveness - and this research provides examples of both.
Out of dozens of practices designed to promote sustainable value chain, quite a few failed to have any significant effect on sustainability success of cost savings, according to research that looked at almost 1,000 organizations. There is real value in knowing (1) what the evidence doesn't show working and (2) where organizations can redirect their with greater promise of effectiveness - and this research provides examples of both.
'Hardwiring' Sustainability
Sustainable Brands · Sep 3, 2013
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Companies often see sustainability as separate from the business, undermining its ability to succeed.
Two things help overcome this perception:
(1) Managing sustainability more rigorously
(2) Linking it to the value-creation engine of the business.
Overcoming separation from the rest of the business is key to unleashing the potential of sustainability efforts to benefit the business and the world.
Companies often see sustainability as separate from the business, undermining its ability to succeed. Two things help overcome this perception: (1) Managing sustainability more rigorously (2) Linking it to the value-creation engine of the business. Overcoming separation from the rest of the business is key to unleashing the potential of sustainability efforts to benefit the business and the world.
Sustainable Value Chain Practices That Work
Deloitte · Sep 1, 2013
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Which practices really work to make value chains more sustainable? And which ones of those also produce savings?
This paper covers research that looked at dozens of practices and identified which ones work, according to information from almost 1,000 respondents.
Which practices really work to make value chains more sustainable? And which ones of those also produce savings? This paper covers research that looked at dozens of practices and identified which ones work, according to information from almost 1,000 respondents.
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