New collaborations to help ARA members on their sustainability and impact journey 

The ARA is proud to announce a new collaboration with Edge Impact, an award-winning full service global impact consultancy that combines science, strategy and storytelling in partnership with motivated leaders, organisations and industries to reimagine sustainability for positive impact.

With 15 years of helping organisations, industry-sectors and governments become more sustainable and inclusive, Edge Impact is well placed to help members across the three pillars of the ARA’s sustainability strategy – climate action, natural capital and ethical trade.

With a bold vision to make unsustainable unthinkable, Edge Impact works with their partners to ensure every problem solved is hardwired to a tangible sustainable outcome.

Edge actively works with its partners to integrate various elements of sustainability business practice together to

  • Accelerate action
  • Create evidence-based sustainability
  • Manage risk and developing strategy
  • Innovate and enable leadership transformation
  • Improve decision-making through data
  • Communicate with confidence, authentically
  • Connect and collaborate
  • Simplify the complexity

Announcement of the collaboration with Edge Impact is in addition to the relationship with Two Point Co establish last year – a 100% Indigenous-owned consultancy with strong ties to the First Nations community and people with over twenty-five years’ experience in the corporate sector, advocating for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander economic inclusivity.

Two Point Co Director, Jason Timor, and Managing Director for Australia and New Zealand at Edge Impact, Olivia Tyler, recently spoke at the ARA’s Leaders Forum 2023. Click here to read more about the Innovation in Sustainability panel, where Olivia led a conversation about the need to work together and collaborate in addressing the big, complex sustainability challenges facing our sector.

We’re thrilled to be supporting ARA members transition to more sustainable ways of operating. Edge has a strong history in working with the retail sector, and we also know that to create truly positive impact, collaboration is key and the ARA provide a fantastic opportunity to do just that.

Olivia Tyler, Managing Director for Australia and New Zealand at Edge Impact

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