Our Services

We partner with our clients to accelerate their sustainability journey. 

Whether you need end-to-end support or help at critical steps in the journey, we provide a helping hand, tailoring our approach to match your pace, goals, and internal capacity. Our programs are always customized, and always built with efficiency and implementation in mind.

Clarify Priorities

We dive into your business strategy and operating context to pinpoint where sustainability efforts will have the greatest impact. Our streamlined discovery process focuses on building a solid foundation so we can move quickly from strategy to action with confidence.

Types of Work:

  • Identifying when and how materiality assessments, stakeholder engagement, or strategy work will add real value.

  • Carbon footprint assessments (Scopes 1, 2, and 3) to target high-impact areas.

  • Review of decarbonization targets and pathways.

  • Analysis of data and business objectives to recommend the most relevant reporting standards (e.g. CSRD, ISSB/IFRS, GRESB, CDP).

Map Internal Landscape

We uncover how sustainability currently lives within your organization – what’s working, what’s getting in the way, and where momentum can grow. We identify champions, barriers, and leverage points across teams, systems, and leadership.

Types of Work:

  • Structured interviews, data analysis, and cultural listening to map strengths and opportunities. 

  • Gap analysis against management frameworks (e.g. ISO 14001, 45001, 50001) to allow for scaling up of solutions with repeatable and continuous improvement systems. 

  • Facilitation of candid peer discussions to clarify direction and gain internal alignment to inform program design. 

Model Business Value of Sustainability

We translate sustainability risks and opportunities into operational, reputational, and financial terms. Our work is grounded in business realities and speaks the language of executives, investors, and boards. We frame sustainability as a driver of performance—not a side initiative. 

Types of Work:

  • Scenario and sensitivity analyses to model the financial impact of multiple sustainability variables on investments. 

  • Design of sustainability frameworks and decision-making tools.

  • Physical climate risk screening processes for assets or portfolios.

Design Scalable, Repeatable Programs

Our programs are built for real-world use. We co-create practical tools and workflows that integrate into daily operations, enabling non-experts to take meaningful, recurring action that delivers measurable impact.

Types of Work: 

  • Playbooks, Standard Operating Procedures, and guidance documents for various audiences (e.g. for Property Operations, Development teams, Corporate teams).

  • Tenant engagement and education programs.

  • Integration of carbon goals into capital planning processes. 

  • The evolution of pilots into scalable programs.

  • Portfolio-level approaches to green building certifications.

Build Capacity for Long-Term Success

We empower internal teams through training, communication tools, and change management strategies. Our capacity-building approach reduces consultant dependency over time and embeds sustainability across the organization.

Types of Work:

  • Training via learning management system modules, workshops, or live facilitation. 

  • Change management strategies, including governance models and employee performance-linked goals.

  • Communication tools to drive engagement and clarity.

Adapt and Evolve

We stay with you during implementation, acting as a partner and sounding board as new insights emerge. We help you assess when it’s time to adapt, refine, or scale—and how to do it effectively.

Types of Work:

  • Governance design and integration of sustainability KPIs across roles. 

  • ESG storytelling, so it becomes part of the core culture and builds internal pride. 

  • Business-case development.

  • Strategic coaching to evolve programs as your business and the world change.

Market Transformation

We support our clients who aim to have an internal impact as well as aim for market transformation. We do not see sustainability as a zero-sum game. We see leadership as opening more levels of enhanced performance and impact. We have extensive experience taking success, and hard lessons learned, and sharing it broadly with the industry with goal of accelerating change. We can help you deliver programs that are innovative and will readily be welcomed at the stages and workshops that will inspire peers, clients and partners.

This is a sample of some recent examples: 

Affine Climate Solutions, Financing solutions to accelerate low carbon, resilient construction (2025)

Urban Land Institute, Toronto Chapter, Carbon Attack: Has Real Estate Given Up on the Net-Zero Agenda? Exploring the Future of Greener Buildings in 2025 (2025)

GLOBE Forum, Driving Change from Within: How Sustainability Executives Can Lead the Way to a Sustainable Future (2024)

Greenbuild Conference, Getting to Zero Carbon at Scale: Move Fast and Don’t Break Anything (2023)

RBC Disruptors Podcast, Building Green: Fixing Canada’s Leaky Homes (2023)

CBRE Podcast, Feeling Good: Why Wellness Certification is Good for People, Properties and Productivity (2022)

Sustainable Brands Conference, Redesigning Leadership: Embedding Sustainability, Vancouver Style (2018)

BOMA China Conference, Shanghai, The Value of BOMA BEST (2019)

Let’s Talk Impact

Whether you're exploring how to embed sustainability more deeply or looking to shape the industry conversation, we’re here for both. Book a 30-minute call with Jamie Gray-Donald for a focused, collaborative discussion on your priorities—and how Recursive can help move you from insight to action.

We also bring our thinking to stages and workshops across North America and beyond, helping amplify what works and accelerate market transformation. Let’s connect and find the right path forward—together.