Introducing Our Sustainability Maturity Assessment
JA Consulting and Cala Sustain recently announced our strategic partnership. This partnership blends our complementary strengths to offer a new innovative ‘Sustainability Transformation’ service.
JA Consultants are specialists in employee engagement and change management. Cala Sustain are technical sustainability experts in climate strategy, net zero pathways, resource efficiency, standards, legislation and ESG reporting.
Our collaboration offers a powerful new approach to sustainability transformation. One that blends deep technical expertise with a proven understanding of organisational culture and change.
A Fresh Approach to Embedding Sustainability
We’ve developed a fresh approach to sustainability transformation through our Sustainability Maturity Assessment. It is designed to quickly assess where your organisation is on your sustainability journey. Our assessment diagnoses both the systems you have in place and the underlying mindsets that shape behaviour. We then identify and help you unlock the opportunities that sustainability can offer.
This approach ensures that sustainability initiatives take off and deliver long-lasting value.
What is a sustainability maturity assessment?
A sustainability maturity assessment evaluates an organisation’s current sustainability performance and readiness. It identifies strengths, gaps, and risks in ESG practices and provides a roadmap for improvement. The goal is to embed sustainability into core operations, strategy, and stakeholder engagement.
About Our Sustainability Maturity Framework
Our Sustainability Maturity Assessment offers a framework to evaluate how deeply sustainability is embedded across your organisation. It assesses the operational factors that make implementation possible and the cultural, behavioural, and leadership factors that drive sustainable outcomes.
The framework covers eight core areas. Each area is scored on a five-point maturity scale, from ad hoc to optimised. The result is a clear picture of where you are, where the wins are and what it will take to achieve them.
Systems and People
Our assessment diagnoses both the internal systems and the underlying mindsets that shape behaviour. This approach ensures that sustainability initiatives take off – and deliver long-lasting value.
Our Maturity Assessment offers an all-encompassing review of your organisation including:
| Framework Dimension | Description |
|---|---|
| Leadership and governance | Strategic commitment, alignment of leadership with sustainability goals . Organisational framework and structure reflecting and enabling sustainability outcomes. Board oversight and accountability structures. |
| Goals and objectives | Are sustainability goals in place |
| Culture and behaviours | Shared values, behavioural norms and management. Practices and incentives. Stories and symbols. |
| Capabilities and skills | Knowledge, training and capability building, across levels. Specialist and expertise areas to deliver against sustainability goals. |
| Operations and process | Integration of sustainability into processes, procurement, project delivery. |
| Measurement and data | Metrics, KPIs, internal and external reporting, use of data to drive action, integration of data between sustainability and operations outcome. |
| Stakeholder engagement | Transparency, communication, partnerships and responsiveness to external and internal levers of change. |
| Compliance | Transparency and responsiveness. |
| Market | Competitive advantage and peer benchmarking. |
Benefits of Sustainability Maturity Assessment
We’ll equip your organisation with a clear view of where you stand today. Along with a strategic pathway to unlock untapped potential, amplify impact and create lasting value.
Our assessment empowers organisations to:
- Bridge the gap between ambition and reality — revealing where processes fall short and where transformation can begin.
- Benchmark cultural engagement and sustainability performance — so you can measure what matters and track progress with confidence.
- Target investment and effort where they’ll drive the greatest change — ensuring resources are aligned with strategic priorities.
- Navigate complexity with clarity — aligning your approach with leading frameworks like TCFD, CSRD, SBTi, and ESG policies.
- Ignite organisation-wide engagement — embedding sustainability into culture, decision-making, and everyday action.
How our Sustainability Maturity Assessment Works
- Fast Assessment – We quickly assess your organisation’s ability to act on sustainability risks and opportunities.
- Strategic Alignment – We review alignment with culture and behaviours, people, operations, and the wider market. We uncover the blockers to achieve better outcomes.
- Gap Analysis – We look at how well your organisation is doing, and compare this to what it could be achieving with targeted changes.
- Roadmap – We advise what should be done, why your people should care, and how your organisation can get there.
How we are different
Our approach puts culture at the heart of sustainability.
By combining strategic thinking, technical depth, and cultural intelligence, we offer a holistic approach that embeds sustainability into the very fabric of an organisation. Our shared commitment to senior-level delivery ensures continuity, trust, and relevance throughout. The people you meet at the outset are the ones who guide you through the journey.
Why choose us
Successful sustainability programmes rely on employee engagement at all levels of your organisation. True change happens when individuals understand what sustainability means for them personally in their role. That’s where transformation becomes real.
When it comes to recommending sustainability measures, we’re pragmatic.
Cutting through complexity with relevance and proportionality.
Our partnership blends deep expertise in sustainability with deep expertise in human behaviour and change. This collaborative approach integrates world-class facilitation, organisational design, and practical implementation.
We ensure your people understand what needs to be done and why. Most importantly we ensure they are empowered to deliver results.
