Paddock was an anti-consultancy providing actionable insights supporting companies realise their ESG strategy in the short-term.

Why an 'anti-consultancy'? We were the antithesis of a big consulting company, rather performing an against-the-grain, ancillary service to supplement long-term reports and roadmaps.

Our service was giving medium and large New Zealand corporations and organisations valuable perspectives surrounding their overall impact. Saliently, our focus is on their environmental, social, and governance standards and how they can deliver immediate dividends to all stakeholders in their value chain—all through effective short-term strategy.

The Problem

Companies of all types require actionable insights and perspectives. This not only assists with the development of macro-level sustainable strategy, but to ensure optimal alignment with their customers, employees, and wider stakeholders.

The Opportunity

An opportunity exists to create a consulting and services business that is focused on the short-term assessment of a company’s key challenges. This is around sustainability and perspective or initial responses to those.

A plethora of resources and services are available to businesses to develop medium- and long-term strategies. Yielding successful results from this work requires a solid understanding of the current state of a company’s social license and the holistic sentiment of consumers.

Specifically, many companies are aware of and challenged by the growing impact of consumers in Generation Z on their business both directly (as consumers) and indirectly (as influencers of note to consumers).

The Solution

An ‘anti-consultancy’ providing companies of medium and large size in New Zealand and Australia with rapid, high-value engagements which leave the client with deliverables that are both insightful and actionable.

Aligned with sensible longer-term objectives of other consultancies/projects (such as integrated reporting) but without the same demands on organisational resources and targeted at informing the C- and board-level executives in a company with the result of them better understanding and briefing their people and advisors/consultants.

The Product

A 10-page report that has instantly actionable ESG insights for our customers.

Pitch Deck — First Engagement

Public Version

Our first deck will include the same information and is going to be used as a 'sniff test' among industry players and the general public. Subsequent decks will closer resemble the MVP and have a deeper level of information.

Speaker notes accompany the deck and will be included below the deck.