Our PEOPLE

Since 2004, we’ve been in sustainability and ESG, and we have decades of experience in the field. We’re subject matter experts (SMEs), and we’ve spent our careers proving the financial value of ESG assets and better business.

We’re different from other firms because we’re doers and storytellers, not just tabulators. We’ve managed businesses just like you, and we’re real people, not gray suits.

EXPERTISE:

  • Deep ESG knowledge across all three pillars

  • Strategy formation

  • Technological applications

  • Renewable energies

  • Asset management

  • Finance

  • Communications

MELISSA BALDRIGE

Owner and ESG OG

Since 2004, Melissa Baldridge has been at the forefront of making the business case for ESG.

In 2010, Melissa co-founded a hybrid real estate development and sustainability company that transacted over $340 million in real estate sales. She and her team audited, energy-modeled and green-certified over 1.4 million square feet of property, saving clients $1.1 million in energy costs, 344,621 kWhs in annual renewable energy savings, and 15,578 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent. During that time, she developed a process for proving the green premium.

Internationally recognized and award-winning for innovation and excellence in sustainability, Ms. Baldridge has also …

  • Executed municipal-level environmental footprint reporting, including greenhouse gas emissions, with guidance for statewide net-zero emissions compliance

  • Designed for a major international consulting firm a behavioral-economics model to incentivize sustainable travel uptake

  • Created an ESG program for a financial services consulting firm

  • Designed programming for a circular-economics state-level non-profit organization

  • Generated business plans for two firms seeking to direct wood waste-to-biochar conversion

  • Planned 15 MW solar farm on vo-tech campus with workforce development and enough renewable energy for 3,000 single-family homes (Puerto Rico)

EDUCATION

BA, Managerial Studies (Business) and Art History, Rice University

ALM (Master of Liberal Arts), Sustainability, Harvard University

EXPERTISE

  • ESG program development

  • Environmental management

  • Circular economics and business models

  • ESG business case creation

  • Data analytics

  • Renewable energies

  • Communications