Consulting
Astrapto means to illuminate. This is what I do. I welcome the opportunity to shed light on new ideas, fresh hope, and a clear path forward for your audience.
Strategic Sustainability Consulting
At Astrapto, we empower organizations to navigate the complexities of sustainability with clarity and confidence. Our services are structured into four key pillars, each addressing critical aspects of sustainable development for hospitality, tourism, events, destination management, and many other sectors.
Training and Transformation
While plans and strategies emanate from corporate departments, the true light of impact must shine from the operational teams. Too often we have seen lackluster sustainability programs suffer because the lifeblood of the organization – the frontline employees – are not properly engaged.
As one client put it, “no one can make staff care about this stuff better than Aurora.” At our core, we desire to see all levels and departments share in sustainability problem solving, as well as the celebration of positive impact. We are masters at integrating sustainability into the hearts and job descriptions of everyone throughout an organization.
Interactive Training
We offer dynamic training with hands-on application on a wide variety of social and environmental topics, including materials waste reduction, food waste prevention, sustainable procurement, buy local programs, sustainable events, and more. Learn about topics and options at our Workshops page.
Empathetic Coaching
Sustainability is a lot of “you don’t know what you don’t know” and people feel intimated and alone in this work, particularly if it’s not your main role or your background. We believe most professionals have what it takes but just need someone to provide guidance. Let us help you take the next step with confidence.
Operational Integration
Our workshops are galvanizing experiences but the work doesn’t stop there. It’s only just beginning. We work with organizational and departmental leaders to design practical job tasks, establish policies, create accountability structures, assess performance, and develop talent to support social and environmental programs.
Certification Support
The ultimate expression of a formalized sustainability program is when it is validated by a third party. These rigorous schemes can be daunting but we provide a project management approach that helps you prioritize your efforts and facilitates a smooth audit. Guiding organizations through certifications and reporting platforms like Ecovadis, CDP, Green Key Global, EIC Sustainable Event Standards, and more.
Roadmaps and Reporting
Our work naturally lends itself to guiding organizations either beginning their sustainability journey or taking a significant step towards formalizing it. The most common question we’re asked is, “where do we start?” There is no one answer that is perfect for all organizations. Our approach starts with your values, mission, and overall strategy and we build a sustainability plan that uplifts and amplifies what you are already doing, recommends new initiatives that will most align with your organization’s and stakeholders’ needs, and delivers a bottom line result.
We instill sound business practices for data collection and reporting. We help organizations establish baselines and benchmarks and show them best practices for ongoing tracking and storytelling to maximize the effectiveness of both the program and messaging.
Sustainability Strategy Development
Crafting comprehensive sustainability roadmaps that align with your organization's mission and goals.
Stakeholder Engagement
Facilitating meaningful dialogues with stakeholders to inform and enhance your sustainability initiatives.
Materiality Assessments
Prioritizing environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues most relevant to your stakeholders.
Net-Zero Pathway Planning
Developing actionable plans to achieve carbon neutrality, including science-based targets.
Measurement and Reporting
Identifying the metrics that best support data-driven decision making.
Initiatives and Innovation
We pull from best in class concepts and our extensive experience to recommend initiatives but there is no one-size-fits-all in sustainability. We customize programs based on your reality (e.g., available infrastructure, regulations, budgets, etc.) to ensure long term endurance of initiatives that can easily atrophy or fail. Sustainability is like any operational initiative you expect to be successful, it requires thorough planning, constant monitoring, and continuous improvement. We start with the end in mind – positive and measurable impact.
While our philosophy is to meet people where they’re at, we do push our clients to try new things and explore uncharted territories.
Our technical repertoire
Our expertise is diverse, spanning waste prevention to supplier diversity. Here are just a few examples:
Materials Waste Reduction
We assisted a convention center pilot an e-waste collection program, which was scaled over time as capacity and buy-in increased.
Sustainable Event Design
We guided a hotel in right-sizing event buffet design to prevent waste
Energy Efficiency
We optimized a virtual organization’s office footprint to drastically reduce their scope 2 emissions.
Sustainable Procurement Policy
We assessed the paper supply chain for one client and developed procurement guidelines with minimum standards for responsible sourcing and recycled content.
Circular Economy Solutions
They went from mostly non-recyclable to mostly recyclable materials and reduce their materials budget!
Pilots and Publications
We have advanced sustainability through research, experimentation, and thought leadership with leading global associations and organizations. We love to collaborate with consultants and experts from other fields and organizations to cross-pollinate ideas and best practices.
Our focus on approachability means our contribution to these initiatives is to represent the voice of those who tend to be silent or ignored. We insist on setting a reasonable bar and providing practical tools. This results in case studies and resources that move the needle.
Our Thought Leadership in Action
Our premier publication is Dr. Aurora Dawn Benton’s book, Exponential Impact, which you can buy here.
Pilot and Toolkit Design
Hospitality subject matter expert for multiple World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and U.S. Food Waste Pact programs focused on food waste prevention.
PCFWC Food Waste Case Study
Industry Lead for a Pacific Coast Food Waste Commitment program driving measurable outcomes and solutions.
Appetite for Change
Conducted research for World Wildlife Fund study on event planners' perceptions of food waste.
GO ROGUE
Led an industry group effort on supplier diversity and published GO ROGUE white paper.
Sustainable Event Professional Certificate
Curriculum designer for the Events Industry Council’s Sustainable Event Professional Certificate .
Ready to embark on your sustainability journey?
Contact us today to learn how Astrapto can support your organization’s sustainable transformation.