Our Better Business team work with businesses of all sizes to help them understand, craft and implement pragmatic and purposeful ESG strategies, disclosure and all things in-between.
Better Business
Across Australia, businesses are navigating complex sustainability challenges by crafting bespoke responses to climate change, environmental preservation and human rights. Each organisation’s approach must reflect its distinct market realities and operational landscape to achieve practical results and positive impact.
HIP V. HYPE has sustainability embedded in the way we do business. Our deep strategic and technical knowledge combined with direct experience delivering exceptional sustainability outcomes across our own projects and operations gives us a unique perspective and understanding of what it takes to run a Better Business.
Our team’s breadth and depth of experience enables us to develop effective processes to address existing and emerging ESG challenges in a way that delivers maximum value for our customers and society.
We work with all types of businesses. Whether you’re trying to understand where ESG can become a value driver, or you’re looking to amplify existing leadership and ambition.
We’ll support you to embrace your leadership aspirations with pragmatism, and a clear path to implementation.
Whether you’re seeking to upskill your Board and Leadership team on emerging ESG issues critical to your sector, adopt, or enhance your competitive edge in the market, we can help.
We seek to deeply understand where your business is on the ESG maturity curve, understand your key drivers and opportunities and deliver approaches that are set up for success.
Our approach ensures your leadership group and broader team have ownership of your ESG journey, and everyone deepens their knowledge along the way.
- Leadership Engagement
- Board & Executive Master Classes
- Strategy & Target Setting
- Mandatory Disclosures including Climate, Nature & Human Rights
- International Benchmarks & Frameworks
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We support all kinds of businesses to co-create organisation wide ESG strategies and roadmaps that respond to their unique operating situations and sector.
Whether your ambition is an industry leading Net Zero & Nature Positive roadmap or a balanced ESG Strategy, we can help you understand what’s material, benchmark your competitors, and create a pragmatic path to delivery.
We specialise in helping you create an innovative, purposeful and science-based solution that delivers value to your people, operations and stakeholders.
By working with you to co-create a strategy you become the expert in the material matters relevant to your organisation. Your Executive and Board will understand why targets have been set, and how they will be monitored and reported.
We’ll empower you to drive ESG action into the future.
- Leadership Engagement
- Board & Leadership Master Classes
- Industry Benchmarking & Gap Analysis
- Materiality Assessments
- ESG Goals & Target Setting
- Policy Development
- Roadmap & Action Planning
- Monitoring & Reporting
Case Studies:
Wesley College Melbourne Sustainability Framework & Action Plan
cohealth Climate Change Action
Sustainability reporting is evolving fast. From climate risks as fiduciary duties to global disclosure standards on climate, nature, and human rights—if you’re not reporting yet, you soon might be.
Done well, reporting tracks performance, builds credibility, and gains industry recognition. But disclosures must be robust—claims and data must be defensible to avoid greenwash risks.
Our team has first-hand experience writing reports, publishing disclosures and participating in benchmarks. We’ll help you navigate reporting standards and publish meaningful, credible disclosures in accordance with recognised standards that add value to your business and customers.
- Sustainability Reporting
- Task Force for Nature Related Financial Disclosures (TNFD)
- International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)
- Australian Sustainability Reporting Standards (ASRS)
- Industry Benchmarks e.g. GRESB
- Human Rights & Modern Slavery Statements
Climate-related fiduciary duties and nature impacts are exposing individuals and businesses to new risks across operations and supply chains. If you don’t understand your risks, you can’t manage them—undermining resilience and market credibility.
Every business faces two major climate risks: physical and transition risks. We work with leadership teams to identify vulnerabilities unique to the organisation and build adaptive strategies.
Almost every business globally has an interface with nature but financial implications can be complex. Informed by recommendations from the Taskforce on Nature Related Financial Disclosures, we help pinpoint exposure and mitigation strategies.
These risks are increasingly tied to fiduciary duties. We equip boards and executives with the knowledge to lead through expert presentations, masterclasses and tailored engagement.
- Board & Executive Engagement
- Science Based Climate Scenario Analysis
- Transition Risk Analysis
- Nature Supply Chain & Operations Exposure
- Risk Management Advisory
- International Disclosure Frameworks, (TNFD, IFRS, ASRS)
How do you know if your investment decisions are genuinely making a positive impact? Whether you’re completing a portfolio screening or acquisition due diligence, it’s critical to be a master of the ESG landscape in order to ask the right questions.
We work with businesses to support them in identifying where there may be ESG risks that they’ve not yet uncovered or thought to consider. This enables major investment decisions to be made with an expert ESG lens, reducing the medium to long term risk of acquisitions, partnerships or investments.
We also support businesses with existing assets, portfolios or investments to identify value uplift and resilience opportunities aligned to emerging ESG expectations of key stakeholders and investors, whilst reducing operating costs.
- Portfolio Screening
- Acquisition ESG Due Diligence
- Organisational Filtering Policies
- Asset Climate Vulnerability Reduction Strategies
- Investment Standards Development
- Cost-Benefit Assessment
- Product Review
Businesses investing in ESG naturally want to share their achievements—it signals commitment to sustainability, innovation and leadership.
ESG achievements enhance an organisation’s social license, corporate social responsibility and market differentiation, contributing to a unique value proposition.
But with increasing scrutiny and greenwash concerns, how you communicate matters. Independent certifications and benchmarks provide credibility.
We collaborate with organisations to support external ESG communications, certifications and benchmarking that gets cut through whilst ensuring business integrity.
Whether you’re looking for support on crafting ESG marketing and communications, or need guidance on how to integrate sustainability disclosures in your Annual Report, we can guide you and support your staff to become experts in the art of ESG communications.
- Greenwash Training & Master Classes
- Sustainability & ESG Communications
- Disclosure Guidance & Preparation
- Certifications & Submissions
- Benchmarks & Implementation
Not every business is big enough to bring a sustainability or an ESG expert in house, and often, a single staff member cannot provide the diverse range of expertise required.
We work with businesses to support implementation of strategies and plans, providing access to a team of experts who can provide a wide range of tailored support for your business to ensure efforts stay on track.
Implementation support can be delivered flexibly as a package or at hourly rates so advice is efficiently delivered within the available budget.
- Leadership Coaching & Mentoring
- Capacity Building & Training
- Specific Project Guidance
- Pitch us your need and we’ll try to help!
