Ways of Working

We help to build parity in knowledge, understanding and capacity across our members, to assist them in successfully integrating sustainability into their business.

Our independence and challenging outlook provides a company and funders with authenticity and reputation benefits by association. Our expert advice enables companies to make decisions with confidence.

We help to build parity in knowledge, understanding and capacity across our members, to assist them in successfully integrating sustainability into their business.

By creating a community (that includes peers, government, funders and experts) around core issues we further companies’ ability to get things done. Key to this are safe channels of communication with Government.

By providing inexpensive training and current affairs knowledge; we enable our companies to run leaner. We help assure our members that they are focussing on the correct issues in the correct context.

The NBI helps member companies anticipate business sustainability trends, risks and opportunities with programs demonstrating a combination of strategic thinking and practical implementation. This builds resilience to social and environmental risks. Furthermore, through the power of collective action, global and local sustainability challenges can begin to be solved.

The NBI continues to operate as a bridge between two different agendas, namely business and public policy. Whereas public policy focuses on social demands and political priorities, business focuses on economic and financial priorities. However, despite these differences the two sectors more often than not have the same outcome in mind: a sustainable society. The NBI, where relevant, plays a bridging role between its members and government, thereby giving its members an opportunity to substantively engage in collective action in national interest issues.