The Climate-Integrated Enterprise
Richard Clissold-Vasey
Advisor on climate-integrated planning and governance
Richard Clissold-Vasey helps Strategy Directors and sustainability leaders identify where climate-related pressures are not yet properly built into planning, governance and decision-making.
His work focuses on prioritising and addressing the decision points and activities that determine what organisations actually do: strategy, planning, investment, governance and performance management.
Richard is the creator of Integrated Value Planning and the developer of The Climate-Integrated Enterprise.
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25+ years leading business transformation, governance and strategy execution
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Creator of Integrated Value Planning
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Helping leaders build climate-related risks and opportunities into planning, investment and governance
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Background
Richard brings over 25 years of experience in business transformation, strategy execution and organisational change.
He has led complex transformation, governance and operating model change across global and private equity-backed organisations, helping leadership teams improve execution, strengthen decision-making and translate strategic ambition into operational delivery.
That experience now shapes his work on climate integration.
Many organisations recognise climate as strategically important, but still struggle to build climate-related pressures into the systems that guide planning, investment, prioritisation and delivery.
Richard’s work focuses on helping organisations close that gap.
Why this work matters
Richard believes businesses have a critical role to play in addressing climate change and wider pressures on natural systems.
But he also believes organisations are unlikely to respond effectively if climate continues to sit mainly within reporting, disclosure and sustainability workstreams.
Climate-related pressures increasingly shape costs, resilience, investment decisions, supply chains, operating models and long-term enterprise value. As a result, they need to be built into the systems through which organisations plan, prioritise, allocate capital and manage performance.
This is the focus of Richard’s work: helping organisations move climate from the edges of the enterprise into the decisions that shape what the business actually does.
Current focus
Today, Richard focuses on how climate-related risks, resource pressures and transition economics should be built into strategy, planning and transformation.
Many organisations now recognise climate as strategically important, but these pressures still sit outside the systems that guide investment, prioritisation, governance and delivery.
Richard’s work focuses on helping organisations close that gap, so climate becomes part of how the business plans, decides and executes, not a parallel sustainability agenda.
This work is most relevant for
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Strategy Directors
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Chief Sustainability Officers and sustainability leaders
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Business and transformation leaders responsible for planning, governance and enterprise change
His work is particularly relevant for organisations that recognise climate, resource, regulatory or transition pressures are becoming material to business performance, but have not yet fully built those variables into how the organisation plans, decides, invests and delivers.
This often includes engagement with executive teams, COOs and Boards where climate integration requires changes to governance, investment decisions, operating models or enterprise prioritisation.
How he works
Richard combines advisory support with facilitated implementation.
The work usually starts by identifying where current planning, governance and decision-making systems are causing material climate-related risks, constraints or opportunities to be missed or underweighted.
From there, the focus shifts to prioritising and gaining buy-in to the changes needed, then facilitating their implementation - drawing from the Integrated Value Planning process design and governance.
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Testimonials
Richard’s greatest strengths are in developing and activating strategy, leading transformation and driving behaviour change. He is highly skilled at breaking down complex challenges into practical steps and actions - he sees the bigger picture, but also grasps the detail. He does all this in a highly collaborative, motivating and engaging way.
Richard is a superb change agent. Not only does he have the planning and organisational skills needed to deliver complex organisational and digital transformation programmes, but he role models the leadership skills, capabilities and values that ensure that people go with him.
An outstanding operational and business transformation leader.
DARREN BHATTACHARY, CEO THE SOCIAL AGENCY
A fantastic transformation partner for CEOs. Richard Clissold-Vasey is highly skilled at working with senior stakeholders across the organisation to define strategy and deliver complex, multi-stream programmes to generate better commercial outcomes.
EVE DIXON, GLOBAL TRANSFORMATION DIRECTOR, KANTAR