Sustain is a Belfast-based consultancy network helping organisations make sense of sustainability, ESG, and responsible AI. We translate complex frameworks into practical strategies that connect local action to global goals. Our approach is grounded in context, reflection, and action — understanding where you are, reflecting on what matters, and acting with purpose.

Workshops & Learning

Our learning experiences help teams and communities build understanding and confidence around sustainability and responsible AI. From Climate Cafés and sustainability workshops to applied responsible AI and ESG training, we design sessions that make complex topics accessible and relevant to everyday work.

Advisory

We support organisations in developing sustainability, ESG, and responsible AI strategies that are both credible and actionable. This includes policy design, reporting alignment, materiality assessments, strategy and programme development that integrate seamlessly with business goals.

Project & Programme Support

We help organisations move from strategy to delivery. Drawing on experience in programme management, data and reporting, commercial modelling, marketing, and go-to-market planning, we provide structured support that keeps sustainability, ESG, and responsible AI initiatives on track.

This includes defining workstreams, building delivery plans, coordinating stakeholders, developing clear materials, monitoring progress and ensuring programmes are resourced, costed, and communicated effectively. Our focus is on practical execution providing organisations the structure, clarity, and momentum needed to convert commitments into visible progress.

Initiatives

Sustain also leads and collaborates on initiatives that connect ideas to real-world impact.

RAICA (Responsible AI for Climate Action) explores how artificial intelligence can be developed and applied responsibly to support environmental and social progress.

Climate Local encourages place-based climate action through community engagement, storytelling, and local partnerships.

Our approach

Let’s breakdown our approach – think of these as guiding principles, things we ensure we tackle but adapting to your needs at hand:

Context

First we need to set the scene, we need to understand the context of who, what, where, when and why in order to facilitate the how.

Context can be information, facts, statistics, but it can also be opinions, thoughts and perspectives.

Reflection

Humans are complex beings – reflection offers an opportunity to pause, think over, and bring perspective to our next steps.

Bringing everyone along for the eventual action to be taken is key to success.

Action

Finally, we plan and take action. Action can be big or small – a shift in mindset or change in a behaviour to lobbying government or organisations to overhaul policy and incentive systems or whole operations and supply chains.

Work with us

We are open to any opportunity for collaboration, projects, initiatives, workshops, and/or thought leadership. Contact maurizio@sustain-lab.com or reach out on LinkedIn to learn more about Sustain and what we can do for you.