What is Perigon?
Perigon is a management consultancy built to matter, specializing in sustainability strategy advice that’s obsessively long-term, human, grounded, and sustainable. It’s not just about ticking boxes or quick wins; Perigon helps businesses develop real, impactful strategies that truly make a difference. Their approach covers everything from strategic sustainability and planning to ESG data and net-zero transition, all designed to help organizations navigate the complexities of today’s intelligence age with confidence and clarity.
Main Benefits and Key Figures
Perigon’s expertise is backed by impressive experience and results. Here are some key highlights:
- 45+ years of founder leadership and strategy experience
- Over 1,000 employees engaged with on strategy and sustainability
- More than 75% of revenue comes from repeat business
- Certified B Corp since January 2024, reflecting a strong commitment to responsible business practices
- Developed the Banking Barometer 2025, a web app analyzing sustainability and strategy across 57 UK financial institutions
Signature Method: A Better Approach to Strategy
Perigon’s signature method is all about helping leaders gain impact, confidence, and adaptivity through a better approach to business strategy. It’s a step-by-step journey that includes:
- Comprehend: Mapping the big picture and understanding how business creates value
- Hypothesise: Forming evidence-based hypotheses on where to focus and emerging principles
- Explore: Embracing uncertainty and broadening strategic skills and perspectives
- Synthesise: Creating clear, communicable strategy frameworks and identifying necessary shifts
- Systematise: Embedding resilient execution and measurement systems for lasting impact
Strategic Services Offered
Perigon’s service portfolio is designed to cover all facets of sustainability and strategy consulting. Whether it’s developing sustainable strategies or diving deep into ESG data, their offerings include:
- Sustainable Strategy and Strategic Sustainability
- Strategic Planning for businesses that want to matter
- Strategy Muscles: Building mindset and skillsets for the intelligence age
- Strategic Foresight and Scenarios: Examining performance across multiple plausible futures
- Strategy Frameworks: Building structures and targets for impactful strategies
- Double Materiality: Assessing environmental, social, and economic impacts across the value chain
- ESG Data: Measuring what matters, including greenhouse gas emissions
- Net-Zero Transition: Pragmatic, real-world climate transition planning aligned with strategy
- Sustainability Reporting: Clear disclosures from UK SRS to carbon reduction plans
Perigon’s Banking Barometer 2025
This year, Perigon launched a web app that offers a smarter, more interactive look at how UK banks, building societies, and fintechs are tackling sustainability and strategy. Covering 57 financial institutions—from tiny building societies to mega full-service banks—this is the third year of the review. It dives into what the FY24 reporting season reveals about banks’ approaches to climate targets, AI, emissions measurement, and business strategy. Plus, users can explore the data themselves with the interactive tool. It’s a fresh way to understand the evolving landscape of finance and sustainability.
Project Impact: Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
- SDG 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth
- SDG 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
- SDG 12: Responsible Consumption and Production
- SDG 13: Climate Action
- SDG 17: Partnerships for the Goals
About Perigon’s Philosophy and Team
At its core, Perigon is home to deep-thinking people with unique views of the world—and what it might become. They’re driven by a desire to do good work with others, helping clients see what’s possible and build a legacy that truly matters. Emma Walford, Co-Founder, sums it up perfectly: “Perigon is home to deep-thinking people with unique views of the world (and what it might become) who want to do good work with other people, helping them see what’s possible and build a legacy that matters.” It’s this mindset that fuels their long-term, human-centered approach to sustainability consulting.
