What Colectivo Is All About
Colectivo helps ambitious organisations future-proof their growth by embedding sustainability across strategy, people, products, and culture. Not your typical consultancy, it’s a network of global practitioners, strategists, designers, and policy experts who stick around to make change stick. They don’t just advise and disappear—they stay with you, ensuring sustainability becomes part of your DNA.
The Main Benefit: Tailored Sustainability That Lasts
Colectivo’s approach is all about matching services to your unique needs, supporting you at any stage of your sustainability journey. Here’s what they bring to the table:
- Future Proof: Build strategy, governance, and KPIs to future-proof growth with purpose and clarity.
- Activate: Shift mindsets and behaviours through programmes that activate teams, engage stakeholders, and support culture shifts.
- Re-design: Redesign products and services for circularity and impact using design and systems thinking.
A Practical, Applied Approach That Works
Colectivo moves teams from exploration to execution through deep analysis, targeted activities, and co-creation workshops. The approach is hands-on and meaningful, turning strategy into lasting impact. It’s not just theory—it’s about real change that sticks.
Four Steps to Sustainable Success
The process is clear and collaborative:
- Discover: Dive deep into your context, mapping risks, opportunities, and stakeholder needs to ground decisions in reality.
- Define: Clarify ambition, align stakeholders, and shape insights that guide strategy and design.
- Develop: Co-create practical solutions balancing sustainability, inclusion, and business value using design and innovation methods.
- Deliver: Stay through execution, embedding programmes, training teams, and scaling change that lasts.
Projects That Build Real Impact
Colectivo’s work spans diverse sectors, each project designed to create meaningful change:
- Building Ireland’s Future: Sustainable, people-powered engineering with CJK Engineering.
- Empowering Employability in Madrid: Project-based skills development with IBM España & Fundación Puentes Global.
- Kickstarting Sustainable Growth: Kitchenetta Catering’s culinary school project.
- Empowering Indigenous Communities: Sustainable tourism initiatives with UN Tourism and Panama Tourism Authority.
- Accelerating Regeneration & Circular Economy: Eco-adventure tourism with Wildlands Galway.
- eLearning Sustainability in Practice: Making sustainability easy to onboard through practical, accessible, scalable training.
Project Impact and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
- SDG 4: Quality Education – through skills and eLearning initiatives.
- SDG 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth – by empowering employability and sustainable business growth.
- SDG 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure – via sustainable engineering and design.
- SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities – through community-focused tourism and regeneration projects.
- SDG 12: Responsible Consumption and Production – by redesigning products and services for circularity.
- SDG 13: Climate Action – embedding sustainability as a core principle.
Core Values Driving Colectivo’s Work
At the heart of Colectivo’s approach are values that shape everything they do. Impact-driven by design means tackling the world’s toughest challenges with scalable, high-impact solutions. A people-first mindset leads with empathy, openness, and respect—because people fuel performance. Collaboration is key; collective intelligence moves projects faster and further. Constructive work habits focus on ownership and solutions, even when conversations get tough. Sustainability isn’t an afterthought—it’s a guiding principle embedded in culture and method. And curiosity keeps the team evolving, always learning and building what’s next.
