Advisory & Consulting

Kristyn advises corporations and their boards, PE firms and their portfolio companies, charitable organizations and family offices advancing their sustainability and social impact goals.

Kristyn has worked with entities in all growth stages from emerging companies to global public companies, charitable organizations including private foundations, corporate foundations and public nonprofits, and family offices intent on shaping a legacy of environmental and social change. 

Learn more about our resources, trainings, and workshops.

Selected experience highlights and offerings include:  

  • Briefing boards and management committees on regulatory developments and risk management, ESG program building and reporting

  • Evaluating and preparing mandatory and voluntary disclosures

  • Partnering on climate action and the energy transition

  • Guiding diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives

  • Counselling on human rights and supply chain due diligence and compliance

  • Scoping, implementing and reporting progress on ESG commitments (e.g., net zero, water use, pay equity)

  • Developing ESG corporate governance programs

  • Preparing ESG strategy, policies and procedures

  • Reviewing ESG and sustainability reports, including guidance on reporting frameworks

  • Responding to sustainability questionnaires

  • Advising on alignment with responsible investing standards

  • Implementing social impact, philanthropic and community engagement strategies

  • Incorporating charitable entities and building best-in-class corporate governance and compliance programs for charitable organizations

  • Advocating public policy priorities and leading engagement with Members of Congress, Cabinet officials, Governors, State Legislators and Mayors

  • Managing stakeholder inquiries, shareholder activism and response to ESG shareholder proposals (e.g., board diversity, political activity, human rights, racial equity audits)

  • Crafting C-suite remarks across all stakeholder communications (e.g., board meetings, shareholders, employee comms, regulators, elected officials and media)

Resources, Trainings & Workshops

Verde Impact offers educational resources as well as tailored workshops, seminars, and trainings.

Video: Best Practices for Keeping Pace with Evolving Global Sustainability Regulations

Video: List of Key Emerging Trends and Risks for Business

Video: How to Build and Scale a Sustainability Strategy Course

  • "The proposed SEC Climate Disclosure Rule 'is potentially a big lift even for companies that have been reporting on climate to make sure they’re compliant. And for companies where this hasn’t been the top-level priority of all of their ESG work, this has been raised to that level.”'

    —Kristyn Noeth, American Lawyer

  • “The present feels like a watershed moment in the prominence of ESG."

    —Kristyn Noeth, American Lawyer

  • “Transitioning to a clean energy economy is critical to both energy security and economic security.”

    —Kristyn Noeth, Advancements

  • "This report, "Safe and Smart: Making After - School Hours Work for Kids," provides evidence of the impact that safe, enriching, and high quality after-school opportunities can have on our children and youth.”

    —Attorney General Janet Reno & Secretary of Education Richard Riley

  • “The United Nations reports we are at a global pivot point on climate change and that any further delay will miss a rapidly closing window to secure a livable future. This is the most critical decade for climate solutions.”

    —Kristyn Noeth, Advancements

  • “The NASDAQ ‘disclosure rule is likely the best model going forward’ on board diversity following the California setbacks.”

    —Krisyn Noeth, Bloomberg

  • “Best practices include an annual board training and periodic review of the ESG program and strategy – and refreshing those to ensure alignment with business goals.”

    —Kristyn Noeth, ESG in the Boardroom Podcast

  • “Global climate change continues to be one of the most pressing issues of our time as we have not yet made significant progress to halt the planet’s warming temperature.”

    —Kristyn Noeth, Advancements

  • “Working on the societal and public policy issues and being able to have impact both on the global issues we face, such as climate, as well as having local impact on communities is what gives me purpose."

    —Kristyn Noeth, Law360

  • “ESG factors are important to the longterm value of a company.”

    —Kristyn Noeth, ESG in the Boardroom Podcast

  • “An annual board refresh is a good time to assess the oversight of ESG issues and the committee structure and alignment.”

    —Kristyn Noeth, ESG in the Boardroom Podcast

  • “Two new laws – the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and the Inflation Reduction Act – infuse an estimated $479B into vital climate initiatives. That’s a gamechanger.”

    —Kristyn Noeth, Advancements

  • “We see this consistently now in the big public companies – there is a responsible corporate officer for ESG who reports to the board regularly.”

    —Kristyn Noeth, ESG in the Boardroom Podcast

  • “While many renewable technologies have been around for decades, the ability to scale those technologies and bring them to market was restricted by relative costs, infrastructure limitations and regulatory hurdles. The good news is that many of those technologies are becoming more commercially viable.”

    —Kristyn Noeth, Advancements

  • “It’s such an interesting time for me as a practitioner in this space and having been in the space for a long time, to see so many companies in the private sector really leading the way and wanting to be market leaders on ESG issues.”

    —Kristyn Noeth, Law360