The Embedding Project is a collaboration between leading sustainability researchers and practitioners undertaking pioneering work on embedding sustainability globally. By facilitating global communities of practice, we gather the best available knowledge and, working with our practitioner members, we create practical assessments, guidebooks and tools that help you chart your company's path to good business.

Our work is anchored in a review of prior academic and practitioner work on embedding sustainability conducted in 2010 for the Network for Business Sustainability that resulted in a framework to guide companies in their sustainability efforts. Our framework charts a portfolio of organizational practices that, together, lead to embedding and highlight the importance of balancing your efforts to deliver on your sustainability commitments while laying the foundation for the changes that will help you become more sustainable. The initial framework was enthusiastically received by the business community and in response to requests from organizations for more information and guidance on implementation, Dr. Bertels in partnership with the Network for Business Sustainability brought together a dozen leading global companies to form an Embedding Sustainability Working Group to test and refine the framework. Working for three years with global practitioners, the framework has now been refined into a practices assessment tool that charts an organization's maturity and embeddedness.

We invite you and your company to participate in this ongoing research and join other companies leading this effort. The Embedding Project can help you understand your past efforts, identify gaps, benchmark against your peers, prioritize next steps, and provide the guidance to do so. Our partner companies benefit through opportunities to learn from their peers in facilitated and structured processes that explore the topics that matter to you. To learn more about how the Embedding Project could support you and your company, visit us at embeddingproject.org.