Sustainability responsibility

For us, sustainability is about planning our short and long-term. Discover our unique inclusivity strategy for tangible and intangible sustainability actions.

Why we feel responsible

We are a values-led organisation.

Our operations are based on our Common Ground*, i.e. core principles that inspire everyone, build trust and align around a company’s mission, vision and behaviours.

  • We profoundly believe in our products and services.
  • We appreciate each other.
  • We listen to our customers.
  • We give back to our communities.
  • We are friendly to the environment.
  • Our products and services generate positive results via the creation of sustainability value*.

Hence, we are responsible for an agenda which takes sincere care of our Common Good*.

* Lexicon

This document describes and forms a values agreement, like a statement of values. It leads the operations and collaboration, generates sustainable ways of being and acting, and reflects individual behaviours and culture. It is like a group DNA. By endorsing this document, everybody agreed to carry absolute values-based leadership responsibility.

The core principles that inspire everyone, build trust and align around a company’s mission, purpose, behaviours and serve the common good (Seidman, 2012).

Values-based businesses can be defined as those that

  • are driven by people who believe in their products and services,
  • appreciate their employees,
  • listen to their customers,
  • give back to their communities
  • are friendly to the environment (Espen, 2006),
  • have an ideal mission and identity (Bruni and Smerilli, 2009)
  • are able to create a link between its values and activities.

What benefits society as a whole, which includes

  • human kind,
  • nature,
  • public available goods and services for all.

The common good refers to achieving the best possible outcome for the largest number of people, which is underpinned by decision-making that is ethically and morally sound and varies by the context in which the decisions are made.

How we act

We first defined the sustainability roadmap.

Sustainability roadmap Erg'OH Conseil

Strategy planning process

This initial step helped us define the “What” behind the existence of Erg’OH Conseil:

  • a vision: guiding people through the user manual of the human body;
  • a mission: we share our expertise globally to manage muscle and joint pain. We apply our specific frameworks to empower our clients permanently in their health and performance journey. Our decision-making embraces inclusivity towards people, planet and profit, in the spirit of values-led entrepreneurship and conscious alignment with our Common Ground (statement of values).

Defining our Common Ground

Then, the whole team reflected on their individual and collective “Why”, i.e. the individual meaning, engine, motivator behind what we are doing.

Through a unique bottom-up process, we took sincere care in building our Common Ground: 

  • we collected our individual meanings for life, i.e. our individual values;
  • by consensus, collectively, we selected and agreed on Common Ground, which we centralise in all our daily activities and re-aligned with Erg’ON Conseil’s mission and vision statements.

Wouter Savrij Droste, an expert on this topic, guided us through this conscious and sincere process.

Our statement of values

Relating mission with our Common Ground

What’s next

We are committed to fulfilling continued responsibilities as a small but sustainability-convinced company.

Stay tuned for updates on our sustainability responsibilities in the area of environmental, social and economic ones. Our next priorities:

  • GHG emissions: we established our 2024 baseline footprint at 9.87 tCO2e and are now discussing reduction strategies;
  • stakeholder management and sustainability partnerships: strengthening collaboration with stakeholders who share our sustainability values;
  • sustainability reporting: enhancing transparency and accountability through comprehensive reporting practices.

Wouter Savrij Droste is our Chief Sustainability Officer.

You can contact him to become a partner in living sustainability values sincerely in business.  

Wouter Savrij Droste