Reporting was the easy part. Now comes the doing.
Your independent specialist on human rights due diligence and effectiveness.
MAKING GOOD PRACTICE YOUR BUSINESS AS USUAL
Disclosure is no longer enough.
Plenty of advisers tell you what the rules say. I help you take action and assess whether it's working. The regulatory focus is shifting to what you actually did, and whether it is making a meaningful difference.
It is about continuous improvement. Know your suppliers. Catch problems early. Avoid the disruptions, disputes and expensive clean-ups that come from not knowing, not doing.
Build the due diligence underneath
A modern slavery statement alone is not enough. I help you build the work behind it: risk mitigation roadmaps, due diligence and salience assessments under the UN Guiding Principles and OECD '6-steps' process, under its Responsible Business Guidance, and review responsible sourcing across your supply chain policies and procedures. So what you disclose, reflects what you actually did, as proof points of reasonable steps taken.
Reasonable steps, made practical.
Build a practical, proportionate approach to modern slavery risk compliance that can withstand scrutiny, ranging from risk identification and supplier due diligence through to mitigation, remediation, evidence and disclosure.
Demonstrate your modern slavery risk controls actually work
Showing your actions are effective is the hardest reporting criterion, and the one regulators are now scrutinising. It's no longer enough to say your risk is low. You have to show your actions created change and demonstrate the reasonable steps you've taken to stand behind it. This is where the Effectiveness Diagnostic can help.
Assess whether your social programs are delivering meaningful impact
Running a social program is one thing. Knowing whether it made a meaningful difference is key. I evaluate whether your social programs and community investment deliver for the people they're meant to serve. This is the discipline the UN Guiding Principles and OECD's Social Impact Investment Guidance put at the heart of responsible business: understanding your operational impact on people and communities, not just your activity. It is also the direction investors are expecting. As social-related disclosure evolves, organisations will increasingly need credible evidence of the impacts and outcomes associated with their social programs.
Stakeholder engagement and facilitated dialogues
Across my career I have convened and facilitated numerous roundtables spanning government, regulatory, industry, as well as corporate, supplier engagement and dialogues with community and civil society. My approach draws on mediation principles under AMDRAS, OECD due diligence and UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, so engagement is neutral, structured and meaningful.
Resolve disputes before they derail your projects
When grievances, workplace conflict or partnership tensions surface, they stall projects, costing time and money. As a nationally accredited mediator, I handle workplace grievances, facilitated discussions and disputes independently. I also work with project teams to build trust and shared accountability early, before complex projects and partnerships come apart. This is Praxis RESOLVE. More on its own page.
Why PRAXIS ESG?
Specialist enough to go deep. Independent enough to be balanced.
Practical enough to make it work.
Praxis ESG combines deep expertise in governance, human rights and sustainability with hands-on experience building and operating responsible sourcing and social sustainability programs inside complex organisations.
The focus is not simply on what your organisation says it does.
It's on what it actually does, and whether it achieves meaningful change.
