Business integrity isn’t just about what happens inside the four walls of your company. Business behavior also impacts a large and growing array of stakeholders outside of your company’s doors. And as business activity becomes increasingly global, its impacts on others expand accordingly.

Corporate responsibility (CR) – often referred to as corporate social responsibility (CSR), sustainability, or corporate citizenship – focuses on business impacts on society. Once marginalized by critics as an indulgence for “green” executives, more and more corporate leaders recognize CR as being increasingly central to business success.

Most of our consultants have corporate experience, and we all fully support our clients’ efforts to maximize performance and profits. But we also share their expanding recognition of the need to do so responsibly. And we help them do so. Indeed, we are well-positioned to help businesses develop and maintain ethical cultures in the truest and broadest sense. Our consultants have unique expertise helping companies – large and small – understand and manage their effects on the people and communities touched by their activities.



At ELG, we partner with our clients in a variety of ways to help them achieve their CR goals and objectives. Our services include:

We recognize that CR is inseparable from reputation – not PR, but earned reputation. Our goal is to maximize our clients’ ability to build and reinforce their reputational equity with their stakeholders.



Most businesses recognize and understand the link between ethics and corporate responsibility. They nevertheless often struggle to integrate these disciplines within their organizations. ELG’s combined ethics and corporate responsibility expertise makes us uniquely suited to helping our clients develop integrated programs that minimize brand and reputational risks while maximizing strategic opportunities. Such integration enhances internal communications, reduces operational costs, and improves overall program effectiveness.