How-To Playbooks curated by a global network of collaborating experts

Helping organisations bring together the right people, at the right time, with the right sustainability information.

Capacity Building Pathway

Solutions through global collaboration

How-To Playbook are standardized, structured journeys through aggregated and summarized content. They use AI and interactive navigation to present a journey aligned with the steps to implement an organization’s management system – Plan, Do, Check and Act. Playbooks are intended for every organisational role in any organization, no matter the type, industry or country.

Step 1: Content curation

Source and evaluate input content, and assign to the How-To Playbook Framework.

Step 2: AI application

Apply AI to summarize the input content and balance any resultant unintended bias.

Step 3: Consumable presentation

Edit the results creating supporting multi-media representations, review and publish.

Step 4: Crowdsourced Wiki evolution

Continually improve the Playbook through constant curation, to develop evolving international best practice.

Our Technical Committee is comprised of global sustainability experts

who recommend content and curate How-To Playbooks,

overseeing the development of global sustainability capacity building units.

Core Activities

  1. Establish global consensus on those sustainability matters of most importance to organisations. 
  2. Establish global consensus on the objectives for a How-To Playbook on each matter.
  3. Establish global consensus on the organisational programme, capabilities and required competencies.
  4. Source and curate content required for the How-To Playbook, and publish the content to the platform if applicable.

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Suitably skilled experts are encouraged to join.

 

The appointment of members will be based on the information provided using the criteria below.

Consideration will also be given to the needs of diverse stakeholders and perspectives emerging from contexts with mature sustainability practices.

Practice Groups

Practice Groups are created by the Technical Committee for specific areas of focus.

The role of the Convenor is to lead the work of the specific Practice Group(s) which includes planning and scheduling Practice group meetings, ensuring that the meetings are productive and achieve the intended objectives, engaging participants and building discussions to consensus, and recording the results of the discussion, in particular any decisions made.

Practice Group Convenors and Leaders

Technical Committee Members

The following are some of our expert committee members, in alphabetical order:

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Peadar Duffy

Global ESG Practice Lead at Archer Integrated Risk Management

Chair of the Technical Committee

Peadar Duffy is Archer’s Global ESG Practice Lead, and is responsible for leveraging his thought leadership in the organizational risk and governance domains to provide strategic direction and collaboration across Archer’s internal and external partners in the design and development of Archer’s ESG solutions. 


He currently represents Ireland on the ISO technical committees for Risk Management (TC 262) and the Governance of Organisations (TC 309) where he is involved in the development and revision of various guidelines, reports and technical specifications.


Most recently Mr. Duffy had been involved with other international experts in the development of the first global governance guideline which emphasizes organizational purpose and other ESG-sustainability principles underpinning performance and long-term viability. Mr. Duffy began his 25-year career in risk management spanning multiple industry sectors in Ireland, the US and Middle East following 15 years in the Irish military.

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