Our Clients

Johnson Matthey plc

Johnson Matthey plc (JM) is a FTSE100 company specialising in catalysis; they have 13,000 employees, £10bn turnover and a third of the global market in automobile catalytic convertors.

Terra Infirma initially supported JM in engaging employees, and then with solving specific sustainability issues via our coaching service, but most recently we helped JM design a roll-out programme for their Sustainable Business 2025 sustainability strategy.

That roll-out process was based on the principle that everybody needs to know a little bit about everything in the strategy, but key decision makers need to know a lot about certain things. To design the engagement, we worked with the JM Sustainability team to map ‘who needs to know what’. Using this map, Terra Infirma developed two engagement workshops aimed at two strata of decision makers for the JM team to deliver.

NHS Blood & Transplant

NHS Blood & Transplant (NHSBT) provides blood and transplantation service to the UK’s National Health Service, looking after blood donation services in England and transplant services across the UK. This includes managing the donation, storage and transplantation of blood, organs, tissues, bone marrow and stems cells, and researching new treatments and processes. Having supported NHSBT for many years, Terra Infirma has recently helped them develop a Sustainability Strategy.

We ran a workshop with the NHSBT Sustainable Development Group (SDG) to work out the business case, set targets and outline key priorities using a backcasting methodology. We replicated this workshop with the NHSBT board to gain buy-in, with the success of the session illustrated by the Directors boosting the carbon reduction goal from 40% to 50%.

Using the content of those two workshops, Terra Infirma worked with the SDG to condense the goals and priorities into a short 8-page strategy document. Given the diverse readership the strategy starts in very accessible, high-level terms then grows progressively more detailed as it goes on. This means the reader can go as far as they need to.

Following the publication of the strategy, Terra Infirma has been supporting its roll-out across the organisation.