Services We Offer
How Solstice Works With Clients
Workshops
From an hour to a few days, Solstice’s workshops cover everything from an education on general environmental trends, facilitation of strategy discussions, to problem-solving an environmental roadblock.
Project-Basis
If your organization is going through a strategic environmental shift, looking to problem-solve a complex matter, or wants to develop a new roadmap or project for greater impact, Solstice can help organize, lead, and deliver that process.
Retainer
Do you need someone you can call on anytime with regular environmental and strategic questions? You can have Solstice on retainer to act as or complement your sustainability team.
Research & Education
We cannot make pivotal change without understanding where we are and where we need to go. This is why research & education is the foundation of Solstice’s services. Whether your organization is just gearing up on its environmental journey, or you’re an established environmental organization with a challenge in a niche area, we draw on our extensive expertise across the environmental sector to inform and inspire.
Our research & education services support several different aims:
Diagnostics to understand your organization’s main environmental dependencies, challenges, future risks, and aims
Team education on leading environmental topics
The first step in environmental strategy development
Problem-solving for new challenges and environmental developments
Understanding key legal, policy and standards development in the environmental space
Keynote speaking at workshops, conferences, and events on the path towards bolder environmental solutions
This is not your basic environmental thinking and education. We are bold, holistic, and ahead of the curve. In working with us, your organization will be too.
Strategy
Strategy is the blueprint and call to action to allow your organization to achieve its aims. At Solstice, we help you develop strategy rooted in the bigger picture and deeper knowledge of environmental challenges, leading to meaningful and impactful solutions.
We work closely with you to build the strategy you need. We run workshops, conduct stakeholder interviews, carry out research, and ask the big questions to inform the compass of your strategy. Using our expertise in the field, we map that onto environmental realities and goals. We excel at distilling the complex into the known. We help you define a clear and actionable path forward, and assist with implementation.
Our strategy work covers:
Establishing clear environmental direction for your organization for the first time, whether as a whole or for a new area
Helping with strategic shifts and pivots to ensure alignment with goals, organization buy-in and effective transitions
Strategy-level problem-solving for specific, acute and emerging issues
Developing internal strategic guidance, from clarifying theories of change to designing monitoring & evaluation processes
Your strategy will inspire and pave the way to a thriving future.
Legal Advice
The law shapes many developments in the environmental field. Sound and informed legal advice can set you up for success in your environmental aims and shape your environmental strategy.
At Solstice, we also engage in legal design and reform, helping policy and legal developments strengthen the role of law in creating a thriving environmental future. Legal paradigms are changing as we recognize the nature and root causes of our environmental challenges, and the systemic shifts required to address them. This work is informed by the rights of nature movement and the emerging field of eco-centric law.
At Solstice, we use the law to:
Inform and weave legal requirements and insight into strategy
Resolve complex environmental regulatory questions
Support innovative uses of the law to create better environmental policy
Craft innovative environmental initiatives
The law is only one tool in our toolkit, and we use it to enhance environmental aims.
Examples of Recent Work
Philanthropic Client
Solstice helped a prominent client in the philanthropic sector assess its funding strategy for its climate program, distilling its theory of change, identifying a higher-impact approach and advising on monitoring and evaluation methods.
Government Client
In partnership with several conservation organizations, Solstice helped implement a multi-million dollar high-level government contract supporting the restoration of biodiversity over millions of acres in Southern Africa.
International NGO Client
Solstice supported a high-profile international NGO in a strategic pivot, reviewing its environmental program, bringing stakeholder insights together through interviews and workshops, and creating a roadmap for a more successful and aligned way forward.