Today's companies serve not just shareholders, but an increasing array of stakeholders who feel they have a stake in the actions of the company.

Future 500 is a leader in stakeholder engagement. We specialize in forging links between corporations and stakeholders to advance global citizenship.

We operate at the intersection of corporations and stakeholders, pioneering the tools, strategies and processes that help these disparate parties identify common ground to address society’s most pressing problems.

Our tools and services have enabled best practices in stakeholder engagement at some of the world's leading companies. We are proud of our stakeholder methodology, refined through years of practical engagement, which has enabled us to effect lasting, positive change. (Download our Future 500 brochure)

Our two most popular tools - Global Citizenship 360 (formerly known as the CAP Gap Audit) and Stakeholder Mapping and Planning - have earned us a reputation as both pioneers and innovators in this emerging field. Our Stakeholder Engagement services have helped launch new products, site new facilities, increased market share, protected millions of acres of old growth forest, recycled millions of tons of materials, and saved over .5 billion.

Harnessing the power of feedback to drive corporate adaptation, innovation, and sustainability, the Future 500 systems approach builds corporate performance through four simple steps, outlined below:

STEP	FUTURE 500 PROCESS
Step One: Build Your Team Skills	STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT PRIMER Best Practices in Stakeholder Engagement, an interactive training session to vest your team with skills they need to excel in stakeholder engagement.
Step Two: Better CSR Strategy, Performance, and Reporting	GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP 360 A best-in-class review and repository that measures a company's performance against 21 leading standards of corporate accountability, responsibility, quality, and sustainability. A powerful tool that brings order to a confusing arena, and enables informed strategy, and better performance, reporting and customized responses to inquiries from standards organizations. STAKEHOLDER OPINION LEADER SURVEY Performance and perception don't always match. This survey measures perceptions of a company or industry's performance for shareholders, employees, communities, consumers, and the environment, by opinion leaders that influence media, legislation, and reputation.
Step Three: Strategic Planning	STAKEHOLDER MAPPING & PLANNING A Stakeholder Map inventories a company's stakeholders, categorizes them, shows their relationships, and diagrams paths the company can follow to achieve its business objectives through stakeholder engagement. It is a highly useful strategic planning tool.
Step Four: Engagement and Reporting	STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT Through years of practice, Future 500 has honed its stakeholder engagement methodology for relationship management that seeks to enhance understanding and alignment between companies and their stakeholders. Our approach encompasses both direct and indirect communication and dialogue in informal and formal settngs. COMMUNICATIONS AND TRANSPARENCY Future 500 advises companies and stakeholders on effective methods for communicating with one another. For companies, this generally entails reaching stakeholders with critical information on the company's stakeholder performance, such as sustainability, citizenship, environmental, or public reports. For stakeholders, this generally entails communicating social and environmental goals in economic terms.

CAP Partners: In addition to Future 500's core services, our Corporate Accountability Practice Partners provide expert counsel and assistance to companies worldwide, through a network of 17,000 professionals from leading consulting partners, including ARCADIS, ERM, and WSP. Through this network, Future 500 can meet wide ranging corporate needs, including corporate accountability, quality, ethics, responsibility, sustainability, crisis management, or other matters related to stakeholder performance and engagement.

Read what our partners say about us.

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For more information about Future 500's services or those of our CAP Partners, contact ewohlgemuth@future500.org ewohlgemuth@future500.org, or U.S. (415) 294-7775.

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