CEA Consulting services

Many companies are seeking to green their operations to improve efficiency, respond to customer and regulatory pressures, and address environmental problems. For over ten years, CEA has helped a wide range of firms in the industrial, service, and consumer sectors to measure and minimize their environmental impact, reduce costs, and develop strategies for top-line growth. CEA has in-depth experience designing greening strategies, developing business plans, conducting baseline environmental assessments, and structuring investments for companies and nonprofits.

The right team and insightful organizational design are the key components of an effective and successful nonprofit, foundation, or firm. With over 25 years of experience as consultants to leading organizations in the environmental sector, CEA is uniquely positioned to understand our clients’ immediate and long-term staffing challenges and organizational goals. We engage our network to attract the most innovative and transformative leaders from the business, political, nonprofit, and scientific communities to fill open positions in our clients’ organizations. In addition, we draw on our expertise in launching and supporting growing organizations to assist in office startup, compensation setting, organizational structure, and other critical functions.

CEA helps strengthen the philanthropic community by designing, managing, and evaluating environmental grants and investments. CEA helps foundations and individual donors with both short-term projects and long-term engagements. Our expertise includes climate change, energy policy, fisheries and aquaculture, land preservation, sustainable agriculture, air quality, and chemical and waste management. CEA draws upon our deep knowledge of the environmental challenges facing philanthropists as we provide tactical and strategic advice to our clients. We help donors and foundations leverage their investments, improve performance, and achieve their conservation goals.

CEA produces tangible, positive results for our clients by tracking and managing complicated regulatory processes. We work with our clients to identify regulatory and legislative initiatives that may impact their business operations. CEA then monitors and analyzes these processes to assess potential impacts and develop a range of alternative solutions. CEA communicates these options to appropriate decision makers and seeks to modify proposed regulations to satisfy the interests of both our clients and policymakers. CEA also helps clients identify and meet statutory requirements under a variety of regulatory and legislative mandates at the local, state, and federal levels.