WholeWorks

What WholeWorks does

WholeWorks is a provider of business acumen, strategic agility, sustainability thinking, and leadership skills on a strategic and individual level. The simulation includes a virtual workspace to facilitate team collaboration, which includes team planning, strategizing, scheduling, live meetings, online discussion, and decision making.

Name

WholeWorks

Legal name

WholeWorks

Website

https://wholeworks.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1997

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

WholeWorks provides simulation-based sustainability leadership development programs.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Manchester Center

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Custom Consulting Services: WholeWorks provides business-to-business consulting services focused on sustainability strategy, ESG guidance, executive workshops, and custom system modeling to corporations and organizations. Services are delivered through custom consulting engagements, workshops, and collaborative working sessions pursuant to separate written agreements.
2. Professional Certification Programs: WholeWorks offered publicly available certification programs from 2019 through 2023 (Leading the Sustainability Transformation and Strategic ESG: Creating Sustainable Value). Programs were offered with affiliates including the University of Vermont, University of Victoria, GreenBiz, and pta. The programs included online learning modules, personal coaching, peer review, and simulation-based training. Registration fees applied.
3. Custom Program Development: WholeWorks develops custom programs, simulations and models as part of their consulting practice, creating tailored sustainability and leadership development solutions for specific client organizations.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

WholeWorks is a B2B sustainability consulting firm that delivers custom consulting engagements, executive workshops, and simulation-based leadership development programs for corporations and organizations. Its core offerings include sustainability strategy and ESG guidance, whole-system business simulations, and professional certificate programs (Leading the Sustainability Transformation and Strategic ESG) that use a proprietary simulation calculating over 5,000 variables per week to teach participants how to balance financial, social, and environmental (triple bottom line) objectives.

Product overview

WholeWorks is a B2B sustainability consulting firm that offers a portfolio of professional certification programs and consulting services rather than a unified software platform. The core offerings include the Leading the Sustainability Transformation (LST) Professional Certificate Program—a 10-week virtual simulation-based learning experience—and Strategic ESG consulting services. These are complemented by custom simulations and models developed as part of their consulting practice. The company also publishes WholeWorks Connects, a thought leadership blog. The product architecture is service-based, combining cohort-based certification programs with bespoke consulting engagements, all focused on sustainability strategy and ESG integration.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• WholeWorks Consulting Services B2B consulting services focused on sustainability strategy, ESG guidance, executive workshops, and custom system modeling delivered through custom consulting engagements for corporations and organizations in the United States.
• Leading the Sustainability Transformation (LST) Professional Certificate Program A 10-week (10-12 hours/week), virtual, global professional certificate program for experienced professionals and leaders that uses a whole-system business simulation to transform traditional business operations to sustainable practices, featuring 8 rounds of personal coaching and a peer-reviewed project.
• Strategic ESG: Creating Sustainable Value Standard and custom online and in-person learning experiences that help participants integrate sustainability into their areas of expertise, providing practical strategies, tools, and novel frameworks while connecting to a global network of 350+ professionals from 35 countries.
• ESG Fundamentals Essentials Foundational learning experience designed to help organizations integrate sustainability into their current operations while generating value across the triple bottom line of people, planet, and profit.
• Custom Simulations and Models Simulation-based leadership programs and custom system modeling developed as part of WholeWorks consulting practice to help organizations address existential threats and capitalize on transformative opportunities through experiential learning.

Quantifiable outcome

• Simulation calculates over 5,000 variables per week producing extensive reports for measuring financial, social, and environmental performance
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Nine partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• University of VermontcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerWholeWorks offered publicly available certification programs with the University of Vermont from 2019 through 2023. The partnership leveraged the university's Sustainable Innovation MBA program and academic credibility to deliver sustainability professional certification programs to working professionals and leaders.
• University of Victoria (Gustavson School of Business)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerWholeWorks powered certification programs through the University of Victoria Gustavson School of Business. More than 350 leaders and professionals earned certifications through this partnership from 2019 through 2023.
• GreenBizcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerWholeWorks partnered with GreenBiz to deliver Leading the Sustainability Transformation certification programs. GreenBiz is a leading sustainability media and events company, and John Davies (Senior VP at GreenBiz) serves as an advisor to WholeWorks. Programs were marketed and delivered through GreenBiz channels.
• pta (plant technology alliance)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerWholeWorks offered programs with pta (plant technology alliance) from 2019 through 2023. pta is a social enterprise committed to promoting environmental consciousness, corporate sustainability strategy, and sustainable development headquartered in Hong Kong with global networks.
• Stuart Hart, Ph.D. (University of Michigan, Cornell, UNC)coreOthersStuart Hart, Ph.D. serves as advisor and expert contributor to WholeWorks. He is author of Capitalism at the Crossroads and founder of globally recognized sustainable business programs at the University of Michigan (now Erb Institute), University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School, Cornell University, and University of Vermont Sustainable Innovation MBA.
• Neil C. Hawkins, Ph.D. (Former CSO Dow)coreOthersNeil C. Hawkins, Ph.D. serves as advisor to WholeWorks. Former Chief Sustainability Officer of Dow, Inc. and President of the Erb Family Foundation. He is a recognized thought leader and architect of several groundbreaking sustainability collaborations including the Dow-Nature Conservancy Collaboration.
• Dave Stangis, MBA (Apollo Global Management)coreOthersDave Stangis serves as advisor to WholeWorks. Partner and CSO at Apollo Global Management Inc., former Chief Sustainability Officer of Campbell Soup Company, and founder of 21C Impact, LLC.
• Deirdre White (CEO PYXERA Global)coreOthersDeirdre White, CEO of PYXERA Global serves as advisor to WholeWorks. Laura Asiala, WholeWorks CSO, previously served as Vice President of Communications & Public Affairs at PYXERA Global.
• John Davies (GreenBiz)coreOthersJohn Davies, Senior Vice President at GreenBiz, serves as advisor to WholeWorks. He heads up independent research regarding green strategies and business operations and the sustainability profession, and leads the GreenBiz Executive Network.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• BSR (Business for Social Responsibility): BSR is a global sustainability advisory and consulting network that helps corporates integrate ESG and sustainable business strategies — directly overlapping with WholeWorks' B2B sustainability consulting and leadership development focus.
• FSG (Foundation Strategy Group): FSG advises foundations and corporations on social impact, shared value, and sustainability strategy — closely comparable to WholeWorks' ESG strategy and triple-bottom-line consulting practice.
• SustainAbility: SustainABILITY is a sustainability strategy and advisory firm that helps companies develop ESG and corporate responsibility programs — directly comparable to WholeWorks' ESG strategy consulting and thought leadership offerings.
• Anthesis Group: Anthesis is a sustainability consulting firm that advises global corporates on ESG strategy and implementation, overlapping with WholeWorks' sustainability advisory and training services.
• SLR Consulting: SLR Consulting provides sustainability and environmental advisory services to corporates — closely aligned with WholeWorks' environmental and ESG consulting work for enterprise clients.

Broad incumbents

• ERM (Environmental Resources Management): ERM is a large global environmental, sustainability, and ESG consulting firm that serves many of the same enterprise buyers as WholeWorks but with a much broader portfolio of technical and advisory services.
• WSP Global Sustainability Services: WSP is a large engineering and professional services firm with a dedicated sustainability and climate practice that competes for corporate ESG and sustainability advisory mandates.
• Bureau Veritas Sustainability Services: Bureau Veritas offers ESG and sustainability assurance, certification, and advisory services to corporates — competing in adjacent ESG and sustainability advisory spend that WholeWorks also targets.

Others

• GreenBiz Group: GreenBiz is a sustainability media, events, and executive network firm that is both a partner of WholeWorks for program distribution and an adjacent ecosystem player in sustainability thought leadership.
• Net Zero Cloud / Salesforce Sustainability Cloud: Salesforce's Sustainability Cloud is a SaaS platform for ESG data management — adjacent to WholeWorks' consulting work as enterprise buyers increasingly seek software-enabled sustainability capabilities alongside advisory services.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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