Expert Advice / Sleeping Lion

Certified B Corporation
Headquarters

City of Westminster, United Kingdom

Certified Since

April 2022

Industry

Management consultant - for-profits

Sector

Service with Minor Environmental Footprint

Operates In

United Kingdom

We are a Training, Education, and Business Development company that creates thoughtful books and products for smart business brains with a conscience. We exist to create helpful books, online products and training programmes to educate and inspire businesses and individuals to be their best. Our success in doing this enables us to support the charities and causes that we care about through our commitment to donate a minimum of 5% of annual revenue to charity. We have extensive experience in consultancy, training, mentoring and board facilitation. We have a range of best-selling and award-winning Concise Advice business books including The Smart Performance Book, The Diagrams Book, and The Sustainable Business Book. Our PLANET system and range of online products from The Sustainable Business Book include a free ESG audit/snapshot with 30 built-in educational flash cards, as well as a full interactive improvement platform and our popular Planet Heroes employee engagement programme. Our ACES system from The Smart Performance Book offers a fast self-development framework including skills audit, individual typology classification and signposted microlearning. All of which inspires businesses and individuals to be their best. Our company purpose is to Create, Educate, and Donate.

Overall B Impact Score

Based on the B Impact assessment, Expert Advice / Sleeping Lion earned an overall score of 139.3. The median score for ordinary businesses who complete the assessment is currently 50.9.
139.3
139.3 Overall B Impact Score
80 Qualifies for B Corp Certification
50.9 Median Score for Ordinary Businesses

Governance 20.5

Governance evaluates a company's overall mission, engagement around its social/environmental impact, ethics, and transparency. This section also evaluates the ability of a company to protect their mission and formally consider stakeholders in decision making through their corporate structure (e.g. benefit corporation) or corporate governing documents.

Mission & Engagement4.5
Ethics & Transparency6.0
+ Mission Locked10

What is this? A company with an Impact Business Model is intentionally designed to create a specific positive outcome for one of its stakeholders - such as workers, community, environment, or customers.


Community 76.3

Community evaluates a company’s engagement with and impact on the communities in which it operates, hires from, and sources from. Topics include diversity, equity & inclusion, economic impact, civic engagement, charitable giving, and supply chain management. In addition, this section recognizes business models that are designed to address specific community-oriented problems, such as poverty alleviation through fair trade sourcing or distribution via microenterprises, producer cooperative models, locally focused economic development, and formal charitable giving commitments.

Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion13.6
Economic Impact7.0
Civic Engagement & Giving12.5
Supply Chain Management3.0
+ Designed to Give35.8

What is this? A company with an Impact Business Model is intentionally designed to create a specific positive outcome for one of its stakeholders - such as workers, community, environment, or customers.


Environment 10.4

Environment evaluates a company’s overall environmental management practices as well as its impact on the air, climate, water, land, and biodiversity. This includes the direct impact of a company’s operations and, when applicable its supply chain and distribution channels. This section also recognizes companies with environmentally innovative production processes and those that sell products or services that have a positive environmental impact. Some examples might include products and services that create renewable energy, reduce consumption or waste, conserve land or wildlife, provide less toxic alternatives to the market, or educate people about environmental problems.

Environmental Management2.8
Air & Climate2.4
Water0.0
Land & Life1.0

Customers 32.0

Customers evaluates a company’s stewardship of its customers through the quality of its products and services, ethical marketing, data privacy and security, and feedback channels. In addition, this section recognizes products or services that are designed to address a particular social problem for or through its customers, such as health or educational products, arts & media products, serving underserved customers/clients, and services that improve the social impact of other businesses or organizations.

Customer Stewardship2.7
+ Education29.3

What is this? A company with an Impact Business Model is intentionally designed to create a specific positive outcome for one of its stakeholders - such as workers, community, environment, or customers.



Previous Overall B Impact Scores

2024 Overall B Impact Score139.3
2022 Overall B Impact Score94.3

Additional Documentation

Expert Advice | Sleeping Lion Brochure


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