About the Institute

The Governance & Accountability Institute

Helping leaders and organizations recognize, understand and address critical ESG Factors to build more Sustainable enterprises in the corporate, social and public sectors.

The Governance & Accountability Institute, Inc. is a global research, news and trend monitoring, editorial services / publishing, analysis, and advisory [services] organization serving leaders and boards of organizations in the corporate (private), public and social/institutional sectors.

The Institute offers leaders, and directors and trustees a portfolio of resources to help them detect, identify, monitor, analyze, quantify, and in various ways address critical issues -- especially those reaching “the tipping point,” when resolution of [issues] will be harder to achieve.  Often, in our experience, critical events move rapidly to the crisis state – and become much more difficult to manage and resolve.  And these confrontations with stakeholders can be costly in the long run.

We are specialists in the many “ESG” Factors that increasingly affect corporate reputation and capital markets valuation and perceptions.  “ESG” is about those individual or “bundles” of critical issues of prime importance to investors and stakeholders, especially those issues affecting companies in their portfolios.  ESG is about investors’, stakeholders’ and advocates’ environmental and energy concerns, an array of social / societal issues, and corporate governance issues and concerns.  (ESG Factors have been growing in importance to investors as key non-financial / intangible metrics for assessing performance of management and boards and the ongoing and long-term viability of the corporation.)

The Institute’s ESG Framework

Our team approach utilizes the resources in our comprehensive framework with underlying principles that underscores: “E” + “S” + “G” = keys to Sustainability for organizations and institutions, and investors.

Often, critical ESG factors create confrontation between corporation and investor. (Shareholder-driven proxy campaigns reflect these, and in our opinion usually signal a serious breakdown in communication between issuers and investors.) As critical ESG issues and concerns move to the crisis stage, the Institute’s staff and consultants’ experience -- and our powerful technology-based tools and resources – are of value to leaders for preparedness and response, critical issues management, crisis management and response, and post-event / post-crisis recovery and restoration.  Our long experience in ESG issues enables us to help companies engage with ESG advocates, service providers and other capital markets players.

We monitor the major ESG players and track the increasing influence they have on the capital markets and corporate sector in all major markets. Our services include helping management and boards understand the motivations and expectations of the players and assisting in engagement with ESG capital market players.

With rising public sector, consumer, media, stakeholder, and investor expectations regarding personal and institutional accountability, the resources and services of the Institute are designed to help leaders of organizations … do the rights things…for the right reasons…and to be more accountable to internal and external stakeholders.

The Institute resources support such organizational functions as:  Investment Management; Financial Analysis; Investor Relations; Stakeholder Engagement / External & Public affairs; Marketing; General Management; Board Stewardship; Legal / Litigation; Human Resources; Corporate Communications…and more.