The Fortune 500's quiet guide to Net Zero - where rival companies share the cost of figuring out sustainability.
THE MASTHEAD - SR Inc's wordmark, photographed off the homepage at One Beacon St., Boston. A membership house, not a vendor - the roundtable is the point.
Corporate sustainability tends to arrive as a slogan. Sustainability Roundtable, Inc. - SR Inc to the executives who pay its membership dues - arrives as a filing cabinet. For more than fifteen years, the Boston firm has done the unglamorous work behind the pledges: materiality assessments, greenhouse-gas footprints, disclosure filings, and the budget lines that make a Net Zero roadmap real.
The company describes its purpose plainly: "to help align business with life." Its stated mission is narrower and more useful - "to accelerate the development and adoption of best practices in more sustainable business." In practice, that means membership-based strategic advisory: leaders at nearly 100 Fortune 500 and high-growth companies pay to sit at a table where the cost of research is shared, and where a peer down the hall has usually already tried the thing you are about to attempt.
SR Inc is a certified B Corporation, which is not a marketing footnote here - it is the reference model. A firm that sells sustainability standards has to survive being held to them. That tension is arguably the company's most interesting feature: the advisor is also, deliberately, a specimen.
The model is collaborative by design. Competitors who would never compare notes at a conference will do so inside a confidential roundtable - because each pays less and learns more. On climate, going alone is the expensive option.
SR Inc runs its practice through two flagship membership services, backed by a specialist procurement team and a deep library of guidance.
The Sustainable Business & Enterprise Roundtable. Confidential, membership-based advisory covering vision and governance, strategy, GHG footprinting across Scopes 1-3, and integration of disclosure standards - SBTi, GRI, CDP, TCFD, CSRD and SEC among them.
The Net Zero Consortium for Buyers. A confidential corporate community and transaction platform that aggregates demand to negotiate buyer-favorable renewable energy deals - on-site, off-site, and via virtual power purchase agreements (VPPAs).
Renewable Energy Procurement Services, led by 20+ year experts in energy strategy, markets, law, financing, technology, transaction structuring and negotiation - the deal desk behind the Net Zero pledges.
A cloud library of hundreds of best-practice publications and tools, plus quarterly executive symposia and an annual Summit for Sustainable Business where members benchmark against one another.
Executives face a fast-multiplying alphabet of climate obligations - SEC, CSRD, TCFD, GRI, SASB, IFRS - and rarely have an internal team fluent in all of them. SR Inc's job is to translate that complexity into decisions a CFO can act on: what to measure, what to disclose, what to build, and in what order.
It starts where sustainability actually lives inside a company: governance, staffing, budgets, and a dashboard that tracks whether the plan is real. Sustainability, in SR Inc's framing, is an operations problem before it is a moral one.
Most consultancies bill by the engagement and keep their playbook proprietary. SR Inc inverts that: it is a shared-cost membership where research findings circulate among peers, so each member subsidizes the others' learning and pays less for it.
Where a Big Four practice sells hours, SR Inc sells a seat at a confidential table plus a library of what already worked. Its NZCB adds something few advisors offer - collective buying leverage on the renewable energy contracts behind Net Zero claims.
An illustrative view of how SR Inc's advisory engagements break down across the decarbonization lifecycle. Directional, based on public service descriptions.
Chart is illustrative for narrative purposes and not sourced from SR Inc financials.
SR Inc's clients are executives and sustainability, real estate, and facilities leaders at nearly 100 Fortune 500 and high-growth companies, alongside real estate owners and federal agencies. Public materials reference relationships with enterprises including Autodesk, Cadence, Blackbaud, and Fiserv.
Within the market, the firm occupies an unusual seam. It is smaller than the global consultancies - roughly two to five dozen employees - yet it advises some of the largest companies on earth. It competes less on headcount than on curated peer knowledge and a procurement desk with real transaction experience.
The corporate ESG advisory landscape runs from Big Four practices and global engineering firms (ERM, Anthesis, Schneider Electric) to renewable procurement specialists (3Degrees) and membership networks (BSR, GreenBiz-style). SR Inc blends two of those lanes: a confidential peer roundtable and a renewable-energy buyers' consortium under one roof.
Business model: membership subscriptions grant advisory access, original research, the digital library, and community events - costs shared across members - with a specialist arm supporting renewable-energy transactions for Net Zero buyers.
For more than fifteen years, leaders at over 100 Fortune 500 and global growth companies have trusted SR Inc to provide membership-based strategic advisory and support services.— Sustainability Roundtable, Inc.
SR Inc's founder, chairman and CEO took an unusual road to corporate climate advising. James F. Boyle co-captained the football team at Middlebury College and graduated from Boston College Law School. Early in his career he served as a federal law clerk, an aide to Senator John F. Kerry, and worked on Al Gore's presidential campaign.
The throughline from politics to the boardroom is translation - taking dense, contested material and making it decision-ready for people who have to choose. That skill now anchors a firm that turns climate complexity into executive strategy.
David Osborn (CFO), Brittany Nammour (Chief of Staff & Chief Sustainability Officer, who joined in 2015), Michael Barry (Managing Director), and a strategic-advisory and NZCB analyst team round out the practice.
James F. Boyle establishes SR Inc to accelerate best practices in more sustainable business.
The firm reports a $1.2M Series A, part of roughly $1.33M total funding.
Brittany Nammour joins, later becoming Chief of Staff & Chief Sustainability Officer.
SR Inc formalizes NZCB as a corporate renewable-energy buyers' community and transaction platform.
Public materials highlight relationships with Autodesk, Cadence, Blackbaud and Fiserv.
Founding year approximate; based on "15+ years" public statements and team-tenure references.
It provides membership-based strategic advisory and support services in enterprise decarbonization, helping executives set sustainability goals, drive progress, and report results through shared-cost research and consulting.
Two flagship offerings: SBER (Sustainable Business & Enterprise Roundtable), an ESG advisory service, and NZCB (Net Zero Consortium for Buyers), a corporate renewable-energy buyers' community and transaction platform. A specialist REPS team supports deals.
James F. Boyle founded SR Inc, headquartered at One Beacon Street in Boston, Massachusetts.
Nearly 100 Fortune 500 and high-growth companies, plus real estate owners and federal agencies. Publicly referenced enterprises include Autodesk, Cadence, Blackbaud and Fiserv.
Yes. SR Inc is a certified B Corporation, reflecting its commitment to values-based business practices and to holding itself to the standards it advises clients to meet.
Explore SR Inc's own channels for founder talks, member briefings, and service walkthroughs.
Some figures (revenue, founding year) are third-party estimates and marked approximate where noted.