Advancing sustainable business through the power of story.
Hower Impact is a boutique consultancy helping companies translate sustainability initiatives into powerful communications that build trust, ensure compliance, and create lasting business value.
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Dan Strechay, Director of Sustainability Communications & Engagement
"Sustainability communication is central to Mars’ work as a purpose-driven business. Working with a fractional sustainability communication expert like Mike Hower of Hower Impact has given us a flexible, reliable, and high-value resource for supporting our teams across various work streams – from helping create the Mars Net Zero Roadmap and supporting our sustainability reporting efforts to crafting expert sustainability communication content and helping translate our ongoing sustainability efforts into compelling stories for our consumers and other stakeholders."
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Debbie Kruger, Director of Communications & Social Impact
"Cloudera partnered with Hower Impact to develop and launch the Climate and Sustainability Hackathon, which invited challenged data scientists to develop an end-to-end machine learning project focused on solving one of the many environmental sustainability challenges facing the world today. Hower Impact served as a strategic advisor for the development of the hackathon and also helped create the communications strategy and content promoting the event to maximize participation. Thanks to Hower Impact's expertise in sustainability, climate and communication, the hackathon was incredibly successful and yielded real, actionable climate solutions powered by machine learning."
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Kati Kallins, Global Lead for Sustainability
“Hower Impact’s Writing for Impact Masterclass codified a lot of best practices I had learned on the job into a much clearer framework for writing and gathering feedback. When you work in the comms field for a while it can be easy to get sloppy and adopt bad habits, taking this course forced me to examine my own writing process and develop a piece with more intentionality and thoughtfulness than I had in years. It was also a delight to learn alongside my peers from a variety of industries. Their feedback was useful, kind, and helped build confidence in my ‘professional voice.’ I look forward to applying these skills to my writing projects in 2025 and staying in touch with this thoughtful community of changemakers."
Recent posts from the ENGAGE blog
Latest episodes from The Sustainability Communicator Podcast
At GreenBiz 25, Mike Hower led a panel of industry leaders to discuss the complexities and opportunities of sustainability communications moving into 2025. Here are the highlights.
Writing about sustainability has never been more challenging. In this ENGAGE article, Mike covers the fundamentals of effective sustainability writing he teaches in his Writing for Impact masterclass.
Corporate sustainability has lost the narrative. Here are some strategies for getting it back.
Moving into 2025, we must remember the spirit of sustainability that drives us.
This time of year, we all love to check out our Spotify Wrapped albums, which show us insights and trends from our listening behavior each year - but what if we made one for corporate sustainability trends?
In the wake of the U.S. presidential election, the UN Global Compact invited me to join their German Network for a virtual discussion of what lies ahead for corporate sustainability during a second Trump term.
Recently, Mike Hower went on CoreNet Global’s “What’s Next” podcast to speak with Dr. Christopher Teng about corporate sustainability communications, avoiding “greenwashing,” and the need for more innovation to reduce carbon emissions in the fight against climate change.
Hower Impact is excited to announce the launch of our Engage Change Community. This free-to-join community brings together sustainability professionals to connect and engage on important topics through virtual discussions, in-person meetups, a Slack group and more to advance social and environmental progress in the business community and beyond.
Hower Impact gathered over 350 sustainability and climate professionals for an open door Zoom call to discuss the results of the 2024 presidential election in the United States and what this means for the future of corporate sustainability. Here is a video of the fire starter discussions we had during the call. Enjoy!
Climate Week NYC was one of the largest gatherings of climate professionals in history. But what was it all for? In this satirical piece, we imagine what Climate Change would think of the week.
Hower Impact recently weighed in on an article about fractional CSOs for Trellis.