Driving sustainable business forward through the power of story.
Hower Impact is a boutique consultancy delivering best-in-class strategic communication and reporting services for corporate sustainability, ESG and climate tech.
Client Testimonials
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"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."
Daniel Strechay, Director of Sustainability Communications & Engagement, Mars
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"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."
Debbie Kruger, Director of Communications & Social Impact, Cloudera
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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.
Words have been responsible for the ebbs and flows of corporate sustainability. Here's how we can learn to understand their power.
Many tech companies are facing the conundrum of having their emissions rise due to the embrace of the AI economy. How do companies address this in their sustainability reporting?
The human brain isn’t wired to perfectly perceive the world as it truly is. Sustainability communicators must learn how to influence stakeholders’ worldviews to connect with them on climate and other issues.
Companies often fall into a cycle of spending half a year producing them and the other half trying to forget the experience — and then right back to it. But letting a company’s sustainability storytelling fizzle in the “reporting off season” is a major lost opportunity — both for advancing social and environmental progress and building brand equity through compelling communication.
Hower Impact has signed the Clean Creatives pledge. This means we won’t work with the fossil fuel industry — now or ever.
On Earth Day 2024, Mike reflects on the power of sustainability storytelling through his own origin story on an island chain off the coast of Panama.
Hower Impact is officially one year old. Here are some reflections on what happened in the first year of business.
In this Quick Connect, Mike gets the scoop on ESG trens in tech from Adobe’s Kati Kallins.