“When a company has a motto of helping organizations do well by doing good then that company has set the bar higher for themselves in gauging performance. As part of their daily method of doing business, the owners check in with clients asking, ‘How's it going? What can we do better to support you?’ They don't wait until you call – they call you.

One of my best experiences was when one of the owners at BrownFlynn met with me to tell me that current project was not meeting their expectations. I expected to hear how my team needed to improve but instead was surprised to hear they owned responsibility and were assigning a new leader to my project on their dime. I became complacent and assumed the project was good enough – but it wasn’t good enough for BrownFlynn standards. In the end, the engagement exceeded my expectations on every level. That’s what I call exceptional service and why I recommend BrownFlynn first to other business leaders.”
Dr. Denise Reading
President
Corporate College/Global Corporate College
 STRATEGY & IMPACT PLANNING

Fairmount Minerals Sustainable Supply Chain
As part of Fairmount Minerals’ efforts to advance its sustainable practices, the company made a commitment in 2007 to increase its relationships with sustainable organizations. To achieve this goal, Fairmount Minerals sought to develop a sustainable supply chain code of conduct. Fairmount Minerals requested BrownFlynn’s guidance in developing a code of conduct and internal guidelines for implementation.

Together with Fairmount’s dedicated Sustainable Supply Chain Initiative Team, BrownFlynn created a new supplier code of conduct that outlined the environmental, social and economic factors that Fairmount Minerals takes into consideration with any supplier relationship. Once the code was in place, BrownFlynn developed guidelines for its use, helping Fairmount purchasers know the ways in which they can apply the code when making purchasing decisions. In early 2009, Inside Business magazine recognized Fairmount Minerals for its excellence in sustainable supply chain management.


Global Corporate College

In 2006, Cuyahoga Community College (Tri-C) contracted BrownFlynn to formulate a strategy for the creation of a first-ever global corporate college model. Through the analysis of higher education trends, best practices and unrealized market opportunities, BrownFlynn designed and helped to launch a global strategy that leverages independent community college assets around the world as a coordinated system of service delivery. The Global Corporate College (GCC) model – along with the affiliated target-market analyses, value propositions, membership structures and mapping for exponential growth, also created by BrownFlynn – helped Tri-C to secure seed funding and launch a partnership model with 11 leading community colleges within the first three months of inception.

Within 9 months of inception, participating membership grew to nearly two dozen member colleges from across the country. By March 2008, Global Corporate College expects to further increase that number to 45 members. Today, BrownFlynn’s strategic planning support to Tri-C and Global Corporate College has enabled Tri-C to spin GCC out as an independent entity within five years.
The Timken Company
When The Timken Company, a global steel and manufacturing company, identified its historic commitment to global citizenship as a unique business advantage, it contacted BrownFlynn to help develop a long-term strategy and goals. BrownFlynn designed and facilitated a stakeholder engagement process to uncover important elements of the company’s current global citizenship practices while also identifying opportunities for the future. In partnership with a cross-functional working group, BrownFlynn helped The Timken Company to develop a global citizenship mission, identify goal areas and gather information for Timken’s first-ever Global Citizenship Report.
In 2009, BrownFlynn counseled Timken on the creation of global citizenship targets in areas such as environmental stewardship, employee engagement, community investment and volunteerism.


BrownFlynn is a corporate responsibility and sustainability consulting firm. We advise companies on how to integrate responsible practices into their business strategies and how to communicate these practices internally and externally for bottom-line impact.