About Shared Stewardship
Shared Stewardship is a network of sustainability professionals with deep insights into the impact supply chains are having on people and planet, committed to helping enterprise understand the risk this presents and driving rapid change to address the climate and biodiversity crises.
Shared Stewardship was originally the idea of Nick Wise after a decade of leading non-profits restoring damage done to people and the environment by human activity. Shared Stewardship’s purpose is to transform supply chain to prevent this damage before it occurs.
As the CEO and founder of OceanMind, Nick’s charitable work takes him face-to-face with many of the issues hidden within supply chains today, including child labour, worker abuse, overfishing, habitat destruction, displacement of coastal communities, shark finning, marine pollution, and much more. This direct experience of helping to free slaves, enforcing marine regulations, identifying illegal activity, and verifying seafood traceability claims provides a unique perspective on how these practices occur out of sight and out of mind in the supply chain, and are common all around the world.
As one of the founding members of Climate TRACE, working with Former Vice President Al Gore, Nick also has a unique perspective on scope 3 emissions. The Climate TRACE coalition uses direct satellite observations and AI to monitor all human-caused GHG emissions, everywhere. A key finding of Climate TRACE is that under-reporting of emissions is rife throughout supply chains.
Since 2019, Nick has been a member of the Sustainable Finance Live Advisory Board, co-creating innovative ESG strategies for financial services to support responsible decision making. In 2021, Nick was named as a GLG Social Impact Fellow. In 2022, Nick led OceanMind to win a place on the Morgan Stanley Sustainable Solutions Collaborative, further refining actionable ESG strategic planning to measure supply chain impact on the environment and employ nature-based solutions for mitigation.
Nick has been engaged with various other Tech for Good initiatives, including AI for Earth, AI for Sustainability, Accounting for Sustainability, Change NOW, Building the Future, the Internet Governance Forum, and Chapter Zero. As a trustee of the Social Tech Trust, Nick works with sustainability social enterprises across a broad spectrum of social issues. As a DRK Foundation Social Entrepreneur, Nick is part of a global portfolio of purposeful organisations tackling planetary sustainability challenges under the UN SDG framework.
Shared Stewardship was born out of these experiences with the purpose of raising the visibility of these risks in the supply chain and to provide practical, effective solutions to prevent damage to people and planet through transparent and responsible business transformation. Nick now advises Shared Stewardship on best practices, hidden impacts, and how to protect future profits by addressing ESG risks now.
Today, the majority of supply chains are opaque and fragmented, yet there is a shared responsibility across the supply chain for those making profit to provide stewardship for people and planet. From this imperative Shared Stewardship arose.
Because only business has the power to truely rebalance people, planet, and profit to ensure a sustainable future.
