Our Transformation Process
From Complexity to Focused Action
Process Steps
Step 1 - Diagnose
Map external pressures, internal decision-making patterns, sustainability risks, AI opportunities, and core business priorities.
Step 2 - Align
Build shared leadership understanding around the strategic challenges and opportunities that matter most.
Step 3 - Design
Develop a practical transformation roadmap grounded in high-leverage decisions, Trim Tab actions, and measurable outcomes.
Step 4 - Activate
Launch focused workstreams, pilots, governance routines, and leadership practices.
Step 5 - Measure
Track progress through KPIs, dashboards, impact indicators, and executive review cycles.
Transformation becomes real when leadership decisions, execution routines, and measurable impact work together.
Decision Architecture
Sustainability Logic Turns AI Into Responsible Transformation
When sustainability logic is combined with AI and human judgment, organizations make smarter decisions across every dimension of the business.
Strategy & Business Model Innovation
Redesign business models to capture emerging value from the sustainability transition.
Climate & Nature-Related Risks
Identify, quantify, and govern physical and transition risks across the organization.
Energy & Resource Efficiency
Build operational resilience through smarter use of energy, materials, and natural systems.
Supply Chain Resilience
Strengthen supplier relationships, trace risk, and align procurement with sustainability standards.
Governance & Transparency
Build disclosure systems and governance routines that meet investor and regulatory expectations.
Workforce & Community Impact
Align people strategy with purpose, resilience, and a durable social license to operate.
Signature Offerings
Where We Work With Leadership Teams
Each SDG Navigator offering is designed for a distinct leadership challenge — structured for speed, depth, and measurable outcomes. Every program delivers executive-level outputs within a focused engagement timeline.
Leadership in the Age of Consequences
Executive Workshop for Leadership Teams
A focused session that helps leaders understand how AI, climate, regulation, geopolitics, energy, nature, supply chains, and trust are reshaping business reality — and how to respond.
Outputs: Consequence Map · Strategic Risk & Opportunity Map · Leadership Decision Map · Trim Tab Actions · 90-Day Agenda
The Design Window Lab
Board-Level Strategy Lab
Every organization operates within a narrow design window. This lab helps boards identify the decisions that can shape resilience, competitiveness, and relevance over the next decade.
Outputs: Critical Decision Map · Lock-In Risk Assessment · AI & Sustainability Opportunity Scan · 90-Day Action Roadmap
AI & Sustainability Decision Lab
Connecting AI Adoption With Strategic Value
AI adoption creates value when it is connected to business strategy, leadership capability, governance, and sustainability priorities. This lab ensures AI strengthens decision-making, resilience, and long-term value.
Outputs: AI Opportunity Map · Sustainability Impact Map · Decision Quality Assessment · Pilot Roadmap
Signature Offerings
Advanced Programs & Diagnostics
Each SDG Navigator offering is designed for a distinct leadership challenge—built for speed, depth, and measurable outcomes. Every program delivers executive-level outputs within a focused engagement timeline.
AI Consequence Scan
A Diagnostic for Responsible and Regenerative AI
AI governance should address more than safety and compliance. The AI Consequence Scan assesses how AI affects strategy, sustainability, people, trust, efficiency, resilience, and measurable impact.
Net Positive Transformation Roadmap
From Risk Reduction to Positive Value Creation
The next phase of business sustainability moves from reducing harm to creating positive value. SDG Navigator develops a practical roadmap toward a more resilient, responsible, and value-creating business model.
Maturity Path: Compliance → Risk Management → Operational Advantage → Strategic Transformation → Net Positive Business
Outcomes
What Leadership Teams Gain
SDG Navigator engagements are designed to deliver tangible, executive-level outcomes — clarity, confidence, and a practical foundation for lasting transformation beyond the workshop room.
Strategic Clarity
A sharper, shared understanding of the forces shaping the company's future — and the decisions that matter most.
Better Decisions
A more disciplined leadership process for navigating complexity — supported by frameworks, tools, and governance routines.
Stronger Resilience
Greater capacity to respond to climate, regulatory, energy, supply chain, workforce, and market shifts.
AI With Direction
AI adoption aligned with strategy, governance, sustainability, and measurable value creation.
Measurable Impact
A practical system for connecting leadership actions to KPIs, SDGs, and concrete business outcomes.
Long-Term Value
A stronger foundation for competitiveness, trust, innovation, and responsible growth over time.
Events
Conferences & Panels
Explore selected conferences, panels, and executive conversations featuring SDG Navigator.
[Global Financial Solutions Summit UNFCCC]
Session 1: Global Financial Solutions Summit - innovative green bonds and national sustainability development budgets.
[COP 27 Financial Awards Announcement Event]
COP Financial Awards Announcement Event — Tal Ronen, YKCenter, and Roland Schatz, UNGSII. UN Climate Change Global Innovation Hub | COP27 Dialogues.
YKcenter - Accelerating the SDGs
A sustainability event at the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, Israel, in 2018.
The Secret of Successful Family Businesses
Transformation in Practice: Lessons from the Strauss Journey - SDG Navigator Conference.
Events Gallery
Events & Moments
Selected moments from SDG Navigator conferences, panels, and executive events.
Panel Discussion - Family businesses on the way to the capital market - transformation that creates value
Keynote Presentation - Tel Aviv Stock Exchange
Full House - Family Business Conference
Networking - SDG Navigator Event
Transformation in family businesses - insights from extensive research published in the prestigious magazine Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
Exhibition Hall - SDG Navigator Display
Panel Discussion - P on Insights from Transformation Processes – Moderator Tal Ronen
The Team
NYSE - Welcome Tova Englard
FintechTV - NYSE Studio
New York Stock Exchange
Media
Broadcast Segments
Nava Michael-Tsabari & Tal Ronen
Interview on Economy Channel 10
Nava Michael-Tsabari and Tal Ronen in an interview with Hagai Golan on Economy Channel 10, broadcast from the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange.
Kobi Feigenbaum & Aharon Sade
Interview on Economy Channel 10
Kobi Feigenbaum and Aharon Sade in an interview with Hagai Golan on Economy Channel 10.
Events
Conversations That Turn Transformation Into Shared Momentum
SDG Navigator convenes leadership conversations at the intersection of transformation, sustainability, AI, and strategic decision-making. Our events are designed for boards, executive teams, founders, family businesses, institutions, and partners seeking sharper direction and practical pathways for transformation.
Executive Forums
High-level conversations for leadership teams navigating complexity, sustainability, AI, and strategic change — designed to strengthen collective thinking and align direction.
Transformation Workshops
Focused sessions centered on decision clarity, transformation pathways, and strategic leverage — translating platform logic into practical, organization-specific action.
Partnership Events
Collaborative platforms connecting leadership, research, ecosystems, and real-world practice — building the shared intelligence that drives systemic transformation.
Events are part of the platform — because transformation requires dialogue, reflection, and shared direction.
Insights & Knowledge
Insights & Articles
Perspectives on transformation, sustainability, AI, and leadership — drawn from the SDG Navigator knowledge base.
Sustainability & Reporting
Sustainability Reporting & Standards — TCFD, GRI, EU Taxonomy, ESRS, IFRS
Future Trends in Sustainability Reporting
The Essential Guide to Materiality Assessments
The Hidden Cost of ESG Complexity
Unlocking ESG Potential for SMEs (VSME)
Climate & Agrotech
Climate, Resilience & Strategy
Strategic Climate Adaptation Pathways
Agrotech & Sustainable Food Systems
The 10 Elements of Agroecology & Agtech
Trump's 2025 Inaugural Address & the SDGs
Transformation & Leadership
Transformation & Leadership — Confronting mindsets and institutional inertia
The Paradox of Progress — Cognitive dissonance in SDG adoption
Better Transformation Begins With Better Thinking
Why Organizations Get Stuck
Purpose. Action. Impact. Reframed through transformation.
All insights are available in full. Explore the knowledge base to find the perspective most relevant to your organization's transformation journey.
Insights & Articles
Shmuel Schwartz Podcast - Episode Library
33 episodes exploring the intersection of sustainability, leadership, and transformation.
Episodes 30–33 - Latest: Climate Tech, Circular Economy, Sustainability Leadership
Episodes 25–29 - Academic Voices & Policy Makers
Episodes 20–24 - Women Leading Change
Episodes 16–18 - COP26 & Climate Action
Episodes 8-14 - Innovators & Entrepreneurs
Episodes 8–10 - Sustainability Professionals & Thought Leaders
Episodes 2–6 - Foundations: The Early Episodes
Subscribe on YouTube to never miss a conversation about the future of sustainability in Israel and beyond.
Team
Meet The Team
SDG Navigator is led by senior practitioners working at the intersection of leadership transformation, sustainability, strategic partnerships, and real-world execution. What unites the team is a shared conviction: transformation begins when leadership gains clarity, chooses a direction, and acts on the leverage points that can shift the wider system.
Tal Ronen
Founder | Transformation Architect | Strategic Designer | Leadership Coach
Works with leadership teams on executive alignment, transformation thinking, and the architecture of change, helping organizations translate complexity into clarity, momentum, and strategic coherence.
Tova Englard
Strategic Partnerships & Global Investment Relations
Connects transformation agendas with strategic partnerships, global collaboration, and investment-oriented positioning, helping ideas evolve into scalable opportunities.
Shmuel Schwartz
Co-Founder | Strategy, Sustainability & Transformation
Brings senior industrial, engineering, and sustainability leadership experience to practical transformation work, with a strong focus on connecting leadership direction, operational reality, and long-term value creation.
Industrial Transformation
Industrial Transformation Lab
From Firefighting to Systemic Industrial Performance
A full-day executive workshop for industrial companies, manufacturing plants, and operational organizations.
The Lab helps leadership teams move from reactive management and operational firefighting to a new leadership context grounded in systemic performance, accountability, safety, quality, efficiency, sustainability, and innovation.
During the workshop, we map the core tensions shaping industrial performance: production versus safety, operations versus maintenance, quality versus delivery, cost versus future investment, leadership versus shop-floor reality, data versus intuition, and sustainability versus profitability.
Building Readiness for the Age of Consequences
Climate shocks, AI acceleration, regulatory pressure, and geopolitical disruption are no longer future risks — they are shaping industrial business performance today.
Industrial organizations face a unique exposure to these forces — supply chain volatility, energy transition pressures, regulatory compliance demands, and the need to integrate AI into operational systems while maintaining safety and performance standards.
- Building organizational readiness for climate-driven supply chain and energy disruptions
- Aligning industrial leadership decisions with AI-accelerated operational environments
- Developing the collective intelligence needed to make better decisions as systems change rapidly and at scale
- Turning regulatory and geopolitical pressure into a competitive advantage for the industrial enterprise
Outcome:
An Industrial Tension Map, a Transformation Declaration, an Operational Practices Charter, and a 30/60/90-day action plan.
An Industrial Tension Map, a Transformation Declaration, an Operational Practices Charter, and a 30/60/90-day action plan.
Build the Next Performance Context for Your Industrial Company
EU Market Access
EU Market Access Transformation Lab
From Reactive Exporting to Strategic Readiness for the European Market
A full-day workshop for executive teams of companies that export to Europe or operate within the supply chains of European customers.
The workshop helps leadership teams move from ad hoc responses to customer questionnaires, sustainability requirements, carbon data requests, and regulatory documentation toward a new business context defined by readiness, trust, transparency, and competitive advantage in the European market.
During one focused working day, we map the core tensions shaping the company’s ability to succeed in Europe: price versus customer requirements, product quality versus documentation quality, sales versus operations, carbon versus profitability, data versus declarations, and local suppliers versus the expectations of the European value chain.
Building Readiness for the Age of Consequences
Climate shocks, AI acceleration, regulatory pressure, and geopolitical disruption are no longer future risks — they are reshaping EU market access requirements and supply chain expectations today.
Companies exporting to Europe face a unique convergence of forces: tightening carbon regulations (CBAM, CSRD), AI-driven procurement decisions, geopolitical supply chain realignment, and accelerating sustainability compliance demands. The ability to build readiness — not merely respond — is what separates companies that grow in Europe from those that lose access.
- Building organizational readiness for EU regulatory disruption — CBAM, CSRD, supply chain due diligence, and carbon data requirements
- Aligning export strategy and operations with AI-accelerated European procurement and compliance environments
- Developing the collective intelligence needed to make better decisions as EU market systems change rapidly and at scale
- Turning regulatory and geopolitical pressure into a competitive advantage and a trust signal in the European market
Outcome:
An EU Market Readiness Map, a Transformation Declaration, a Decision-Making Mechanism, a Practices Charter, and a 90-Day Action Plan — connecting customers, regulation, operations, data, sustainability, and profitability.
An EU Market Readiness Map, a Transformation Declaration, a Decision-Making Mechanism, a Practices Charter, and a 90-Day Action Plan — connecting customers, regulation, operations, data, sustainability, and profitability.
Build Your Company’s Readiness for the European Market
AI & Innovation
AI & Innovation Transformation Lab
From Scattered AI Experiments to Collective Intelligence That Creates Value
A full-day workshop for startup leadership teams, AI leaders, innovation leads, product teams, and founders.
The Lab helps startups move from scattered AI experiments, tools, and features to a strategic innovation capability that connects product, data, customers, growth, team capability, and investor expectations into one decision-making system.
The unique foundation of the Lab is the HI + AI → CI model:
HI - Human Intelligence:
Leadership experience, judgment, intuition, customer understanding, entrepreneurial courage, and the ability to see what data alone may not yet explain.
Leadership experience, judgment, intuition, customer understanding, entrepreneurial courage, and the ability to see what data alone may not yet explain.
AI - Artificial Intelligence:
Data analysis, pattern recognition, scenarios, trends, risks, simulations, dashboards, and decision-support capabilities.
Data analysis, pattern recognition, scenarios, trends, risks, simulations, dashboards, and decision-support capabilities.
CI - Collective Intelligence / Consciousness:
A leadership team that can see together, think together, learn together, decide together, and execute together as one intelligent system.
A leadership team that can see together, think together, learn together, decide together, and execute together as one intelligent system.
During the workshop, we map the core tensions shaping AI-driven innovation: speed versus depth, technology versus customer need, product versus business model, experimentation versus focus, data versus intuition, automation versus trust, and innovation versus execution.
Building Readiness for the Age of Consequences
Climate shocks, AI acceleration, regulatory pressure, and geopolitical disruption are no longer future risks; they are the operating environment for every AI-driven organization today.
Startups and innovation teams face a unique exposure: the same AI forces they are building with are reshaping the competitive landscape, regulatory environment, and investor expectations around them. The ability to build readiness — not just capability — is what separates sustainable innovation from short-term experimentation.
- Building organizational readiness for AI-driven regulatory and compliance disruption
- Aligning innovation strategy with the pace of geopolitical and market system change
- Developing the collective intelligence needed to make better decisions as systems change rapidly and at scale
- Turning external disruption into a first-mover advantage for the AI-driven enterprise
Outcome:
An AI & Innovation Tension Map, an HI + AI → CI Map, an AI Transformation Declaration, a Practices Charter, an AI Innovation Decision Cockpit, and a 30/60/90-Day AI Value Action Plan.
An AI & Innovation Tension Map, an HI + AI → CI Map, an AI Transformation Declaration, a Practices Charter, an AI Innovation Decision Cockpit, and a 30/60/90-Day AI Value Action Plan.
Build the AI Capability That Creates Collective Intelligence and Real Startup Value
Signature Offering
Conscious CSO Lab (1-Day)
From Consequences → Conscious Decisions → Business Impact
Today's business environment is defined by complexity — evolving regulation, AI-driven disruption, climate and supply chain risks, and growing pressure from clients and investors. Most CSOs understand the consequences. Few influence the decisions that shape them.
The Required Shift
Managing Consequences
Responding to regulatory, climate, and market pressures as they emerge
Leading Decisions through Systemic Consciousness
Shaping the decisions that determine business direction before consequences hit
What Happens in the Lab (1 Day)
Map complex realities and interdependencies
Enter a live Decision Room simulation
Make decisions under uncertainty and pressure
Translate sustainability into business language
What You Actually Build
System Awareness Map
A clear view of the pressures, risks, and opportunities shaping the business
Conscious Decision Framework
How to decide with clarity and confidence in a complex, uncertain world
Executive Business Narrative
How to speak sustainability in terms of Revenue | Cost | Risk | ROI
The Methodology : HI + AI → CI
The Outcome
- Shift from reactive to proactive leadership
- Real influence at the executive level
- Integration of sustainability into core business decisions
- At least one decision that changes direction
Who It's For
CSOs / ESG Leaders
Executive Teams
Organizations Under Market or Regulatory Pressure
Step into the Decision Room
The 90-Day Executive Transformation Sprint
The 90-Day Executive Transformation Sprint is an applied leadership process for executive teams and family businesses. It helps leadership teams move from reactive management and default patterns to a new leadership context, supported by a bold declaration, cultural practices, accountability, and a disciplined decision-making cockpit that delivers measurable progress within 90 days.
From Default Patterns to Conscious Leadership
The Challenge
Leadership teams often attempt to solve new realities from outdated contexts.
Leadership teams often attempt to solve new realities from outdated contexts.
The Shift
Transformation begins when the executive team creates a new context for decisions, conversations, accountability, and results.
Transformation begins when the executive team creates a new context for decisions, conversations, accountability, and results.
The Process
- Diagnose the Default Context
- Declare the Future
- Build Cultural Practices
- Install a Decision Cockpit
- Execute, Review, and Learn
Building Readiness for the Age of Consequences
Climate shocks, AI acceleration, regulatory pressure, and geopolitical disruption are no longer future risks; they are shaping executive decisions and business performance today.
The 90-Day Sprint is designed to build not only leadership transformation, but organizational readiness. Executive teams that move quickly in the right direction, with the right context, are the ones that turn external disruption into strategic momentum.
- Building executive readiness for climate, regulatory, and geopolitical disruption within the 90-day window
- Aligning leadership decisions with AI-accelerated business environments
- Developing the collective intelligence needed to make better decisions as systems change rapidly and at scale
- Turning external pressure into a 90-day transformation advantage
The Outcome
A leadership team that sees differently, speaks differently, decides differently, and executes with greater clarity, accountability, and impact.
A leadership team that sees differently, speaks differently, decides differently, and executes with greater clarity, accountability, and impact.