Who We Are
Marc-André Bélisle
Marc-André Bélisle
Marc-André Bélisle
PROJECT MANAGEMENT & ADMINISTRATION
With more than 20 years of experience in business services and project management, his approach is based on collaboration favoring diplomacy, structure, motivation and team challenges.
Ilyana Leon Toro
Marc-André Bélisle
Marc-André Bélisle
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Ilyana has more than 10 years of professional practice, attorney at law, business management and development expert, aiming to help companies to grow in a smart and sustainable way.
Ana Maria Botero
Marc-André Bélisle
Ana Maria Botero
BUSINESS PARTNERSHIPS & PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Political scientist with 3 years of experience in social project design and execution. Ana's passion about social justice and equality especially in development countries helps organizations be oriented towards stronger social impacts.
Jane Wahu
Marc-André Bélisle
Ana Maria Botero
HUMANITARIAN NGOS RELATIONSHIPS
Experienced in various roles of administrative assistance and holding a diploma in air ticketing and travel, tours and hotel reservations. Handling document preparation, research, data entry, translations and transcripts.
Julia Pine
Favour Akinwande
Ivan Kebiwa
ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANCE
Experienced virtual assistant in horizontal organizations dedicated to providing efficient and reliable administrative support remotely. Proactive and adaptable, I thrive in fast-paced environments and am committed to helping clients streamline their workflow and achieve their goals.
Ivan Kebiwa
Favour Akinwande
Ivan Kebiwa
BUSINESS PARTNERSHIPS & PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Ivan has worked in the field of conservation and sustainable development in Africa. With a degree in forestry engineering and a master's in environment and sustainable development, he has five years' practical experience. His background includes environmental project management, with a particular focus on protected area conservation.
Favour Akinwande
Favour Akinwande
Favour Akinwande
AI R&D PROJECT MANAGEMENT ASSISTANT
Favour is a Results-driven programmer with a strong background in Project and Operations management, playing a key role in Synertium's R&D integrating new tools. She is passionate about integrating sustainable and circular economy processes to contribute to innovative and environmentally responsible projects.
Elliot Tuchfeld
Favour Akinwande
Favour Akinwande
B-CORP COACHING & PROJECT MANAGEMENT
An experienced sustainability consultant, specializing in conducting comprehensive ESG impact assessments framework with a strong track record of assisting clients in incorporating sustainability into their business operations and equipping them with the resources needed to meet the requirements to become certified Benefit Corporations.
WHO WE ARE
Marc-André Bélisle
Marc-André Bélisle
Marc-André Bélisle
SUSTAINABILITY CONSULTANT, PARTNERSHIPS & ADMINISTRATION
With over 20 years' experience in business services and project management, my approach is based on collaboration, emphasizing diplomacy, structure, motivation and team challenges.
Ana Maria Botero
Marc-André Bélisle
Marc-André Bélisle
SUSTAINABILITY CONSULTANT & PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Political scientist with 3 years of experience in social project design and execution. Ana's passion about social justice and equality especially in development countries helps organizations be oriented towards stronger social impacts.
Raphaël Gonçalves
Marc-André Bélisle
Raphaël Gonçalves
SUSTAINABILITY CONSULTANT & PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Raphaël is a management generalist with a strong interest in innovation and sustainability transitions and with experience in strategic consulting, project management and design. He mobilizes knowledge from diverse disciplines and fosters creativity and collaboration to help organizations meet the social and environmental challenges of our time.
Danique van Veen
Marc-André Bélisle
Raphaël Gonçalves
SUSTAINABILITY CONSULTANT & PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Danique brings a mix of analytical experience, interest in life cycles, policies and strategies, and a passion for sustainability. Her expertise is used to guide companies towards profitability and environmental resilience, develop well-founded ESG roadmaps, evaluate and co-develop circular economy initiatives.
Sophie Verdon
Ilyana Leon Toro
Ilyana Leon Toro
SUSTAINABILITY CONSULTANT & PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Sophie is known for her varied career path, which has enabled her to acquire a great capacity for adaptation and an understanding of a variety of important issues. She has solid experience in project management, coordination, writing and facilitation. With a Master's degree in Management a
SUSTAINABILITY CONSULTANT & PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Sophie is known for her varied career path, which has enabled her to acquire a great capacity for adaptation and an understanding of a variety of important issues. She has solid experience in project management, coordination, writing and facilitation. With a Master's degree in Management and Sustainable Development from HEC Montréal, she now wishes to put her experience to good use in the service of a just transition, anchored in the community.
Ilyana Leon Toro
Ilyana Leon Toro
Ilyana Leon Toro
SUSTAINABILITY CONSULTANT & PROJECT MANAGEMENT
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Ilyana has more than 10 years of professional practice, attorney at law, business management and development expert, aiming to help companies to grow in a smart and sustainable way.
Favour Akinwande
Ilyana Leon Toro
Favour Akinwande
AI R&D PROJECT MANAGEMENT ASSISTANT
Favour is a Results-driven programmer with a strong background in Project and Operations management, playing a key role in Synertium's R&D integrating new tools. She is passionate about integrating sustainable and circular economy processes to contribute to innovative and environmentally responsible projects.
Marie-Pier Massé
Ilyana Leon Toro
Favour Akinwande
MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS PROJECTS
A 360° marketing generalist, Marie-Pier has over 15 years' experience in traditional and digital marketing, communications, events (trade shows, corporate events, product launches, etc.) and human resources. She is currently a marketing and communications consultant.
David Ewusi-Mensah
David Ewusi-Mensah
David Ewusi-Mensah
WATER RESOURCE ENGINEER AND SUSTAINABILITY CONSULTANT
With over a decade of experience designing and implementing innovative water recycling, remediation, wastewater treatment technology and research-based strategies, David’s proven global experience spans across Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas, contributing to regional decision-making for climate resilience.
BUSINESS COACHING
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GOVERNANCE OPPORTUNITIES
Regulatory Compliance & Risk Mitigation
An opportunity to stay ahead of evolving environmental and social regulations, reducing legal and financial risks.
Enhanced Brand Reputation & Competitive Advantage
An opportunity to gain consumer trust, strengthen their brand image, and differentiate themselves from competitors.
Investor & Stakeholder Attraction
An opportunity to attract investors and stakeholders looking for long-term value and corporate responsibility based on ethical governance and sustainability efforts.
SOCIAL OPPORTUNITIES
Improved Employee Engagement & Retention
An opportunity to create healthier work environments, boosting employee morale and retention rates.
Stronger Community Relations
An opportunity to foster goodwill and partnerships with local communities, enhancing corporate social responsibility (CSR) impact.
Customer Loyalty & Market Expansion
An opportunity to higher customer loyalty and opportunities to tap into new, sustainability-conscious markets.
ENVIRONMENTAL OPPORTUNITIES
Resource Efficiency & Cost Savings
An opportunity to optimize resource use, reducing waste, energy consumption, and operational costs.
Lower Carbon Footprint & Climate Impact
An opportunity to implement eco-friendly practices that helps businesses reduce greenhouse gas emissions and mitigate climate change effects.
Circular Economy & Innovation
An opportunity to innovate in product design, supply chains, and materials, leading to long-term resilience and profitability.
Our 6 steps workshop program
STEP 1: LIFE CYCLE MAPPING
As a startup business project, expansion of your current activities, Life Cycle Mapping is a powerful tool used to analyze and visualize the complete journey of a product, material, or service — from cradle to grave (or ideally, cradle to cradle in circular economy terms). It helps identify resource use, environmental impacts, and circular opportunities at each stage of a product's life.
Life Cycle Mapping is not just a diagnostic tool — it's a strategic framework for redesigning products, reducing harm, and creating value loops in the circular economy.
We will go over the Raw Material Extraction, Material Processing & Manufacturing, Distribution & Transport, Use Phase, and End-of-Life life cycle stages.
STEP 2: CURRENT REGENERATIVE TRIPLE IMPACTS
We use a grid to position the regenerative and distributive impacts of the life cycle activities mapped earlier. This helps translate innovations into quantifiable value across a range of benefits such as:
- Local jobs and skills development (Social)
- Cost savings and revenue streams (Economic)
- Carbon reduction and biodiversity gains (Environmental)
By focusing on localized impact, this framework ensures activities are place-based, respecting local needs, and resource flows. This is key to building equitable, decentralized added value systems.
STEP 3: STAKEHOLDERS INSIGHT
Mapping and planning the required engagement with key stakeholders (e.g., businesses, researchers, policymakers, partnerships, and consumers) and gauge their willingness to adopt changes in your current products or services life cycle improvements is key to the project's success.
This will serve to evaluate the feasibility of the selected improvement strategies when confronted to the stakeholder's ecosystem mobilization around your project.
It involves conducting market research to assess demand, competition, and consumer interest in your products and services solutions if they are new.
STEP 4: IMPROVEMENT HOTSPSPOTS
From the results of the regenerative and distributive impacts of your activities, we will guide you in recognizing hotspots of potential for improvements.
These potential areas of intervention will go through a prioritization analysis based on the stakeholder contribution capacity and pressure insight, and the level of current non-regenerative improvable impacts, and feasibility estimation.
Most frameworks focus on minimizing negative impacts. However, regeneration goes further—replenishing ecosystems, revitalizing local economies, and empowering communities. A triple accountability model makes regenerative goals measurable and actionable.
STEP 5: CIRCULAR STRATEGIES
We will introduce you to a range of Circular Economy strategies and business models that will inspire to rethink the targeted hotspots of your life cycle evaluation such as these:
- Product-as-a-Service (leasing or sharing instead of selling).
- Upcycling & Remanufacturing (giving waste materials a second life).
- Material Recovery & Recycling (closing the loop on resource use).
- Reverse Logistics & Take-Back Systems (designing for reusability and collection).
The applicability of these strategies is based on the interrelated territorial triple regenerative impacts of Economic, Social, and Environmental added value that your project brings to the territory of your activities.
STEP 6: SUSTAINABILITY SCENARIO
At the end of this short journey your organization will have structured a map as a scenario of forecasting better impacts from its current operating activities, or as a new project.
This scenario will serve as your own Theory of Change to integrate triple regeneration impacts in as much as possible every impact of your activities.
With this clear view, you will have the option to modify your scenario in time as your activities are delivered and contexts changes.
You will now be ready "to pilot initiatives" to test the business model, gather feedback, and refine the approach before full-scale implementation. This will also be key in defining or refining your business model and help get selected by investors and adopters of your project.
WHY WE DEVELOPED THIS METHODOLOGY
The story behind the methodology
Traditional business models often prioritize financial returns while overlooking the broader implications of their operations on society and the environment. As the world faces escalating climate, social equity, and resource depletion challenges, there is a pressing need for businesses to shift toward regenerative impact models—approaches that restore and enrich rather than simply reduce harm.
Circular economy strategies (e.g., waste-to-resource systems, product-as-a-service models, closed-loop manufacturing) aim to keep materials in use and design out waste. But their systemic benefits often go undocumented. Triple accountability connects circular actions to real-world economic inclusion, community well-being, and environmental restoration.
A Triple Accountability Methodology is essential for building credible, regenerative business cases within the circular economy. It ensures that innovation is not only technically efficient but also socially just and ecologically beneficial. By integrating circular economy strategies with this multidimensional lens, businesses can lead the shift from sustainability as compliance to regeneration as core strategy—creating lasting value for both present and future generations.
Below you will find a table of potential benefits circular strategies can bring to your business model.
Self-Assessment
We invite you to take a head start to evaluate your perception of current life cycle regeneration impacts factor in a quick 10 minutes self-assessment survey. Once completed we will send it to you by email and invite you to a free 30 minutes meeting to help you use it on your own or answer your questions.
A RESPONSIBLE BUSINESS STRUCTURE
MATURITY CONSENSUS
MATERIALITY & ACTION PLAN
VISIONS & STAKEHOLDERS
Whether it is on a personal or organizational goal, the first step for any change is to reflect about the challenges that we can agree need to be addressed. It is mandatory that concerned parties be involved in a common perception of where we stand for any initiatives to have value and impact. We guide you in the consensus process of tha
Whether it is on a personal or organizational goal, the first step for any change is to reflect about the challenges that we can agree need to be addressed. It is mandatory that concerned parties be involved in a common perception of where we stand for any initiatives to have value and impact. We guide you in the consensus process of that status quo based on recognized international benchmarking grids.
VISIONS & STAKEHOLDERS
MATERIALITY & ACTION PLAN
VISIONS & STAKEHOLDERS
Projecting yourself as a business or individual into the future of how you want things to be is a key effort to then look at what needs to be done to get there. But again, this road is not solitary, many stakeholders are part of that journey and at different levels of interactions to be considered when planning where and how to have the intended impacts.
MATERIALITY & ACTION PLAN
MATERIALITY & ACTION PLAN
MATERIALITY & ACTION PLAN
Now that you know where yo want to be and the allies to be involved, you still need to plan what to work on and within what scopes. A materiality matrix will help to reflect and plan the actions you wish to prioritize. And for each activities you will need to track the progress in reaching the targeted levels of sustainable practices.
EXPLORING BETTER ALTERNATIVES
LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS
LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS
LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS
Together, we'll look at the path your products take from creation to end-of-life, their ecological footprint (LCA) and their social footprint (LCA-S). And diagnose the circularity loops concerned by the issues raised.
PROJECT FEASIBILITY
LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS
LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS
Is the project feasible, what processing steps are required, how does your project compare with other initiatives? Not all projects aim at commercialization, but in cases where this is the goal, we'll need to take a closer look at the costs involved.
CIRCULAR MODEL
LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS
CIRCULAR MODEL
So, you've decided that this project has business value! It's time to think about the business opportunity, to structure the plan according to the triple bottom line. We'll help you do just that, so that you end up with a viable pilot project.
REACH YOUR MISSION GOAL
YOUR THEORY OF CHANGE
DATA PRESENTATION & IMPROVE
PLAN, MEASURE AND MONITOR
At the root of your responsible personal project or business mission is an issue you aspire to address. Once the Status Quo is rejected and you know that you can make a difference for a better world, then it's time to start raising the strategy around how to bring that impact.
PLAN, MEASURE AND MONITOR
DATA PRESENTATION & IMPROVE
PLAN, MEASURE AND MONITOR
There are many grids you can refer too for benchmarking the responsible contributions of your project, direct or indirect outcomes, quantitative and qualitative, etc.. You can only change what you measure, and it takes planning to know what you want to measure and how you will measure it.
DATA PRESENTATION & IMPROVE
DATA PRESENTATION & IMPROVE
DATA PRESENTATION & IMPROVE
As you deliver the impact of your contribution, how do you learn from your efforts? We'll help you improve your change strategy, set up your data presentation structure and communicate your results to comply with requirements or drive change in your business areas.
READY TO TAKE ACTIONS
SUSTAINABILITY STRATEGY
PROJECT & CHANGE MANAGEMENT
PROJECT & CHANGE MANAGEMENT
As CSO, we are in position to set the sustainability strategy with your organization, taking in consideration the internal goals and needs of the stakeholders. Their are many steps in validating double materiality, planning the priorities of projects within a general view.
PROJECT & CHANGE MANAGEMENT
PROJECT & CHANGE MANAGEMENT
PROJECT & CHANGE MANAGEMENT
Every projects needs scope analysis, tools, resources, risk assessment, budget, timelines, etc.. that we structure with you in modular stepping stones to meet your sustainability objectives. Once there is a map of the project, there is a possibility to move into action with a plan for proper impact and results.
RESOURCES & STAKEHOLDERS
PROJECT & CHANGE MANAGEMENT
RESOURCES & STAKEHOLDERS
Action plans deployment requires rigorous focus on multiple aspects and follow ups. We bring you these skilled hands to operate on the ground what it takes to make the project happen and on and reporting of the progress. This along with proper documentation of processes, artefacts and knowledge.