Smith-Walsh & Associates
ESG Strategy and Communication Advisors
Providing Strategic Advice for Sustainable Business
Services
What we can provide for our clients
Energy Innovation
We can investigate the addition of innovative energy technologies to your supply chain. Let us undertake a techno-economic assessment and a corresponding life-cycle analysis to help inform future policy and strategic decisions going forward. Our assessments have involved a variety of technologies involving renewable energy, carbon capture and sequestration, and hydrogen production
Investment Decisions
ESG Analysis and Reporting
We can provide advice related to the economic value of sustainable project development or the purchase of or in sustainable assets and the level of sustainable impact that those investments may have. Our clients have ranged from energy project developers to sustainable investment funds.
We can confidentially review your operations and supply chains to identify issues related to the potential environmental, social and governance impact they may have. Solutions can be provided to address those impacts. We can design and create a variety of reporting tools to effectively communicate your ESG-related activities.
Past and current clients have included energy producers, energy storage and transmission companies, energy utilities, municipalities and regulators.
Who we are and what we do
Smith-Walsh is a boutique research consultancy whose Founders have been providing strategic advice to their clientele for over 30 years. With growing political and institutional pressure to create a more sustainable world, becoming an environmentally and socially responsible business requires careful consideration. Smith-Walsh and its research associates can assist in assessing and designing your organization's strategy, communication and project investments and can recommend choices that reflect our clients' desire to promote and maintain a triple-bottom line approach to their operational and investment strategies.
Dr. Philip R. Walsh P.Geo SPE IAEE
Phil is one of two senior partners and is a registered professional geoscientist and former energy industry executive. He has been a project management and corporate strategy consultant since 1987. In addition, he is a member of the faculty at the Ted Rogers School of Management and Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University). A recognized expert in corporate responsibility and sustainable development, innovation, and strategic change management, Phil is responsible for leading our research and assessment activities.
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Angela Smith
Angela is our other senior partner and brings 27 years of consulting experience principally within the communications and media industry. As an expert in communications strategy, Angela advises our clients on their communication strategy related to the analysis and interpretation of sustainability reporting by our research team.
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Alexander Walsh
Alex brings his background in resource, government and security risk management to advise clients on public policy direction and effective policy communication. A former parliamentary assistant and government relations advisor in the defense industry, Alex has a unique expertise in providing policy advice on environmental and technology risk.
Associates
Smith-Walsh employs a number of Associates with expertise in the areas of technology assessment, ESG analysis, and strategic communications. Working with the senior partners they contribute to our client's ESG strategy and communication deliverables.
How Can We Help You?
You can reach us whenever and wherever you’d like.
