Today’s uncertainties, whether financial market turmoil or climate change, make traditional forecasting and planning techniques limited. Scenario-based planning, based on Royal Dutch Shell’s pioneering work, is one of the few approaches to grasp the range of variables facing a typical organization and lead executives and leaders to insightful and actionable outcomes. Good research, interviews, key experts on relevant topics, customized design and superb facilitation empower clients to new insights and alignment to act with confidence. Over the years - and 120 plus client scenario planning and thinking efforts later - Entegra Partners has proven that this approach works, even in a short, scenario ‘thinking’ way that doesn’t require days of workshops but a powerful one-day engagement, whether for business, government or NGO leaders.



Today’s environmental realities are forcing companies to be comprehensive, strategize and plan beyond the environmental risks they’re facing, to new opportunities and business models. This is not traditional environmental, health and safety (EHS) or good public relations, but a new context that involves all lines of businesses, parts of an organization and executives. Jim Butcher pioneered a more strategic environmental vs. an EHS approach in the late 1980s, when the UN Brundtland Report, “Our Common Future,” highlighted global environmental risks. Pathbreaking work over the last fifteen years in client work such as Pacific Gas & Electric (the project that Amory Lovins identified the key utility energy issue as ‘negawatts,’ not more megawatts), Nissan, DuPont, Intel, Cemex, British Petroleum, and the first ever sustainable U.S. National Energy Plan in 1996 under the Clinton Administration proved his unique comprehensive environmental approach. And, most recently, he created and led Morgan Stanley’s global Office of the Environment that encompassed traditional arenas, such as facility/CO2 emissions, employee programs, CSR and government relations, among others, but added and worked closely with business units to create new revenue opportunities. From helping clients with their environmental strategies to simply advising executives about positioning or tradeoffs, Entegra Consulting offers a powerful environmental approach to clients.



From helping existing private equity and venture capital funds identify new investments to capital raising and innovative new financing ideas for sustainability initiatives in companies, Entegra Consulting offers a range of services. Since leaving Morgan Stanley, Jim has helped various investment firms and companies with creative financing approaches.



Today’s leaders face a level of unprecedented and complex issues that are often global, involve multiple stakeholders, are resource challenged, and, too often, involve multiple parts of an organization to resolve adequately. Entegra Partners has proven its creativity with such problems in business (helping Cemex globally successfully grow, from a regional entity to a global multinational that is both top-down and decentralized), government (the U.S. National Energy Plan used a fifty eight stakeholder multi-party approach to get to a consensus), cities and municipalities (Missoula, MT, used a stakeholder approach to resolve suburban sprawl growth dilemma) to new stakeholder engagement approaches for NGOs and foundations to achieve their objectives.

We encourage you to Contact Us to learn more about our services and useful approaches, whether for an executive retreat, training, conference, annual planning meeting, or even advising on a key strategic issue.