Driving sustainability forward through the power of story.
Mike Hower is an independent sustainability communication and reporting expert — and former journalist — who helps companies translate sustainability strategy into compelling and compliant communication.
How Hower Impact can help
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Communicating
Helping companies translate sustainability strategy into authentic and engaging communication and reporting that advance positive impact.
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Coaching
Working with sustainability professionals to improve sustainability communication and writing skills, personal branding and thought leadership.
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Connecting
Creating opportunities for sustainability professionals to connect and engage with one another to foster community and collaboration.
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Companies often fall into a cycle of spending half a year producing them and the other half trying to forget the experience — and then right back to it. But letting a company’s sustainability storytelling fizzle in the “reporting off season” is a major lost opportunity — both for advancing social and environmental progress and building brand equity through compelling communication.
Hower Impact has signed the Clean Creatives pledge. This means we won’t work with the fossil fuel industry — now or ever.
On Earth Day 2024, Mike reflects on the power of sustainability storytelling through his own origin story on an island chain off the coast of Panama.
Hower Impact is officially one year old. Here are some reflections on what happened in the first year of business.
In this Quick Connect, Mike gets the scoop on ESG trens in tech from Adobe’s Kati Kallins.
New regulations call for a new breed of communication and sustainability professional. Here’s how it looks.
Finding personal sustainability is key to success working in corporate sustainability.
In this Quick Connect, Mike gets to the bottom of sustainability communication trends in the auto industry with one of Toyota’s sustainability leads.
In this Quick Connect, Mike chats with beauty sustainability expert Maggie Spicer about 2024 trends in beauty sustainability communication.
Quick Connects are brief but beneficial conversations Mike Hower conducts with leaders in sustainability and ESG about a variety of sustainability communication topics. In this first episode, Mike speaks with Matt Sekol, Sustainability Global Blackbelt at Microsoft.
Quick Connects are brief but beneficial conversations Mike Hower conducts with leaders in sustainability and ESG about a variety of sustainability communication topics. In this first episode, Mike speaks with Christine Uri, “The ESG Lawyer.”