Collaboration | Sustainable Business Network and Advisory Services

From evolving regulations to geopolitical uncertainty and market pressures, every business faces increasingly complex and interconnected challenges. In this operating context, sharing knowledge, pooling resources, and applying collective leverage remain some of the most effective ways to deliver business value and create scalable solutions.

BSR’s business-led collaborations provide a safe, trusting environment for companies to learn from their peers, see a changing world more clearly, and develop and put into practice innovative solutions that benefit both business and society.

Collaborative Initiatives

Year-on-year, pre-competitive, multi-stakeholder collaborations with a variety of forms and approaches, ranging from learning communities to action-oriented collectives, across a wide range of issues and challenges.

Roundtables and Multi-Company Opportunities

Shorter-term collaborations which connect sustainable business leaders with their peers to discuss, and problem solve today’s pressing issues.

Explore BSR Collaborations

BSR is a trusted partner in the space of advising businesses on human rights, and they're positioned so neatly because their values as an organization closely align with the value of doing good by people.

—Lydia Hopton, Tech & Human Rights Lead, BT Group

Societe des Produits Nestlé S.A.

Carlson Companies, Inc.

Marriott International, Inc.

Capri Holdings Limited

LVMH Moët Hennessy • Louis Vuitton S.A.

Richemont International SA

Ralph Lauren Corporation

Evonik Industries AG

Gattefossé SAS

Godrej Group

Henkel AG & Co. KGaA

Innospec Ltd

L’Occitane Groupe S.A.

LVMH Moët Hennessy • Louis Vuitton S.A.

NUXE

Orkla Home & Personal Care AS

Reckitt Benckiser Group PLC

SEPPIC

Solvay NV

Stéarinerie Dubois

Nikko Chemicals Co., Ltd.

Cremer Oleo Gmbh & Co KG

INOLEX, Inc.

Stepan

Zschwimmer & Schwarz Italiana

Gap Inc.

Fidelity Information Services, LLC

Technip Energies

Tecnimont S.p.A.

Chiyoda Corporation

JGC Corporation

Saipem SpA

Subsea 7 Inc.

TechnipFMC

Wood plc

WorleyParsons

Ralph Lauren Corporation

Freeport McMoRan Inc.

Panasonic Corporation

Richemont International SA

Partnering for Impact

Over the last 30+ years, BSR has applied its strategic leadership and subject-matter expertise to catalyze, launch, facilitate, and scale more than 50 high-impact collaborations, serving as secretariat, strategic advisor, and facilitation partner.

We work with a wide range of stakeholders, including companies, grantmakers, and partners, to develop and launch impactful collaborations.

Business

In addition to participating in our existing collaborations, companies seeking to address emerging challenges that could benefit from dialogue with like-minded peers are invited to contact us to discuss new collaboration opportunities.

Funders

Funders are invited to contact us to explore how BSR collaborations align with their strategic priorities, and to investigate how financial support and programmatic insights can spark high-impact partnerships with the private sector.

Advisors and Partners

Advisors and partners are welcome to offer critical perspectives, insights, and expertise to ensure that our collaborations advance systemic solutions to global challenges.

Our Experts

Depth of Experience and Knowledge

Our Collaboration team consists of global experts across multiple focus areas, bringing a depth of experience and knowledge to designing, operating, and facilitating high impact collaborative initiatives.

Alexandra Kolev

Associate, Collaborations and Partnerships, BSR

Paris

Associate, Collaborations and Partnerships, BSR

Paris

Alexandra supports BSR’s Collaborative Initiatives portfolio, facilitating the development and implementation of impactful multi-stakeholder solutions that tackle systemic challenges to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including climate change, economic inequity, and gender inequality. She works across industries, largely within agricultural commodities and consumer products, to drive collective action for supply chain sustainability, responsible sourcing, and ethical trade.

Prior to joining BSR, Alexandra developed global partnerships to foster business transformation, promote responsible business conduct, and scale business action to accelerate progress on the SDGs. Alexandra began her career analyzing trade policy and coordinating international trade and supply chain projects for a global, multi-sector clientele.

Alexandra holds a Master’s in International Public Management, with specializations in Global Economic Policy and Diplomacy, from l’Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris. She graduated magna cum laude with a BA in International Affairs and French from the George Washington University. She speaks English, French, and German.

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Charlene Collison

Director, Collaborations and Partnerships, BSR

London

Director, Collaborations and Partnerships, BSR

London

As Director, Collaborations, Charlene develops and implements strategies to engage BSR member companies and other stakeholders in high-impact collaborations for sustainable development. She specializes in building collaborative approaches between consumer-facing companies and their value chains to embed long-term sustainability, build resilience in the face of disruption, and increase equity, inclusion, and justice.

Charlene brings over 20 years of experience in sustainability, systems change, futures, and collaboration. Prior to BSR, Charlene was associate director for sustainable value chains and livelihoods with global sustainability non-profit Forum for the Future, where she directed collaborative system change initiatives in cotton, tea and other commodities, and led strategy projects with partners across the fashion and textile, agricultural and food sectors.

Charlene has an extensive background in futures, including working with the UK government’s futures unit developing and testing strategies across government departments.

Charlene holds an MSc in Sustainability and Responsibility from Ashridge Management College (UK), a BA in International Relations from the University of Puget Sound (US), and a Diploma in Organisation Development from Henley Business School (UK).