Advanced Advisory Services

Driving measurable returns on corporate purpose

Custom Benchmarking & CEO-Level Insights: With 5,000+ executive touchpoints and relationships with 2,500+ corporate leaders, CECP goes beyond standard datasets by interviewing peer companies and integrating external sources—giving you tailored insights that resonate with your C-suite and board.

​​Strategy & Measurement That Drive Results: From scorecards and KPIs to enterprise-wide frameworks, CECP helps you quantify impact and align purpose with business outcomes—grounded in 20+ years of experience and proprietary data.

Embedded Partnership & Communications Expertise: CECP works alongside your team to assess messaging, elevate brand reputation, and deliver high-impact programs that align with core business priorities.

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AVAILABLE SERVICES

  • Expanded Benchmarking
  • Strategy Review & Facilitation
  • Measurement Advisement
  • Communications Strategy & Assessment
  • Strategic Program & Event Advisement

Expanded Benchmarking

CECP supports corporate leaders in building, communicating, defending, and measuring purpose-driven strategies across community investment, foundations, employee engagement, sustainability, and core business functions. Through our unparalleled benchmarking we provide companies with a clear view of how they compare to peers. These insights inform executive-ready presentations and strategic decision-making. CECP’s customized analysis identifies opportunity areas and strengthens your company’s ability to lead with purpose in a competitive landscape.

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Strategy Review & Facilitation

Whether launching or evolving a corporate purpose strategy, CECP helps companies ensure their efforts are business-aligned, credible, and future-ready. We provide corporate leaders with hands-on guidance to assess and elevate your company’s strategy, programs, and communications. Through tailored engagements—ranging from executive sessions and cross-functional convenings to board briefings and focus groups—we equip leaders with relevant trends, best-in-class case studies, and actionable recommendations to integrate purpose across the business.

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Measurement Advisement

Elevate your company’s impact strategy with CECP’s Measurement Fundamentals—a proven approach to embedding accountability, clarity, and results into purpose-driven work. CECP helps refine or build custom dashboards and scorecards, ensuring your team focuses on the “Vital Few”: the most strategic metrics that demonstrate both social impact and business value. Whether launching new initiatives or reviewing existing strategies, we bring analytical rigor and trusted expertise to help you measure what matters and make your value visible—internally and externally.

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Communications Strategy & Assessment

CECP conducts a comprehensive review of your company’s internal communications across social media, websites, CSR reports, and earned media to assess how your brand equity is being perceived and positioned relative to peers. Using CECP’s proven criteria of CEO leadership, innovation, measurement, partnership, and storytelling, we identify strengths and gaps to help sharpen your message. We also partners with your team to develop communications plans that effectively engage both external stakeholders and employees.

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Strategic Program & Event Advisement

CECP partners with corporate leaders to design and deliver high-impact programs and events aligned with strategic priorities. From early planning through execution, we provides expert guidance, research-backed insights, and operational support to ensure initiatives are purpose-driven, outcome-oriented, and executed with excellence. Our team helps you elevate your efforts and achieve results that reflect your company’s values and business goals.

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We also offers the option for companies to retain CECP for a set number of hours for ongoing strategic advisory support.

Testimonials

“The Advanced Advisory work with CECP was informative and provided us with the time to evaluate our current strategy and explore options for a new strategy to make sure we remain effective and impactful. We will utilize the deliverables to help inform our strategy and build out annual goals for implementation.”

Vice President

Corporate Responsibility & Inclusion, FORTUNE 500 Consumer Company