Double Materiality Assessment · By ExecutGroup

Understand What Matters Most.
Clear Priorities for Sustainability.

Involve the right internal and external stakeholders, identify your material impacts, risks and opportunities, and turn collective insight into clear strategic priorities — without heavy consulting.

The 9-Step Double Materiality Process

A practical, structured workflow that involves your leadership team and stakeholders to identify and prioritise what truly matters.

Planning

1. Project Setup

Configure your assessment scope, timelines, and leadership participants.

Impacts

2. Leadership Pre-task

Individual reflection ensures every leader's voice is captured before group dialogue.

Impacts

3. Validation Workshop

Facilitated session where the team refines AI-generated impact suggestions.

Impacts

4. Stakeholder Engagement

Pairwise comparison methodology replaces biased surveys with rigorous consensus.

Risks & Opps

5. R&O Pre-task

Leaders individually identify financial risks and opportunities tied to material topics.

Risks & Opps

6. R&O Workshop

Collaborative scoring using Magnitude × Likelihood per ESRS methodology.

Risks & Opps

7. Financial Scoring

Dual-lens financial analysis quantifies each topic's strategic business impact.

Decision

8. Consolidated Review

Full matrix view of all topics with impact + financial scores for final review.

Decision

9. Strategic Declaration

Formal leadership commitment with documented rationale for every inclusion and omission.

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Value Chain Analysis

12 activities identified

Mapped

ESRS Topic Mapping

E1, S1, S2, G1 suggested

Complete

IRO Discovery

Impact, Risk & Opportunities

47 items

Sector Benchmarks

vs. 230+ industry DMAs

Active

AI Amplifies Competence. You Retain Control.

Our Gemini-powered AI handles the technical complexity of ESRS mapping, freeing your team to focus on strategic alignment. We de-risk organizational decisions by turning employee consensus into verified, audit-ready data.

  • Instant AI-guided value chain mapping
  • Automated ESRS topic categorization
  • Impact, Risk & Opportunity discovery engine

From Shared Understanding to Strategic Commitment

ExecutESG structures the conversation your leadership team needs to have — not as a top-down mandate, but as a collaborative journey.

Leadership Pre-tasks

Each phase begins with structured individual reflection — ensuring every voice is heard before group dialogue.

Validation Workshops

Facilitated sessions where the leadership team refines AI suggestions through guided conversation and consensus.

Stakeholder Engagement

Mathematically rigorous Pairwise Comparison replaces biased surveys and internal proxies for objective scoring.

Audit-Ready From Day One

Every decision is automatically documented with timestamps, rationale, and full stakeholder evidence. Disclosure-ready the moment you finish.

Full Decision Trail

Every inclusion/omission documented with reasoning and stakeholder evidence.

ESRS Compliance

Pre-mapped to all 10 topical standards automatically. No manual tagging needed.

Omission Documentation

Clear, audit-ready proof explaining why you left certain topics out, making your reporting decisions deliberate and bulletproof.

Software When You Want Independence · Support When You Need It

Three Flexible Ways to Work

Whether you want to run your assessment independently or prefer turnkey facilitation from ExecutGroup's experienced specialists, you can choose the level of support that fits your situation.

SaaS — Run it yourself

Use our software independently to collect baseline data, invite stakeholders, run pairwise comparisons, and view clear visual reports.

Service — We run it for you

We set up and manage your Double Materiality Assessment from start to finish while your team focuses on participating and reviewing the results.

Consulting — We work with you

Work directly with our experienced advisors to interpret results, make strategic decisions, and turn sustainability priorities into action.

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Structured Steps

End-to-end DMA journey

60%

Less Leadership Time

vs. traditional DMA process

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Material Audit Findings

Full compliance documentation

"For the first time, our entire leadership team shares a genuine understanding of what sustainability means for our business."

— CSO, Nordic Manufacturing Company

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