Joanne Flinn — Founder & Chair, The ESG Institute, ESG transition risk readiness authority

ESG Transition Risk Readiness

See
Clearly

The risks that destroy long-term value aren't the ones you're measuring. We see where portfolios and business models face transition risk, and quantify what it's costing.

Why do well-managed companies still get blindsided by transition risk?

01

Hidden Erosion

Value bleeding where your models don't look. Business model resilience weakening across dimensions your risk framework wasn't built to see.

02

The Human Dimension

Strategy looks perfect. But nobody moves. The board signs off. The culture pushes back, and the effort you can't automate walks out quietly.

03

Shock Fragility

Markets correct. Your highest-exposure holdings trigger circuit breakers. Your lowest-exposure holdings attract inflows. You find out which is which after the fact.

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These aren't knowledge gaps.
They're readiness gaps.
And they're quantifiable.

Joanne Flinn — Founder & Chair, The ESG Institute. Transition risk readiness leadership.

Joanne Flinn

Senior Accredited Director (SID) · MSc HEC/Oxford Saïd · BEc, LLB

Thinkers50 Radar 2026 — Joanne Flinn

Radar 2026

"What hasn't changed over the last 12 years is the need for leaders who can translate uncertainty into direction and turn climate commitments into real, bankable action."

— Senior Partner, Global Private Equity Fund

Track Record

35+ years of transformation leadership. Former PwC Country Head. Head of Change on the IT ExCo at DBS Bank. Author of GreenSight, foreworded by Oxford's Saïd Business School.

Research & Results

Her work has enabled $610M+ in catalytic capital for a global fund and demonstrated 27.5% portfolio value improvement. Research across 20 stock exchanges and 1,000+ listed companies.

The Difference

She doesn't write reports that sit on shelves. She builds the intelligence that helps leaders see what's coming, and act before it arrives.

Work With Joanne

International Awards & Recognition

Certified B Corporation — The ESG Institute
B1G1 Business for Good Impact Partner — The ESG Institute
UN Global Compact supporter — The ESG Institute
Thinkers50 Radar 2026 — The ESG Institute

Radar 2026

AustCham Singapore Startup of the Year 2025 — The ESG Institute

Startup of the Year 2025

Certified B Corporation — The ESG Institute
B1G1 Business for Good Impact Partner — The ESG Institute
UN Global Compact supporter — The ESG Institute
Thinkers50 Radar 2026 — The ESG Institute

Radar 2026

AustCham Singapore Startup of the Year 2025 — The ESG Institute

Startup of the Year 2025

ClearSight™
Transition Intelligence
for Long-Term Value

Developed with executives from S&P, Merrill Lynch, Marsh McLennan, Maersk, CBRE, and Unilever.

Outside-In

What is coming at you.

Regulatory shifts, market transitions, planetary boundaries, resource constraints.

Inside-In

What is happening within you.

Workforce readiness, cultural erosion, governance gaps, capability decline.

Insight-Out

What you are doing to others.

Impact on communities, ecosystems, supply chains. The lens almost nobody looks through.

Five Dimensions of Readiness

Leadership Readiness · Sustainability Resilience · Stakeholder Engagement · ESG Rigor · Value Chain ROI

Risks you may be managing, seen through a lens you haven't had.

Proof in Action

Results that hold.

27.5%
Portfolio value improvement
$610M+
Catalytic capital enabled for a global fund
22bps
Additional financing cost per 10-point risk increase
Bloomberg
650bps
Performance premium over a decade
Bloomberg

ReadyScore: 0–100

Where does your organisation actually stand across all five dimensions?

How Leaders Work With Us

Like any significant relationship, transformation develops through stages.

1See

ClearSight™ Intelligence Cohort

Six weeks. Small group. You arrive knowing your industry. You leave seeing the risk landscape your peers can't see yet.

2Score

Extraordinarily Sensible Governance

Apply the frameworks to your specific organisation. Interrogate your risk register with rigour. Know where you actually stand.

3Shift

The ClearSight™ Day

One concentrated day that brings your leadership team to the same altitude. Shared view. Validated ReadyScore. First move agreed.

4Scale

The ClearSight™ Accelerator

Three days, not three quarters. Assessment, framework, and roadmap, with clear priorities for the first 100-day cycle.

The Book: GreenSight

GreenSight — The Sustainability Guide for Company Directors by Joanne Flinn

GreenSight

The Sustainability Guide for Company Directors

Foreworded by Oxford's Saïd Business School.
Endorsed by the Singapore Institute of Directors.

"Embedding sustainability practices and principles into your organisation is a business imperative. GreenSight provides the roadmap."
Thinkers50— Thinkers50
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Advisory Board

Guided by experience.

Hema Prakash

Hema Prakash

Former Managing Director, Global PE Fund

Andrew MacLeod

Andrew MacLeod

Visiting Professor, King's College London

Kris Wadia

Kris Wadia

Former Partner, Accenture

CREATING IMPACT, CREATING VALUE

MEET THE TEAM

Joanne Flinn

Joanne Flinn

Founder & Chair

Thinkers50 Radar 2026. Former PwC Country Head. Head of Change on the IT ExCo at DBS Bank. Author of GreenSight. 35+ years of transformation leadership, from boardrooms to billion-dollar portfolios.

Chris Pile

Chris Pile

CTO

Former GM Firemark Labs (IAG). VP Technology Asia (RGA). Builds the ClearSight™ platform: the intelligence infrastructure that makes transition risk visible at portfolio scale.

Jonathan Cheung

Jonathan Cheung

Co-Founder

Former Citibank executive. Leads the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply (CIPS) in Asia. Brings financial services depth and value chain expertise to the ClearSight™ methodology.

Three people. 1000+ companies. Now you know how.

The risks are shifting.
Can you see where?

QUESTIONS YOU ARE ASKING

ESG Institute helps boards, investors, and leadership teams see the transition risks their current tools miss, and quantify what it's costing them. Our ClearSight™ methodology assesses readiness across five dimensions using a Three-Lens Framework developed with executives from S&P, Merrill Lynch, Marsh McLennan, Maersk, CBRE, and Unilever. We're a certified B Corp led by Joanne Flinn, named to the Thinkers50 Radar 2026.