THE 360° METHODOLOGY FOR IMPACTFUL BUSINESS
The Compass provides changemakers with a transformational set of principles. It will help you assess your practices and move closer to regenerative impact.
The methodology includes 5 principles namely Purpose, Planet, People, Partners, and Places. Each of the 5 sections of the Compass review opens with a key question which we invite you to sit quietly with and live. Take a step back and spend as much time as you can embracing what these larger questions mean for you and your business.
A PRACTICAL TOOL
Most sustainability strategies are built to slow down harm.
The Compass for Regenerative Business starts from a different question: what would it take for your organisation to leave the people, places, and planet it touches measurably better off than it found them?
Positive built the Compass in 2020 and has refined it ever since with more than 100 experts, academics, and business leaders.
It's free to use, mapped across 110+ data points, and has already guided 200+ companies from good intentions to a sequenced, future-fit roadmap.
The Compass doesn't treat impact as a single score or a pass/fail certification. It maps your organisation across five interconnected principles — Purpose, People, Planet, Partners, and Places.
HOW IT WORKS
Start with a self-scored pass across all five principles — most teams complete this in around 60 minutes.
The Compass then translates your scores into a prioritised roadmap: the two or three levers most likely to move your overall impact, sequenced by effort and dependency. Roadmaps are designed to be revisited.
Regeneration is a direction, not a destination — teams typically reassess every 6–12 months to track what's actually changed.