How Schneider Electric has Split its Consulting Division

Schneider Electric is arguably the world’s most sustainable company, having recently topped Sustainability Magazine's Top 250 World's Most Sustainable Companies, TIME Magazine’s 2025 list and earned the No. 1 spot from Corporate Knights. 

The company’s formula blends credible, science-aligned commitments with measurable delivery, on its own operations and across its customers’ value chains, while a new global advisory arm accelerates results at scale.

What is Schneider Electric?

Schneider Electric is a global leader in energy management and industrial automation with a multi-hub operating model and a presence in more than 100 countries. 

Its purpose is to empower all to make the most of energy and resources, bridging progress and sustainability for all. 

The company combines technology, software and services to digitise and decarbonise power and operations for buildings, data centres, industry and infrastructure.

Highlights of Schneider’s global footprint and impact:

• Recognised by the World Economic Forum with the most Sustainability Lighthouse factories for leading Scope 1, 2 and 3 reductions
• Brought access to energy to 56 million people through clean energy initiatives
• A long-running talent and inclusion agenda supported by a distributed leadership model and extensive employee upskilling.

How Schneider Electric leads in sustainability

Schneider couples ambitious targets with transparent reporting and delivery. 

Its net zero pathway is validated by SBTi, including a 25% absolute value-chain carbon reduction by 2030 and full value-chain net zero by 2050. 

As of Q1 2025, Schneider reported:

• Nearly 700 million tonnes of CO₂ saved or avoided for customers
• Early overachievement on several sustainability targets
• A Schneider Sustainability Impact (SSI) score of 7.95/10, targeting 8.80 by year end.

The company tracks progress through the SSI across six long-term commitments:

• Act for a climate-positive world
• Be efficient with resources
• Live up to principles of trust
• Create equal opportunities
• Harness the power of all generations
• Empower local communities.

Schneider further discloses product lifecycle impacts through its Environmental Data Program (covering >70% of product turnover, aiming for 80% by end-2025).

“At Schneider Electric, sustainability is at the heart of everything we do,” says Schneider Electric’s Chief Sustainability Officer Esther Finidori on LinkedIn.

“This recognition is a reflection not of a single moment, but of enduring passion and collective vision across our company. 

“Sustainability Magazine celebrates our ambitious targets and honest transparency approach to sustainability across our operations and supply chain and the measurable impact we’re driving together.

“We will continue to lead by example, working with our partners and customers to accelerate the transition toward a more sustainable, resilient and inclusive future.”

Its culture and governance reinforce the strategy: a multi-hub structure that speeds regional decision-making, a zero-tolerance stance on corruption, ongoing gender equity efforts, and large-scale workforce development and community volunteering (VolunteerIn).

What is SE Advisory Services?

SE Advisory Services is Schneider Electric’s new global consulting branch, created to help organisations navigate energy volatility, decarbonisation, supply-chain complexity and the promise of AI at once. 

Led by Executive Vice President Steve Wilhite, it unites thousands of consultants and technical specialists and is powered by Schneider’s new AI-native software platform.

What makes it different is its integrated, end-to-end model—moving clients from vision to measurable outcomes across:

• Energy and risk management
• Sustainability and net-zero strategy
• Energy efficiency and electrification
• Renewable energy procurement
• Nature- and technology-based solutions
• Supply chain engagement and digital transformation.

Steve Wilhite, Executive Vice President of SE advisory Services explains that the services is an’ “evolved portfolio of solutions redefines the consulting experience".

“We combine deep expertise, global implementation and AI-powered software, creating a seamless path from vision to results. 

“This is the same approach we used to transform Schneider Electric – financially and operationally – into the World’s #1 Most Sustainable Company.”

The team supports more than 40% of the Fortune 500, strengthening performance, mitigating risk and building resilience, using the same approach Schneider applied to transform itself into the world’s most sustainable company.

Schneider Electric’s consistent top rankings reflect a holistic playbook, clear science-based goals, transparent metrics, deep domain expertise and scaled implementation.

With SE Advisory Services, the company is extending that playbook to customers worldwide, aiming to lift its own SSI score to 8.80 in 2025 and help more organisations turn ambition into real-world impact.