CENTER FOR SUSTAINABILITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS

Governance Systems for AI, ESG and Human Rights Risk

Building cross-Atlantic governance frameworks for midmarket leadership and Private Equity investors to map data readiness, manage algorithmic bias, and support commercial revenue.

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ABOUT CSHR

Who We Are

We are strategic governance advisors built for a new era of global commerce, technology integration and cross-border accountability. We sit at the intersection of operations, regulatory strategy and commercial reality, helping corporate boards, Private Equity deal teams, and midmarket executives clear structural growth hurdles, support commercial market access and protect investment viability.

In a shifting operational landscape, robust supply chain and data governance serves as a foundational framework to protect your market position, mitigate enterprise vendor volatility, and support revenue durability.

We guide organizations out of a reactive, defensive posture by delivering the baseline frameworks your business can utilize to build resilient internal infrastructure. By evaluating existing tech stacks, identifying hidden data blind spots and designing practical roadmaps for emissions tracking and human rights due diligence, we help position your business to align with the evolving purchasing criteria of global enterprise buyers. Our advisory frameworks are designed to support your revenue durability, de-risk your cross-border market access and enable your leadership to leverage data readiness as a distinct competitive advantage.

What We Do

We work directly with leadership teams, investment partners, and midmarket operations to build organized internal governance frameworks designed for cross-border procurement and to support long-term revenue durability. Our strategic advisory services focus strictly on practical corporate governance:

AI Governance & Vendor Inventory: Conducting AI inventory and vendor regulatory alignment, use-case mapping, documentation protocols, and internal oversight pathways across clinical, operational and supply chain settings, flagging third-party data liabilities and designing governance strategies to surface hidden human rights and operational risks.
Commercial Sourcing & Human Rights Due Diligence: Structuring multi-tier value chain frameworks that map suppliers past Tier-1, identifying localized labor vulnerabilities and satisfying the intensifying human rights criteria of Fortune 500 buyers.
Scope 3 Emissions Governance: Building practical data-collection roadmaps and baseline frameworks for midmarket emissions reporting, enabling suppliers to deliver clean carbon data to enterprise buyers facing immediate regulatory disclosure mandates.
Portfolio Governance Reviews: Assessing cross-border data cliffs, EU market access exposure, and unpriced ESG compliance liabilities during private equity due diligence.

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Who We Serve

We partner with forward-looking midmarket leadership teams, operational executives, and investment professionals who need to clear complex cross-border hurdles, fulfill buyer data calls, and protect the value of their corporate assets.

Midmarket Manufacturers, Retailers, and Logistics Networks Tier-1 and Tier-2 suppliers managing indirect commercial exposure to the SB 253/261 Climate Accountability Package, upcoming EUDR/EPR deadlines, and global value chain due diligence mandates.
Regional Hospital Systems and Healthcare Service Organizations whose providers are navigating the operational intersection of patient data privacy, medical textile supply disruption, and the rapid deployment of automated clinical infrastructure.
MedTech Developers and Digital Health Innovators with out-of-state and domestic software vendors deploying clinical AI tools into California health systems under the strict, extraterritorial oversight of state AI mandates and CCPA/CMIA frameworks.
Private Equity Investors and Institutional Asset Managers with Deal teams and portfolio operating partners evaluating unpriced ESG data cliffs, algorithmic software bias, and cross-Atlantic compliance liabilities during pre-acquisition and sell-side due diligence.

Within those organizations, we partner most closely with boards, chief risk officers, general counsel, compliance and ESG leaders, and portfolio-level governance leads.

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How We Work

CSHR’s advisory approach is anchored by four core principles designed to respect your operational boundaries, optimize resource allocation, and protect commercial revenue:

Systems, Not One-Offs: We assist clients across California, the US, the UK, and the EU in building cohesive, foundational governance frameworks that adapt to varying regional rules and jurisdictions, rather than treating each legislative update as an isolated crisis.
Right-Sized for Mid-Market Reality: Governance aligns with your available time, personnel, and bandwidth. We design data-collection roadmaps intended to be fully owned, maintained, and executed by your existing internal teams, minimizing permanent reliance on external advisors.
Integrated by Design: Because AI tools, Scope 3 metrics, and human rights obligations naturally overlap within the same supply chains and healthcare workflows, we analyze and organize these data tracks collectively to prevent internal information fragmentation.
Structured for External Evaluation: We operate on the assumption that an external stakeholder — whether an enterprise buyer, Private Equity investor, payer, or regulator — will eventually request to review your operational documentation and decision-making logic. Our work focuses on helping your team build clear, organized data records so those reviews proceed systematically.

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CSHR FOUNDER & PRINCIPAL

Jessica West

Jessica advises leadership teams and investors on building practical supply chain governance frameworks within high-exposure sectors, helping organizations develop a clearer operational picture of where their AI, ESG, and human rights risks reside.

She brings more than 15 years of experience spanning institutional finance, entrepreneurial leadership, research institutions, and advisory roles across ESG, human rights, and responsible technology. This diverse background enables her to collaborate across legal, clinical, operational, and investor stakeholder groups, aligning cross-functional teams around a shared, structured approach to data readiness and risk management.

Her advisory work centers on designing frameworks that clarify internal accountability, strengthen executive oversight and support long-term revenue durability. These systems are structured to help organizations manage data transparency, reputational stability and institutional credibility as California, UK, EU and broader industry expectations evolve.

Where appropriate, her engagements use structured governance blueprints to help organizations define project scope, evaluate existing tech stacks, identify hidden data blind spots, and design practical roadmaps for emissions tracking and human rights due diligence, enabling leadership to leverage governance as a distinct competitive advantage.

Learn Whether CSHR is a Fit

If you are responsible for overseeing AI governance, Scope 3 data, or human rights risks in a mid-sized healthcare organization, a supply-chain-intensive business, or an active private equity portfolio, we can help your team build resilient governance frameworks to clear structural growth hurdles and meet the evolving expectations of your enterprise buyers.