EXCEL focuses on: "How companies can most effectively integrate sustainability into business strategy and operations to deliver core business results".

EXCEL members recognize that corporate sustainability is complex and challenging. Thus, there is significant value in learning from: best practices; problem solving on a collaborative basis; and the action of consider bold new ideas to making sustainability thinking and practices an integral part of corporate performance.

EXCEL helps sustainability and environmental executives, as well as their colleagues in member companies build their capacity to be more effective in delivering tangible and measurable business performance results.