Imperial Sustainability Leadership Programme
Hold your business to a higher standard
Imperial Sustainability Leadership is an online certificate programme designed to help you create a responsible business model for lasting economic value – one that is purpose-driven to deliver positive environmental and social impact for all stakeholders. Over the course of 15 weeks, you will develop new methods and a new mindset. You will evolve as a business leader while refining a sustainability innovation strategy for your organisation that rises to the challenge of environmental, social and governance (ESG) goals.
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Why take the Sustainability Leadership Programme?
The innovative thinking at Imperial College London has made the school a worldwide leader in the fusion of business, technology and an entrepreneurial mindset. The Imperial Sustainability Leadership programme delivers a curriculum balanced between strategy and finance, created with the goal of helping you reinvent your business as a sustainable organisation:
Cultivate the mindset to create lasting change
Identify the connections between business and social responsibility
Evaluate your organisation’s sustainability-related metrics
Develop a change plan in the direction of a flourishing organisational culture
Use the six Ps model to evaluate your organisation’s sustainable development
Integrate stakeholder needs into corporate governance structures
Explore relevant sustainability case studies
Receive personal support from a dedicated learning team throughout the programme
Earn a verified digital certificate from Imperial College Business School Executive Education
By the end of this 15-week online certificate programme, you will be able to:
Create a sustainability transformation plan for your organisation
Develop a sustainability mindset
Communicate to key stakeholders the connections between economic and environmental success
Imperial Sustainability Leadership Programme has been awarded the 2022 Financial Times Responsible Business Education Award for driving societal change, promoting sustainable development, and demonstrating novel ways to teach digitally in a more inclusive way.
What you will learn
Throughout the programme, your learning will be centred around two threads:
- Data-informed: with insights from the thought leaders at Imperial's Leonardo Centre on Business for Society, which houses the GOLDEN database, you will learn about experimental designs for organisations that help examine the impact of stakeholder-orientated change at the core of business
- Reflective: cultivate a sustainability mindset through an optional meditation track, which research proves is crucial for creating lasting change
Case studies
Examine how innovators in sustainability have stepped up to the challenge of securing a more stable and prosperous future for the planet while securing growth and prosperity for their businesses. See CSR in action from the following examples:
WOK
On its way to becoming the first “green” restaurant in Colombia, Wok had to evaluate whether the benefits of transitioning towards sustainability outweighed the costs and the risks.
NOVOZYMES
Consider the ripple effect when the largest producer of industrial enzymes becomes the world’s first company to craft a corporate strategy based on the United Nations' SDGs.
ENEL
When a global energy company invests in renewable energy sources, it must maintain a dual focus: the health of the planet and shared value creation for its stakeholders.
NOVO NORDISK
As a company’s leadership positions sustainability as its primary strategic objective, how does it integrate the organisational culture and affect operations?
Programme experience
Video lectures
Live webinars
Weekly assignments
Interactive activities
Case studies
Discussions and polls
Dedicated programme support team
Continuous programme access
Who should attend?
This 15-week certificate programme is designed for senior executives and functional managers who are interested in building a comprehensive understanding of sustainability as a business practice. It is particularly relevant for the following roles:
Senior executives responsible for overall business growth and strategic initiatives who are seeking to make strategic changes to their business to make it more sustainable, develop a competitive advantage and develop a positive brand image for investors and shareholders.
CSR and sustainability specialists who are seeking to maximise their organisation’s negative environmental and social impact through sustainability practices, make a business case for new initiatives and build an action plan for meeting the organisation's sustainability goals.
Mid- to senior-level functional managers in traditional industries, such as energy, industrial goods, logistics and manufacturing who are seeking to contribute to their organisation’s sustainability efforts within their function and gain an understanding of how sustainability will affect their current role and business practices.
Consultants seeking to offer their clients solutions to help them achieve their sustainability goals, keep up with industry trends in sustainability and gain a respected credential to demonstrate specialisation in sustainability consulting.
Programme faculty
Professor of Strategy and Sustainability, Imperial College Business School, Head of the Department of Management and Entrepreneurship, Scientific Director of the Leonardo Centre at Imperial
As a professor of strategy and sustainability at Imperial College London, Maurizio Zollo aims to understand how organisations learn to grow and adapt to environmental turbulen...
Visiting Researcher, Imperial College Business School, Cofounder and Executive Vice President of GOLDEN for Impact Foundation, Amsterdam, Director of the IKIGAI Corp.
With more than 25 years of experience as a consultant, trainer, lecturer, and researcher in the fields of CSR/sustainability, cultural change, cross-cultural management, team ...
Executive Director of the Leonardo Centre, Imperial College Business School
With 25 years of experience in sustainability, entrepreneurship, innovation, social impact, venture and corporate venture capital, strategy, marketing, and investment banking,...
Certificate
Upon completion of the programme, participants will be awarded a verified digital certificate by Imperial College Business School Executive Education.
The Imperial learning experience
Human
At Imperial College Business School, we create people-centric learning experiences. From conception through to delivery, we are guided by the principle that learning is a creative, personal and, above all, human process. Our high quality, crafted learning environments are highly interactive, community-orientated and actively tutored. Our programmes offer an engaging experience designed to facilitate natural learning behaviours.
Real
No compromises. Our online programmes offer the absolute equivalent of our campus-based programmes. They adopt the same rigorous academic standards, are delivered via our world-leading faculty and offer a comparable high-touch approach to the classroom experience.
FAQs
Have Questions?
Email: enterprise.clientsuccess@emeritus.org. We attempt to respond to queries in 24 hours or less. However, over weekends and holidays, our responses may take up to 72 hours.