The benefit of learning together with your friend is that you keep each other accountable and have meaningful discussions about what you're learning.
Courtlyn
Promotion and Events Specialist
Leadership with a purpose
13 July 2022
15 weeks, online
6–8 hours per week
Our participants tell us that taking this programme together with their colleagues helps to share common language and accelerate impact.
We hope you find the same. Special pricing is available for groups.
The benefit of learning together with your friend is that you keep each other accountable and have meaningful discussions about what you're learning.
Courtlyn
Promotion and Events SpecialistBased on the information you provided, your team is eligible for a special discount, for Imperial Sustainability Leadership Programme starting on 13 July 2022 .
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Have questions? Email us at group-enrollments@emeritus.org.Sustainability is no longer optional. Consumers, employees and investors are pushing hard for organisations to dedicate resources to making a positive contribution to society in line with the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Prioritising corporate social responsibility offers a world of opportunity for your company to do well while it does good.
the sustainability spend is increasing and will be resilient
of respondents in a 2021 study indicated having a sustainable IT strategy with well-defined goals and target timelines in their organisation
of global consumers are willing to pay more for sustainable products
Throughout the programme, your learning will be centred around two threads:
This programme will guide you to maximise the positive environmental and social impact of your business decisions over the course of 15 weeks. You will hear from expert speakers, complete activities and assignments, and, in every module, work on establishing the connection between sustainability and mediation.
Discover how businesses use innovative practices to assess global climate and social challenges, identify how companies can become part of the solution, evaluate strategies for carbon reduction and analyse how global programmes set goals for long-term practices.
Draw strategic connections between sustainability and social inequality by evaluating how business can contribute to reducing or eliminating humanity’s most pressing challenges and defining the metrics for evaluating a successful socially innovative initiative.
Learn how rating agencies evaluate how well organisations meet sustainability goals, explore value chains, trace ESG metrics through the supply chain, identify your organisation’s sustainability-related metrics and create a sustainable value chain strategy.
Consider sustainable business model innovation and its future role by devising creative solutions to challenging problems with a contradiction matrix and creating a triple bottom line canvas for your organisation.
Explore technology’s role in transforming business-as-usual processes and innovation by collaborating on works-in-progress from Module 4, creating and testing a prototype for a social innovation project for your organisation and refining the triple bottom line.
Learn how sustainability supports economic success and can fit into an overall competitive business strategy by exploring how partnerships and M&A deals can help you reach your sustainability goals.
Learn about the finance function as a component of transitioning to sustainability by identifying the impacts of integrated reporting, analysing how finance can support sustainability initiatives and exploring strategies to align an organisation’s investments with sustainability.
Reflect on your leadership goals using the methods of ikigai (finding meaning in your work), examining how incentives help you attract, retain and develop talent, considering incentive systems to reward employees for meeting sustainability goals and “measuring” volunteerism.
Identify the importance of an organisational culture and the values of yours specifically by developing a plan to become a flourishing organisation, evaluating an organisation’s commitment to inclusion and exploring the connection between diversity and sustainability.
Consider how new governance models reflect the new realities of a post-shareholder primacy era by exploring alternative ways of integrating stakeholder voices, identifying the needs of stakeholders through qualitative research and comparing models of governance structure.
Examine how to achieve sustainable development goals (SDGs) by considering whether companies are the problem or the solution to the climate crisis, creating a roadmap for strategic purpose and evaluating your organisation’s sustainable development with the six P's model.
Shift to a flourishing model and create lasting change by examining the role of the organisation in system transformation processes, identifying how an organisation fits within a larger ecosystem and creating a map of relevant stakeholders within your organisation’s ecosystem.
Present your transformation roadmap to your peers and prepare to take action within your own organisation.
Discover how businesses use innovative practices to assess global climate and social challenges, identify how companies can become part of the solution, evaluate strategies for carbon reduction and analyse how global programmes set goals for long-term practices.
Reflect on your leadership goals using the methods of ikigai (finding meaning in your work), examining how incentives help you attract, retain and develop talent, considering incentive systems to reward employees for meeting sustainability goals and “measuring” volunteerism.
Draw strategic connections between sustainability and social inequality by evaluating how business can contribute to reducing or eliminating humanity’s most pressing challenges and defining the metrics for evaluating a successful socially innovative initiative.
Identify the importance of an organisational culture and the values of yours specifically by developing a plan to become a flourishing organisation, evaluating an organisation’s commitment to inclusion and exploring the connection between diversity and sustainability.
Learn how rating agencies evaluate how well organisations meet sustainability goals, explore value chains, trace ESG metrics through the supply chain, identify your organisation’s sustainability-related metrics and create a sustainable value chain strategy.
Consider how new governance models reflect the new realities of a post-shareholder primacy era by exploring alternative ways of integrating stakeholder voices, identifying the needs of stakeholders through qualitative research and comparing models of governance structure.
Consider sustainable business model innovation and its future role by devising creative solutions to challenging problems with a contradiction matrix and creating a triple bottom line canvas for your organisation.
Examine how to achieve sustainable development goals (SDGs) by considering whether companies are the problem or the solution to the climate crisis, creating a roadmap for strategic purpose and evaluating your organisation’s sustainable development with the six P's model.
Explore technology’s role in transforming business-as-usual processes and innovation by collaborating on works-in-progress from Module 4, creating and testing a prototype for a social innovation project for your organisation and refining the triple bottom line.
Shift to a flourishing model and create lasting change by examining the role of the organisation in system transformation processes, identifying how an organisation fits within a larger ecosystem and creating a map of relevant stakeholders within your organisation’s ecosystem.
Learn how sustainability supports economic success and can fit into an overall competitive business strategy by exploring how partnerships and M&A deals can help you reach your sustainability goals.
Present your transformation roadmap to your peers and prepare to take action within your own organisation.
Learn about the finance function as a component of transitioning to sustainability by identifying the impacts of integrated reporting, analysing how finance can support sustainability initiatives and exploring strategies to align an organisation’s investments with sustainability.
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:
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.
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.
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.
As a company’s leadership positions sustainability as its primary strategic objective, how does it integrate the organisational culture and affect operations?
Video lectures
Live webinars
Weekly assignments
Interactive activities
Case studies
Discussions and polls
Dedicated programme support team
Continuous programme access
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:
Maurizio Zollo
Frank Brueck
Livio Scalvini
Maurizio Zollo
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 turbulence. He is founder and chairman of the GOLDEN for Impact Foundation and directs research on the neuroscience of innovation and sustainability decisions. His research has involved the United Nations, European Union, World Bank and the World Economic Forum in developing policies to support and stimulate sustainability.
He holds a Ph.D. in management from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a laurea degree in monetary economics from Bocconi University in Milan.
Frank Brueck
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 building, and leadership development, Brueck cofounded the GOLDEN for Impact Foundation, an international research group focused on sustainability transformation in business. He is a founding member of the International Association for Cross-cultural Competence and Management, the European Academy of Management. His research focuses on the methodologies of CSR, cultural comparison, value-based management, sustainability, and intercultural management and training.
Brueck holds a Ph.D. in business administration from Vienna University of Economics and Business in Austria.
Livio Scalvini
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, Livio Scalvini is executive director of the Leonardo Centre on Business for Society. He is also cofounder of GOLDEN for Impact Foundation and CEO of GOLDEN for Impact Benefit Corp. His primary goal is fostering ecosystems to create positive impact, expanding collaboration between corporations and academia. He has helped accelerate 1,200 startups and built tech-matchmaking platforms for 10,000 SMEs.
Scalvini holds a bachelor’s degree in economics and business administration and a master’s degree in macroeconomics and international finance from Università degli Studi di Torino.
Upon completion of the programme, participants will be awarded a verified digital certificate by Imperial College Business School Executive Education.
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