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
Make a real impact on your organisation’s bottom line
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23 January 2024
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 SpecialistTuition assistance is live as per below schedule. The full programme fee is £3000 as of the start date.
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 organisation 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
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.
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. Using your triple bottom line canvas, develop questions to foster innovative sustainable practices.
*Note: this module spans two weeks.
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. Using your triple bottom line canvas, develop questions to foster innovative sustainable practices.
*Note: this module spans two weeks.
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.
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.
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 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.
Present your transformation roadmap to your peers and prepare to take action within your own organisation.
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.
Download BrochureAt 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.
RealNo 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.
After reviewing the information on the programme landing page, we recommend you submit the short form above to gain access to the programme brochure, which includes more in-depth information. If you still have questions about whether this programme is a good fit for you, please email learner.success@emeritus.org, and a dedicated programme adviser will follow up with you very shortly.
Some programmes do have prerequisites, particularly the more technical ones. This information will be noted on the programme landing page, as well as in the programme brochure. If you are uncertain about programme prerequisites and your capabilities, please email us at the ID mentioned above.
Note that, unless otherwise stated on the programme web page, all programmes are taught in English, and proficiency in English is required.
More than 50 per cent of our participants are from outside the United States. Class profiles vary from one cohort to the next, but generally, our online certificates draw a highly diverse audience in terms of professional experience, industry and geography—leading to a very rich peer learning and networking experience.
Check back at this programme web page or email us to inquire if future programme dates or the timeline for future offerings have been confirmed yet.
Each programme includes an estimated learner effort per week. This is referenced at the top of the programme landing page under the Duration section, as well as in the programme brochure, which you can obtain by submitting the short form at the top of this web page.
We have designed this programme to fit into your current working life as efficiently as possible. Time will be spent among a variety of activities, including:
The programme is designed to be highly interactive while also allowing time for self-reflection and to demonstrate an understanding of the core topics through various active learning exercises. Please email us if you need further clarification on programme activities.
More than 300,000 learners across 200 countries have chosen to advance their skills with Emeritus and its educational learning partners. In fact, 90 per cent of the respondents of a recent survey across all our programmes said that their learning outcomes were met or exceeded.
All the contents of the course would be made available to students at the commencement of the course. However, to ensure the programme delivers the desired learning outcomes the students may appoint Emeritus to manage the delivery of the programme in a cohort-based manner the cost of which is already included in the overall course fee of the course.
A dedicated programme support team is available 24/5 (Monday to Friday) to answer questions about the learning platform, technical issues or anything else that may affect your learning experience.
Peer learning adds substantially to the overall learning experience and is an important part of the programme. You can connect and communicate with other participants through our learning platform.
Each programme includes an estimated learner effort per week, so you can gauge what will be required before you enrol. This is referenced at the top of the programme landing page under the Duration section, as well as in the programme brochure, which you can obtain by submitting the short form at the top of this web page. All programmes are designed to fit into your working life.
This programme is scored as a pass or no-pass. Participants must complete the required activities to pass and obtain the certificate of completion. Some programmes include a final project submission or other assignments to obtain passing status. This information will be noted in the programme brochure. Please email us if you need further clarification on any specific programme requirements.
Upon successful completion of the programme, you will receive a smart digital certificate. The smart digital certificate can be shared with friends, family, schools or potential employers. You can use it on your cover letter or resume and/or display it on your LinkedIn profile.
The digital certificate will be sent approximately two weeks after the programme, once grading is complete.
No, only verified digital certificates will be issued upon successful completion. This allows you to share your credentials on social networking platforms, such as LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.
No, there is no alumni status granted for this programme. In some cases, there are credits that count towards a higher level of certification. This information will be clearly noted in the programme brochure.
You will have access to the online learning platform and all the videos and programme materials for 12 months following the programme start date. Access to the learning platform is restricted to registered participants per the terms of agreement.
Participants will need the latest version of their preferred browser to access the learning platform. In addition, Microsoft Office and a PDF viewer are required to access documents, spreadsheets, presentations, PDF files and transcripts.
Yes, the learning platform is accessed via the internet, and video content is not available for download. However, you can download files of video transcripts, assignment templates, readings, etc. For maximum flexibility, you can access programme content from a desktop, laptop, tablet or mobile device.
Video lectures must be streamed via the internet, and any livestream webinars and office hours will require an internet connection. However, these sessions are always recorded, so you can view them later.
Yes, you can register up until seven days past the published start date of the programme without missing any of the core programme material or learnings.
The programme fee is noted at the top of this programme web page and usually referenced in the programme brochure as well.
Yes, you can do the bank remittance in the program currency via wire transfer or debit card. Please contact your programme adviser or email us for details.
Yes! Please email us with the details of the programme you are interested in, and we will assist you.
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Yes, the flexible payment option allows a participant to pay the programme fee in instalments. This option is made available on the payment page and should be selected before submitting the payment.
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You may request a full refund within seven days of your payment or 14 days after the published start date of the programme, whichever comes later. If your enrolment had previously been deferred, you will not be entitled to a refund. Partial (or pro-rated) refunds are not offered. All withdrawal and refund requests should be sent to admissions@emeritus.org.
After the published start date of the programme, you have until the midpoint of the programme to request to defer to a future cohort of the same programme. A deferral request must be submitted along with a specified reason and explanation. Cohort changes may be made only once per enrolment and are subject to availability of other cohorts scheduled at our discretion. This will not be applicable for deferrals within the refund period, and the limit of one deferral per enrolment remains. All deferral requests should be sent to admissions@emeritus.org.
Flexible payment options available.