Sustainability Essentials 鈥� Business Toolkits for Leaders

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Developing practical capabilities to lead your organisation towards sustainability.

Innovative. Practical. Impactful.

Sustainability is a complex and multidimensional issue. Individuals and organisations require practical tools and skills as well as knowledge to make real world progress, within the economic, social, and political dynamics that impact sustainability initiatives, ensuring business success by implementing strategies that keep you ahead of legislation, respond to stakeholder pressures and changing customer demands.

The Sustainability Essentials – Business Toolkits for Leaders programme is designed to equip you with highly applicable knowledge, tools and practices to lead sustainability with impact, accelerating positive change in your organisation and with business partners.

Redefine your understanding of sustainability, deepen your skills and practical impact as a sustainability champion, and learn how to influence and lead others to generate long-term value for your organisation.

Key Learnings

Lead with Impact

Gain a comprehensive understanding of where sustainability is an opportunity or threat to your organisation, and how to develop a dynamic action plan that will inspire and mobilise the transformation required.

Sustainability Knowledge

Establish a strong working knowledge of sustainability-related topics, such as net zero, climate change, biodiversity and others, allowing you to effectively influence and lead well-informed change across your organisation.

Leadership and Management

Improve your leadership and management capabilities and skills with practical tools and frameworks enabling you to operate effectively in the complex landscape of sustainability, engaging key stakeholders with authority.

Programme information

Duration2.5 days, residential
LocationOnline and Cranfield campus
Cost£3,500 + VAT, including accommodation.
For online, please . Concessions available

Who should attend?

This programme is suitable for anyone who wants to drive practical and impactful sustainability change in an organisation change in an organisation. This is relevant for professionals in SMEs, large corporations and charities.

This programme is aimed at individuals who:

Are involved with the design and implementation of sustainability changes within an organisation,
Wish to enhance their strategic capabilities, skills, and the ability to implement sustainability strategies,
Are moving into a sustainability role but need to develop their knowledge and understanding of sustainability,
Who needs to gain clarity on the future of sustainable business best practices.

Programme outcomes

Influence meaningful change within your organisation.

With access to a highly applicable business toolkit, utilise a range of tools, such as stakeholder mapping and materiality assessments, to understand how you can successfully influence how sustainability practices are shaped within your organisation, and how they can be linked to business objectives that create value.

For you:

A greater knowledge of sustainability, with a personal action plan to take back to your organisation,
Proven techniques to increase your influence and impact across your organisation,
Action-based learning with our award-winning sustainable futures game,
A business toolkit, allowing sustainability challenges to be understood, prioritised, built into a strategy, and acted upon effectively.

For your organisation:

How to effectively evaluate social and environmental issues and create high-impact strategies,
Greater value delivered to your team, your organisation, and society,.
Professional skills in:
- Leading in addressing social and environmental issues within your organisation,
- Sustainability is approached as both a risk and an opportunity for competitive advantage and growth,
- Mobilising solutions to these complex sustainability challenges.

What you'll learn

Empowering the leaders of tomorrow to change your organisation’s future.

Sustainability Essentials – Business Toolkits for Leaders is a transformative programme that gives you depth, time and space you need to refine how you can influence sustainability within your organisation, that makes real change.

During the programme you will develop:

A deepened knowledge of sustainability and how to influence key stakeholders,
Skills needed for sustainability leadership,
Your capabilities to collaborate with stakeholders and understand their needs,
Your skills to identify sources of financial and non-financial value,
The skills to integrate financial strategies with sustainability,
Your innovation in products, services, and business models,
An understanding of three key sustainability themes – net zero, circular economy, inclusion & diversity.

Programme structure

Leading Sustainability Course structure

What you'll experience

Prework 鈥� Online introduction to sustainability

You will be supplied with pre work to complete ahead of this programme.

Immersion in our future

Delve into Cranfield’s award-winning , where you’ll travel forward to 2050, then return to plan actions in the present day, working with colleagues from multiple sectors of the economy.

You’ll reflect on the journey the game has taken you on and what this means for your role and organisation.

Strategy and Planning

Enrich your understanding and knowledge of key sustainability themes and how they relate to your organisation. Develop the know-how to identify new opportunities for your organisation and how to influence business strategy.

Key themes covered are:

Sustainability sourcing,
Climate change,
Net Zero,
Sustainable value,
Biodiversity.

Personal Impact

Continue to explore and enhance your understanding and knowledge of key sustainability themes and how you can increase your personal impact across your organisation.

Key themes covered are:

Global Supply Chains,
Circular Economy,
Developing practical, innovative ideas which will transform social and environmental outcomes for your organisation,
Leadership and your ability to mobilise sustainability in your organisation. You’ll gain a vocabulary to help articulate issues relevant to key stakeholders.

You’ll also work on a personalised action plan for you and your organisation to become pioneers in leading the sustainability agenda.

Certificate

Upon completion of our Sustainability Essentials – Business Toolkits for Leaders programme, you will be awarded a digital certificate from Cranfield Executive Development, and three bronze licenses that you can share with your colleagues for our Sustainability Business Online modules. For more info, visit Sustainable Business.

Unique and practical programme features

Cranfield’s world-class subject matter expertise – drawing on their research and leading capabilities both in organisational management, and in the scientific and engineering disciplines associated with sustainability,
Learn from our faculty, many of whom are experienced business leaders, passionate about the sustainability challenge,
Experience Cranfield’s unique virtual experience – , that empowers, inspires, challenges and educates individuals.
Peer-to-peer learning.
Highly interactive experience, that allows delegates to participate in practical exercises to embed learning and ideas, to take back to their organisations.