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ONLINE COURSE
Sustainability Leadership and Corporate Responsibility
Secure sustainable success. Build the strategy to transition to responsible business, and transform your competitive advantage.
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Course impact
Transition into sustainability
Reconceptualise critical global challenges as sustainable growth opportunities for your business, and achieve positive social impact.
- Good for you
- Good for your organisation
- Build the fundamental knowledge of sustainability, corporate responsibility and ESG needed to address your organisation’s goals and challenges
- Explore the success of responsible organisations, and how to develop these innovative business models
- Understand the trade-offs from integrating sustainability into business practice, and how to generate profit through creative resolutions
- Develop practical frameworks to identify material stakeholders, and create strategy and disclosure practices to meet their conflicting, ever increasing demands
- Examine the challenges of transitioning to a sustainable business model, and learn how to overcome them through identifying the key organisational levers that facilitate change
- Reflect on your role as leader and your ability to affect change, through growing social and environmental challenges
- Gain the confidence to influence other senior executives, and contribute to boardroom discussions on embedding sustainability in your corporate strategy
- Build credibility with a London Business School certificate of completion
We help you to understand sustainability in a strategic, enterprise-wide fashion, to futureproof your organisation whilst maximising your stakeholder engagement and influencing skills. Attendees include:
Individuals seeking to develop their knowledge within sustainability, to provide a competitive advantage for their organisation and to accelerate their careers
Managers with minimal experience in sustainability, who aim to take on responsibilities in this area to impact their organisation’s future
Senior board members aiming to quickly develop a solid foundation on the sustainability issues that are entering board-level discussions
General, project and risk managers, alongside directors, vice presidents and investors from a variety of industries, with broad range of business experience and managerial responsibility.
5
of management experience
required
Who attends
- By nationality
- By industry
Course content
The solution to sustained success
Design, implement and execute sustainability strategies to create lasting competitive advantage
- What you learn
- How you learn
- FAQs
Week One: The Sustainability Challenge – Discover what sustainability really means for business, and why it has become a key strategic consideration for any organisation aspiring to longevity and success.
Week Two: The Sustainability Advantage – Do you want to be a sustainability leader? Build the knowledge and skills to influence your peers and measure your impact, as you pursue both profit and sustainability.
Week Three: Sustainability Leadership in Action – Part one – Witness the concepts we’ve explored applied in real life. Understand the mechanisms through which sustainability leads to value creation from a real business case study, so you can develop and implement them in your own organisation.
Week Four: Sustainability Leadership in Action – Part two – Revisit our case study to discover how they reinvented their business model to become an industry leader in sustainability, and delve into some of the innovative products introduced, and the processes developed.
Week Five: Sustainable Pathways to Value Creation – Explore how sustainability unlocks unique pathways for organisations to generate financial performance and socio-environmental impact. Examine recent developments in AI and big data and their sustainability applications to identify the sustainability value-creating mechanisms that are most relevant in your context.
Week Six: The Roadmap to Sustainability – Understand the four pillars needed to embed a culture of sustainability into your corporate DNA and discover the future trends you and your organisation need to prepare for. Use the tools, frameworks and insights you’ve developed to build a roadmap to achieve your goals and guide your efforts towards sustainability leadership.
Self-paced flexible online learning
Challenge your thinking with our range of online courses for individuals and teams. During this unique digital learning experience, you’ll embark on a self-paced journey with a dedicated Learning Manager over the course of several weeks. We have a variety of courses to suit your individual needs, all of which offer access to the expertise of our world-class faculty, no matter where you are in the world, and an e-certificate on completion.
Up to 18 hours of pre-recorded faculty-led lectures
Learn from industry experts through videos, curated content, assignments and - on select courses - live faculty sessions.
6 weeks, 4-5 hours per week
Experience a journey to suit your schedule with self-paced learning over the course of 6 weeks.
Dedicated learning manager support
Benefit from the support of a learning manager to boost your development.
Global online peer network
Connect and reinforce your learnings with an exceptional group of peers from around the world.
E-certificate on completion
Build credibility with a London Business School e-certificate on completion.
Certificate in Management
This course can also be taken as part of the Certificate in Management. Enhance your leadership approach, hone your business skills and curate your own curriculum with a blend of online and in-person learning.
How to apply
Submit your application through our online application form.
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The fee for the course is £1,995.*
We offer a 25% discount for London Business School Alumni and for those who complete four eligible Certificate in Management or Finance programmes.
For more information on what the programme fee covers, please speak to our Client Relationship Manager.
*Fees are subject to change.
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