Sustainability Leadership and Corporate Responsibility - Online

London Business School

Leadership

About Programme

Secure sustainable success. Build the strategy to transition to responsible business, and transform your competitive advantage.

Programme Content

What you Learn:

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.

How you Learn:

Learn online from anywhere in the world: Through a blend of engaging digital content including a collaborative webinar where you'll share key learnings. You'll work through six modules at your own pace in the space of six weeks

Work alongside our expert faculty: Collaborate on activities and experience engaging delivery in a digital classroom

Track your progress: Reach your objectives through dedicated learning coaches

Access industry-leading research : Gain insights from Associate Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship Ioannis Ioannou

Explore frameworks: Benefit from applied implications and practitioner frameworks and insights

Peer to peer learning: Contribute to peer to peer online discussions with a diverse cohort of powerfully charged business minds

Programme Audience

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 leadership, 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.

Programme Benefits

Good for you:

Build the fundamental knowledge of sustainability leadership 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 a 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

Good for your Organisation:

Invest in your greatest talent and develop the next generation through sustainable leadership development

Future-proof your organisation and gain long-term competitive advantage

Transition to a more responsible and sustainable business model which creates positive social impact and superior financial results

Reconceptualise the critical global challenges facing your business and transform them to profitable and scalable growth opportunities

Testimonials

"With the wide variety of tools and frameworks I was introduced to I am now ready to apply the knowledge gained to create and lead tangible sustainable improvements i"

Isaac Mate

Group Health, Safety, Environment and Risk (HSER) Director - CEC Africa Investments Limited

"The course gave me strong foundation that enabled me to shape our sustainability strategy and support and reinforce my own thinking and conviction"

Ben Stevenson

Chief of Staff | Head of Sustainability, Bloom Procurement Services

"The course gave me a holistic view of sustainability in business that I have been able to share with my colleagues"

Zahra Afshar

Head of Legal, Human Rights and Sustainability at Ahmad Tea Ltd.

"We wanted to lead sustainability from the top down and not just have one person responsible for it which is what we had The course provided me with the tools I need"

Emilie Dardaine

Board chairman, Cafetalera Nicafrance (located in Nicaragua)

"To transition an organisation to a more responsible business model it all starts with a change in mindset"

Susan Zhang

Country Development Manager, Amazon Australia

"SLCR gave me the tools I was looking for to create a convincing business case for sustainability within our organisation"

Erin Durham

Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Kline & Company

"No matter how good you think you are as a leader you will emerge as a better and more responsible leader at the end of this course"

Kishan Changlani

Director Client Engagement – Wipro Digital, Sustainability head – Wipro Cares UK&I Chapter

"As a group of learners we were guided through the materials of each week and learned from each other as each of us applied the ideas to their own business This prov"

Barbara Ormsby

Consultant – Salzburg, Austria

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London Business School

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