Winning Sustainability Strategies

IMD Business School

Sustainability

About Programme

Are you looking at transforming your organization towards a more sustainable business model? How do you develop a clear business case for your approach to sustainability? IMD’s Winning Sustainability Strategies program is designed to help you integrate sustainability into your strategy, ensuring your business remains competitive, resilient, and future-fit amidst a shifting regulatory landscape.

The program equips you with a practical framework for identifying and evaluating the relative performance of sustainability programs. You will learn to use “vectoring” as a key strategic tool to develop your own sustainability plan, embed the UN Sustainable Development Goals into your company’s core strategy, and assess the impact of sustainability programs on competitiveness. In addition, you will also understand CSRD reporting essentials, ensuring your initiatives align with evolving regulatory requirements.

At the end of the program, you will not only have your fully developed sustainability plan for lasting change but will also be equipped with applicable tools and insights on driving performance and innovation through a coherent sustainability strategy.

IMD is committed to equipping leaders with critical sustainability capabilities. To support this mission, we offer limited funding support. Contact our Program Advisor team for details.

Formulate ESG reporting frameworks

Design a robust sustainability reporting framework for your own company that aligns with essential standards.

Leverage vectoring for strategic advantage

Gain comprehensive insights into the vectoring model and its application as a powerful strategic tool.

Unlock the power of materiality

Discover the concept of materiality and its profound implications for your business, empowering you to harness its power and create meaningful impact.

Identify circular economy opportunities

Explore a vast array of business opportunities emerging from the circular economy, enabling you to capitalize on sustainable practices and innovative business models.

Build a comprehensive action plan

Develop a high-level action plan to drive transformative change within your organization, ensuring a cohesive and impactful sustainability strategy.

This program is part of our broader portfolio of sustainable business programs for executives , designed to help you embed sustainability as a strategic advantage and build an organization that stays competitive, resilient, and future-ready.

Programme Content

Unit 1: Business in a changing world

Explore SDGs and global sustainability trends.

Identify key global sustainability trends relevant to your 3-5 year business strategy.

Examine what leadership is needed to embed sustainability into your core strategy, build a culture of sustainability, and leverage the positive impact of corporate behavior on performance.

Assess your company’s current sustainability performance.

Learn about the vectoring model and its component parts.

Meet your coach and fellow learners.

Unit 2: Developing purpose-driven organizations

Understand the importance of focus on specific sustainability issues.

Learn about the concept of materiality and apply it to your own organization.

Reformulate your company’s purpose to align with its sustainability strategy.

Unit 3: Reporting on targets and progress

Understand the essentials of CSRD reporting and a double materiality assessment. Learn how to design a robust sustainability reporting framework for your own company.

Apply double materiality to your own organization.

Build a compelling sustainability business case.

Understand how to embed the SDGs into your business strategy.

Apply the ESG program canvas to your organization.

Unit 4: Transformation towards a circular economy

Understand how to address opportunities and threats arising from the circular economy.

Learn how strategic partnering can create value along the supply chain.

Discover the waste hierarchy to approach transitions towards a circular economy.

Examine circular strategies for solution development.

Unit 5: Implementing sustainability

Learn how to create a high high-level action plan to implement sustainability strategy in your organization.

Examine the potential of innovation platforms and value chain collaboration.

Explore how to drive fundamental change such as energy transition.

Anticipate resistance and obtain superior engagement from teams.

Programme Benefits

Designed for impact and delivered for you, IMD’s online programs help you achieve your aspirations wherever you are in your career or the world. Here’s what makes the IMD online program experience exceptional.

Access to thought leadership

Tap into the expertise of IMD’s faculty – globally recognized experts in their fields – wherever you are.

Personalized coaching

Benefit from one-on-one support from an experienced executive coach who helps you apply new insights to your own context.

Global peer interaction

Collaborate with participants from around the world through group and pair work that challenges your thinking and broadens your perspective.

Flexible format

Engage in a structured yet flexible learning experience that enables you to progress at your own pace and complete weekly assignments around your busy schedule.

Applied learning for real impact

Apply what you learn right away through practical assignments designed to make a direct impact on your work.

Testimonials

"The program was curated to help integrate sustainability into corporate strategy, ensuring the business remains competitive, resilient, and future-fit amidst a shifting regulatory landscape. Coupled with a very practical tool – the vectoring model – it was a perfect blend of theory and real-world cases to bring actionable insights to our daily work."

Chirag Mehrotra

Director Sustainability Customer Business Partner, Tetra Pak, Italy

"The Winning Sustainability Strategies program has allowed me to rethink the way I support my clients on their journey towards stronger sustainability. I can now offer them an interesting methodology that allows them an intelligent and efficient transformation rather than heavy and unapplicable processes."

Nadia Boulifa

Social Impact Expert and Sustainability Advisor, Switzerland

"The program was an awesome experience. I took away so many things to implement at work, like understanding that organizations must now be purpose-driven, report on targets and progress, transform to a circular economy, and have sustainability as a key pillar."

Vanessa Green

APAC Quality Director, Vita Coco, Singapore

"Winning Sustainability Strategies is a very worthwhile course. The excellent content is well structured and the case studies provide great insight."

Ian Burn

Director of Marketing & Sustainability, Camira, United Kingdom

"The Winning Sustainability Strategies program equips you with a practical framework for identifying and evaluating the relative performance of sustainability programs. You will learn to use “vectoring” as a key strategic tool to develop your own sustainability plan, embed the UN Sustainable Development Goals into your company’s core strategy, and assess the impact of sustainability programs on competitiveness."

Christoph Thomet

Former CEO Richemont Middle East, India & Africa Dubai, United Arab Emirates

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Prashansa Uttam

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+91 9403890085[email protected]Mon – Fri, 9am – 5pm IST

IMD Business School

Executive Education Office

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Lausanne, Switzerland

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