This course is NOT designed for a career in Sustainability, but instead, designed to thread Sustainability into your careers, irrespective of where you work in an organisation.

The time to Act is NOW. Learn how to influence and build a business case for sustainable change from within an organisation, growing PROFITS whilst enhancing your organisational SUSTAINABILITY FOOTPRINT.

In this course, we journey through 7 areas of sustainable thinking and provide a DIGITAL CERTIFICATE and BADGE on completion. We also plant 1 TREE for every HOUR spent learning, offsetting on average 1,000 kg of CO2 per course, the equivalent of 16 short-haul flights between London & Paris.

Benefits to an organisation:

1. Differentiate yourself against your peers & create a competitive advantage (Sustainable companies will have a 5-15 year head-start against those that don’t embrace a purpose-led business).
2. Reduce employee attrition rates – Discover how to thread sustainability into the organisational fabric with 100’s of hours of sustainability trainings acoss your employee base.
3. Customer loyalty – Clients are increasingly concerned about their supply chains and are demanding greater transparency and trust across their value chains – both upstream and downstream.
4. Investors – Are screening for red flags and fatal flaws in their portfolio companies to reduce risk and drive incremental revenue opportunities. $35 trillion were invested in impact projects between 2016-2018.
5. Government – Need the support of the private sector to accelerate social impact and sustainable companies are increasingly getting a seat at the table to help deliver on sustainability projects – educating girls in STEM, planting of trees, product innovation for circular systems, power & energy efficiencies etc.

Course Curriculum:

Welcome

Introducing sustainability

1. Defining sustainability
2. Digital transformation
3. Earth overshoot days
4. The United Nations SDGs

Sustainability in business

1. Breaking the habit
2. Winds of change

Stakeholder footprint

1. The ecosystem
2. The employee
3. The client
4. The consumer
5. The government

Financing change

1. Blackrock
2. Impact investing
3. Investing in a crisis

Consequences of inaction

1. Structural breakdown

Industry insights

1. Food retail
2. Retail
3. Farming & agriculture
4. Travel & transportation
5. Energy & utilities
6. Technology

New beginnings

1. Small steps, big impact
2. New beginnings
3. Certification and Digital Badge