Leading Sustainable Business Transformation
In today's conscientious consumer and investor landscape, sustainability is a game-changer. It's no longer confined to specialized departments but woven into the fabric of successful organizations.
Our program offers comprehensive sustainability education to executives and professionals from diverse roles, empowering them to lead sustainable transformations within their areas of responsibilities.
Key facts
Benefits
- Gain comprehensive sustainability knowledge to lead sustainable business transformation in your company
- Learn how to implement sustainability across your company
- Learn from top industry leaders and sustainability experts with a wealth of practical experience
- Get support from your peers in applying the learnings and solving your sustainability challenges
Your profile
- You are a senior manager or functional-level executive and want to contribute to the sustainable transformation of your company, or
- You are leading a business unit or regional subsidiary; or are in charge of a new product, market, or major project initiative and have the ambition to integrate sustainability principles, or
- You hold an executive role within a sustainability function and have a wealth of experience, but you have not undergone any formal sustainability education
Topics
- Global environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) challenges, including the emerging issue of biodiversity loss
- Learning from scientists on climate change and biodiversity
- The business case for sustainability
- Financial risks and sustainability regulation
- Managing and evaluating integrated financial and non-financial performance
- Implementing sustainability in your area of responsibility
- Communicating with impact
- Best practice insights from industry specialists
- Real-life examples of sustainable business transformation from the practitioners
Why choose ESMT?
- ESMT Berlin is consistently ranked as one of the best business schools in Europe for executive education
- This program can be taken as part of the ESMT Postgraduate Diploma in Management
- Diverse classes, interactive exercises and renowned faculty
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Leading Sustainable Business Transformation
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Laura Marie Edinger-Schons
Vilma Luoma-aho
Joanna Radeke
Christof Schenck
Hanna Setterberg
Program Structure
Immerse yourself in the global discourse on ESG challenges—tackling global warming, biodiversity loss, poverty, and inequality. Our program's distinct edge lies in engaging with eminent climate and biodiversity scientists, ensuring you're armed with the latest insights.
We will discuss the business case for sustainability, navigating risks and opportunities amid stakeholder pressure. You will acquire the language of sustainability with key terminologies and frameworks. In collaboration with your peers, you will reflect on your role and responsibility within your company.
On the second day, we will focus on financial risks and regulation, including any relevant current and upcoming sustainability regulations (e.g., EU Taxonomy, CSRD, due diligence in supply chains). You will learn how to manage financial and non-financial performance, skillfully assessing trade-offs and managing conflicting priorities. You will also learn how to integrate financial and sustainability perspectives and prepare to manage and evaluate integrated performance.
You will discover best practices from the industry and we will introduce the individual project assignment, in which you will have an opportunity to create a sustainable business improvement for your function supported by your learning group.
The focus on the third day is on crafting and implementing sustainable business strategies, exploring best practices for setting impactful goals and targets, measuring progress and effectively engaging stakeholders. Featuring contributions from practitioners, best practices, and interactive peer and expert coaching elements, participants will leave with actionable insights and tools to design structured, effective sustainability strategies.
The concluding module will center on refining soft skills related to ESG change management processes, presentation of your individual assessment and celebration of the learning, experience, and collaboration network created in the program. You will advance your proficiency in effective communication. You will have the opportunity to present your project, select the most impactful contributions, and celebrate your achievements with the "Leading Sustainable Business" certificate, alongside your fellow participants.
How you will learn
The program is guided by three core principles: Individualization, allowing you to customize your learning journey; Application Support, promoting practical projects for real impact; and Peer Learning, enabling collaboration to share success stories and overcome challenges.
In this journey, you will learn from top business and natural scientists, engage in workshops with peer consultation, and gain insights from industry experts at the forefront of their fields. Time is set aside for guidance on personal challenges, helping you bridge theory and practice.
ESMT Institute for Sustainable Transformation
The Leading Sustainable Business Transformation program is a flagship initiative of the ESMT Institute for Sustainable Transformation, which stands at the forefront of addressing real-world environmental, social, and governance (ESG) challenges through rigorous academic research. The institute also provides thought leadership for leaders through its longstanding Sustainable Business Roundtable network, alongside initiatives to raise awareness about the pressing sustainability issue of biodiversity loss.
Earn Your Postgraduate Diploma
This program can be taken as part of the Postgraduate Diploma in Management curriculum.
