Your Winning Sustainability Strategies learning journey

Unlock new business opportunities with sustainable business practices

Program overview

During this five-week journey, you will build a strong business case for sustainability, better understanding your purpose, your strengths and weaknesses, and emerging opportunities for innovation. You will establish the appropriate targets and monitoring mechanisms, as well as aligning systems required to propel your business forward.

Supported by your executive coach, you will leave with your own action plan, essential for stakeholder buy-in, and all the tools and frameworks to confidently lead your sustainability transformation.

The program is structured in five units, covering the following topics:

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

One-on-one coaching

Throughout your online learning, you’ll be accompanied by an experienced IMD executive coach who will challenge you, encourage you, and provide valuable feedback on your weekly assignments. Together, you’ll dive deeper into the program content and make it meaningful to your own professional context. Your interactions will take place via video, in writing, and over the phone.

An online program participant having a coaching session via video

Achieve your goals

Your expert coach helps you:

Define

Define your learning objectives and stay on track.

Review

Review your progress on a weekly basis.

Overcome

Overcome your challenges.

Apply

Apply what you learn to your own context.

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Earn an IMD Online Executive Certificate

Reinforce and consolidate your expertise in leadership, strategy, or digital acceleration through an immersive, fully online experience incorporating executive coaching.