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9 October -
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Programme overview
The societal and environmental challenges in front of us are existential. Addressing them calls for a collective effort from all parts of society, including business. Sustainability is no longer an option; it is a requirement for every organisation on the planet. At the same time there are significant opportunities to develop businesses or propositions and improve the lives of customers, colleagues and across society.
Being sustainable in strategy, practice and impact requires going beyond compliance. It involves designing and implementing strategies that create positive and tangible impact and value for your entire ecosystem of stakeholders.
This calls for a holistic and integrated approach that drives value and sustained growth; growth that meets the needs of today as well as those of tomorrow.
To execute truly sustainable strategies, organisations may need new processes, a refined organisational purpose, structural changes, and the systemic controls to align and mobilise your team, function and organisation in order to protect your sustainability action plan from the perils and pitfalls that lie ahead. Some challenges are common to all strategic initiatives – other deeply specific to implementing sustainability strategies.
Designed and delivered by Executive Education Imperial College Business School in collaboration with the Imperial College Leonardo Centre and the Imperial College Centre for Responsible Leadership, Executing Sustainability Strategies is a unique executive education learning journey. The programme gives you the depth, time and space you need to refine and implement your sustainability strategy—with continuous, follow-through support and guidance from the Imperial College ecosystem of world experts in sustainability and leadership.
Through a blended approach of on-campus, online and virtual learning, which includes coaching, mentoring and next-generation meditation techniques, you will develop a sustainable mindset, build the insights, tools and leadership capabilities to:
- Develop a future-proof sustainability strategy expertly geared to your organisation’s objectives.
- Navigate the cultural and political challenges that can derail change initiatives.
- Lead the execution of your sustainability strategy and support your organisation in the transition phase towards more sustainable business.
Who should attend?
Executing Sustainability Strategies is expertly designed for decision-makers who may already have - or wish to refine or review - an existing sustainability strategy for their business. The programme will accelerate your capacity to validate, refine and upgrade your strategy and drive its successful implementation.
This executive education programme welcomes C-suite leaders (including non-executive board members), and functional leads who are charged with developing and executing a sustainability strategy for their area or organisation.
Learning outcomes
- Build the insights to refine and improve the existing sustainability transformation plan for your organisation or function.
- Consolidate the leadership and communication skills and articulate the connections between economic, environmental and social success as you make a compelling business case for change.
- Determine the principal challenges in your organisational culture that could derail your change initiative.
- Develop a leadership sustainability mindset and the associated tools to overcome these challenges and align people around the momentum for systemic change.
- Identify and engage key stakeholders to operationalise your sustainability strategy and put in place the procedures and control mechanisms for successful execution.
What you will learn
Executing Sustainability Strategies is a blended online, on-campus and virtual learning journey that gives you the time, space and follow-through guidance to refine, adapt and execute your strategy for sustainable change in the context of your real-world workplace. Unique in the executive education sustainability space, the programme integrates state-of-the-art learning techniques, including meditation and mentoring and coaching, to accelerate your leadership mindset and capacity to lead change.
Learning happens across four phases, with continuous support and mentoring as you discover and apply new ideas and approaches. You start off with an online phase followed by an on-campus component. Phase three is where you implement your upgraded strategy followed by a fourth phase, six months later, where you meet again in a final virtual session to measure impact, and to capture and share new learning.
Learning Journey
9 October - 3 November 2023
Online, self-paced learning (a total of 4-5 learning hours) and one live virtual session (90 minutes) with faculty and peers.
Access the Imperial College Leaning Platform (The Hub) and assess your organisational readiness for change. Begin the process of validating your existing sustainability strategy and your personal leadership capabilities as a change agent.
6 - 10 November 2023
On-campus: Imperial College London
Through case studies, group work, expert-led discussion and guests from industry, you explore a range of critical ideas and issues.
You consolidate your sustainability leadership mindset and begin to plan the structural changes and resource allocation needed in your control systems, accounting and reporting, and device incentives and new HR processes. While doing so, you plan how to lead this change and how to execute your stakeholder, governance and innovation plan as a leader.
You leave the on-campus phase with an action plan, and you prepare to implement your upgraded sustainability strategy as well as a leadership action plan to lead through change and measure impact.
8 - 31 January 2024
Online, self-paced learning (a total of 4-5 learning hours) and one live virtual session (90 minutes) with faculty and peers.
Implement and deploy your strategic plan back in the workplace, engaging internal and external stakeholders. During this phase, you will be supported in small group mentoring sessions facilitated by Imperial’s experts and practitioners to walk with you during the initial phase of your sustainability strategy execution.
A team of expert coaches and executive meditation coaches will be available for those wishing to have additional individual coaching sessions (fees apply).
At the end of this phase, you will check-in with the cohort and the academic leads to share the progress of your strategic plan in a virtual session.
June 2024
One live virtual session (90 minutes) with faculty and peers.
Measure the impact and initial results of the deployment of your strategic plan, share with and learn from the rest of the cohort.
Programme faculty and experts
Executing Sustainability Strategies is enriched by insights from Imperial College thought leaders: experts from Imperial College Business School, Imperial’s Centre for Responsible Leadership and Imperial's Leonardo Centre on Business for Society, which houses the GOLDEN Sustainability Database. Our world-leading faculty and industry experts will expose you to new evidence-backed, approaches to strategy execution with strong links to industry.
Frank Brueck
Lead of Leadership Lab, Leonardo Centre on Business for Society
Frank Brueck has more than 25 years of experience as a consultant, trainer, lecturer and researcher in the fields of CSR and sustainability, cultural change, cross-cultural management, team building and leadership development.
Frank cofounded the GOLDEN for Impact Foundation and is a founding member of the International Association for Cross-cultural Competence and Management. His research focuses on the methodologies of CSR, cultural comparison, value-based management, sustainability and intercultural management and training. Frank holds a PhD in Business Administration from the Vienna University of Economics and Business in Austria.
Kevin Corley
Professor of Management
Kevin Corley’s expertise lies in the understanding of how individuals and organisations approach change, and how leaders can use times of uncertainty and ambiguity to the benefit of their organisation and followers. As a teacher and coach, his focus is to provide leaders with the tools to successfully implement organisational change utilising strategic thinking, adaptability, power/influence/persuasion, and negotiation.
With both academic and industry experience, and a career-long interest in leading organisational change, Kevin brings value to a broad cross section of industries and organisations.
Maurizio Zollo
Professor of Strategy and Sustainability
Maurizio Zollo is founder and chairman of the GOLDEN for Impact Foundation and directs research on the neuroscience of innovation and sustainability decisions. His research focuses on the active engagement of corporations in the design and execution of field experiments related to innovation or sustainability challenges.
The author of more than 50 publications with citations in 18,000 scientific articles, Maurizio was a strategy consultant and an investment banker before entering academia. He holds a PhD in management from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a Master’s degree in monetary economics from Bocconi University in Milan.
Livio Scalvini
Executive Director, Leonardo Centre on Business for Society
Livio Scalvini has over 25 years of international experience in entrepreneurship, innovation, social impact, venture and corporate venture capital, strategy, marketing and investment banking. He is the co-founder of GOLDEN for impact Foundation and GOLDEN for Impact Benefit Corporation. Previously, he covered several managerial positions in Intesa Sanpaolo, one of the top five Banks in Eurozone.
Livio holds a degree in Economics & Business Administration, Msc in Macroeconomics, Executive Education in Exponential Technologies at Singularity University and Social Entrepreneurship with Ashoka Europe.
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José Rosario
Director of Business Development - Open Programmes