Sustainability Leadership
This programme will provide you with the methods and the mindset to help you create a sustainability plan with real impact for your business
Course key facts
-
Date
28 May - 28 August 2026
Duration
15 weeks
-
Credits
Non credit bearing
-
Format
Online
Fee
£3,000
Overview
Sustainability is changing the very nature of business. A radical rethinking by consumers and investors is pushing corporations to be catalysts in solving the world's biggest challenges.
The Sustainability Leadership programme will provide you with the methods and the mindset to help you create a sustainability plan with real impact for your business. In this programme, you will learn how to run a sustainable business and promote a corporate culture that prioritises social responsibility.
This award-winning 15-week online programme draws on expertise from Imperial Business School faculty, industry experts, and case studies. Your learning is centred around two themes:
Data: with insights from thought leaders at Imperial's Leonardo Centre on Business for Society, you will learn about the GOLDEN database, a digital dataset of sustainability initiatives
Reflection: learn to cultivate a sustainability mindset through an optional meditation track, which research proves is essential for lasting change
You will experience live online teaching sessions, video lectures, interactive activities and assignments whilst receiving personal support from a dedicated Learning Team.
You will finish the programme prepared to implement your learnings, and with a verified Digital Certificate.
The Sustainability Leadership Programme has been awarded the 2023 Financial Times Responsible Business Education Award for driving societal change, promoting sustainable development, and demonstrating novel ways to teach digitally in a more inclusive way.
Learning Journey
Module 1: The environmental impacts of business
Module 2: The social impacts of business
Module 3: Assessments and operations
Module 4: Sustainable business model innovation
Module 5: Sustainable business strategies
Module 6: The role of finance and integrated reporting
Module 7: Purpose-driven leadership and incentive systems for sustainability
Module 8: Organisational culture change and the purpose of the organisation
Module 9: Stakeholder integration in governance
Module 10: The purpose-driven flourishing enterprise
Module 11: Leading ecosystem change
Module 12: Transformation roadmap presentations
Course details
- Cultivate the mindset to create lasting change
- Identify processes that sustain business model innovation
- Create a triple bottom line business canvas for your organisation
- Articulate how sustainability fits into a competitive business strategy
- Determine your personal purpose as a leader
- Develop a change plan towards a flourishing organisational culture
- Integrate stakeholder needs into alternative corporate governance structures
- Use the 6P model to evaluate your organisation's sustainable development
This international programme is designed for individuals who are interested in building a comprehensive understanding of sustainability as a business practice. It is particularly relevant for roles including:
- Senior executives responsible for overall business growth and strategic initiatives who are seeking to make strategic changes to their organisation to make it more sustainable
- CSR and sustainability specialists, who are seeking to minimise their organisation's negative environmental and social impact through sustainability practices
- Mid- to senior-level functional managers in traditional industries such as energy, industrial goods, logistics, and manufacturing, who are seeking to contribute to their organisation's sustainability efforts within their function and to gain an understanding of how sustainability will affect their current role and business practices
- Consultants seeking to offer their clients solutions to help them achieve their sustainability goals, to keep up with industry trends in sustainability and to gain a respected credential to demonstrate specialisation in sustainability consulting
Upon successful completion of this programme, you will receive a verified digital certificate of completion via email.
Note: You will earn the Associate Alumni status upon successful completion of the programme. Visit the Associate Alumni page to find out more.
Take your partnership with Imperial to the next level by becoming an Associate Alumnus. Complete one (1) of our on-campus, online, and virtual programmes to claim 'Associate Alumnus' status and join our active alumni community.
Some of the benefits of becoming an Associate Alumnus include:
- Access to the Imperial Alumni LinkedIn group
- Invites to relevant events and webinars
- 25% Discount on future learning for yourself and up to three your colleagues
If you are interested in finding out more, contact us today!
Course instructors
.png)
Maurizio Zollo
Scientific Director of the School's Leonardo Centre on Business for SocietyHis research aims to understand how business organisations learn to grow and adapt to environmental turbulence and how managers can guide these evolutionary processes. His research has been published in several leading journals, including the Academy of Management Journal, the Academy of Management Review and the Strategic Management Journal. His work has been covered in mainstream publications including Harvard Business Review, the Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal. Professor Zollo is Editor-in-Chief of Organization & Environment and a past editor of the European Management Review. He served for a decade on the Executive Committee of the Academy of Business in Society, which he helped establish in 2002.
-(4).png)
Frank Brueck
Leadership Lab LeadFrank 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.
Livio Scalvini
Executive Director of the Leonardo Centre on Business for SocietyWith 25 years of international experience in sustainability, entrepreneurship, innovation, social impact, venture and corporate venture capital, strategy, marketing, and investment banking, Livio Scalvini is Executive Director of the Leonardo Centre on Business for Society. He is also cofounder of the GOLDEN for Impact Foundation and CEO of the GOLDEN for Impact Benefit Corp. He holds a degree in economics and business administration, and a Master's degree in macroeconomics and international finance from Universita degli Studi di Torino. Livio has held managerial positions and helped accelerate 1200 startups, advised large corporations on open innovation and stakeholder integration, and built tech-matchmaking platforms for more than ten thousand SMEs.