ESG Leadership Skills for Transition to Sustainable Business
Learn the skills to integrate ESG principles across your company and broader ecosystem. Join our comprehensive, fully online programme.
Upcoming programmes
Format:
Dates:
Duration:
Fees:
Online
19 Feb-2 Apr 2025
6 weeks (4-5 hours per week)
£2,100 + VAT
Online
11 Jun-23 Jul 2025
6 weeks (4-5 hours per week)
£2,100 + VAT
Upcoming programmes
Format:
Online
Dates:
19 Feb-2 Apr 2025
Duration:
6 weeks (4-5 hours per week)
Fees:
£2,100 + VAT
Format:
Online
Dates:
11 Jun-23 Jul 2025
Duration:
6 weeks (4-5 hours per week)
Fees:
£2,100 + VAT
Overview
The green transition is a strategy involving social and organisational change to help people adapt and transform their current practices in anticipation of a more environmentally sustainable future. The transition will not be possible if people do not develop the proper knowledge and skills needed to make this future attainable. By participating in this programme, you are joining the growing network of people who are developing these skills and working together in the fight for environmental sustainability.
Benefits and career impact
Whether you are looking to participate in current green opportunities in your workplace or reorient your skill set to focus on sustainability, Skills for the Green Transition will give you the opportunity to explore the possibilities. You will start with a look at the science behind the green movement and learn more about why this is an unavoidable transition. Next, you will consider the shifting relationship between business and environmental sustainability. With that background, you will then deepen your understanding of the organisational change and personal leadership skills needed for the green transition to be successful. This programme is designed for mid-career professionals who are looking to start implementing ESG initiatives within their organisation.
- Recognise the importance and urgency of environmental sustainability trends.
- Describe how environmental sustainability is impacting markets and organisations.
- Recognise the personal skills and developmental journey required to operate effectively in the green transition.
- Develop your own leadership skills and style to enable you to drive your organisation’s transition.
- Identify tools and frameworks that enable organisational change.
- Develop your own action plan adapted to the opportunities and constraints present within your own organisation.
- Identify your action priorities and understand how to measure the outcomes.
Leadership, knowledge and skills are key to delivering a successful green transition for all organisations. Delegates on our ESG Leadership Skills for Transition to Sustainable Business programme will gain the abilities necessary to drive impactful ESG change within their own organisations.
Programme content
Programme orientation
- Programme introduction.
- Learning platform overview.
- Goal setting and reflection on current challenges.
Module 1: The burning platform for change
- Planetary boundaries and climate change vocabulary.
- The intergovernmental panel on climate change.
- Adaption and mitigation in your organisation.
Module 2: The impact of sustainability and environmental concerns on markets and organisations
- Organisations & the green transitions.
- Governmental pressures in your organisation.
- Organisational identity and invisible norms.
- Societal pressures in your organisation.
- Crafting culture within your organisation.
Module 3: Leading organisational change
- Challenges and opportunities to change.
- Reorienting organisational goals, decision making and action.
- Organisational culture and change.
- Larger systems change.
Module 4: Personal transformation and leadership skills for the green transition
- Transactional versus transformational leadership.
- Leadership styles.
- Emotionally intelligent leadership.
- Characteristics of transformational leaders.
- Sustainability storytelling.
- Collaboration in the green transition.
- Your leadership challenges.
Module 5: Call to action
- Developing your action plan.
- Prioritising your actions using effort and impact.
How you learn: Online
Our fully online programmes run over the course of multiple weeks, allowing you a greater level of flexibility as to where and when you study. The learning is carefully structured in weekly components of approximately 4-5 hours per week. Support is available via our Online Programmes Support Team.
Who attends
- Mid-career professionals eager to equip themselves for roles in the sustainability sector.
- Executives tasked with sustainability-related responsibilities, seeking deeper insights into pertinent issues.
- Organisational leaders aiming to embrace and integrate ESG principles across their company and broader ecosystem.
- Individuals aspiring to transition into sustainability-focused roles and seeking to ready themselves for this shift.
Faculty and speakers
Learn from our world-class faculty who bring fresh insights from their leading-edge research into all of our Executive Education programmes. The Academic Programme Director (APD) for the ESG Leadership Skills for Transition to Sustainable Business programme is Dr Simon Learmount.
Fellow of the Centre for Business Research (CBR)
PhD (University of Cambridge)
Co-Director of the Centre for International Human Resource Management (CIHRM)
PhD (University of London)
PhD (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Stephen holds an honorary title from Cambridge Judge Business School.
Why Cambridge Judge Business School?
Related programmes
ESG Leadership Skills for Transition to Sustainable Business belongs to our Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG)-topic executive education programmes. Here is a selection of related programmes.
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Circular Economy and Sustainability: Impact on Business Models, Finance and Investments
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Environmental, Social and Governance Leadership: A Pathway to Business Sustainability
Explore consumer, stakeholder and competitor issues surrounding ESG on this 4-day programme.
Speak to a programme advisor
If you have any questions or would like to discuss how this programme could benefit you or your organisation, please get in touch with the programme advisor.
