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    Your Winning Sustainability Strategies learning journey

    Designed to help you unlock new business opportunities with sustainable business practices.

    Your Winning Sustainability Strategies learning journey

    Designed to help you 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:

    Unit 1: Business in a changing world
    • Find out about the SDGs and sustainability trends.
    • Identify key global sustainability trends relevant to your 3-5 year business strategy.
    • Learn about the vectoring model and its component parts.
    • Complete the sustainability scoresheet for your organization.
    • Meet your coach, buddy, and group.
    Unit 2: Developing purpose-driven organizations
    • Understand the importance of focus on specific sustainability issues.
    • Learn about the concept of materiality.
    • Apply materiality to your own organization.
    • Reformulate company purpose.
    Unit 3: Reporting on targets and progress
    • Learn how to design a robust sustainability reporting framework for your own company.
    • Understand how to embed the SDGs into your business strategy.
    • Find out how to successfully position sustainability within a modern business context.
    Unit 4: Transformation towards a circular economy
    • Understand how to address opportunities and threats arising from the circular economy.
    • Apply tools such as the waste hierarchy and stakeholder partnerships.
    • Examine circular strategies for solution development.
    Unit 5: Implementing sustainability
    • Learn how to create a high-level action plan to implement sustainability strategy in your organization.
    • Examine the potential of innovation platforms and collaborative networks.
    • 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.

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    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.

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