What you'll learn:
- Apply ESG and sustainability principles to core business strategy.
- Conduct materiality analysis and stakeholder analysis to identify and prioritize ESG issues.
- Build sustainable business models that deliver long-term stakeholder value.
- Integrate SDGs and circular economy principles into ESG strategy for long-term value creation.
- Plan stakeholder engagement initiatives that build long-term trust and relationships.
- Lead the process to align ESG strategy with organizational purpose and sustainable business model.
- Design a performance management framework for corporate sustainability and ESG using KPIs and balanced scorecard method to track and report impact.
- Develop a business case on sustainable business model innovation
Learn how to lead ESG strategy (with just one course) from materiality analysis to measurable impact: integrating the SDGs and circular economy principles into core business strategy, sustainable business models, and stakeholder engagement for real-world corporate sustainability application.
This course gives you step-by-step, practical training to strategically manage ESG risks and opportunities, create long-term value, and lead the transformation of the current business model into a sustainable business model innovation through a self-paced, hands-on online experience.
Stakeholders increasingly judge companies by their contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals and their commitment to addressing challenges such as climate change, biodiversity loss, resource depletion, and social inequality when making decisions. Climate and nature-related risk can disrupt supply chains and market demand at scale. It is a big business risk in this century. Integrating SDGs and circular economy practices into core business strategies is one of the highest-leverage ESG moves a company can make, and a genuine win-win strategy in ESG.
How this course is structured
You'll work through workbook exercises to build a real business case, live role-plays to practice strategic ESG decision-making, downloadable resources after every session, and short interactive video lessons throughout. This is a comprehensive course design that covers a full range of strategic planning with practical applications to build problem-solving skills to drive Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) innovation and corporate sustainability.
What you'll master:
ESG and Scaling Business Impact
Apply new business success criteria
Build organizational purpose by revisiting vision, mission, and purpose
Integrate SDGs into ESG strategy for value creation
ESG and Value Creation
Conduct materiality assessments and stakeholder analysis
Design and manage stakeholder engagement strategies
Circular Economy and Circularity
Apply systems thinking and circularity principles
Conduct circularity analysis and design waste management approaches
Develop circular supply chain strategies
Sustainable Business Models
Design sustainable business model innovation
Integrate SDGs and circularity strategy into business model innovation
Measuring Corporate Sustainability
Evaluate circularity and measure sustainability performance with KPIs
Apply the sustainability balanced scorecard methodology
Assess ESG performance
Why this course is different
This course isn't a box-checking overview of ESG concepts. You'll build new skills and go beyond a traditional course. You'll integrate SDGs and circularity principles across the business model from stakeholder value proposition through value creation, delivery, and capture using vital frameworks, tools and methods. You'll apply them directly to real business scenarios. Most importantly, you will gain hands-on experience on when and how to use this approach to integrate SDGs and circularity principles into ESG strategy and business models strategically, track and report impact. Hence, this course further strengthens your efforts to become a sustainability leader and supports your career growth.
About your instructor
With over 20 years as a research consultant, I have learned how to tackle real-world challenges like climate risk and resource depletion, with market systems development (value chains and strategic planning) across multiple countries. In the past period, I have delivered hundreds of in-house training sessions for professionals to build skills. This experience, combined with 5 years as an instructor, I've helped over 20,000 learners build practical ESG and corporate sustainability skills to improve their lives via online learning.
Enroll today for immediate access to 5+ hours of video lectures, 26 downloadable resources, and a certificate you can add directly to your LinkedIn profile. Start building the ESG strategy skillset that will prepare you to lead corporate sustainability in your organization. I am here to help you and see you inside the course. Let’s get started.
In this course, all Role Plays were built manually using Udemy's AI-powered Roleplay feature.
