Leading the Sustainability Transformation
Drive sustainable transformation in your organization with innovation and purpose.
Lead your organization’s sustainable transformation to create a meaningful positive impact and secure a sustainable competitive advantage that will enhance stakeholder value, drive innovation, and ensure long-term resilience.
- Gain Strategic Insight: Research from Boston Consulting Group highlights that businesses incorporating sustainability into their strategic frameworks are 1.4 times more likely to achieve innovation breakthroughs. Explore emerging sustainability trends, such as materiality, circularity, inclusive growth, and ESG reporting, that directly influence risk management, competitive positioning, and long-term value creation.
- Strengthen Stakeholder Relationships: Cultivate the skills and strategies needed to engage stakeholders in meaningful dialogue to create shared value, ensure organizational legitimacy and to catalyze sustainable innovation.
- Embed Purpose: Formulate strategic sustainability initiatives that connect corporate purpose to the company’s operating reality.
- Enhance Capacity for Leading Change: Learn to be an effective internal changemaker for your organization’s sustainability transformation.
- Metrics & Analytics for Success: 74% of CEO’s surveyed in a CEO Pulse Survey, said that they expected to see significant returns on sustainability investments over the next 5 years. In this program you will learn how to establish clear targets, metrics, and processes for tracking and evaluating sustainability performance and impact.
- Applied Learning Experience: Formulate a capstone project, synthesizing program learning into an actionable sustainability initiative for your organization.
- Executives and Senior Leaders, Government and Nonprofit Leaders
- Sustainable leaders influencing transformational change
- Functional leaders championing sustainability and resilience in business operations
- Investors, Asset Managers and Finance professionals
- Business Leaders seeking to transition into sustainability-focused roles
This program integrates leading research with industry best practices, providing you with a solid foundation of evidence-based knowledge and tools to inform your decision-making and drive sustainable business strategies and practices. Through interactive lectures, case studies, group discussions, and experiential learning activities, you will develop the skills needed to effectively manage today's business risks and realize tomorrow's transformational opportunities.
Leading the Sustainability Transformation was developed in coordination with the Erb Institute, which has been at the forefront of business sustainability for over 25 years. The program features executive guest speakers with substantial experience in formulating and executing sustainability strategies.
Every aspect of our in-person and online programs is designed to deliver you a truly world-class experience.
World-renowned Ross faculty experts will guide you through the latest tools and frameworks to enhance your individual and team leadership capabilities while you engage with global participants across diverse industries.
Program directors work closely with faculty before, during, and after the program to ensure you achieve your objectives. Through dynamic, immersive learning experiences–including assessments, simulations, expert panels, and action-based applications–you’ll leave with an actionable plan to implement meaningful change in your organization.
Program managers facilitate a seamless transition between classroom and off-site activities and assist with anything you might need–ensuring your focus is on learning, not logistics.
For more program details, including topics and structure, download the program brochure.
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- Receive a digital badge to showcase on LinkedIn and other social media platforms.
- Earn credit(s) toward the Distinguished Leader Certificate (DLC) for qualifying in-person or online programs. (Only one eligible online program can be counted toward the DLC.)