Embracing and achieving a meaningful and transformative level of sustainability calls for new ways of thinking. A Leadership Approach to Corporate Sustainability goes beyond a technical orientation to making progress. The program explores the adaptive nature of sustainability and leadership perspectives necessary to realize the ultimate ambitions of sustainability: a desired and thriving future for business, society, and the planet. It addresses the potent yet less understood intangible dimension of leader mindsets, the role of culture, and the change processes that support success at each stage of the journey.

This hands-on program explores the arena of business sustainability and how to successfully meet the economic, social, and environmental challenges at company and societal levels. The program introduces a five-stage framework for understanding the sustainability journey, describes key success factors, and addresses the leadership mindsets that drive success or failure.The program draws from sustainability efforts at prominent global corporations, emphasizing the ingredients that underpin constructive progress.

The program places business sustainability in a wider context by providing a big-picture review of our era of extraordinary change. Explore the impact of these changes on society as a whole and the need for new dimensions in leadership. Consider the resilience that your organization - its systems, resources, employees, customers, and stakeholders - must have to build a sustainable future.

• Delineate the stages of development for organizations along the sustainability journey - including the relationship to system crises and resilience needed for future success.
• Get a reality check regarding where your organization resides on the sustainability journey, including assessment within a five-stage action framework and review of readiness for shocks and breakdowns.
• Gain foresight into an ongoing series of shocks likely to result from drivers and trends in motion across the world and the combination of systems breakdowns, surprises, and breakthroughs underway and likely to coalesce.
• Learn from the experience of other organizations about the key factors for success on the sustainability journey, with a comparative review of your organization’s strengths and weaknesses in relation to them.
• Gain perspective about leader mindsets, capacities, and development and how they directly impact the sustainability success equation and response to larger sustainability needs across society.
• Understand why large-scale change efforts similar to sustainability so frequently fail - and learn how your organization can sidestep these mistakes.

Executives, senior managers, and organizational leaders with responsibility for sustainability strategy and implementation, change, organizational development, and business futures from a strategic viewpoint. All leaders at any level interested in and open to thought-provoking realities and paradigm-shifting perspectives are invited to attend.

• Realities, trends, and drivers of the era of extraordinary change
• Five-stage framework for understanding corporate sustainability
• Key factors for success in achieving continual sustainability progress
• Leadership in the face of corporate sustainability challenges
• How to create an integrated approach to sustainability

The program combines short presentations, hands-on maps and tools, and interactive inquiry and dialogue, all of which allow participants to explore and assess their own organizational situation and progress as well as contribute to the insights of others. You will leave with an understanding of the challenges and a high-level review of your organization’s current progress and the means to craft a compelling corporate sustainability plan, along with a perspective toward building new levels of organizational resilience.

$2,500

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A discount of 15% will apply to registrations of three (3) or more people from the same company registering as a group for the same specific program. Please note that this offer is contingent upon all registrants enrolling in the same program having the same start date. Program cancellations and program transfers affecting the minimum number of people enrolled in the program for which the discount applied will void the discount.

 
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