Transform Your Business through Sustainability and Climate Leadership
1h 29mGeneral2023-08-02
Authors

Leyla Acaroglu
LinkedIn Changemaker, Sustainability and Design Provocateur
Course details
Sustainability and climate action have become key requirements for business leadership today. In this course, LinkedIn Changemaker and sustainability and design provocateur Leyla Acaroglu provides the terminology, literacy, and techniques that you need to build a sustainability action plan to transform your business. Leyla explains the steps you’ll need to take to move from business as usual to full systems sustainability. She offers a clear and actionable overview that supports managers and emerging leaders in developing an action plan for sustainability leadership in their organization. Leyla highlights the advantages of taking action now, such as risk resilience, and attracting and retaining talent, and staying ahead of what regulations require. She also presents a response you can use for regions that have already implemented policies, such as the EU. Plus, Leyla gives you guidance on how to avoid greenwashing.
Skills covered
Sustainable Business StrategyBusiness StrategyBusiness Analysis and StrategyLeadership and ManagementOne-Off
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Transform your business through sustainability
1. Sustainability as a Business Objective
- 02 - The five reasons why every business needs a sustainability action plan
- 03 - The three pillars of sustainability - Social, economic, and environmental
- 04 - Building your sustainability journey
- 05 - Tools to activate your sustainability leadership
- 06 - Climate frameworks and regulation compliance
2. Learning the Language
- 07 - Key terms in sustainability and climate literacy
- 08 - ESG
- 09 - The Greenhouse Gas Protocol
- 10 - The circular economy
- 11 - Sustainability impact process
3. Understanding Impacts and Data Collection
- 12 - Environmental management and assessment
- 13 - Conducting environmental audits
- 14 - Life cycle assessment
- 15 - ESG materiality assessment
- 16 - Social impact assessment
- 17 - Supply chain sustainability mapping
4. Apply Specific Leadership Approaches
- 18 - Setting sustainability targets and actions
- 19 - Science-based sustainability targets
- 20 - Developing environmental and social policies
- 21 - Sustainability reporting and transparency
- 22 - Overcoming greenwashing
Conclusion
- 23 - Making your sustainability journey count
- 24 - Your sustainability action plan
- 25 - Transformational leadership
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