Essentials in Sustainability Management

Sustainability is reshaping how organisations define value, manage risk, and pursue long-term success. This course provides a practical understanding of sustainability management as a strategic priority, equipping you with the tools to integrate sustainability into your organisation’s core strategy and operations. You will learn how to align profit with purpose, identify and prioritise key sustainability issues, design and implement effective strategies, and how to leverage disclosure on your sustainability results through reporting.


Plan for about 8 to 9 hours to work through the full course content.

Here's what you'll learn:

Understand the strategic imperative of sustainability and how aligning business purpose with impact can drive both profit and positive change.
Learn to identify, frame, and prioritise key sustainability issues relevant to your organisation through stakeholder engagement and materiality assessment.
Develop an understanding of how to design, implement, and integrate a sustainability strategy into core business operations, translating priorities into actionable targets.
Become familiar with key sustainability frameworks, tools, and the evolving landscape of sustainability reporting to ensure accountability and transparency.

Enroll and begin your journey to improve your skills.

7 Lessons

Module 0 - Introduction

Setting the stage.

22 Lessons

Module 1: Purpose and profit

Understand the strategic imperative of sustainability and how aligning business purpose with impact can drive both profit and positive change.

36 Lessons

Module 2: Framing sustainability & stakeholder engagement

Learn to identify, frame, and prioritise key sustainability issues relevant to your organisation through stakeholder engagement and materiality assessment.

48 Lessons

Module 3 - Design a strategy for sustainability

Develop an understanding of how to design, implement, and integrate a sustainability strategy into core business operations, translating priorities into actionable targets.

17 Lessons

Module 4 - Introduction to sustainability reporting

Become familiar with key sustainability frameworks, tools, and the evolving landscape of sustainability reporting to ensure accountability and transparencys.

4 Lessons

Essentials in Sustainability Management

Let’s wrap-up of your journey. Don’t forget your learning log and certificate!

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