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Programme Information and Agenda

Plenary sessions will expose delegates to cutting-edge thinking and practice from Faculty and Guest Contributors. Delegates will also spend valuable time in small group discussions to deepen their understanding of what is required and how they can use their roles and spheres of influence to effect change.

Sustainability Practitioner Programme

This is the 31st residential Sustainability Practitioner Programme delivered by CISL South Africa

Overview

The Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership’s executive education builds on Cambridge’s leading-edge capabilities, our unparalleled experience in education for sustainability and our commitment to help organisations in every sector improve their performance towards a sustainable future. 

Through an interactive learning model, we help businesses thrive by addressing pressing social, economic and environmental challenges and focusing on successful leadership of change designed to help business reconcile profitability with sustainability.

Sustainability rests on a simple premise - the inter-connectedness of all things. It requires us to reframe our thinking by asking different questions. Sustainability is no longer simply a bolt-on to a ‘business-as-usual’ approach. It is something that must become deeply embedded in the day-to-day operations of an organisation.

Exit level Outcomes

  • Evaluate the impact of current global, economic, social and environmental pressures on their organisations.
  • Assess the importance of navigating complexity and system-thinking.
  • Recommend how to align sustainability with core organisational strategy.
  • Assess the opportunities for innovation and collaboration with key stakeholders in their context
  • Reflect on the values, thinking and practices that need to be developed to be an effective change agent
  • Construct a practical action plan (within their sphere of influence) to drive internal change

Preparation Material

In preparation for this online course, you are asked to undertake the following Essential Preparation. Specific sessions of the seminar will be based on the assumption that you have undertaken this preparation, and we will ask you to share insights and engage in group discussion based on the reading.

Agenda

Day 1 : Sunday 2 June

Our changing context: System condition and trends in the global and regional context and the implications of these changes.
Understand and explain global systems, pressures and trends and what this means for business.

  • 15.30 – 16.00: Registration
  • 16.00 – 16.45: 1.1 Introduction to Day 1
  • 16.45 – 18.30: 1.2 The World in 2024 – Global Systems, Pressures, and Trends
  • 18.30 – 19.30: 1.3 Syndicate Session 1
  • 19.30 – 20.30: Dinner

Day 2 : Monday 3 June

Sustainability and the current business response
Assess the importance of navigating complexity and systems thinking – dilemmas and implications for the current business response.

  • 07.30 – 08.30: Breakfast
  • 08.30 – 08.45: 2.1 Introduction to Day 2
  • 08.45 – 09.45: 2.2 Tensions and Dilemmas of our Time
  • 09.45 – 10.15: Refreshments
  • 10.15 – 11.15: 2.3 What will the World look like in 2035?
  • 11.15 – 12.30: 2.4 Thinking Tools & Frameworks
  • 12.30 – 13.30: Lunch
  • 13.30 – 14.30: 2.5 Syndicate Session 2
  • 14.30 – 15.00: Refreshments
  • 15.00 – 15.30: 2.6 How Organisations are Responding – Evaluation Framework
  • 15.30 – 16.30: 2.7 What is Required, and Who is doing it?
  • 16.30 – 17.00: 2.8 Exercise Debrief
  • 17.00 – 17.30: Free Time
  • 17.30 – 19.30: 2.9 Power Game
  • 19.30 – 20.30: Dinner

Day 3 : Tuesday 4 June

Integrating sustainability into organisational strategy – thinking tools and enablers
Assess the importance of navigating complexity and systems thinking and understand how to align sustainability with core organisational strategy and collaboration with key stakeholders.

  • 07.30 – 08.15: Breakfast
  • 08.15 – 08.30: 3.1 Introduction to Day 3
  • 08.30 – 10.00: 3.2 Integrating Sustainability/ESG into your Organisation
  • 10.00 – 10.30: Refreshments
  • 10.30 – 11.45: 3.3 Addressing Stakeholders’ Sustainability/ESG Expectations
  • 11.45 – 12.45: 3.4 Syndicate Session 3
  • 12.45 – 13.45: Lunch
  • 13.45 – 14.30: 3.5 Innovation & Sustainability
  • 14.30 – 15.30: 3.6 Inspiration from the Field
  • 15.30 – 16.00: Refreshments
  • 16.00 – 17.30: 3.7 Reframing How Sustainability Delivers Value
  • 17.30 – 18.00: Free Time
  • 18.00 – 19.30: 3.8 Understanding What Is Required
  • 19.30 – 20.30: Dinner

Day 4 : Wednesday 5 June

Enablers of change to future proof organisations for the 21st Century
Assess the opportunities for innovation, thinking about your sphere of influence and what needs to change.

  • 07.30 – 08.30: Breakfast
  • 08.30 – 08.45: 4.1 Introduction to Day 4
  • 08.45 – 10.15: 4.2 Communicating the Message of What is Required
  • 10.15 – 10.30: Refreshments and Check-out
  • 10.30 – 11.00: 4.3 Finalising Action Plans
  • 11.00 – 12.00: 4.4 Sharing your Actions in Group
  • 12.00 – 12.30: 4.5 Seminar Debrief

Submissions


    Contact

    Programme Director

    Susan Njoroge

    responsiblebusinessconsulting@gmail.com

    +254 715 369370

    Programme Support

    Allen Salo


    Allen.Salo@cisl.cam.ac.uk

    060 873 9509

    Technical Support:

    Metisware


    support@metisware.com

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