Sustainability Leadership Program

Embed sustainable goals with responsible leadership

The Sustainability Leadership Program will help your organization create a new sustainable strategy. You will gain an insight into the required change processes and how to innovate towards sustainable business models. Reflection on your own organization’s practices is a common theme throughout the program, with the theory providing concrete tools that you can use. The program will also strengthen your leadership skills, enabling you to initiate and oversee the desired change within your organization.

What does the Sustainability Leadership Program offer for you?

• You will improve both your hard skills and your soft skills: from strategy and innovation to responsible leadership and collaboration.
• You will be able to develop promising sustainable business models for your organization.
• You will be able to set concrete goals and KPIs as part of your organization’s sustainability strategy.
• You will be able to promote the importance of and maintain sustainability within your organization.
• You will learn which steps your organization can take to instantly increase positive sustainable impact.

Program contents Sustainability Leadership Program

The Sustainability Leadership Program provides both academic frameworks and a peer learning environment that will enable you to expand your vision through discussions and assignments. Reflection on your own organization’s practices is a common theme throughout the program. You will closely collaborate with other participants, automatically broadening your network. By the end of the program, you will be well equipped to launch your organization’s transformation towards sustainability. You will be familiar with the latest sustainable leadership theories and know what action is required within your organization.

The five-day program includes two peer supervision/coaching sessions.

Day 1: Strategy and sustainability

Learn about the social significance of organizations and how to integrate social and economic values into your corporate strategy.

Day 2: Innovation for sustainability

Discover various types of new business models and explore which ones align with your sustainable ambitions.

Day 3: Business transformation towards sustainability

Learn how to get people on board and measure the impact of a sustainable strategy with supportive reporting systems.

Day 4: Responsible Leadership

A sustainable organization requires a different leadership style. Explore your own motivations and leadership style and learn how to implement a radical sustainable vision.

Day 5: Transition management and sustainability

Become familiar with theoretical transition management models and learn which interventions you can use within your organization in order to accelerate innovation.

Day 6: Crucial communication

Effective communication is a crucial factor for a transition to a sustainable corporate strategy. Learn how to inspire and connect people even when there is friction or significant divergence.

Dates and locations Sustainability Leadership Program

The Sustainability Leadership Program will start on several dates:

Costs Sustainability Leadership Program

The cost of the Sustainability Leadership Program is € 7500 (exempt from VAT). 

This price includes:

• Catering packages (lunch, coffee or tea and soft drinks) during lecture periods
• Enrollment, registration and administration costs
• Access to the online learning environment
• Mandatory reading material, textbooks and learning resources

How do you finance your education?

You have found the program that best suits your learning goals and ambitions. But how do you finance this? There are different ways to do that. Your employer can play a role, but there are also interesting statutory regulations that you can use yourself. We list the possibilities for you.

Read about the possibilities here »

Faculty Sustainability Leadership Program

Start your application

Following your enrollment, the Sustainability Leadership Program Adviser will reach out to you for an initial introduction and to schedule an intake meeting with the Academic Director. The purpose of this intake is to discuss your development ambitions and the match with the learning objectives of the program. Upon a positive recommendation from the Academic Director after the intake, you will receive the official study agreement and can finalize your enrollment.