Sustainability Leadership: Innovation for Growth

Sustainability is now a key driver of business innovation. Business leaders are increasingly understanding the need to develop sustainable practices that foster new growth and generate enhanced economic, social, and environmental outcomes.

The Sustainability Leadership: Innovation for Growth program delivers strategic frameworks that can help you build a case for sustainability initiatives and successfully lead them in your organization.

At the end of this 6-week virtual e-learning program, you will be able to:

• Explain how to use sustainability as a source of innovation to drive new growth and generate enhanced economic, social, and environmental outcomes

• Describe how to improve the overall governance of leadership and teams

• Outline the steps involved in attracting, retaining, and growing employees, customers, and suppliers

• Articulate the impact of sustainability on profitability

The virtual e-learning program features a sustainability playbook where you can note initiatives that could be implemented in your organization and use them to work through related exercises in each module. Example exercises include:

• Review a list of sustainable development goals (SDGs), and determine 3 initiatives your organization might be best able to address.

• Use the triple-layered business model canvas to identify opportunities to integrate sustainability into your organization.

• Conduct a stakeholder analysis: identify and map stakeholders, and develop a stakeholder engagement plan.

A key framework of the Sustainability Leadership: Innovation for Growth program is the Triple-Layered Business Model Canvas, a tool that's designed to help create more sustainable business models. The 3 “layers” include:

• The economic layer (based on the original Business Model Canvas development tool)

• The environmental layer (life cycle perspective)

• The social layer (stakeholder perspective)

The canvas can help business leaders develop a clearer understanding of the interrelationship between these 3 aspects of their business model.

Each week, you’ll develop potential initiatives related to that week's content and note them in your playbook. Near the end of the 6-week virtual e-learning program, you’ll use your accumulated findings to complete a final capstone project. This will involve:

• Looking back on the initiatives you've developed each week and prioritizing them

• Developing an execution plan for your top-priority initiative

• Having your initiative reviewed by program leaders and receiving their feedback

The Ontario Student Assistance Program is now offering funding for micro-credentials, including Rotman Executive Programs. This new resource is part of Ontario’s micro-credentials strategy, helping learners access more opportunities to train or upskill for in-demand jobs through loans and grants. This funding is available for Ontario residents only with additional requirements.

Learn about OSAP funding for Ontario residents as well as the full details of the program by downloading our brochure.

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