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Advanced Strategies for Sustainability Management (certified micro-credential)

Grow your organisation beyond mere financial gain with this advanced executive course for business leaders and sustainability managers committed to driving impactful change. This course offers comprehensive deep dive into both the theoretical and practical aspects of sustainability management.

Join a network of forward-thinking executives and leverage this opportunity to lead your organisation towards a sustainable future. Embrace the chance to be at the forefront of sustainability management and make a lasting impact on your industry and the world.

Organised by Wageningen Academy
Date

Mon 24 March 2025 until Fri 27 June 2025

Duration This course comprises two parts that take place 24 March – 18 April and 25 – 27 June 2025.
Price EUR 5,750.00
Price description Special pricing is available for participants who enrol in multiple courses within the program or register with colleagues from the same company. For more information, please contact the WA programme manager.

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Target audience

This executive course in sustainability integration is designed for CEOs, executives, business managers, and sustainability managers of medium and large firms. If you are at the forefront of designing and implementing sustainability strategies in your organisation, this course is for you. This course is ideal for those with a solid grasp of organisational principles and a direct role in addressing sustainability challenges. Here, you will find the tools and knowledge to drive meaningful change and lead your company towards a sustainable future.

Learning outcomes

After successful completion of this programme, you will be able to:

  • Develop innovative business models that align environmental benefits with profitability
  • Identify the role of all value chain actors in driving your sustainability goals
  • Discover, analyse and harness new circular innovation opportunities
  • Identify key organisational design elements to drive a digital transformation in your company
  • Create a people analytics strategy to ensure sustainable business practices
  • Harness the potential of new sustainable technology with the design of new business models

Programme

Our professors of practice include:

  • Amilcare Astone, founder and managing director, Fiordilatte Food
  • Rossella Cardone, Group Director ESG and Sustainability, Nexi Group
  • Freek van Eijk, Director, Holland Circular Hotspot
  • Dai Andre Forterre, Program Leader for Corporate Responsibility (CR) at the Netherlands Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate
  • Antonello Iona, Head of Commercial at Enilive Benelux
  • Marion Loubiere, Regenerative Agriculture Scale-Up Freelance Expert
  • Dennis Marks, CEO of Prysmian in the Netherlands
  • Etsko Schuitema, Founder, Schuitema Group
  • Tommaso Troiani, CEO and Co-Founder of Byewaste
  • Harry Verhaar, Global Head of Brand, Communication and Marketing, Signify
  • Alessandro Zamai, Group Head of HR Organisation, Kering

This course consists of two parts and takes place over the period 24 March -- 27 June 2025.

The first part focuses on Digitalization for Sustainability Management. You will join Master's students over the course of four weeks in the period 24 March - 18 April 2025. Each week consists of a two-hour lecture (Tuesdays, optionally online) and half a day of group work on challenges raised by global leaders in business and sustainability. Topics covered include:
  • How to implement a people analytics strategy (24 -- 28 March)
  • Sustainable technology and new sustainable business models (31 March -- 4 April)
  • Organising the firm for a sustainable digital transformation (7 -- 11 April)
  • Sustainable leadership practices: The care and growth model (14 -- 18 April)
The second part focuses on Circular Economy Strategies and Implementation Approaches, and takes place on the WUR Campus on 28 -- 30 June 2025. Topics covered include:
  • Foundations of circular economy: introduction, key concepts and systems-based approach
  • Circular economy in practice: applications and implications for firms
  • Enabling and sustaining circular economy: designing circular cities, sustainable lifestyles, and barriers and enablers to circular economy adoption

Academic lecturers in this course:
  • Maria Annosi, Associate Professor of Innovation and Organisation Theory, WUR
  • Martin Geisdoerfer, Associate Professor of Circular Economy Transitions at the Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Associate at the Circular Economy Centre at Cambridge Judge Business School, and guest lecturer at several universities
  • Stefano Pascucci, Professor in Sustainability and Circular Economy, Exeter University, UK
  • Jasmina Rüger, Lecturer of Organization Behavior, WUR
  • Emiel Wubben, Associate professor of Circular Economy and Strategy, WUR

Certification

You will receive a micro-credential, rewarded through an Edubadge (digital certificate) after successful completion.

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