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Achieving Business Sustainability

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Date

  • Monday 13 November 2023 (bookings close at 12 noon Thursday 9 November 2023 unless sold out prior)

Overview

Find out how to make your business more sustainable and help tackle climate change.

This one-day, hands-on workshop is tailored for business leaders who are leading the charge towards sustainability but lack in-depth knowledge of the subject. The practical training will provide you with the essential understanding to help you kickstart your sustainability efforts.

What you will gain?

Get an understanding of the key concepts of sustainability and ESG (Environment, Social, and Governance), and leave equipped with all the knowledge you need to commence your sustainability journey:

  • The basics of sustainability.
  • The business case for sustainability.
  • Identify what your current ESG / sustainability impact is.
  • Understand climate change and your carbon footprint.
  • How to set up an impactful sustainability strategy, goals and targets.
  • How to implement sustainability change across the organisation.
  • The frameworks and tools to help you.
  • How to create a culture of sustainability where all employees take ownership and responsibility for sustainability.
  • How to create a successful stakeholder engagement plan that will secure support and commitment from both internal and external stakeholders, as you embark on your sustainability journey.

Course structure

Benefit from a day of immersive learning with a sustainability expert. This one-day course employs a dynamic blend of information sharing, group discussions, engaging exercises, and real-life examples to deepen your understanding of business sustainability. By the end of the course, you will be equipped with a wealth of knowledge, digital tools and a worked course book filled with practical templates from the day, ready for immediate implementation.

Facilitator - Caroline Thalund, Professor of Practice

Caroline is a thought leader in sustainability and has been working in the space worldwide for over 20 years across the software, retail, construction, aviation and tourism sectors.

She specialises in helping businesses start or advance their sustainability journeys efficiently and with the greatest impact.

Caroline achieves this by making the complex things simple and highly engaging. Her passion is to motivate, engage and inspire others by challenging current models, culture, thinking and behaviours to create innovative solutions and bring everyone along on the journey together.

This course is $1150pp including GST and Humanitix booking fees.
Course fees include catering (all dietary requirements catered for), booking fees and on-site parking.

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Refund policy

Refund and Cancellation policy A written notification of withdrawals or substitutions must be sent via email to The University of Canterbury Business School Executive Education Team at execed@canterbury.ac.nz Substitutions Participants who have registered for a place on a course may be substituted at no extra charge, where at least two business days’ notice is given prior to the course start date, via email to execed@canterbury.ac.nz Cancellations UC Executive Education reserves the right to cancel any course or programme for any reason. Fees are fully refundable for courses cancelled by us, however UC will not be responsible for airfares, accommodation or any other associated costs incurred by participants. No refund will be given where the participant fails to attend the course, or if the participant withdraws from the course at any stage, for any reason. Any cancellations received fewer than 14 days from the course start date are subject to different levels of refund, excluding GST as detailed below. Where a cancellation is received 15 or more days before course commencement, a full refund will be made. Notification received: 15 or more days : A full refund will be provided 8 – 14 days : 50% of course fee 7 days or less : No refund.