In an increasingly volatile and unpredictable world, business leaders are being pushed to improve the accountability, transparency and authenticity of their decisions. Clients, customers and investors are looking more closely than ever at the sustainability performance of the brands and businesses they support.

With an increasing number of management and reporting frameworks to choose from, how do you respond with confidence to manage risk and capture opportunities?

The Future-Fit Business Benchmark is a strategic tool that informs decision-making by charting a clear path of improvement to 100% sustainable. Clear criteria enable consistent and comparable performance measurement and disclosure. And, it provides an evidence-based approach for talking about positive impact authentically, to avoid claims of green-washing and green-wishing.

Why this course?

The Future-Fit Business Benchmark is an open-source framework providing free tools and support materials. It is rapidly gaining traction in New Zealand and around the world with organisations like Virgin Money, The Body Shop, Novo Nordisk, Ziptrek Ecotours, Tourism Holdings and Fuji-Xerox NZ because it:

Has a clear systems-science foundation that enables businesses to make actionable sense of other scientific approaches like Planetary Boundaries, Science Based Targets, Doughnut Economics and the Sustainable Development Goals.
Provides consistent and comparable metrics for sustainability performance that enable strategic decision-making. The holistic set of Break-Even goals covering the full range of sustainability / ESG issues are scored from 0 to 100%. The measurement process reveals next steps to make further progress and is designed to allow independent 3rd party auditing.
Enables businesses to reflect on their value creation models against a longer-term vision of profitably solving customer problems in ways that are good for society and the planet.
Offers a growing set of practical tools to help businesses assess risk, prioritise action, show progress against the Sustainable Development Goals and support robust disclosures.
Allows for clear and authentic communication of sustainability performance to a wide range of stakeholders with a focus on genuine impact.

What does the course cover?

The system-science that underpins the Future-Fit Business Benchmark to provide a holistic and measurable framework.
The Future-Fit tools that enable you to prioritise, apply and measure the 23 Future-Fit Break-Even Goals in the strategic management framework.
How to report positive impact to an internationally recognised standard using the 24 Future-Fit Positive Pursuits.
The growing range of future-fit tools that support practical and meaningful action.

Who is the course designed for?

Professional advisers, executives and managers supporting companies to develop and measure sustainability performance; but will be equally valuable for directors, executives and managers of companies wanting to ensure a best practice, authentic and enduring approach to sustainability and ESG issues.

Where to find out more about the Future-Fit Business Benchmark?

The Future-Fit team have prepared a suite of crash-course videos to explain the basis of the Benchmark and how it works. This particular crash-course module is a useful starting point to learn more about what the Benchmark is and does. You can find the whole suite of crash-course video modules here.

What do other people say about the course?

“Future Fit accurately reflects how businesses need to change to operate sustainably in the world – much more so than any other sustainability framework I have explored.” Lucie Greenwood, KPMG

“It was fascinating, highly relevant, great resources, well-presented. No course is perfect. But this was close.” Bede Maher, Anderson Lloyd