Unlocking growth excellence – Adopting circular business models

Up coming course

Unlocking growth excellence – Adopting circular business models

• Is your business facing challenges in navigating complex legal and compliance requirements due to the changing regulations for better environmental and social performance?  

• Are you seeking innovative ways to expand your market reach and mitigate risks to ensure a competitive edge? 

Our course " Unlocking growth excellence – Adopting circular business models” is designed to empower you to transform your business.  

Through expert coaching and data-driven insights, you'll develop a customized roadmap to transition your business into a circular model. Join us and unlock the potential of a sustainable future. 

This course aims to: 

• Develop the capability for businesses to initiate change within organisations to move towards a regenerative model 

• A comprehensive set of resources, tools and support to start from where each business is 

What this course offer? 

• Help generate opportunities to seize new markets 

• Guidance on revitalising your business strategy to be future-proof and managing business risks 

• Guidance on compliance with environmental standards 

• Coaching to make decisions driven by data and evidence 

• Guidance to develop a customised roadmap for the business 

Who is this suited for? 

• Business owners/leaders in SME and large scale enterprises  

• Business/strategic planning managers of organisations 

• Sustainability and operational management professionals 

• C-Suite professionals of large enterprises 

Course content 

This in-person training will have 4 modules with each module having relevant case studies and interactive activities, with time allocated for discussion of practical problems faced.   

The four modules presented will have the following content. 

1. Introduction to the circular economy and its application to businesses 

1.1 Understand the principles of the circular economy alongside other sustainability principles 

1.2 Understand new business models and product service systems  

2. Application of the circular economy to your sector 

2.1 Understand how the specific sector looks like as a production and a consumption model 

2.2 Understand how the principles of circular economy apply to the specific sector 

3. Enabling your organisation for continuous business growth 

3.1 Understand the approach and steps to look at organisational transition 

3.2 Practice applying key steps to breakdown the key problems to prepare a road map 

4. Enabling readiness for circular business transformation 

4.1 Understand the approach and steps to look at a program/initiative within the business 

4.2 Practice applying key steps to breakdown the key problem to prepare an action plan for the initiative 

Course details 

• Venue: This is a hybrid event. The location and the Microsoft Teams link will be shared with the participant upon confirmation of payment.
• Dates: 22, 25, 29 of October, and 1 of November 2024 (4 days x 2.5 hours) 
• Time: 9.00AM - 11.30AM 
• More details >>

About the Lead course designer and trainer

Dr. Mayuri Wijayasundara. Director, Anvarta

Mayuri is a leading expert in strategy and transformation specialising in enablers of transition towards a circular economy. Mayuri currently leads Anvarta, a management consulting practice that advocates circular economy and helps organisations with their transition. She was also engaged as Circular Economy Expert at UN Habitat. 

Mayuri was a tenured University academic leading multiple research programs in circular economy until 2021, where she was the Deakin Lead Investigator and a Chief Investigator for Australian Research Council funded Industrial Transformation Research Hub for Transformation of Waste Resources to Engineered Materials and Solutions for a Circular Economy (TREMS). Mayuri has authored several research articles and is a contributor to acclaimed international forums such as World Economic Forum. 

Mayuri joined academia following a career as a senior industry practitioner for nearly a decade, where she has formulated and led programs driving strategic industrial and organisational transformation initiatives in the Asia Pacific. Mayuri obtained her PhD from the University of Melbourne and is a Chartered Global Management Accountant of CIMA, UK. She currently holds several board and advisory committee positions in public and private sector, industry bodies and professional organisations. 

For more information: Website | LinkedIn | Deakin Uni | World Economic Forum | Google Scholar | The Conversation  

About Anvarta

Anvarta is a professional practice​ that provide strategy and policy advisory, consulting and project management services to organisations. We specialize in helping organisations to transition to a circular economy​ and help transform business models, products, supply chains, markets in line with the principles of circular economy. One of the key areas we focus on is capacity building towards a circular and clean economy and in facilitating organisational transition. We drive innovation through research and development in this area, and have a portfolio or products and services that we have developed and in progress presently.  

Our typical products and services include;

• a range of courses that aim capacity building of professionals in transition to a circular economy 
• advisory and consulting services covering concept creation to strategy formulation​, leading to constructing detailed roadmaps for organisations
• analytical solutions, including material flow analysis, life cycle analysis and life cycle costing
• support for new initiative integration and operationalization, including change and transformation management

​Anvarta Website | Anvarta Education | Anvarta Linkedin page