Forge a Path to Sustainability for your Organization
6 weeks | 4-6 hours/week | Self-paced Videos + webinars + cohort
| *** 2024-2025 Cohort Enrolment dates: 14 November, 6th February*** |
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.
Topics covered:
- Module 1: An Introduction to Sustainability and Governance
- Module 2: Change, Innovation and Sustainability
- Module 3: Building a Sustainable Business
- Module 4: Circular Economies and Business Models
- Module 5: Sustainability Finance
- Module 6: Stakeholder Engagement
Learning Outcomes:
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
Program Experience:
Duration: 6 weeks, 4-6 hours/week
Delivery: Online: Self-paced Videos + webinars, cohort
Upon successful completion of the 6-week virtual e-learning program, you’ll earn a digital certificate of completion from The Rotman School of Management. This program counts toward a Rotman Excellence in Executive Leadership Certificate.
Pricing:
Non-Members US$2600
AMI Members US$2210 (15% discount)
CPD points: 100
Cohort Dates:
This course runs 3 - 4 times a year. The next cohorts are starting:
14 November 2024
6th February 2025
Trainers details
Richard Blundell
Executive-in-Residence at The Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
Mr. Blundell has over 35 years of senior executive management and consulting experience in the global environmental services and technology sectors. His experience includes operations management, corporate and market development, mergers and acquisitions, new business initiation, and consulting. Mr. Blundell’s international experience includes running organizations in East and West Europe, North and South America, Africa, and Asia (12 countries from India to China). He has significant experience in new business creation and management of growth-stage businesses in global markets and has completed over $500 million in combined corporate M&A transactions and private equity funding for early-stage companies.
From 1989-2004, Mr. Blundell held senior leadership positions with Laidlaw Inc., Canada’s largest waste management company, as Director of European Business Development; SGS SA, a global company in inspection, testing, and certification services as SVP of the Global Environmental Services Division; and Hagemeyer Cosa Liebermann, a technology marketing company in Asia Pacific as EVP of the Technology Division. During this period and since 2004, Mr. Blundell has held founder and/or executive management positions in ten early-stage, cleantech companies, including a number of Board of Directors appointments.
He joined the MaRS Discovery District in 2018 to lead the development of applied innovation networks for global, corporate partners. In 2019, he was appointed Managing Director of the Cleantech Venture Services group. MaRS is Canada’s largest innovation hub with 1M ft sq of office space in downtown Toronto serving over 1,400 startups, from early-stage to high growth companies in Cleantech, Health Sciences, Fintech and Enterprise Software, including a focus on AI, IoT, AR and other fourth industrial revolution technologies.
He is an Executive-in-Residence at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. He joined the Rotman faculty in 2016, where he teaches MBA, Executive MBA and Global Executive MBA courses in sustainability and entrepreneurship. He is also an advisor to the Prince of Wales Accounting for Sustainability charity. Mr. Blundell holds a BSc from the University of Toronto and an MBA from IMD, Lausanne.
Walid Hejazi
Associate Professor of International Business at The Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
Walid Hejazi is an Associate Professor of Economic Analysis and Policy, and Academic Director at The Rotman School of Management. He has researched, advised, and testified extensively on global competitiveness and is currently working on a series of studies that shed light on the competitiveness and productivity of Canadian organizations.
He teaches Macro and Global Economics in Rotman’s MBA and EMBA programs, and has also delivered lectures in over 30 countries. Dr. Hejazi has also developed and teaches a successful MBA course in Islamic Finance, the first such course in Canada. He is extensively involved in enhancing the prevalence of Islamic Finance in Canada. He is currently writing a book on Islamic project finance, and has several ongoing research projects in the area. He holds a PhD and MA from University of Toronto and an HBA from University of Western Ontario.
Emeritus is an AMI Partner. We are happy to offer the course to our members with an exclusive discount.
