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Do you want to embed sustainability into your career or workplace?
Are you already working in sustainability and wanting the skills to create intersectional, long-term change?
Are you wanting to nurture a network with inspiring change agents?
Wherever you are on your career journey, our Sustainability Leadership Skills Programme is for you.
A really insightful course, ran by passionate and knowledgeable sustainability leaders!
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Inspiring and empowering. Clarify your values, strengthen your leadership skills, and connect your purpose to real-world action.
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What is the Sustainability Leadership Skills Programme (SLSP)?
"An insightful and interesting exploration of sustainable leadership skills"
"Stimulating, engaging, motivating, incredibly delivered"
"Educational and transformative"
How past participants describe our programme
The SLSP is a holistic journey designed for sustainability practitioners who are ready to look ahead: not just at how we can tackle global challenges but also how we can nurture new mindsets and organisations shaped by sustainability.
Through our 10 innovative and exploratory units, you will practise the transformational skills needed to enact change. It will prepare you to create regenerative, intersectional and nature-based action, with personal connection and professional impact.
We weave environmental management and frameworks with inner development, thought leadership and wellbeing. Join our cross-sector community to enhance your practise, prepare for the future, and become the leader you are capable of being.
At a glance
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Ten, 2 hour sessions, live online
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Interactive workshops mixing skills application, reflection activities & lecture-style teaching
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Online platform with resources & activities to support learning
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An active cross-sector network
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Student membership from the Chartered Institute of Waste Management (CIWM)
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A certificate to showcase your skills, endorsed by the Leadership Skills Foundation.
Upcoming Cohorts
Skills & Values
Environmental Sustainability
People & Planet
Systemic Thinking
Ethics, Decisions & Culture
Creativity & Future-Thinking
Responsible Project Management
Inclusive Communication
Resilience in Change
Sustainability Leadership
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29 Oct
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26 Nov
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26 Feb
5 Mar
12 Mar
19 Mar
26 Mar
2 Apr
9 Apr
Course Content Overview
Accredited by the Leadership Skills Foundation and aligned to the GreenCorp Competence Framework and Inner Development Goals, the Programme supports professional journeys to Chartered Environmentalist via the CIWM.
1. Foundations of Sustainability
Setting the scene for the sustainability landscape that we work and live in.
Skills and Values
We start with connecting to our own impact through exploring the role of values & skills in leading change.
Environmental Sustainability
We identify our impact & reliance on nature, including global & organisational context and approaches to sustainability.
People and Planet
How do we ensure our solutions are equitable? We'll explore identity and climate justice principles to answer this.
2. Framing the Future
Here we explore different perspectives to broaden and enhance our sustainability solutions. Becoming creative and the critical role of culture in shaping what success means.
Systemic Thinking
Systemic principles, tools & solutions such as circular economy build the base for us to map & shape our broad impact.
Ethics, Decisions & Culture
Culture, upbringing & perspective shape our actions. We practise complex decision-making that brings in our inner compass.
Creativity & Future-Thinking
Creativity is vital for creating new futures and solutions. We'll play with it, and outline visions of the future to see how they impact what we build into it.
3. Collaborating for Change
Here we explore how we can collaborate to manage projects responsibly, and connect with others using nature as an inspiration to foster community-grown solutions.
Responsible Project Management
A crash course in how to manage projects that embed sustainability as business-as-usual. We introduce responsible PM tools, principles and practice them to translate skills into process.
Communicating Sustainability
Climate activation needs us to engage motivations and skills. We'll practise a values-based approach to build enthusiasm across groups, while utilising active listening, empathy and stakeholder mapping.
4. Leadership and Action
How do we build resilient practices that support us and others to work sustainably and not burn out? Let's find out, while recognising our own journey as a sustainability leader ready to thrive in the green transition.
Resilience in Change
Sustainability affects us emotionally, and climate anxiety can hinder all process. We provide context before seeing how to build resilient networks and organisations through times of disruption.
Sustainability Leadership
As we close this chapter to open the next, we define our unique sustainability leadership style and pathway, engaging our strengths, resourcing our motivations and unlocking our aspirations.
Sustainability Leadership Skills Entry Routes
Pay What You Can
We are excited to offer up to 10 places on a Pay What You Can basis (minimum contribution £25 to cover certificate fee) to passionate, inspiring and proactive individuals who may be otherwise unable to afford the programme and access green skills training. If you're a career seeker, transitioner, or in financial uncertainty, you can find out more and apply here.
Ready to start your sustainability leadership journey?
The programme is supported by the CIWM and course participants will become eligible for Associate membership on completion. During the programme, they will benefit from free student membership.
