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Do you want to embed sustainability further in your career or workplace?
Are you looking for new skills to play your part in creating a more sustainable society?
Are you wanting to activate your impact to create intersectional, long-term change?
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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Clarify your values, strengthen your leadership skills, and connect your purpose to real-world action. Inspiring and empowering.
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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 with a mix of skills application, exploratory practice & lecture-style teaching
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Online platform with individual 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.
2025 Course Dates
Skills & Values
Environmental Sustainability
People & Planet
Systemic Thinking
Ethics, Decisions & Culture
Creativity & Future-Thinking
Responsible Project Management
Inclusive Communication
Resilience in Change
Sustainability Leadership
SUMMER
AUTUMN
23 Jul
30 Jul
6 Aug
13 Aug
20 Aug
27 Aug
3 Sept
10 Sept
17 Sept
24 Sept
8 Oct
15 Oct
22 Oct
29 Oct
5 Nov
19 Nov
26 Nov
3 Dec
10 Dec
17 Dec
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
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The role of values and transferable skills in effective sustainability change
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Personal and collective values and skills mapping
Environmental Sustainability
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Individual and collective impact & reliance on nature
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Organisational approaches to sustainability
People and Planet
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Climate justice & equity
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Framing sustainability solutions as holistic opportunities
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
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Introduce systems thinking principles & tools
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Systems-based solutions including circular economy and doughnut economics
Ethics, Decisions and Culture
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The role of culture, upbringing and perspectives in shaping our values and actions
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How to bring our moral compass into action
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Navigating complex decision-making & bringing others in
Creativity & Future-Thinking
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The role of creativity in sustainable solutions
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Explore expected, alternative & ideal visions of change
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Work collaboratively to create inclusive ideas
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
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Key aspects, tools and principles of responsible project management
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Examine and identify the potential benefits and disbenefits of proposed action to follow the precautionary principle
Inclusive Communication
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Active listening and empathy in climate collaborations
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Build stakeholder maps and create a shared values-driven vision of success
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Activating values as a route to impactful communication and influence
4. Leadership and Action
We consider how to build resilient practices that support us and others to work sustainably and not burn out. Alongside this, we will recognize our own journey as a sustainability leader ready to thrive in the green transition.
Resilience in Change
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Recognise the emotional implications of sustainability and the tools that can support climate anxiety
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How to build resilient networks, communities, and organisations through times of disruption.
Sustainability Leadership
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Leadership styles adapted to sustainability, to identify their strengths at individual and collective levels
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Define and nurture our unique leadership pathway as a sustainability practitioner, as we close this chapter and open the next.
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.
