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Executive Certificate

Strategizing Sustainable Business Transformation Strategizing Sustainable Business Transformation

The multiple economic, geopolitical, environmental, and social challenges that we are currently facing means that companies need to rethink their relationship with society, their purpose, their strategy, and their business model. This program aims to help managers play an active role in the transition towards a low-carbon, biodiversity-friendly, circular and inclusive economy, which respects the limits of our planet and people. This is not only an imperative. It is an opportunity for organizations to re-invent new business models and to develop strong competitive drivers in the short, medium, and long term.

Place(s):

France, Stockholm

Duration:

12 days

Format:

Online and in-class

Next start(s):

May 12 2025

Language(s):

English

Cost:

17 400 €*

Objectives

  • Identify and interpret environmental and social challenges such as climate change, resource depletion, pollution, poverty, and inequality 
  • Integrate into your role, in terms of risks and opportunities, the evolution of the external framework: standards and regulations, consumer and employee expectations, and societal roles 
  • Understand and measure the drivers and obstacles of social and environmental transition
  • Inventory new practices and individuals who can serve as sources of inspiration

Program

This certificate program is composed of 3 modules (including a module in Stockholm, run in partnership with the Stockholm School of Economics).

  • Sustainable Essentials
  • Sustainable Strategy
     
  • Sustainable Strategy
  • Sustainable Finance
  • Sustainable Supply Chain
  • Sustainable Marketing
  • Low-carbon strategies & business models
  • Circular business models
  • Biodiversity-friendly business models
  • Inclusive Business Models 
     
  • Human rights and social sustainability
  • Sustainability in agri-food business
  • Sustainability accounting and reporting
  • Strategic double materiality

Capitalization

This Executive Certificate is eligible for capitalization towards the GEMM - Executive Master in Management - Change & sustainability

Profile

Who is this program for? Is it right for you?

Participant Profile

Managers and executives in charge of transformation projects, who have or will have to integrate major environmental and social challenges, manage change, and reinvent ways to collaborate for an economy compatible with the limitations of our planet and with fundamental social needs.

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Prerequisites and Admission Criteria

Our certificate is intended for all executives, managers, functional or operational leaders with at least 5 years of professional experience.

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Faculty

Bénédicte FAIVRE-TAVIGNOT

Executive Director of the Inclusive Economy Center

You feel Sustainability is an increasingly unavoidable topic, beyond the current headwinds : you want to understand what is at stake for businesses and how to contribute to their transformation: why and how they should embedded sustainability into their strategy and operations; you’d even like to explore innovative business models that provide new answers to social and environmental challengers: then join us & become part of the solution.

Lin LERPOLD

Co-Director, Associate Professor in SSE

This program is for those who want to integrate their passion for a better world with the great potential of companies as a driving force for positive change !

Learning methods & Evaluations

  • A hybrid format, which alternates face-to-face courses (run on the HEC Paris Campus and at the Stockholm School of Economics) and online courses 
  • An action-based learning approach, which combines theoretical and methodological input with concrete case studies, workshops, company visits and sharing experience 
  • A project focusing on Sustainability enables the participants to formalize and contextualize what they have learned

Admission

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We invite you to:

  1. Contact our training consultant, who will guide you through the admission process.
  2. Then, complete your application on our platform by clicking the button below:

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This program is accessible to individuals with disabilities. Please contact us to discuss any additional needs or to obtain the Public Accessibility Register.

Tuition Fees and Funding

The program fee includes tuition and meal costs during training hours (lunch and breaks). 

Not included: dinners (except in specific cases), transportation costs, and accommodation costs (except in specific cases).

Funding Options: Depending on your profile and the program you choose, several funding options may be available to you. Visit our funding section for more information.

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Program Eligibility:  
RNCP* : "Diploma in "innovation et entrepreneuriat", reference no. 39423BC05  (registration date in the RNCP: 22/07/2024; certifying body: Higher Education Institution HEC Paris) 
National Directory of Professional Certifications (RNCP) 
Program eligible for Validation of Acquired Experience (VAE) 

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