Many organizations now understand the business imperative to pursue sustainability. But there are still critical questions that remain: How do you actually embed sustainability into the organization? How do you know that you're working on the most important projects? How do you communicate the long-term vision? What should you include in a sustainability report?

Many businesses and municipalities produce a sustainability plan and report to answer these questions. Over time, Darcy Hitchcock has refined this planning process into a series of logical steps that can be efficiently completed with your management team or steering committee in a few days (usually spread out over a couple months). Sustainability planning does not have to be a confusing exercise. Sustainability planning should not take away from the ROI by costing a fortune in time and money.

This class will walk participants through the process of creating a sustainability plan. Individuals have the option of using their own organization, working with others, or using a case example. Participants will learn a set of tools that can be used independently as well as part of a sustainability planning process.

Participants will get a copy of the SPaRK™ (Sustainability Planning and Reporting Kit), a set of electronic files to help manage their planning process and track their sustainability performance metrics over time.

NOTE: SPaRK is shareware. As part of this training, you get a license to use the tool inside your own organization. If you need additional copies for other organizations, those will be available for additional investment.

Topics

• Discover the strategic reasons for pursuing sustainability
• Choose appropriate, reputable sustainability frameworks to provide definition to what sustainability means
• Conduct an impacts assessment to uncover where your social and environmental impacts lie so you can manage them
• Choose a dashboard of sustainability metrics
• Mock up a sustainability report
• Create a long-range sustainability project inventory to improve your performance over time
• Develop systems to manage your sustainability effort so it's not dependent upon one person with the passion to keep it going

Learning Outcomes

As a result of attending this programs, participants will:

• Be able to describe what sustainability planning is and why it's important
• Demonstrate familiarity with the sustainability planning process
• Be certified to use the SPaRK™ tool
• Leave with a workable outline of a sustainability plan and be well positioned to continue with a sustainability initiative

Who Should Attend

The Case Weatherhead School of Management strongly believes that sustainability requires a central place on the executive agenda. As a result, this program is designed for people who are leading a sustainability initiative including sustainability directors/coordinators, sustainability steering committee members, CEOs, CFOs and other senior executives, country and business unit managers, government officials - including Mayors, city managers, county/state leaders, Policy, NGO, and other public sector leaders.

Costs

Individual Participants: $595
Package Pricing: 1 class day per participant

Available Discounts