Transform Sustainability into Financial Value - A Live-Online Program
Transform Sustainability into Financial Value - A Live-Online Program
Transform Sustainability into Financial Value: Learn Strategies and Methodologies Through Case Learning with NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business
Please Note: This program is delivered in a live-online format via Zoom; participants are expected to attend all sessions in real time during scheduled hours, as recordings will not be available.
Our decade of research finds that the leaders who will be effective in today’s volatile world, and shape the next decade, will be those who see sustainability as an engine of opportunity—a motor driving resilience, innovation, collective benefit, and competitive advantage. Something that sharpens risk perception, unlocks innovation, stabilizes supply, attracts talent, earns trust, and drives growth.
Join our course with Distinguished Professor of Practice, Tensie Whelan, who will provide insights into how to best direct and track sustainability investments to unlock both financial returns and impact, and support your professional and career goals!
Sustainability it is about good management. ESG issues are material to corporate performance on both the upside and downside. A food and beverage company supply chain may experience risk due to extreme weather caused by climate change, but there are also market demand and premiums associated with sustainable food and beverage offerings.
This course will demonstrate how delivering the right sustainability strategies and practices drives financial value across the enterprise and helps future-proof the company. It will provide you with the financial skills and tools to unlock concrete returns and support the growth of the company.
Embedding sustainability into corporate strategy can help a company monetize upsides and downsides. However, companies struggle with understanding and capturing those benefits and often underinvest in sustainability as a result. We will help you learn how to navigate those challenges and demonstrate new approaches and tools to help you track and assess the past and future returns on sustainability investments. We use cutting-edge research and tools developed with business partners across a wide variety of industries.
Program Takeaways
During this course, participants will:
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Translate Sustainability into Financial Value
Learn to apply a sustainability lens to business strategy and to design and communicate sustainability strategies that drive financial value. -
Create and Track Return on Sustainability Investment Metrics
Learn the ROSI framework and tools for identifying ROSI KPIs and developing monetization methods in order to improve decision-making, impact and financial return. -
Improve Your Own Capacity to Lead and Drive Impact
Demonstrate your strategic and business acumen through driving sustainability-linked value creation.
Who Should Attend
Although there are no formal education or background requirements, this course is designed for participants who meet the criteria below. While we strongly encourage global participation, please note that all courses are taught in English. Proficiency in written and spoken English is required.
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Years of Experience
Participants with all levels of work experience are welcome to attend -
Job Functions
This course will be useful to sustainability professionals, but it is designed for all functions, including finance, HR, communications, and investors. -
Prerequisites
Intended for individuals with a genuine interest in corporate sustainability; additionally, students must have a desktop or laptop computer with an internet connection
Agenda
The following agenda is a sample and subject to change.
Day 1: Introduction to Sustainability as Good Business
- 11am-2:30pm, with a half hour break
- Learn how to map ESG material issues to strategies and practices that drive financial value across industries. We will explore how to identify the risks and opportunities that arise from material ESG issue by sector, what sustainability strategies and practices work best, and how to develop effective sustainability KPIs that will drive value. We will explore the strengths and weaknesses of current measurement systems and learn how to avoid the pitfalls that arise when we manage solely to ESG reporting metrics.
Day 2: Deep Dive into Decarbonization and Circularity
- 11am-2:30pm, with a half hour break
- Decarbonization drives energy cost savings, but also reduced exposure to energy pricing volatility, reduced risk of regularity fees and finance, marketing benefits, lower maintenance costs and improved productivity, amongst other benefits. Explore together through cases and exercises how decarbonization can drive financial value for you.
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Circularity drives lower input costs, lower waste disposal costs, reduced exposure to tariffs, increased supply chain resilience, improved sales and marketing, amongst other benefits. Explore together through cases and exercises how circularity can be a financial superpower for you.
Day 3: Deep Dive into Sustainable Sourcing and Employee Relations
- 11am-2:30pm, with a half hour break
- Sustainable sourcing drives increased market share, premiums, loyalty; reduced reputational, operational, market, regulatory risk; more resilient, loyal and high- quality suppliers; the ability to make credible sourcing claims; community support and license to operate benefits. Explore together through cases and exercises how sustainable sourcing can drive financial value for you.
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Good employee relations drive productivity; retention/lower recruitment costs; reduced risks of employee lawsuits; reduced insurance costs (safety); good corporate reputation; customer satisfaction, amongst other benefits. Explore together through cases and exercises how employee welfare and engagement can be a financial superpower for you.
Day 4: Monetizing the Cost of Inaction and Bringing the ROSI Discipline to your Business
- 11am-2:30pm, with a half hour break
- Companies excel at assessing the cost of making investments into sustainability (often leading to a decision NOT to invest) but do not effectively assess the cost of NOT investing in sustainable solutions. This module will provide a methodology and exercise to learn how to monetize the cost of inaction
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The final module will provide a framework for bringing ROSI governance to your company, investment practice, or consulting firm.
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