Course overview
4 Weeks of Learning
- A holistic perspective on sustainability in business covering operational, product and experiential aspects to your activities
- An overview of sustainability and circularity in business
- How to do an environmental impact assessment
- How to do supply chain sustainability assessments
- Sustainable design strategies
- How to do life cycle mapping on products and types of environmental product declarations
- Types of reporting and continual improvement
- Environmental policy development
- Being mindful of greenwashing
Curriculum
What’s inside this course
Through this program, you will be learning how to assess your environmental impacts across three main impact areas. Not all will apply to you, so a great first step is always a self-assessment to establish where you are at and what you need to do to get started. You will find a handy self-assessment in your downloadable workbook. The three main impact areas covered in this course are:
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Operations: covers inputs that the company consumes in order to do business (like energy, water and procurement), and outputs like waste generation as well as carbon emissions produced from travel.
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Products: covers all aspects of the produced products and services created by the company as part of their offering into the economy. These have significant supply chain and natural resource impacts and should be considered in relation to full life-cycle product stewardship.
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Experiences: are the services, culture and customer-facing offerings that the organization creates and fosters both with customers and with employees.
Materials
- Downloadable Workbook
Advance your learning
Ready for the next level?
Consider taking the Systems Thinking course. Overcome linear thinking and unravel the interconnectedness of our world. This 5-part course will get your head around systems thinking and give you the tools you need to understand the complex social, industrial, and environmental systems at play.
Alumni Feedback
Profound effect
“The UnSchool has had a profound effect on me by redefining the way in which I view the world and altering my reflection upon past experiences. I felt continuously stretched and challenged, but ultimately transformed both personally and professionally. It has been the catalyst to inspire change in ourselves before we set out to change our worlds.”
— Mohammed Bashkeel, Corporate Venture Builder, ADQ
Best training in my life!
“Not only helped me explore different approaches and session formats to try out in my own training workshops, but it also made me revisit my strengths and points to be improved to better my facilitation skills. Definitely the best training I had in my life!”
Rina TsubakiCommunications Manager, Founder of the Lookout Station at European Forest Institute
Absolutely possible!
“Fundamentally changing the perspective from impossible to absolutely possible!”
Marcus WendinMiljögiraff, CEO
World renowned expert training
Your instructor
Sustainability provocateur, award-winning designer, UNEP Champion of the Earth, and creative changemaker pioneer, Dr. Leyla Acaroglu challenges people to think differently about how the world works. Leyla’s main-stage TED talk on sustainability has been viewed over a million times, she is the founder of the UnSchool and creator of the Disruptive Design Method. As as a renowned international expert on systems thinking and sustainability, she runs workshops around the world and designs unique educational experiences that help equip people with the tools to intervene and change systems to make the status quo obsolete. Leyla is sought after for her unique approach to activating positive social change by design.
Options and Pricing
Two options for course access
What you get
- Understand the impacts that your different areas of business actions have and how decisions made within your operational, product and experiential offerings interact with the natural world.
- Develop techniques for assessing, measuring, changing and reporting.
- Put into place the changes needed to make a positive impact.
Course FAQs
You will have access for 180 days from the date of purchase.
You can do a deep dive or space it out, but all together it will take about 30-40 hours to complete.
If you need more time, please send us an email. There may be a small fee depending on how much more time you need. These are granted on a case by case basis.
Find out if you are eligible for our Equity Access Scholarships
As part of our goal to make our programs equitable, we offer both partial scholarships and payment plans. Our limited number of scholarships are awarded based on demonstrated need to certain select courses and programs. We fund these to promote equitable access to our programs. We are committed to offering our scholarships to community members who would otherwise be unable to access a program at all.
Looking for team training?
Sign up any number of members for your team at the checkout, or get in touch if you would like to commission a custom workshop or learning package.
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