Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership: Education (CISL)

Next month we will be launching our self-paced #OnlineCourse, Sustainability Innovation Strategy for Businesses and Entrepreneurs. The course has been developed by the team behind the CANOPY, CISL's international community of sustainability innovators and entrepreneurs. This means we’ve been able to create a unique course, which draws on our real-world experience from supporting major businesses and entrepreneurs around the world to harness sustainability innovation.     The course will help you and your business understand the imperative for sustainability-led innovation and gain in-demand, practical knowledge and skills to put sustainability at the heart of your innovation strategy. For information on the course learning experience and to register your interest, have a look at the course page. 👇 https://lnkd.in/gV2RaTda

💧 Who has worked on water-stewardship in food systems, and deployed some form of pre-competitive collaboration? Companies, NGOs, farmer organisations, others? 🙋♂️If yes, my amazing group of postgrad students at Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) would love to interview you. They are creating and testing a framework to understand pre-competitive collaboration for water stewardship in food systems. If you have worked on this, please add a comment below or reach out directly to: Klara Horvathova Lieke de Jong-Tops Raluca Andreica Iris Tsang Daniel Rodriguez Lucy Wang

Christa Avampato is the Founder of Double or Nothing Media and a student on the Master of Studies (MSt) in Sustainability Leadership at The University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL). Christa shares her experience of studying one of CISL's postgraduate sustainable business programmes, and forging lifelong connections with her cohort and instructors. Find out more about our postgraduate courses: https://lnkd.in/e4y4A6iP #Sustainability #SustainableBusiness #SustainableFuture #PostgraduateStudies

While waiting to see if I will make it back home (as the airport is currently shut down 🙄 ), I still feel fully energised and positive thanks to the fantastic workshop I had the honour to manage at Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) for the #PostgraduateCertificateinSustainableBusiness. In the last 4 days, we explored what it takes to make an organisation change to better contribute to sustainable development and my personal highlights have been: 💡 The energy in the room and how it was galvanised by a growing understanding of the possibilities (as well as the challenges) that the #sustainabilitytransition offers 🔝 Reconnecting with fantastic colleagues ALISON THOMPSON, Brishni Mukhopadhyay, CFA, Justin DeKoszmovszky, Dr Kate Simpson, Ken Caplan, Lina K Wiles and Oliver Dudok van Heel who always teach me something new, help me grow and improve and remind me why it is worth fighting for sustainability even against the currently (quite poor) odds 💻 The successful experiment of putting together a panel on AI and sustainability - #AI is the topic of the moment but especially in relation to sustainability there is still much to learn, debate and reflect on, and more voices need to be added to the mix, so it was great to see it come to life after imagining how it might look like! 😍 The opportunity to learn about the many great projects that companies have undertaken to #supportcommunities, improve the #footprint of their #supplychains, lobby for sustainability and adopt more sustainable #businessmodels and #strategies. It is easy to focus on all that needs to be done and all the steps back that are taking place, so it was great to be reminded of the great progress that is actually ongoing A huge thanks to the fantastic team behind this programme (Emma Fromberg, Olivia Horne, Sophia Upton, Lex Sellwood, Benjamin Boddington, Ellen Mumford and Kathy Cheng) and to all the amazing students of Cohort 27, organisational stream! It has been a pleasure to get to know you better and to see how much you have learnt in just 5 months! Good luck with the rest of your academic journey and with your change projects - we need your energy and ideas now more than ever!!

I spent the morning yesterday strolling the majestic grounds of Madingley Hall & Gardens reflecting on a very full circle moment… I had my first speaking engagement for my PhD research at the University of Cambridge in 2021 at the annual Journal of Management Studies conference, and am now capping off my PhD program back again, this time as a guest speaker for the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL)'s Postgraduate Certificate in Sustainable Business. An amazing opportunity to educate practitioners on the ever-evolving sustainability measurement and reporting landscape, as well as distribute some of the insights from my academic research to an influential group of industry professionals. I was also fortunate to join Ursula Davis, Sophie Walker and Ellie Standen on a panel discussion talking all things sustainability measurement, reporting and value chains. To top it off I was generously invited to attend the Cambridge Gala Dinner at Sidney Sussex college. A huge thank you to Fiona Charnley and Emma Fromberg for affording me this opportunity, and to the students for being so engaged in the sessions.

Kristin Edie, Vice President, Enterprise Sustainability at Hallmark Cards and student on the Master’s in Sustainability Leadership shares her experience of studying the programme and details what a day looks like during one of her residential workshops in Cambridge, UK. "Spending time as part of a large cohort of students, each of whom are so committed to making progress on sustainability, is inspirational. It creates a true optimism in me for the future." Read Kirstin's full blog here: https://lnkd.in/eRG_TWD2 #CISL #CISLSustainableBusiness #SustainabilityLeadership #LeadershipDevelopment #TransformativeLeadership #SustainableBusiness #PostgraduateStudies #ScholarshipOpportunities #Bursaries

With #COP29 in its final days, the pressure is on for leaders to act on their commitment to triple renewables and double energy efficiency by 2030, and transition away from fossil fuels by 2050.   Launching soon is CISL's self-paced #OnlineCourse, Renewable Energy Foundations for Business to support you and your business to move away from fossil fuel energy sources to renewable energy alternatives. Dr Jan Rosenow, energy opinion leader, analyst and scholar and course lead, offers a brief summary. 👇   “This course takes people on a journey starting with how we got to the fossil fuel economy we live in today towards a renewable energy system in the future. You will gain insights from people who are directly involved in the transition, hear about companies driving the transition and the challenges and opportunities in front of us. Students leave the course with a high-level understanding of what the transition to renewable energy involves and how they can contribute to it."   Find out more then register your interest. 👉 https://ow.ly/muiu50Thro0   #CISLCOP29

Some weeks I am so grateful I get to do my job and all the incredible opportunities it affords me - this is one of those weeks: I gave a talk as part of the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL)’s post graduate course. I was one of 3 speakers yesterday all with a take on measurement, reporting and value chains. I loved getting to spend the day with the speakers, the organisers and this fantastic, engaged cohort. I also got to experience a Cambridge Gala Dinner at Sidney Sussex college 😮 So many great conversations about sustainability, circular economy, waste, resources, supply chains (or webs), data, just transition, investment, growth, doughnut economics, packaging, waste tracking, critical materials, emotions… Today I watched Miquel Ballester Salvà talk about Fairphone - wow! What an inspiring, thought provoking session and what an example they are setting. I wish all companies could be more Fairphone ❤️ Currently on my way via many delayed trains to speak about Open 3P at the British Plastics Federation. Huge thanks to Emma Fromberg and Ken W. for making this happen for me, thanks to Ursula Davis and Margo Reynolds for insightful talks and Ellie Standen for chairing our panel. And huge thanks to the whole CISL team and the students for being awesome. Feeling energised and excited to see what we can all achieve to address our poly-crises 🫶🏼🙌🏼

"That course has changed my life, it changed my work, it changed my company." Aude Grasset started her journey with CISL in 2018 with our 8-week online course on #BusinessSustainabilityManagement. Here, she speaks about the course's impacts on her life and career and how the company she consulted for was transformed as a result. The next presentation starts in February, 2025. Click here to find out more: https://lnkd.in/dNqebuy

🎥 Ever wondered how nature can teach us to transform towards a better and more resilient economy?✨ 🐝 In this short video, you’ll get a sneak peek into a dynamic learning activity from the Postgraduate Certificate in Sustainable Business, led by Chris Grantham FRSA and Adam Lusby. 🌳 During this activity we introduce what I call ecological design thinking. 🍂It is all about drawing lessons from living systems to inspire innovative and sustainable approaches to our economic challenges. 🐛To bring this to life, I developed a learning tool, based on multiple years of research. 💡Interested in this work and what this means for business? This tool will feature in the 📆 2-day Systems Thinking Lab 10-11 March 2025. 📆 Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership: Education (CISL) Tom Norton, PhD Link with more information about the course: https://lnkd.in/ebQGJSXN