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  • Start dates

    24 November 2025

  • Duration

    2 days

  • Programme fee

    2,450 (excl. 21% VAT)

  • Language

    English

  • Format

    In person

In a rapidly evolving world, competitiveness and sustainability go hand in hand. Whether you're embedding sustainability into an existing role or redefining your organisation’s strategy from the ground up, this programme will sharpen your knowledge and thinking, so you can successfully integrate sustainability into your business strategy.

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Your path to create long-lasting impact

  • Top ranked in the Netherlands.

    RSM is among the best business school in the Netherlands, and one of the highest ranked in Europe.

  • Learn to step up as a sustainability leader.

    Through a blend of theoretical and practical methods, this sustainability programme will grow your toolkit to become a steward of transformation.

  • Make your mark in your organisation and in your industry.

    Experience a truly impact-driven programme centred around RSM's mission of becoming a force for positive change. 

  • Develop a holistic understanding of sustainable business.

    RSM’s faculty are experts in a wide range of industries, and their insights will widen your perspective on sustainability, while enriching your professional and personal leadership skills.

For whom

Explore if this sustainability programme is for you

Your roles
  • Sustainability professional
  • Marketing, Finance, HR specialist
  • Start-up founder or business owner
  • Product developer
  • Department head
  • Social impact lead or specialist
Your challenges
  • Pivoting career or breaking into sustainability
  • Adding sustainability into your function
  • Building a sustainable product or business
  • Responding to investors and customer expectations
  • Leading sustainability projects with confidence 

Learning goals

By participating in this programme you will gain the skills and capabilities to be an agent of change.

  • Understand today’s most pressing sustainability challenges.
  • Evaluate corporate sustainability maturity, conduct materiality assessments, and set science-based targets aligned with strategy and reporting standards.
  • Transform business models and practices.
  • Map interdependencies, identify leverage points, and apply strategic thinking to lead change within and beyond your organisation.
  • Lead responsibly through tensions and trade-offs.
  • Analyse the impact of regulations, investors demands, and consumer expectations.

Your expert faculty

During Sustainaility for Business Impact programme you will learn from Dr Steve Kennedy and Dr Rouven Kanitz.

Dr Steve Kennedy

Steve Kennedy is Associate Professor of Business Sustainability at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University. His research approaches how systems and resilience thinking can help organizations to tackle grand societal challenges such as climate change and biodiversity loss. Dr Kennedy has experience collaborating with partners on sustainability in a wide variety of sectors including finance, construction, agriculture, electronics, and chemicals. His research has featured in peer-reviewed scientific journals such as Journal of Management Studies, Strategic Organization, Long Range Planning, Business & Society, Journal of Cleaner Production and Business Strategy & the Environment. 

Dr Rouven Kanitz

Rouven Kanitz is an assistant professor of organisational change at RSM. His research focuses on helping organisations to navigate change processes in more effective and sustainable ways, focusing on the human side of change with specific interventions, measuring responses, and opportunities from digital technology. Before entering academia, Rouven worked in medical technology industry and as a consultant on change projects. His work has been published in leading academic journals such as Academy of Management Journal, the Journal of International Business Studies, and the Journal of Organizational Behavior. Rouven has a PhD in Management from Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München.

Embark on the full sustainability journey

This course is part of the larger Leading Sustainable Business Transformation programme, a larger course diving in-depth into corporate strategy, culture and business models through specialised online learning and group coaching.

More information

Programme dates

24 - 25 November 2025

Programme fee

€ 2,450 (excl. 21% VAT) including course materials, lunches, and snacks. This fee does not include hotel accommodation.

 

15% alumni discount.
 

A programme for your entire team

 All our short courses can also be delivered as personalised in-company training to groups of employees from the same organisation. This enables us to develop a course that focuses on your organisation’s own situation and issues.

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Programma advisor

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