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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This experience-focused programme blends interactive lectures, real-world case studies, expert insights, and peer collaboration to accelerate your learning and ensure long-term impact. In this two-day course, you'll also benefit from a curated set of self-paced e-learning materials; whatever is your background and experience level, you can walk in the classroom with a strong foundational knowledge in sustainable business, and a shared starting point with fellow participants.
Join a cohort of mature professionals committed to making business a force for good, and leave with the tools, mindset, and confidence to drive meaningful, future-proof transformation.
During Sustainaility for Business Impact programme you will learn from Dr Steve Kennedy and Dr Rouven Kanitz.
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.
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.
24 - 25 November 2025
€ 2,450 (excl. 21% VAT) including course materials, lunches, and snacks. This fee does not include hotel accommodation.
15% alumni discount.
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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