Leading Sustainability Strategies: Embedding social and environmental responsibilities into your business

Companies across the world face exciting new challenges: achieve and sustain competitive advantage while contributing to sustainable development. These interesting challenges revolve mainly around engaging and empowering key stakeholders such as customers, employees and communities, not only of today, but also of future generations.
,n
The key objectives of this programme are: 

• Strategic, proactive vision that integrates sustainability factors to increase competitive advantage, innovation and leadership.
  kjk
• Design and development of sustainability strategy.
   
• Application of concepts to particular sectors and situations.
   
• Current and emerging trends in the field of sustainability.
   
• Skills and knowledge to develope a corporate director.
   
• Exploration of best practices and different experiences.

• This programme is addressed, above all, to optimistic, critical and humble people willing to learn and lead change in their organizations.
   
• Senior managers in charge of the sustainability agenda in their companies or responsible for some area of sustainability as one aspect of their agenda.
   
• Non-executive directors in charge of or interested in sustainability issues.
   
• Managers interested in learning and exchanging views about sustainability from the perspective of strategy, leadership and influencing, with the objective of embedding sustainability in corporate strategy.
   
• Non-profit or governmental senior managers interested in understanding how companies develop sustainability strategies to explore potential alliances and partnerships in the future.

DAY 1
jhj
Programme Presentation

• Identifying the most important sustainability issues.

Networking Dinner


DAY 2

• Sustainable Competitiveness and Sustainable Innovation.
   
• Governance and the leadership of sustainability.
  

jh
DAY 3 

• Engaging Employees: Everybody’s business.
   
• Putting it all together.

• The programme involves full attendance to all the sessions in Barcelona starting the 2nd of October in the evening until the 4th of October.
   
• The programme includes a variety of techniques such as lectures, intense case discussions, group exercises and peer support meetings.
   
• The programme requires willingness to cooperate and share ideas with fellow participants.
   
• Participants will be asked to work on the links to their business practices during the programme.
   
• Participants are given all the material for the programme three weeks before the beginning of the classes and will be asked to submit an assignment one week before the beginning.
   
• The assignments and materials are available at a web-based learning area, where participants can also exchange their opinions about readings, cases or about their peers’ views.

Dates	Fees	Location
Sunday, 2 October, 2011 from 5:30pm to 9pm (including Networking Dinner) Monday, 3 October, 2011 from 9:00am to 7:00pm Tuesday, 4 October, 2011 from 9:00am to 6:00pm	2.970 € (hotel included)  2.620 € (hotel not included) Early bird registration (before 30 July) or teams of 3 or more executives from the same company: 2.490 € (hotel included)  2.140 € (hotel not included)	Barcelona

Program Director Barcelona

Daniel Arenas Vives

daniel.arenas@esade.edu

see CV

Barcelona

Montse Cañellas Pascual, Product Manager

montse.canellas@esade.edu