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As sustainability continues to be a top priority for C-suites and boards worldwide, the challenge remains of how to leverage a best-in-class sustainability program to unlock business value creation. To achieve this, you need a leadership team that possesses a sustainable mindset and can apply principles for sustainable growth across your strategy, operations and value chain.
RRA’s Sustainable Leadership Accelerator is a highly customizable development program designed to supercharge the development of sustainable leaders across your organization.
How will the Sustainable Leadership Accelerator fuel your organization’s growth?
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Strategic Advantage: Equips executives with the competencies to integrate sustainability into business strategy, enabling their organizations to capitalize on emerging market opportunities and differentiate themselves from competitors.
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Enhanced Decision-Making: By understanding the complexities of sustainability, executives can make informed decisions that enhance profitability with sustainable innovations to drive short and long-term value creation.
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Stakeholder Engagement: Helps executives develop tools to effectively engage and communicate with diverse stakeholders, including investors, customers, and employees, fostering trust and collaboration by leveraging sustainability initiatives.
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Cultural Transformation: Learn how to champion a culture of sustainability within their organizations, inspiring employees at all levels to contribute to sustainability goals and enhancing overall organizational resilience.
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Regulatory Compliance and Risk Management: As regulations around sustainability surge globally, discover how to balance compliance requirements with the value creation opportunities to safeguard organizational reputation and ensure long-term financial performance.
Our bespoke approach allows us to curate a development program that meets your organization where it is on its sustainable growth journey, and addresses the specific leadership needs of your senior team.
We ground your program in RRA’s proprietary Sustainable Leadership Model, developed in partnership with the United Nations Global Compact.
Who should attend?
The Sustainable Leadership Accelerator Program is specifically designed to bring cross-functional groups together to gain common understanding and focus on value creation. Participants typically include:
- CEOs and C-suite Executives: Senior leaders who are responsible for setting strategic direction and driving sustainability initiatives, such as CFOs and GCs leading new compliance efforts.
- Business Unit Leaders: Executives leading specific divisions or business units tasked with integrating sustainability into operational strategies and implementing sustainable practices.
- Transformation and Innovation Leaders: Executives guiding their organizations through transformation, exploring opportunities to integrate sustainability as a value-creating lever.
- Senior Leaders in Sustainability: Executives who are directly involved in sustainability efforts within their organizations, such as Chief Sustainability Officers or sustainability department heads, who want to strengthen connections with their executive peers and develop a shared framework for transformation.
This training is ideal for any executive leader who is committed to advancing their organization's sustainability agenda and is looking to enhance their leadership capabilities in this crucial area.
How does the Sustainable Leadership Accelerator work?
Our experts will work with you to design a program that meets the specific development needs of your senior leadership team. A typical structure includes:
- Program Design: After learning more about your company’s sustainability journey, goals, and challenges, we will build a bespoke program to fit your needs. We can scope programs for 5 to 50+ leaders, depending on your needs.
- Participant Preparation: Each participant will complete a Sustainable Leadership Index assessment. The assessment provides individual scores across the five elements of the Sustainable Leadership Model, and helps participants enter the program with a clear understanding of their existing strengths and opportunities for improvement.
- Program Delivery: Our program offerings span from half-day to three-day sessions, deliverable in either a virtual or in-person format.
- Post-Program Peer Coaching: Peer Coaching groups foster a collaborative, constructive climate where participants draw on diverse viewpoints to address sustainable leadership challenges. Composed of four to five leaders, these groups are formed during the program and carry on as an ongoing support network once it ends.
Program Content
While each program is tailored to a specific organization, some common training modules include:
Module 1: State of the World – ESG and Sustainability
An interactive session discussing regional, geographic and industry-specific challenges related to ESG & Sustainability
Module 2: Finding Focus in a Noisy Context
A multi-dimensional view of stakeholders and how their needs are evolving, including tools for cutting through the noise to identify business priorities that provide strategic focus
Module 3: Sustainable Leadership Model in Action
An interactive session breaking down the Sustainable Leadership Model and pragmatic ways to put its insights into action, focusing on challenges faced by your team and with their key stakeholders
Module 4: Sustainability-Oriented Innovation
Leveraging real-life case studies and conceptual frameworks, participants will gain insight into the best practices for using sustainability as a lens for innovation, driving competitive advantage and greater value creation.
Module 5: Creating the Right Organizational Environment to Drive Sustainability
Building on the strategic, conceptual and tactical insights gained from the previous sessions, participants will explore two dimensions of an organizational environment needed to drive sustainability including formal structures and processes, and culture.
Led by world-class industry leadersRRA Faculty |
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Sarah GallowayRRA Leadership Advisor,
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Kurt HarrisonRRA Leadership Advisor,
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David LangeRRA Leadership Advisor |
Jennifer FlockRRA Leadership Advisor |
Shannon KnottRRA Leadership Advisor |
Aimee WilliamsonRRA Leadership Advisor |
Sustainable Leadership Accelerator
Join us to create a highly customizable development program designed to supercharge the development of sustainable leaders across your organization.