Comprehensive and practical sustainability training for organisations
Elevate your team’s understanding of sustainability with our hands-on education programme for professionals, designed to provide practical insights and tools for implementing effective sustainability strategies in the workplace.
Fully online, self-paced learning with 24/7 access to course content.
Designed to bridge knowledge and action for sustainability in business.
Curated by expert academics and sustainability practitioners.
Gain sustainability expertise to confidently drive business success.
Why invest in sustainability skills for your team?
Empowering your teams with key sustainability skills drives innovation, fosters resilience, and aligns your organisation with global goals. Adopting a more sustainable business model enhances brand reputation, reduces risks, and contributes to profitability, ultimately positioning your organisation for long-term success.
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Tailored learning with custom course bundles
Empower your team and enhance their skills by tailoring their learning journey with custom course bundles. Select from a diverse range of modules to meet your organisation's specific needs, ensuring a learning experience that is directly aligned with your strategic objectives.
This reflects the duration of Continuous Professional Development learning and the corresponding hours that can be recorded in your CPD Portfolio. These hours contribute towards achieving your qualification.
Online, self-paced learning
Learn what sustainable finance is and how to evaluate and utilise available sustainable finance instruments and approaches.
This reflects the duration of Continuous Professional Development learning and the corresponding hours that can be recorded in your CPD Portfolio. These hours contribute towards achieving your qualification.
Online, self-paced learning
Analyse business operations’ impacts on immediate and wider environments and determine how to implement practices to minimise environmental and social harm.
Online, self-paced learning
Realise the business case for biodiversity conservation and understand the responsibilities organisations have for financial reporting related to biodiversity.
This reflects the duration of Continuous Professional Development learning and the corresponding hours that can be recorded in your CPD Portfolio. These hours contribute towards achieving your qualification.
Online, self-paced learning
Assess your current DEI strategy, use leadership to articulate the business case for DEI, and implement bias-free ways to collect diversity-related data.
This reflects the duration of Continuous Professional Development learning and the corresponding hours that can be recorded in your CPD Portfolio. These hours contribute towards achieving your qualification.
This reflects the duration of Continuous Professional Development learning and the corresponding hours that can be recorded in your CPD Portfolio. These hours contribute towards achieving your qualification.
Online, self-paced learning
Get familiar with the challenges organisations face and understand the strategic framework involved in an organisation's sustainability journey.
This reflects the duration of Continuous Professional Development learning and the corresponding hours that can be recorded in your CPD Portfolio. These hours contribute towards achieving your qualification.
Online, self-paced learning
Understand how to develop a sustainability plan, conduct a materiality assessment and implement a sustainability framework.
Online, self-paced learning
Discover how to measure progress, baselining, and benchmarking, the importance of stakeholder engagement, and strategies for resilience.
This reflects the duration of Continuous Professional Development learning and the corresponding hours that can be recorded in your CPD Portfolio. These hours contribute towards achieving your qualification.
Most popular short course
This reflects the duration of Continuous Professional Development learning and the corresponding hours that can be recorded in your CPD Portfolio. These hours contribute towards achieving your qualification.
Online, self-paced learning | 3 CPD hours
Understand sustainable finance: literacy, terms, systems, and global trends
Learn how financial systems are redirected towards economic and social benefits
Evaluate and utilise available sustainable finance instruments and approaches
Most popular short course
This reflects the duration of Continuous Professional Development learning and the corresponding hours that can be recorded in your CPD Portfolio. These hours contribute towards achieving your qualification.
Online, self-paced learning | 3 CPD hours
Analyse business operations' impacts on immediate and wider environments
Understand technology's role in data collection and reporting
Determine how to implement practices to minimise environmental and social impact
Most popular short course
Online, self-paced learning | 3 CPD hours
Recognise business cases where organisations have introduced initiatives to combat biodiversity decline
Understand how biodiversity is represented in global and EU policies
Understand the responsibilities that organisations have for financial reporting related to biodiversity
This reflects the duration of Continuous Professional Development learning and the corresponding hours that can be recorded in your CPD Portfolio. These hours contribute towards achieving your qualification.
Most popular short course
Online, self-paced learning | 3 CPD hours
Assess your current DEI strategy, and identify gaps and the essential elements needed within the strategy
Use leadership to articulate DEI business case in your organisation
Implement bias-free ways to collect and interpret diversity-related data
This reflects the duration of Continuous Professional Development learning and the corresponding hours that can be recorded in your CPD Portfolio. These hours contribute towards achieving your qualification.
Most popular short course
This reflects the duration of Continuous Professional Development learning and the corresponding hours that can be recorded in your CPD Portfolio. These hours contribute towards achieving your qualification.
Online, self-paced learning | 3 CPD hours
Introduction to the sustainability challenges organisations face
Understand the strategic framework involved in an organisation's sustainability journey
Evaluate the UN SDGs for aligning company sustainability plans
Most popular short course
This reflects the duration of Continuous Professional Development learning and the corresponding hours that can be recorded in your CPD Portfolio. These hours contribute towards achieving your qualification.
Online, self-paced learning | 3 CPD hours
Understand and outline key steps involved in developing a sustainability plan
Learn to conduct a materiality assessment to assess stakeholders' views
Understand stakeholder engagement and implementing a sustainability framework
Most popular short course
Online, self-paced learning | 3 CPD hours
Understand how to measure progress, baselining and benchmarking
Drive progress and understand the importance of Stakeholder Engagement
Learn to implement strategies and seek feedback to ensure resilience
This reflects the duration of Continuous Professional Development learning and the corresponding hours that can be recorded in your CPD Portfolio. These hours contribute towards achieving your qualification.
New Lessons Added
Online, self-paced learning | CPD-certified
Understand the fundamentals of CSRD reporting and discover practical steps for compliance and effective implementation.
This reflects the duration of Continuous Professional Development learning and the corresponding hours that can be recorded in your CPD Portfolio. These hours contribute towards achieving your qualification.
Most popular short course
Most popular short course
Online, self-paced learning | CPD-certified
Get familiar with the challenges organisations face and understand the strategic framework involved in an organisation's sustainability journey.
This reflects the duration of Continuous Professional Development learning and the corresponding hours that can be recorded in your CPD Portfolio. These hours contribute towards achieving your qualification.
Most popular short course
Online, self-paced learning | CPD-certified
Understand how to develop a plan, conduct a materiality assessment and implement a sustainability framework.
This reflects the duration of Continuous Professional Development learning and the corresponding hours that can be recorded in your CPD Portfolio. These hours contribute towards achieving your qualification.
Most popular short course
Online, self-paced learning | CPD-certified
Discover how to measure progress, engage stakeholders, and implement resilient sustainability strategies through feedback.
This reflects the duration of Continuous Professional Development learning and the corresponding hours that can be recorded in your CPD Portfolio. These hours contribute towards achieving your qualification.
Most popular short course
Online, self-paced learning | CPD-certified
Learn to interpret your organisation’s carbon footprint across Scopes 1, 2, and 3, and identify key carbon targets for your decarbonisation plan.
This reflects the duration of Continuous Professional Development learning and the corresponding hours that can be recorded in your CPD Portfolio. These hours contribute towards achieving your qualification.
Most popular short course
Online, self-paced learning | CPD-certified
Grasp circular economy principles to implement circular principles for eco-friendly and economically viable products.
This reflects the duration of Continuous Professional Development learning and the corresponding hours that can be recorded in your CPD Portfolio. These hours contribute towards achieving your qualification.
Most popular short course
Online, self-paced learning | CPD-certified
Realise the business case for biodiversity conservation and understand the responsibilities organisations have for financial reporting.
This reflects the duration of Continuous Professional Development learning and the corresponding hours that can be recorded in your CPD Portfolio. These hours contribute towards achieving your qualification.
Most popular short course
Online, self-paced learning | CPD-certified
Evaluate your DEI strategy, leverage leadership to communicate its business case, and implement bias-free data collection.
This reflects the duration of Continuous Professional Development learning and the corresponding hours that can be recorded in your CPD Portfolio. These hours contribute towards achieving your qualification.
Most popular short course
Online, self-paced learning | CPD-certified
Comprehend sustainable finance, how financial systems drive economic and social benefits, and learn to apply sustainable finance instruments.
This reflects the duration of Continuous Professional Development learning and the corresponding hours that can be recorded in your CPD Portfolio. These hours contribute towards achieving your qualification.
Most popular short course
Online, self-paced learning | CPD-certified
Learn to analyse the impact of operations on the environment, leverage technology for reporting, and implement best practices.
This reflects the duration of Continuous Professional Development learning and the corresponding hours that can be recorded in your CPD Portfolio. These hours contribute towards achieving your qualification.
Most popular short course
Online, self-paced learning | CPD-certified
Assess global supply chain risks and collaboration opportunities and discover tools to make supply chains resilient.
This reflects the duration of Continuous Professional Development learning and the corresponding hours that can be recorded in your CPD Portfolio. These hours contribute towards achieving your qualification.
Most popular short course
Online, self-paced learning | CPD-certified
Understand communication’s role in effective sustainability plans and learn to design a green marketing strategy.
This reflects the duration of Continuous Professional Development learning and the corresponding hours that can be recorded in your CPD Portfolio. These hours contribute towards achieving your qualification.
Industry-Specific Pathways
The course modules are flexibly designed to cater to specific industry needs, offering customised learning paths. Below, we illustrate example bundles for the food, transportation, service, and construction industries, showcasing how tailored content addresses unique sustainability challenges and objectives.
Interested in tailoring a custom learning pathway for your organisation's specific needs?
Gain sustainability strategies and insights through our modules to address challenges in the food industry, including waste reduction, ethical sourcing, and carbon footprint management. Though the modules cover business sustainability concepts in their entirety and explore their impacts on different aspects of an organisation’s operations, you can tailor/customise your learning from the following modules to address specific sustainability challenges that you may face within the food industry.
➜ Sustainability Plan Development and Implementation
➜ Decarbonisation – Achieving Net Zero
➜ Circular Economy and Sustainable Products
➜ Business with Biodiversity
➜ Sustainable Supply Chain
➜ ESG Reporting and Auditing
Benefit from live masterclasses with sustainability experts, offering insights and strategies that help you meet your organisation’s unique sustainability challenges.
Leverage our modules to acquire sustainability strategies and insights, addressing key challenges within the service industry, including energy efficiency, sustainable service models, and stakeholder interaction. Though the modules cater to broad sustainability concepts, participants can apply the acquired knowledge to devise specific sustainable solutions for service-oriented businesses.
➜ Sustainability Plan Development and Implementation
➜ Energy Efficiency and Sustainable Operations
➜ Green Marketing and Communication
➜ Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
➜ Sustainable Supply Chain Management
➜ ESG Reporting and Auditing
Benefit from live masterclasses with sustainability experts, offering insights and strategies that help you meet your organisation’s unique sustainability challenges.
Utilise our modules to develop sustainability strategies and insights to tackle prominent challenges in the construction industry such as resource efficiency, supply chain risks, and regulatory compliance. Though the modules cover business sustainability concepts in their entirety and explore their impacts on different aspects of an organisation’s operations, you can tailor/customise your learning from the following modules to address specific sustainability challenges that you may face within the construction industry.
➜ Sustainability Plan Development and Implementation
➜ Sustainable Operations
➜ Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
➜ Sustainable Supply Chain Management
➜ ESG Reporting and Auditing
Benefit from live masterclasses with sustainability experts, offering insights and strategies that help you meet your organisation’s unique sustainability challenges.
The following modules will help you gain valuable sustainability strategies and insights that you can implement to tackle key challenges within the manufacturing industry, including reducing emissions, enhancing resource efficiency, and implementing sustainable production techniques. Though the modules cover business sustainability concepts in their entirety and explore their impacts on different aspects of an organisation’s operations, you can tailor/customise your learning to address specific sustainability challenges that you may face within the manufacturing industry.
➜ Sustainability Plan Development and Implementation
➜ Decarbonisation – Achieving Net Zero
➜ Circular Economy and Sustainable Products
➜ Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
➜ Business with Biodiversity
➜ Sustainable Supply Chain Management
➜ ESG Reporting and Auditing
Benefit from live masterclasses with sustainability experts, offering insights and strategies that help you meet your organisation’s unique sustainability challenges.
The following modules will help you gain an understanding of sustainability strategies and insights to address critical challenges in the transportation industry, such as reducing emissions, improving fuel efficiency, and promoting sustainable logistics. Though the modules cover business sustainability concepts in their entirety and explore their impacts on different aspects of an organisation’s operations, you can tailor/customise your learning from the following modules to address specific sustainability challenges that you may face within the transportation industry.
➜ Sustainability Plan Development and Implementation
➜ Decarbonisation – Achieving Net Zero
➜ Sustainable Logistics and Supply Chain Management
➜ Sustainable Operations
➜ Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
➜ ESG Reporting and Auditing
Benefit from live masterclasses with sustainability experts, offering insights and strategies that help you meet your organisation’s unique sustainability challenges.
Interested in tailoring a custom bundle for your organisation's specific needs?
Why take action now?
80%
of 200 studies show that company stock price performance is positively correlated with good sustainability practices.
2 in 3
UK employees want to work for organisations that have a positive impact on the world.
49,000
large companies are expected to comply with sustainability reporting requirements starting 2023.
90%
of 200 studies analyzed conclude that good ESG standards lower the cost of capital.
£1 trillion
market opportunity for British businesses supplying the goods and services to enable the global net-zero transition, in the period up to 2030.
Top 100
sustainable global companies experienced significantly higher mean sales growth between 2006 and 2010.
What course graduates say
Find out how they’re using the practical tools and insights from the course to tackle urgent sustainability challenges.
Broadening your impact through practical hands-on training
With the total focus on practical skills that your team can implement in your workplace, this course helps gain key sustainability insights and learn to implement best practices to drive sustainable success.
Key Features
- Flexible, Self-paced Learning
Empower your team with a fully online, immersive learning experience. Enjoy self-paced, guided modules with 24/7 access to all course materials.
- Expert-Led Content
Learn from industry leaders with expertly curated modules and on-demand videos, designed to elevate sustainability knowledge.
- Interactive Learning Experience
Engage with dynamic, interactive tools, videos, assessments, and knowledge check-ins to ensure a highly engaging learning experience.
- Internationally-Recognised Course
Earn CPD-accredited certification with every course, gaining globally recognised credentials and valuable CPD credits upon completion.
- Practical Application-Based Learning
Apply your learning through real-world exercises, supported by essential tools and templates that drive actionable outcomes.
- Collaboration and Networking
Connect and collaborate with like-minded professionals across industries, sharing insights and building lasting relationships.
- Insightful Masterclasses
Access exclusive Masterclasses from sustainability experts, providing strategies and insights to inspire and inform impactful action.
- Customised Organisational Learning
Tailor learning experiences to your organisation’s goals, enabling scalable education and effective team management.
- Integrated Learning Platform
Seamlessly integrate our platform with your organisation’s systems for streamlined content delivery and enhanced team learning.
Internationally-recognised course
The Diploma in Business Sustainability is credit-rated by Glasgow Caledonian University, maps onto the European Qualifications Framework and is CPD certified.
Looking for more details?
Please reach out to us to know more about how we can help you and your team foster a sustainability mindset and gain the skills needed to confidently drive sustainable success within your organisation.
(a) Speak to our Corporate Education Advisor for one-on-onediscussion regarding the course and what best suits your team.
(b) Download course brochure for a deeper understanding of learning outcomes and key features.
(c) Send us an email to learning@instituteofsustainabilitystudies.com to initiate a conversation with our course advisor