Accelerating a Sustainability Transition 15 Credits

Help transform your organization and accelerate its transition towards regenerative sustainability by joining JIBS Executive Lifelong Learning Course: Accelerating a sustainability transition.
This course is designed to inspire and enable participants to collaborate and lead effective change towards sustainability. The course is designed to support change makers for sustainability and help them navigate the complexity, the urgency and the multiple layers of decision-making related to the global environmental and social challenges and opportunities, while contributing to a regenerative economy.
The course is created to empower and prepare anyone that is willing to coach their organization or another organization to accelerate their sustainability transition.

Course Contents

This course is designed to inspire and enable participants to collaborate and lead effective change towards sustainability. The course is supports innovators for sustainability and broaden their understanding of global risks, international standards and regulations. By studying value chains, ecosystems, we explore how to align with 1.5 degree target and overall Agenda 2030 goals.

The course is created to empower and prepare anyone that is willing to coach their organization or another organization into accelerating their sustainability transition. Participants are invited to explore their own resilience and role by unfolding the Inner Development Goals and exploring their personal values and impact.

This journey is supported by regular dialogs, coaching, and mentoring sessions to help participants reflect, engage and work on their identified goals.

Connection to Research and Practice
Based on the global calls for decarbonization and creating a regenerative economy, this course introduces the global context for sustainability, the SDGs and the IDGs to facilitate sustainable innovation, the social dynamics of transformation, innovation within the organization, innovation within the infrastructure/environment to create a roadmap to sustainability transformation based on science based targets (SBTI).

Prerequisites

To be eligible for this course, the applicant must fulfil one of the following criteria:
Bachelor’s degree in business administration or economics (i.e., the equivalent of 180 ECTS at an accredited university) and at least 1 year of work experience,
OR
Bachelor’s degree in a different discipline and at least 1 year of relevant work experience (i.e., in the field of management/entrepreneurship/leadership/project management/public administration/healthcare),
OR
Applicants without a bachelor’s degree but with at least 2 years of relevant work experience (i.e., in the field of management/entrepreneurship/leadership/project management in the public/private and/or not-for profit sector(s)).
AND
English proficiency is required (level 6/B or equivalent).

Level of Education: Master
Course code/Ladok code: JSTR23
The course is conducted at: Jönköping International Business School Last modified 2024-02-13 14:44:47