Strategic Sustainability and Leadership

Catalog description

As sustainability becomes a core strategic goal of any organization, it impacts all aspects of the organization from informing risk and reward to the definitions and dimensions of innovation and overall success. Explores the interface between strategy and sustainability, developing a framework for strategic sustainability that underpins authentic and transparent strategic efforts. Uses reframing, re-visioning and backcasting via a sustainability lens as constructs for introducing strategic sustainability across all aspects of an organization. Explores and applies multiple sustainability-informed approaches, methods and tools to identify, assess and recommend strategic opportunities and adaptable action-pathways. Upon completion, students should be able to use strategic-sustainability knowledge to integrate and apply emerging sustainability approaches and to create strategic visions and action plans for an organization.