ESG: Moving Beyond Compliance to Creating Value and Opportunity
Business, Leadership & Management
Course overview
As the world contends with increasingly complex and urgent crises, organisations could place themselves at the forefront of sustainability innovations that are leading the transition. This programme is designed to help leaders move beyond ESG compliance to create real business value from sustainability. Through internal and external perspectives, participants will challenge their assumptions and engage with progressive thinking around how sustainability can drive organisational, reputational, ecological and financial impact.
11 March 2026 - 13 March 2026
Places: Available
Delivery mode: In person
Application deadline: 20 February 2026
Places: Available
Course features
The course is delivered over three in-person days at King’s executive education campus in central London. Each day of the course will dive into data exercises, case studies, individual reflections, and dynamic simulations to build participants’ understanding of the value that sustainability offers as well as the challenges leaders face in reconciling conflicting agendas.
As sustainable business is a rapidly evolving area, King’s is pleased to support participants beyond the end of the programme through access to exclusive events, leading edge research and resources capturing developments and updates, through membership of our executive education alumni community.
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Day 1: Personal values and knowledge to credibly lead sustainability |
Come face-to-face with the impact of the climate crisis. We’ll review the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and scientific evidence to understand the impact of humans on earth (planetary boundaries) and the challenges we face. Participants will consider the business opportunities that these challenges present and the possibilities for sustainable growth. We’ll also recognise the challenges of rapid change and the headwinds presented by business-as-usual. Finally, participants will identify and share some of the limitations we experience in data and information, current business practices and management systems. |
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Day 2: Strategies to create value |
We will discuss what ESG means for your business today from an operational and strategic perspective. How is climate risk becoming financial risk? How does new sustainability accounting help every department to get involved and succeed? We will explore how to navigate the landscape of voluntary frameworks, ratings, scores and certifications. And we will interrogate the role each department has to play including estates, human resources, marketing, operations, finance and more. |
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Day 3: Leading transformation |
We will conduct an analysis of different stakeholders, their motivations and the barriers they present in leading sustainable value creation. We will also work with 'The Boardroom Key to Sustainability’ – a new decision-making tool developed by King's Business School. Finally, we'll review case studies and learn how it can help you unlock value for your organisation. |
Our expertise
Our expert academics bring real examples to life of using sustainability to drive organisational performance, build reputation, benefit from ecosystem services and deliver financial value.
Entry requirements
This programme is designed for those who are responsible for strategy, capital allocation and operational decision making as well as managers and executives who want to make a difference and champion ESG within their business.
It is also suitable for consultants, client managers and individuals who work across a range of functional areas including finance, strategy, HR, estates and facilities, marketing and communications, and operations.
As this programme is taught entirely in English, it is essential that you’re able to converse, interact and write in English.
Further information
On completing this programme, participants will be able to:
- Recognise the importance of personal beliefs and the scientific drivers of climate change as a foundation of sustainability leadership.
- Understand emerging risks to asset values, cash flows, financial stability; the role of the financial system in the transition and upside opportunities
- Explore the connection between International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) sustainability accounting and reporting, Net Zero Planning (NZP) and business models as market signals.
- Explore how sustainability drives innovation and performance to create organisational value.
- Discover how to build and maintain reputation and perceptual value.
- Understand how organizations’ benefit from ecosystems services and environmental value.
- Conduct an analysis of different stakeholders, their motivations and the barriers they present in leading sustainable value creation.
Credit value:
Not for credit
Duration:
3 days
Book a consultation with Nicole Yee, our Programme Expert, to find out more about this course.
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Who will I be taught by
Professor of Practice in Sustainability
Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Marketing Technology and Innovation
Senior Lecturer in Entrepreneurship
Lecturer in Climate Change, Business, and Society
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