Collaboration and Partnering for Sustainability

Custom programmes

This immersive two-day professional development programme helps individuals understand what it takes to establish impactful collaborations and partnerships to act towards and address the most pressing challenges and opportunities facing business and society. 

Dates

11-12 October 2021, options to attend in person at Madingley Hall, Cambridge or online

Duration, format and location

Two-day professional development residential seminar; Cambridge, UK

Fee

The course fee is £700 to £2,250, including accommodation and meals (see fees table). Lower fees are available for multiple delegates or Labs, not-for-profits, developing countries, self-funded individuals or those attending online.

How to apply

Submit your application or find out more about the selection criteria.

Find out more

Email labs@cisl.cam.ac.uk if you have any questions regarding our two-day Labs.

The opportunity

The nature of many sustainability solutions is often complex and involves many different stakeholders from a variety of perspectives. In order to address these challenges, establishing successful collaborations and partnerships is critical. 
CISL’s Leadership Lab helps to equip delegates to understand the challenges and opportunities for collaborating and partnering in the face of uncertainty and complexity. It also focuses on the skills and competencies required and how to apply this understanding in different contexts to address sustainability challenges effectively.  

This Lab invites participants to develop an understanding of effective collaboration and partnerships in order to address sustainability challenges. 
  • What are the different functions and forms of collaboration and partnership?
  • What are the pitfalls and myths around collaboration and partnerships? 
  • What tools and methods are available to support collaboration and partnerships? 
  • How can success and impact be measured? 

Who should attend?

This Lab is designed for individuals who see the importance and necessity of collaboration and partnerships to address the complex sustainability challenges of our time, and who are looking to enhance their understanding and skills around collaboration and partnering. 

Benefits of attending

During this highly interactive programme, you will explore how collaboration and partnerships can address pressing economic, social and environmental pressures and opportunities. There will be opportunities to engage with problem-based learning exercises to apply the theory and to enhance peer learning. 
The programme includes elements of co-creation, group activity, journaling and reflection time, peer to peer coaching and pair work. Participants leave the programme having created a personal action plan that they can then put into practice. 
By participating, you will: 

  • Explore what effective collaboration and partnerships look like in the light of pressing economic, social and environmental challenges and opportunities. 
  • Reflect on when partnering is the right approach and how to make partnerships most effective. 
  • How to gauge the impact of partnering. 
  • Reflect and share insights on how to balance the power. 
  • Negotiate and structure agreements in partnership. 
  • Co-generate new thinking on partnership assessment. 
  • Engage with case studies from a range of sectors, industries and contexts. 

Learn from industry thought leaders

Contributors are drawn from CISL’s extensive network of academic and industry practitioners. Confirmed speakers for this Lab include;
  • Ken Caplan, Director, Partnerships in Practice
  • Yiannis Chrysostomidis, Principal, Reos Partners
  • Dr Kayla Friedman, Programme Director, University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership
  • Karen Goldberg, Senior Consultant, Reos Partners
  • Dr Theo Hacking, Director, Postgraduate Programmes, University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership
  • Ambika Jindal, Lead, Valuing Water Initiative, Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs 
  • Mahmood Sonday, Director, Reos Partners
  • Leda Stott, Specialist: Partnership and Sustainable Development
  • Laurens van Zelst, Senior Business Development Manager, Eneco
  • Camila Zelezoglo, International Negotiations Coordinator, Brazilian Textile and Apparel Industry Association – ABIT

Sustainability Leadership Labs

University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) Labs bring together professionals to test and challenge cutting-edge responses to global problems. Open to all our alumni and senior industry practitioners, these two-day sustainability workshops held up to four times per year, are an opportunity for professional development, co-creation and networking – all with real application to your company or organisational situation.

Join our two-day course to understand how to establish impactful collaborations and partnerships. Apply now.