Supporting success with customised capacity building for leadership teams
Business leaders today face a landscape of ever-growing complexity, building resilience and maximising opportunities in today’s disrupted world, whilst also shaping the industries and innovative business models to succeed in the future.CISL’s customised programmes bring together leadership teams to build transition strategies and the capabilities required to deliver them. From building resilience to maximising competitiveness, these programmes provide market insight from industry experts and thought leaders, and help teams to design practical pathways to succeed.Our custom programmes build on over 35 years' experience designing and delivering programmes to enable leaders to create value. CISL works with global organisations in every sector to achieve commercial benefit, drawing on an international network of over 40,000 leaders across industry, finance, policy and innovation. Contact Janna, Head of Client Engagement for Education Programmes, to understand how CISL can support your organisation.
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Who is this for
Delivered to leadership teams, Boards, executives and specific functions (e.g. Marketing, HR or Finance) as well as high-potential individuals, CISL’s customised programme help organisation identify and tackle the challenges they face, and identify actional pathways through leadership, innovation and collaboration.
Outcomes
We bring together world leading practitioners and experts to deliver action-orientated, outcome focused programmes that help business address the specific challenges they face and create value to drive increased competitiveness.
We have helped businesses to:
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Build resilience and unlock new growth in disrupted markets
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Construct commercially viable strategies to create value and long-term competitiveness
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Develop the leadership capability to turn ambition into action
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Scale innovative solutions to address market challenges and opportunities
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Shape markets and policy environments to enable competitive advantage
“Working with CISL has been transformative for us. Their deep industry expertise and constructive approach has helped us to shift sustainability and social impact from being perceived as an optional add-on to a strategic business value driver. This shift has empowered our executive team to see integration not just as a compliance exercise, but as an opportunity to embed sustainability into the core of how we operate and create long-term value.” VodafoneThree
How we work with you
We work with you to understand your business, its operating context and culture, and the wider industry landscape, and from here, we agree your objectives. Our programmes draw on the latest thinking and trends, with industry leadership to provide insight into key economic, environmental and social trends relevant to your context.
CISL boasts a world-leading network of industry experts, thought leaders, policymakers and innovation partners. Drawing from this network, we bring together a team that can speak to the specific opportunities your organisation is looking to explore, and can challenge you with new ways of thinking to support your progress.
We can help you to examine and critically navigate systems such as finance, energy, and social development, and to evaluate your operations in relation to these, as well as providing insights into how others are doing this in your own or adjacent industries.
Our impact
Each year, CISL works with over 600 organisations globally who want to do better business, to ensure they can compete in today’s markets whilst building the industries of the future. You can find out how we are doing this by viewing our recent case studies, or reading our 2025 impact report.
“This programme was a critical step in ensuring that sustainability is fully embedded in how we think, decide, and lead as an organisation. By fostering our senior leadership with a shared understanding of emerging transition risks and opportunities, we are strengthening our ability to create long-term value for our customers, shareholders, and society, while reinforcing our role as a resilient and forward-looking insurer.” Head of Sustainability at Fidelidade
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Is customised training right for my organisation?
Successfully implementing an initial sustainability strategy; crafting successive iterations; and deepening organisational capability for future-fitness and resilience: all represent core challenges for business. Our bespoke sustainability courses are carefully crafted to equip individual leaders and leadership teams with the knowledge, skills and confidence to develop a shared vision and organisational response.
Each course is unique. We convene specialist expertise from a range of different disciplines to deliver practical, actionable insight that is relevant to your organisation and market. Find out more about our customised education programmes for other organisations by reading our recent case studies.
"This programme is an important catalyst for climate action within the Bank. We now have the knowledge, skills and confidence to engage colleagues and clients – skills that are essential if we are to promote green, inclusive growth across Africa." Dr Balgis Osman-Elasha, Climate Change Expert (Program Task Manger), African Development Bank
CISL’s global network
Alumni of CISL’s education programmes join our global Network of over 40,000 leaders and innovators, working to develop solutions to some of the worlds most pressing challenges.
Want to find out more?
CISL works with global business to create bold and pragmatic approaches to compete in today's volatile and disruptive markets. For over 35 years we have helped business become more competitive and resilient by:
- Building capability: We equip organisations with expertise, capabilities and tools to build competitiveness and resilience to benefit in a transitioning market.
- Developing strategy: We use our global network of industry experts and sustainability practitioners to help businesses identify and build solutions to address the key challenges facing them.
- Accelerating innovation: We bring together high potential innovators with business and policy makers to accelerate solutions for a resilient future.
- Driving system-wide change: We bring together business, government, academia and civil society to drive coordinated, system-wide approaches to market transformation.
All our work with business is underpinned by leading-edge research, insights and tools that enable us to shape and scale transformative leadership
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