Sustainable Marketing and Communication Strategy bundle

The Sustainable Marketing and Communication Strategy bundle from the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) provides you with a comprehensive skill set for creating, marketing and communicating a strategy that drives impactful change.

Combining three online short courses – Business Sustainability Management; Sustainable Marketing, Communications and Brand Management; and Communicating for Influence and Impact – the bundle takes a holistic approach to help you transform business operations, marketing practices, and communication strategies. With a focus on minimising environmental and social impact while maximising positive transformation, you'll acquire practical tools, explore cutting-edge research and insights, and enhance your ability to challenge norms and create value for all stakeholders.

Book a bundle of courses to receive a preferred rate. Each bundle offers a bundle of two or three of our 8 week open online courses. Complete the courses in an order that fits your schedule. You will have the option to select your preferred starting date for each course during the registration process.

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Course start dates

  • 22 July 2026

Language

  • English

Format

  • Online, tutor-assisted

Length 

  • 24 weeks online, 7–12 hours per week

Courses included

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Business Sustainability Management

For professionals wanting to act as an agent for positive change and lead sustainability across an organisation.

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Sustainable Marketing, Communications and Brand Management

For marketing, media and creative professionals who wish to be at the forefront of sustainability transformation.

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Communicating for Influence and Impact

For professionals seeking to build the communication skills to achieve meaningful change.

Who should attend?

Marketing, media, and creative professionals; executives, aspiring leaders, entrepreneurs, and business owners who seek to drive sustainability transformation and align business success with positive social and environmental outcomes.

Gain valuable and relevant skills, and walk away with:

  • An understanding of the impact of global economic, social, and environmental pressures on business.
  • A practical plan and leadership competencies to integrate sustainability across your organisation's value chain.
  • Skills to apply design and sustainability innovation within your team or organisation.
  • The confidence to challenge and redefine marketing, media, and creative practices to create value and contribute to sustainable development.
  • A strategy to address the psychological and sociological impacts of marketing on people, nature, and climate.
  • Tools to innovate and disrupt unsustainable marketing practices through purpose-led marketing and leadership.
  • An ambitious Strategy for Action to drive transformative change and maximise impact.
  • Tools to effectively communicate with stakeholders in your network.
  • A Personal Impact Plan to achieve meaningful change within and beyond your organisation.
  • The skills to inspire and motivate others to drive innovation and sustainability at a systemic level.

CISL Connect: Online live sessions

CISL has developed three bonus CISL Connect: Online Live Sessions for all students joining any of our ten business sustainability leadership courses. Through these sessions, you’ll get direct access to CISL's leading voices on today’s most urgent business topics – competitiveness, AI and resilience.  This format gives you the chance to connect, collaborate and exchange ideas with a far broader global network of professionals beyond your cohort.

CPD certified

All three of these courses are individually certified by the United Kingdom CPD Certification Service, and may be applicable to individuals who are members of, or are associated with, UK-based professional bodies.

One of the courses has an estimated 75 hours of learning, one has an estimated 80 hours of learning, and the other has an estimated 100 hours of learning.

Note: Should students wish to claim CPD activity, the onus is on them. The University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership and GetSmarter accept no responsibility, and cannot be held responsible, for the claiming or validation of hours or points.

Learn to lead in a changing world

Join over 24,000 students globally who have already benefited from the opportunity to:

  • Gain verifiable and relevant competencies and earn invaluable recognition from a top-tier university, entirely online and in your own time.  
  • Enjoy a personalised, people-mediated online learning experience that consistently achieves over 90 per cent course certification rate.
  • Experience a flexible but structured approach to online education as you plan your learning around your life to meet weekly milestones.

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Delivered in Collaboration with GetSmarter

The University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) is collaborating with digital education provider GetSmarter, a brand of 2U, Inc., to provide an interactive and supported online learning experience.