CISL Online: Transforming business through online learning
Businesses are operating in an increasingly volatile and uncertain context, one that is affected by social, environmental and economic change. CISL Online’s education programmes help organisations upskill their leaders to anticipate and respond to these changes to build sustained commercial value while finding ways to benefit society and the environment across the value chain.
Drawing on over three decades of experience in sustainability education, and our vast network of experts from business, finance, policy and academia, we offer both ready-made open courses for enabling your leaders and bespoke education pathways for teams.
Delivering your learning vision
Our clients choose to upskill with CISL to develop core sustainability leadership skills within their teams, unlocking innovation, and supporting current and future business goals. Our open online courses are designed for:
- Organisations at any stage in their sustainability journey, from those looking to build a foundational understanding of sustainable practices across teams through to those looking to develop deeper knowledge, network and agency focused on their job function, industry sector or leadership position.
- Current and future leaders looking to gain the skills, networks and frameworks needed to lead the implementation of sustainable strategies and respond to complex sustainability challenges.
How we can help
If you lead lines of business or your organisation’s learning and development strategy and are seeking to develop and engage colleagues in sustainable transformation, our open online courses can quickly help you upskill teams at scale. They deliver expert insight, high levels of interactivity and a supported learning experience to achieve measurable learning outcomes.
Customised programmes
The CISL Online team works with organisations to understand the most critical issues they face, and design bespoke online learning experiences that build the leadership, strategy and operational capabilities and capacity to deliver on their strategic goals. We can tailor our existing courses or build custom online learning programmes from ground up. We work with various lines of business from finance, commercial and marketing, product and innovation and customer delivery teams to ensure learning is contextually relevant to their role, function and sector.
Speak to a member of the team to understand how we can support you in upskilling yourself or your organisation.
Open application online programmes
6-8 Week Courses
Through tutor-led online learning, learners build their insight, capability and peer network with these interactive supported learning experiences.
Self Paced Courses
Through our 6-8 hour self-paced online-learning courses, you can harness CISL’s cross-sector expertise, proven frameworks, and industry foresight.
Blended Learning
Our bespoke sustainability courses equip organisations with the skills, knowledge and confidence to develop a shared vision and organisational response.
Benefits to your organisation
- Share a fundamental understanding of contextual key global issues, and in turn help your organisation to innovate across the value chain
- Create strategies that focus on building sustained commercial value and long-term resilience across your organisation
- Enable your employees to deliver change in their role to deliver business-wide impact
- Support you to lead the transformational change required across your sector and market
Benefits to your learners
- Gain verifiable and relevant competencies and earn invaluable recognition from a top-tier university, entirely online to be globally accessible
Experience a flexible but structured approach to online education, with clear learning objectives and outcomes which culminate in an implementable personal action plan
- Benefit from ongoing learning opportunities, both online and through our global alumni network, to support professional development and collaboration
Meet the subject matter experts
These online learning courses have been created in collaboration with leading sustainability experts, academics and business leaders from across a range of sectors, regions and areas of expertise. Hear from some of our experts below.
We are equipping people within organisations to take sustainability and apply it to their own roles, so the individual and the business as a whole can thrive.
Oliver Dudok Van Heel
Course Convenor and Subject Matter Expert, Sustainable Business Foundations
It is incumbent upon financial institutions to get ahead of environmental trends and understand the commercial implications for the organisation.
Thomas Vergunst
Course Convenor and Subject Matter Expert, Sustainable Finance Foundations: Banking, Investment and Insurance