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Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL)

Overview

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 digital learning courses are designed for: 

  1. 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.  

  1. 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

  1. Share a fundamental understanding of contextual key global issues, and in turn help your organisation to innovate across the value chain 

  2. Create strategies that focus on building sustained commercial value and long-term resilience across your organisation 

  3. Enable your employees to deliver change in their role to deliver business-wide impact 

  4. Support you to lead the transformational change required across your sector and market 

Benefits to your learners

  1. Gain verifiable and relevant competencies and earn invaluable recognition from a top-tier university, entirely online to be globally accessible 

  2. Experience a flexible but structured approach to online education, with clear learning objectives and outcomes which culminate in an implementable personal action plan 

  3. 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. 

"Businesses today cannot deliver sustainability through a small team of specialists, it needs to be integrated into the core of the business, in every function. We are equipping people within organisations to take sustainability and apply it to their own roles, so the individual can thrive and the business as a whole can thrive."

Oliver Dudok Van Heel
Course Convenor and Subject Matter Expert, Sustainable Business Foundations

 

"Financial institutions and the countries, companies, and households that they support are facing into a whole host of environmental and social risks, but also opportunities. It is incumbent upon these institutions to get ahead of these trends and understand the commercial implications for the organisation, and how they can start responding proactively..."

Thomas Vergunst
Course Convenor and Subject Matter Expert, Sustainable Finance Foundations: Banking, Investment and Insurance

 

Ready for your next steps


Speak to a member of the team to understand how we can support you in upskilling yourself or your organisation.

 

Next steps

To find out how we support organisational transformation.

To speak to a member of the team about upskilling your organisation.