IEMA Diploma in Sustainable Business Practice

The IEMA Diploma in Sustainable Business Practice addresses a wide range of environmental and sustainability issues and topics, including environmental and social risk identification, strategies for improving performance, and personal effectiveness to instigate and lead change. It provides leaders in an environmental field with the knowledge and skills to be an effective sustainability manager as well as develop and lead a sustainability strategy within an organisation.

The IEMA Diploma is delivered face-to-face in three one-week modules. This delivery method allows for personalised guidance, addressing individual learning styles effectively. Moreover, it fosters interactive discussions and sharing of best practice. We often find that IEMA Diploma students build lasting connections with their tutors and other students.

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The IEMA Diploma in Sustainable Business Practice is the most comprehensive business-centred course in sustainability.

Module 1: Impact of Global Sustainability Megatrends on Business

Content covered includes: Pressures on ecosystems, climate change, resource scarcity, energy and water, urbanisation, globalisation, disruptive technologies, population trends

Delegates will be able to:

• Understand and critically assess the implications of global trends for business
• Identify and explain the sustainable megatrends in the context of their organisation and identify the potential risks and opportunities that they may present in the short, medium, and long term.
• Demonstrate a clear understanding of the dynamic nature of interrelationships between the global sustainability megatrends in a business context

Module 2: Sustainable Business Practices

Content covered includes: Global Compact, Modern slavery, human rights, child labour, sustainable business models, sustainable procurement, sustainable design, reporting, GRI, saliency.

Delegates will be able to:

• Critically evaluate and organisation’s position with regards to sustainability maturity
• Demonstrate a clear understanding of sustainable business practices
• Explain and critically assess sustainable business practices in the context of their organisation

Module 3: Leading Sustainable Change

Content covered includes: Ethics and leadership, organisational and team structure, communications, financial tools, motivational theory, change management

Delegates will be able to:

• Analyse and apply relevant change tools, techniques, systems, and practices
• Understand and analyse how organisational and team structure can influence change within organisations
• Develop a business case for a sustainable change

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• Trainers and consultants have industry recognised qualifications and practical experience

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Managers, advisers, consultants and others with a specialist environmental or sustainability role, who wish to build their strategic knowledge and skills.

Prospective candidates should be aware this is a professional level qualification approximately equivalent to Masters’ degree level (level 7). Practitioner level Membership of IEMA or equivalent practical experience in an environmental or sustainability role would be preferable.

The programme enables delegates to gain the knowledge needed to progress to full membership of IEMA (MIEMA) and Chartered Environmentalist status (CEnv).