Globally Responsible Leadership for Sustainable Transformation

This module explores how businesses can move beyond sustainability towards thriving by actively regenerating nature, society, and the economy. Drawing on the science of living systems, it examines the great global transitions reshaping ecosystems, resources, technology, wellbeing, and resilience. Participants learn how to integrate these insights into strategy through systemic tools for purpose, performance, partnerships, and innovation, and how to exercise the kind of leadership required to navigate complexity and drive regenerative change. Learning objectives: Explain the science of thriving and apply core living-systems principles to business and economic contexts. Analyse the six great transitions and assess their implications for business strategy and innovation. Apply an integrated thriving framework to redesign purpose, performance, partnerships, and portfolios. Demonstrate the leadership mindsets and capabilities needed to enable regenerative and systemic change.

This pivotal course serves as the anchor for the GRL4ST program, focusing exclusively on the multifaceted aspects of social justice. With a distinct emphasis on economic, environmental, and social perspectives, this course provides students with a deep understanding of the challenges and opportunities surrounding social justice issues. Module Objectives: Develop a comprehensive understanding of social justice from economic, environmental, and social standpoints. Explore strategies for promoting equity and inclusion across various sectors. Investigate the role of sustainability and social responsibility in achieving social justice goals. Foster a global perspective on social justice, examining how different regions and cultures address these issues. Encourage community engagement and activism as vital tools for advancing social justice.

Sports is an industry with many dimensions and global reach. This module will study industry frameworks for sustainability and implementation plans guiding how sustainability initiatives in sports are defined and operationalized. Learning Objectives: Examine leading global frameworks and collaborative initiatives such as the UN Sports for Climate Action and the Green Sports Alliance. Evaluate sustainability planning for the 2028 Olympics as defined by LA28 Impact and Sustainability Plan, with focus on its materiality assessment, plan goals and governance structure. Explain operational implementation through corporate initiatives and event management policies.

Through in-depth reviews of global ESG challenges and reporting best practices, this module explores corporate motivations for responsible sourcing and the strategic prioritization of social and environmental risks across multiple supply chain tiers. Module Objectives: Identify the critical role of global supply chains in managing ESG definitions, human rights, and climate reporting practices. Discuss how companies work with their supply chain partners to manage social and environmental sustainability. Understand why companies prioritize certain sustainability risks in the various tiers of their supply chain. Interact with students on a team project and in panel discussions.

The climate crisis has become the world's largest business opportunity. With $130 billion flowing into climate tech annually and trillion-dollar markets emerging in carbon removal, clean energy, and sustainable materials, we are witnessing the greatest entrepreneurial gold rush of our generation. This intensive, hands-on program combines cutting-edge technologies—AI, blockchain, synthetic biology, and advanced materials—with real-world business development to create investable ventures that can scale to planetary impact. Students will work directly with live market data, build functional prototypes, and develop venture concepts that address billion-dollar climate challenges.

This module offers a holistic exploration of sustainability within contemporary marketing and corporate accountability. It integrates strategic marketing with responsible reporting practices, providing students with a robust understanding of how sustainability is embedded across marketing activities and corporate communications. Module Objectives: Develop an integrated understanding of sustainability across marketing strategy and corporate reporting. Apply marketing tools and frameworks to support responsible and long-term value creation. Critically examine ethical reporting, accountability, and stakeholder communication practices. Analyse the role of data, innovation, and digital technologies in advancing sustainable business practices.

This module examines how complex social and environmental challenges increasingly require coordinated action across organisational and sectoral boundaries. It analyses partnerships and impact networks as governance structures that align incentives, resources, legitimacy, and accountability among companies, non-profit organisations, foundations, and public actors. Learning objectives: Distinguish between different types of cross-sector partnerships and impact networks, and outline the main steps required to build them. Identify how non-profit organisations — including foundations — function as strategic partners in collaborative initiatives. Explain the role of social entrepreneurs as brokers who mobilise and connect resources, capabilities, and actors across sectors.

This course is designed for leaders navigating rapid shifts in the global business landscape, geopolitical upheavals, technological disruption, and societal change. Drawing on contemporary leadership research and real world cases from global contexts, this session examines what transformational leadership looks like when conditions are uncertain, stakes are high, and traditional playbooks no longer apply. Participants will explore how effective leaders make sense of complexity, articulate clear and compelling strategy, and mobilize people around purpose during periods of disruption. The course will focus on behaviors that distinguish transformational leaders with particular attention on how leaders inspire trust, sustain momentum, and execute strategically while balancing short term pressures with long term transformation. The session equips leaders with practical frameworks and leadership lenses to help their organizations not only weather the storm, but emerge stronger and more resilient. Learning Outcomes: - Analyze how transformational leaders articulate strategy under conditions of volatility, including how they balance clarity with flexibility and align purpose, priorities, and execution. - Identify the core behavioral themes of effective transformational leadership, such as adaptive sensemaking, moral courage, strategic communication, resilience, and the ability to mobilize others amid ambiguity. - Translate transformational leadership principles into action, using practical approaches to inspire followership, drive organizational alignment, and execute change while sustaining trust and engagement. - Reflect on their own leadership practice, identifying specific behaviors and strategic levers they can strengthen to lead more effectively during turbulent and high stakes moments.