ESG Fundamentals Microcredential: Design your ESG action plan

This ESG Fundamentals Microcredential will provide you with an opportunity to investigate the environmental, social and governance impacts of your organization and develop a strategy to act on your values.

Program Structure

24 participants per cohort
15 hours of in-class learning and 12-18 self-paced hours for reading, assignments, consultation with your colleagues, and development of your ESG action plan
Presentations, stories, and hands-on assignments delivered by subject matter experts and practitioners with proven track records
Badges earned for each assignment, culminating in the ESG Fundamentals Microcredential
Participants must attend all five workshops and complete all four assignments to receive the microcredential

What you will learn

Explore the rise of ESG strategy and discover its connection to CSR, sustainability, social responsibility, and impact movements
Learn how to apply organizational behaviour and change leadership principles to design and enable an ESG strategy
Identify the role of materiality assessments in determining high-impact ESG opportunities
Understand how stakeholder engagement fuels governance, social, environmental actions, and impacts
Develop an ESG Roadmap that outlines your ESG strategy and drives collaborative action that maximizes positive impacts and minimizes negative impacts.
Learn how to identify the specific tools and frameworks (e.g. SASB, GRI, ISO, CCAB, TCFD, SDGs, B Corp, sector-specific standards, etc.) that will be most useful to your core business