Program Overview

Sustainable Enterprise Executive Education & Development

The Sustainable Enterprise Executive Education & Development program is a professional certificate offered by Villanova University College of Professional Studies. This program is designed to help individuals maximize resources while designing robust sustainability and ESG (environmental, social, and governance) programs that fuel productivity, innovation, and profits within their organization.

Program Overview

The program is offered in partnership with the College of Engineering and aims to provide participants with the knowledge and skills necessary to develop and implement sustainable practices in their organizations. The program focuses on teaching participants how to create value for their organization by implementing sustainable practices, examining sustainability in light of current megatrends, value drivers, and their business impacts.

Program Requirements

The program consists of five courses, each with 7.5 clock hours:

• SEED 1001: Understanding Sustainability & Making its Business Case
  • Examine sustainability in light of current megatrends, value drivers, and their business impacts.
  • Gain insight into ESG strategy development and learn how to strengthen the business case for implementing sustainable practices to create value for your organization.
• SEED 1002: Tackling Sustainability Frameworks with a Systems Mindset
  • Gain an understanding of systems thinking tools to tackle key sustainability issues and examine frameworks around sustainable development and the circular economy.
  • Examine the interconnections between sustainability, leadership, and business and how to overcome typical blunders with proven interventions to create opportunities.
• SEED 1003: Designing Resilient Value Chains
  • Learn to design supply chain management and sourcing systems that utilize circular value chain principles to reduce footprint, improve resource utilization, and accelerate a circular economy.
  • Discover best practices for creating resilient value chains and how to apply them to your business to create sustainable value.
• SEED 1004: Developing Sustainability Strategy & Integrating Reporting
  • Gain a better understanding of assessing all ESG factors - environmental, social, and governance - to map opportunities and risks, and to track performance using various reporting frameworks that are most widely implemented.
  • Learn common approaches to management and communication of key strategic ESG indicators and how the investor community views are formed on company performance.
• SEED 1005: Leaders as Drivers for Sustainability Engagement & Enterprise Transformation
  • Connect your values and personal leadership style with how to effectively drive engagement with sustainability across your enterprise.
  • Discover tangible tools and takeaways to influence sustainable change, integrate with all functional areas in your organization, and create shared value.

Program Details

• Total Clock Hours: 37.5
• Price per course: $1,049
• The program is designed to help participants develop the skills and knowledge necessary to create sustainable value for their organization and drive engagement with sustainability across their enterprise.