8 September - 12 September 2008
Achieving corporate sustainability is a challenge that will increasingly occupy the attention of CEOs, senior executive teams, change agents and key stakeholders of twenty-first century organisations. This leading edge course will enable managers to understand the challenges and opportunities that exist for business by engaging with and designing a strategic approach to sustainability. The course will explore key issues such as the impact climate change and emissions trading will have on corporate strategy, analysing the business case for corporate sustainability. It will provide a blueprint for senior managers wishing to transform their organisation's corporate culture to embrace a more proactive corporate sustainability approach to tackling the challenges of climate change.
Key Benefits
Through attending this course, participants will be able to:
- Gain exposure to leading edge knowledge, tools and practices in the area of corporate sustainability
- Develop and outline a business case for corporate sustainability
- Formulate practical responses and change strategies for acting on climate change
- Engage in practical exercises and gain exposure to management approaches to real sustainability issues
- Develop and implement tools for mapping corporate sustainability and change strategies
- Understand and evaluate their own organisation's current sustainability orientation
- Design a sustainable organisation, implementing incremental and transformational change strategies for sustainability
Course Outline
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Course Presenters
Professor Andrew Griffiths
UQ Business School
Andrew Griffiths is an Associate Professor at UQ Business School. His areas of research include: the impact of climate change on business strategy; management of corporate sustainability change and strategic issues relating to the pursuit of corporate sustainability. Andrew is a recipient of the UQ Foundation Research Excellence Award and the UQ Business School Research Excellence Award. He has published three books, The Sustainable Corporation (1998), Sustainability (2000) and
Organisational Change for Sustainability (2007). Andrew has published in international journals, including The Academy of Management Review and the Journal of Management Studies. He has worked with a range of organisations in the public and private
sectors in the areas of strategic approaches to climate change and the implementation of corporate sustainability.
Dr John Cole
Executive Director
Queensland Environmental Protection Agency
John Cole is the Assistant Director General, Environmental Protection Agency, Queensland, responsible for its non-regulatory Divisions - Sustainable Industries and EPA Marketing. He joined the EPA in late 1998. For twenty years, John has served in a variety of senior public and industry positions in areas as diverse as technology commercialisation and community development. John was the founding Chief Executive Officer of the Environment Management Industry Association of Australia (now known as
Environment Business Australia) and served there between 1991 and 1998.
Who should attend
This course is a resource for corporate change agents - executives, managers and members of the workforce, external consultants, community activists - who are interested in the process of reconstructing organisations.
Venue
This course will be delivered at UQ Business School Downtown, Level 19, Central Plaza One, 345 Queen Street, Brisbane.
This premier UQ Business School location is in the heart of the Brisbane CBD and is equipped with state-of-the-art teaching and learning facilities.
Credit for UQBS postgraduate students
Students enrolled in the Graduate Certificate in Executive Leadership may apply to undertake this course for credit towards their postgraduate studies. This course is equivalent to MGTS7704 - Special Topics in Contemporary Leadership (Corporate Sustainability). Students wishing to gain credit must undertake all items of assessment. Please contact UQBS Student Administration via email: postgrad_enquiries@business.uq.edu.au to confirm your eligibility and to seek approval to obtain a credit prior to enrolling in the course. All other UQBS postgraduate students interested in enrolling in this course for credit, should contact UQBS Student Administration.
Assessment
Course assessment information will be available soon.
Please note all participants are required to complete a number of non-assessable items and are issued with a participation certificate upon completion of all non-assessable items.
Investment
$3,950 Fee includes tuition, course materials, morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea each day, a formal dinner on Thursday evening and an industry site visit.
*10% Early Bird Discount applies on or before 4 August 2008
*Please note, GST does not apply to Executive Education courses.
How to register
Register online or download the registration form (PDF).
Course brochure
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