Sustainability is a core business strategy that drives business performance. It’s time you lead a sustainable transformation towards a higher positive impact.
Date: March 2024
Delivery language: English
Format: LIVE, Hotel Bohinj
“We will see more change in the next 10 years than in the last 250 years. Now is the time for leaders to step up and have the courage to create a better future.”
Peter Fisk, Strategic Futurist and Programme Director
How can business leaders drive transformational business change in order to address the challenges of sustainability and deliver a higher impact—for businesses, society, and the environment?
At the end of the programme, you will be able to:
Sustainability has become a core business challenge and opportunity, driving business performance. It is a key source of growth opportunities and competitive advantage and also a key driver of innovation.
The programme is designed for managers, entrepreneurs, and leaders who are able to drive transformational change across their businesses in order to embed and unlock opportunities for innovation.
The programme is structured around three “labs”, each consisting of an intensive workshop.
It is led by Peter Fisk in person—an experienced leading author with a focus on sustainability, strategy, and innovation who will be joined online by a range of leading experts during the sessions.
After the second lab, the participants are given 2 weeks to work on their sustainable transformation design and plan its implementation into their business.
Sustainable Futures Lab
Day 1: Sustainable Futures Lab—Why Is Sustainability the New Competitive Advantage?
Exploring new ideas and practical tools that can help us create a better future.
The Sustainability Challenge: Making sense of a world with significant social and environmental challenges.
The Business Challenge: Finding new opportunities to innovate and grow, to be a platform for good.
Output: Future Map, Part 1 of developing your own blueprint for future positive impact
Sustainable Innovation Lab
Day 2: Sustainable Innovation Lab—What Does It Mean to Be a Sustainable Innovator?
Driving sustainable innovation in your products and services, business, and market.
The Customer Opportunity: Engaging customers in a new agenda, key segments, and narratives.
The Innovation Opportunity: Reimagining products, services, and business models to be and do well.
Output: Innovation Map, Part 2 of developing your own blueprint for future positive impact
Sustainable Leadership Lab
Day 3: Sustainable Leadership Lab—How Can You Transform Your Business for Good?
Becoming a transformational business that can really change the world.
The Transformation Roadmap: Driving transformation in sourcing, creating, delivering, selling, and using.
The Leadership Roadmap: Engaging stakeholders, making the case, driving the change, and delivering impact.
Output: Developing your own blueprint for your own (new) vision and innovation as well as a transformational plan with practical steps to get started and implement long-lasting change.
Dr. Mark Esposito is a technology futurist and AI pioneer and is currently a strategic advisor to the UAE Government Office of AI on digital strategy. Canadian by birth and now living in France and Spain, he is a co-founder of Nexus FrontierTech. He is also co-leader of the Microeconomics of Competitiveness program at the Institute of Strategy and Competitiveness at Harvard Business School, with specialist interests in corporate sustainability, economic complexity, and the circular economy. His books include Understanding How the Future Unfolds and The AI Republic.
Peter is a global business thought leader on leadership and growth, innovation and customers. He is a bestselling author of 10 books, an expert strategic consultant, and a keynote speaker. He ranks on the Thinkers50 Radar of top business gurus.
He has over 30 years of practical business experience, working with over 300 companies and 55 countries—from Adidas’ growth into new markets to Cartier’s redefined luxury, McKinsey’s leadership development to Microsoft’s new approach to strategic innovation, P&G’s direct-to-consumer strategy, and Pfizer’s future scanning.
His books include “Gamechangers” on innovative strategies for business and brands, “People Planet Profit” about sustainable innovation, and, most recently, “Business Recoded” on leaders having the courage to create a better future.
Terence Mauri is the founder of Hack Future Lab, a think tank looking at how leaders can scale an agile, daring, and resilient future. He holds Entrepreneur Mentor in Residence roles at MIT and London Business School and has over 20 years experience in helping leaders bounce back from adversity and move beyond disruption. Terence has been recognised as an Inc. Magazine Top 100 Leadership Speaker and ranked by Thinkers50 as one of the top 30 management thinkers in the world.
Adriana Rejc Buhovac is a Full Professor of Management and Organization at the School of Economics and Business at the University of Ljubljana.
She is an expert in strategy development and implementation, and internationally renowned for corporate sustainability. Adriana has facilitated over 70 strategy development projects and sustainability transformations in Slovenia and abroad, and participated in more than 100 other projects with her expertise. She is the Head of the expert team for sustainability transformation of SMEs at SPIRIT Slovenija.
Adriana co-authored a book with Marc J. Epstein (Harvard Business School, Rice University): Making Sustainability Work: Best Practices in Managing and Measuring Corporate Social, Environmental, and Economic Impacts, 2nd Ed.
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Tendayi Viki is an award-winning author and corporate innovation expert based in Zimbabwe who holds a PhD in Psychology. As Associate Partner at Strategyzer, he works with companies to develop their internal ecosystems so they can innovate for the future while managing their core business. He has worked with several large organisations and has written several books based on his research and work experience. He is also a regular contributing writer for Forbes. He has previously worked as a Research Fellow at Stanford University and Harvard University. He is also a Thinkers50 global award winner.
Application deadline:
Programme starts: March 2024
The price for the seminar is 2,900 EUR (VAT not included).
No refunds can be made for cancellations received less than 20 days before the start of the programme. In case of no-show, there will be no refund of the programme fee.
After filling out the registration form, you will receive the confirmation at your e-mail address.
An invoice will be delivered to the address provided in the registration before the workshop starts.
For more information please feel free to contact Tibor Derganc tibor.derganc@ef.uni-lj.si ali T: +386 (0)1 589 25 48
