Aligned to CMI Award Level 5

Sustainable Business Manager

Enhance, communicate and build on your organisation's carbon reporting and Net Zero strategy. Gain the knowledge and skills to apply sustainable practices across all areas of your business – developing your leadership role in the delivery of your organisational goals.

 
 

Get your funded place

To discuss this course - or to have a similar programme designed for your organisation, email support@estuglobal.com

 
 

Overview

Coupled with growing consumer pressure, government legislation already requires large companies to understand and report on their carbon emissions. There is also a greater need for accuracy of reporting within supply chains.

Organisations – large and small – are increasingly driven by both purpose and profit. This requires a different kind of leadership, one that allows the most ambitious organisations and individuals to flourish, whilst meeting Net Zero targets.

Through this government subsidised programme, experienced managers will be given the knowledge and skills to apply sustainable practices across all areas of their organisation – developing an enhanced leadership role in the delivery of sustainability goals.

 
 

  • “The course is useful if you’re a business owner and you want to understand how to be more sustainable. It will really help you.”

    Oliver Eggenton, Director - TwoEighty Consultants

  • “I run the sustainable discussion group at work and am also responsible for getting the carbon reduction strategy in place and decarbonization of our sites. This course has made it easier for me to run the meetings - and also speak to the CEO and the CFO so we can look at funding and ways we can move forward.” 

    Alan Shuffill, Head of Facilities - Rothamsted Research

  • “It really connects us - recognising that you’re not alone on this journey.”

    Mark Harland, Head of Sustainability - IQEQ Group Management Ltd

  • “It helps people to feel more comfortable, it gets people more engaged and it helps foster relationships… there’s a network that’s been built just out of this program. Brilliant.” 

    Christopher Luff, CEO - Watford & West Herts Chamber of Commerce

  • “It has been really, really helpful to me. Particularly the communication skills: the ability to talk to people where perhaps I would have felt much less comfortable before the course. It’s really, really made a very big impact on me in terms of helping me develop.”

    Katherine Mountain, Performance Programme Coordinator - Data & Projects, British Rowing

  • “The content is pitched just at the right level for everyone.” 

    Max Czech, Programme Manager - Smith & Nephew

 
 

Course
Directors and Contributors

  • Simon has led high performing teams in senior roles in technology and professional services. He is an advisor to central and regional government and has worked with some of the fastest growing businesses in the UK, US and Europe.

  • After a 30-year corporate career David co-founded Net Zero International with a team of passionate experts committed to supporting businesses to reduce their carbon footprint and reach Net Zero by 2050. With senior roles at Sky, Centrica and British Gas, David is an operational management expert, with proven success leading long-term change to cultures and practices.

  • Fran is certified as carbon literate by the Carbon Literacy Project and has undertaken social and environmental impact courses from the New Economics Foundation, the Economy for the Common Good and CSR-A.

    After 23 years teaching history, she uses her experience to run workshops on carbon literacy, carbon accounting and reporting, and creating successful Net Zero strategies.

    Her company Triple Bottom Line Accounting became a certified B-Corporation in September 2023 for helping SMEs adapt to climate change and to report on their “triple bottom line” (people, planet and prosperity).

  • Alasdair is an accomplished trainer and coach, creating and delivering programmes of executive education around communication, leadership and personal effectiveness.

    Having been a successful actor for over 20 years, he is also an Associate Trainer for the Centre Stage Executive Education Programmes at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, where he delivers training for clients from all over the world.

  • Throughout his career, Kevin has worked with awarding bodies and sector skills councils, taking regional responsibility for external quality assurance activities and developing new qualifications. After working as a full-time inspector with the Adult Learning Inspectorate (ALI), in 2007 he started his own company to promote, develop and support organisational improvement across businesses, training providers, colleges and adult and community learning.

    He has a Master’s Degree in Inspection and Evaluation from Warwick University and sits as an advisory board member and mentor to senior leaders and managers.

  • Andrea was previously COO of Greencoat and was also responsible for overseeing the set-up of Greencoat UK Wind, Greencoat Solar and Greencoat Renewables. Before joining the company, she was responsible for similar management functions at Climate Change Capital and ING Infrastructure Funds.

 
 
 

About
Skills Bootcamps

Part of the Government’s Lifetime Skills Guarantee, helping everyone gain skills for life, Skills Bootcamps are flexible courses giving people the opportunity to build up sector-specific skills.

Subsidised by UK Government. 70% for large enterprises, 90% for SMEs and 100% for individuals.