UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE

Leading Sustainability: High Impact Leadership

Enhance your high impact leadership capabilities and apply these skills to your organisation.

Duration

8 weeks, excluding
orientation

Effort

8-10 hours per week,
entirely online

Learning Format

Weekly modules,
flexible learning

This course is for you if you want to:

 

  • Develop your entrepreneurial mindset and foster innovation in your organisation
  • Equip yourself with the values and practices to lead sustainability in a volatile world of climate, economic, and social disruption
  • Drive effective change in your organisation and develop strategies to communicate, influence, and engage with stakeholders
  • Gain insight into sustainability leadership and the application of systems thinking to business challenges

This is your opportunity to unleash your potential for extraordinary impact. By completing a course with CISL, you'll develop the skills, confidence, and network to lead change in your sector, organisation and sphere of influence to make significant contributions to society. Extraordinary change happens when passionate and inspired individuals share a common purpose to drive meaningful impact for the collective good.

On completion of this course, you’ll walk away with:

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A high-impact leadership action plan to become a more effective leader in your current and future spheres of influence.

2

Key leadership competencies to lead with impact in a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) world.

3

Access to the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) alumni network, consisting of senior leaders and practitioners in every industry.

4

A digital certificate of completion from the University of Cambridge validating your leadership knowledge and improved capabilities.

Course curriculum

Module 1: High impact leadership and its importance

Module 2: Exploring the context for leadership and the related challenges

Module 3: What does high impact leadership look like?

Module 4: The future we want, the leadership we need

Module 5: High impact leadership capabilities

Module 6: Communicating for influence

Module 7: Developing the mindset and skills for innovation

Module 8: Rewiring your leadership to achieve your goals

Your Course Convenors

Zoë Arden

Fellow and Associate Director, Leadership, University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership

Arden specialises in leadership, stakeholder engagement and storytelling. Before joining CISL, she served as director of SustainAbility (a global think tank and advisory firm) and as the director of communications and social responsibility of British Telecom. She has also held the position of managing director of the global communications consultancy Golin, among others. Arden draws on three decades of global business experience, 13 years of which were spent in managing director/director roles in complex organisations. She is also a co-author and contributor of research and reports on leadership development.

Martin Roberts

Director of Digital Learning, University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership

Roberts joined CISL as a programme director in 2008. He is an expert in strategic thinking, sustainability, and business leadership, having helped companies across sectors in Africa, Asia, and Europe develop their own solutions to natural resource challenges. Roberts is responsible for digital learning at CISL, and has a keen interest in using technology to create impactful educational opportunities, democratise learning, and promote change. By heading the design and delivery of CISL’s popular portfolio of online courses, Roberts has equipped thousands of business leaders to reshape their organisations and apply the innovative business models of the future.

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This course is certified by the United Kingdom CPD Certification Service, and may be applicable to individuals who are members of, or are associated with, UK-based professional bodies. The course has an estimated 80 hours of learning.

Note: should you wish to claim CPD activity, the onus is upon you. CISL and GetSmarter accept no responsibility, and cannot be held responsible, for the claiming or validation of hours or points.

An online education that sets you apart

This University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) online short course is delivered in collaboration with online education provider GetSmarter. Join a growing community of global professionals, and benefit from the opportunity to:

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Gain verifiable and relevant competencies and earn invaluable recognition from an international selection of universities and institutions, entirely online and in your own time

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Enjoy a personalised, people-mediated online learning experience created to make you feel supported at every step

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Experience a flexible but structured approach to online education as you plan your learning around your life to meet weekly milestones

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