Corporate Energy Strategies to Thrive in...

Course Overview

The realities of climate change are already affecting the corporate bottom lines, forcing C-suite executive to seek ways to de-risk their business operations. However, companies often implement a myriad of well-meaning but ad-hoc green and sustainability initiatives across the organization.

Online and self-paced

• Business leaders will be able to operationalize their environmental strategy into leading and lagging indicators, reducing environmental impact, and maximizing profitability.
• Sustainability professionals will increase their knowledge of the multiple stakeholder groups they need to invite and involve. 
• Academics will be introduced to the current issues that corporate executives are grappling with to achieve a sustainable future.
• Government Officials will explore policies and regulations that directly or indirectly affect climate resiliency.

Topics covered will include the following:

• Strategy frameworks, such as the Energy Strategy Maturity Cycle™.

• Energy and carbon frameworks, such as the energy balance and the carbon cycle.

• Risk Management frameworks, such as scenario planning and risk prioritization.

• Innovation frameworks, such as emergent innovations and scaling innovations.

• Productivity frameworks, such as continuous improvement and communications.

Meet the Instructor:

This short course turns random acts of greenness into a metrics driven strategy developed by the instructor, energy strategist Jimmy Jia. He introduces strategies, practices, and tools available to leaders at various levels of management that can reduce energy use, improve carbon footprint, and increase competitive advantage. Through over 20 case studies, we will examine strategies that worked across small businesses to the Fortune 500 as well as cities to non-profits