Online Sustainability and ESG Leadership Programme

Online Sustainability and ESG Leadership Programme

Date and time	Attendance Criteria
08/07/2025 - 09:30 - 12:30  09/09/2025 - 09:30 - 12:30 07/10/2025 - 09:30 - 12:30 11/11/2025 - 09:30 - 12:30	You must be a senior leader within practice or industry (such as partners, directors, CFOs, finance directors). You must have a good foundational knowledge of sustainability/ESG (for example, have completed the ICAEW Sustainability Certificate or an equivalent). You must want to know how to integrate sustainability/ESG into their organisation and into their day-to-day role.

This online training programme equips senior leaders from practice and industry with the skillset to embed sustainability/ESG into their organisation and day-to-day role.

Through facilitated discussions with a subject-matter-expert, peer-to-peer learning, and optional 1:1 mentoring, ICAEW's programme brings technical learning about sustainability/ESG to life and enables you to deliver real change within your organisation.

Getting you from A to B...

Challenges you may face currently... Team have limited knowledge and expertise in ESG/sustainability. Struggle to create an actionable plan to embed sustainability across your organisation. Difficulty influencing internal decision making. Difficulty understanding sustainability opportunities and challenges that are most important to your organisation and/or clients. Struggle to build an internal and external support network. Unable to find time to commit to sustainability. Unsure how to build and effectively communicate a business case for sustainability.

...after completing the programme you’ll … Know how to build internal buy in for ESG/sustainability within your organisation. Understand ways of influencing and leading in a context of change, uncertainty and disruption. Be confident in how to navigate the changing sustainability landscape. Have received practical support to real-life live challenges you are facing. Have had the opportunity to dive deeper onto specific problems with a sustainability expert. Have built a supportive network of peers in other organisations. Have access to ICAEW learning resources. Get 12 hours of CPD by completing the programme.

Why enrol?

• Expert insights - Facilitated discussion with a subject-matter-expert, as well as one-to-one mentoring.

• Shared experience - Peer learning in small cohorts of senior leaders with good foundation in ESG and sustainability..

• Be the catalyst - Technical learning will enable you to deliver real change within your organisation.

CPD hours

ICAEW's revised Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Regulations bring in new CPD requirements. This includes a minimum number of hours and an ethics requirement. Completing this course could contribute up to 12 hours of verifiable CPD, providing you can demonstrate that the content is relevant to your role.

A copy of the course booking confirmation email is accepted as evidence of verifiable CPD. You will need to save the email as a JPEG or PDF before uploading it to your record. Click here to use ICAEW’s self-assessment tool to help you work out how much CPD you will need to fulfil each year.

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Programme
The programme comprises:

• 4 x three-hour facilitated discussion/meetings (online, facilitated by a sustainability expert).
• Optional mentoring sessions.
• Free access to the ICAEW Sustainability Accelerator Programme.
• £2,000+VAT (members) and £2,400+VAT (non-members) for 4x 3 hour sessions
• Mentoring is now optional at an additional £775+VAT per 60 minute session

Throughout the programme you will be part of a small cohort of five to eight senior leaders, all of whom have a good foundational knowledge of sustainability/ESG.

Peer learning and facilitated discussion provides a platform to practice coaching, critical thinking and mindset skills. They stimulate a transfer of learning from workshop to workplace from sharing live issues, gaining input and insights to "lessons learned".

Key stages of the programme

Course trainer

Hannah Keartland Hannah is the founder of Keartland & Co, a certified B Corp™, which helps business leaders navigate the sustainability transition. She has 20+ years experience leading innovation and change at director and board level with the unusual blend of leading innovation, finance and operations functions. She trained at Deloitte, is a Fellow of the ICAEW and a member of the ICAEW Sustainability Committee.

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