Building Net Positive Companies: Driving Sustainability in Your Business
1h 2mGeneral2025-04-01
Authors
Andrew Winston
Paul Polman
Course details
The world is facing unprecedented challenges. Runaway climate change and rampant inequality are causing rifts in society and costing a fortune. Business must play a critical role in building a better future. Even in harder times, a new kind of business is emerging, one that improves the well-being of everyone it touches. Join former Unilever CEO Paul Polman and sustainable business guru Andrew Winston as they explore what it means to be a “net positive” business and a new kind of courageous, humane, and adaptive leader. Explore why change is hard, what leading from the middle looks like, and how to get started toward a much better path for business and your career.
Learning objectives
Understand the exponential pace of change and how global challenges create new opportunities for business.
Reinforce the continued need for and relevance of sustainability in business.
Learn the core principles of a net positive business.
Inspire learners to become courageous and humane leaders that think in terms of “and” not “or.”
Explore big shifts like the anti-ESG movement and the potential and peril for sustainability from artificial intelligence.
Learning objectives
Understand the exponential pace of change and how global challenges create new opportunities for business.
Reinforce the continued need for and relevance of sustainability in business.
Learn the core principles of a net positive business.
Inspire learners to become courageous and humane leaders that think in terms of “and” not “or.”
Explore big shifts like the anti-ESG movement and the potential and peril for sustainability from artificial intelligence.
Skills covered
Sustainability AwarenessSustainable Business StrategyBusiness StrategyProfessional DevelopmentBusiness Analysis and StrategyLeadership and ManagementOne-Off
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Net positive leadership - A new path to business success
1. Crisis and Opportunity for Leaders
- 02 - The race to well-being
- 03 - Crisis and opportunity in sustainability
- 04 - Sustainability is progressing
- 05 - What kind of leader do you want to be
2. Moving to Net Positive
- 06 - Is the world better off with your business in it
- 07 - Principles of net positive leadership
- 08 - Change is hard
- 09 - Getting started toward net positive by asking why
3. How to Lead Change in Your Company
- 10 - Leading with net positive
- 11 - Courage is the most important thing
- 12 - Human being vs. human doing
- 13 - Adaptive leadership
- 14 - Leading from the middle
4. Leading into an Unknown Future
- 15 - Dealing wtih the anti-ESG movement
- 16 - AI and sustainability - It's complicated
- 17 - Hope and action for our future