Employee Engagement: Making Sustainability Part of Everybody’s Job
54mGeneral2025-05-16
Authors
Drew Wilkinson
Course details
Companies are moving fast to tackle climate change—investing in new technologies, reducing their environmental impact, and rethinking how they do business. But here’s the catch: full-time sustainability roles usually make up less than 1% of the workforce. That’s not enough to meet the moment. To drive real change, you need to engage the other 99%.
In this course, instructor Drew Wilkinson shows you how to activate your entire workforce by building a culture of sustainability from the ground up. Learn how to educate, inspire, and empower employees across every department to take meaningful action—no matter their role.
Forward-thinking companies know: creating a sustainable future requires everyone. Whether you're in HR, operations, sustainability, or leadership, this course will give you the tools to make sustainability a shared responsibility—and a competitive advantage.
Learning objectives
Explain why employee engagement is key to scaling sustainability.
Recognize how to educate, inspire, and activate the entire workforce in sustainability efforts.
Learn practical strategies to make sustainability part of everyday work.
Find ways to turn awareness into action across your organization.
In this course, instructor Drew Wilkinson shows you how to activate your entire workforce by building a culture of sustainability from the ground up. Learn how to educate, inspire, and empower employees across every department to take meaningful action—no matter their role.
Forward-thinking companies know: creating a sustainable future requires everyone. Whether you're in HR, operations, sustainability, or leadership, this course will give you the tools to make sustainability a shared responsibility—and a competitive advantage.
Learning objectives
Explain why employee engagement is key to scaling sustainability.
Recognize how to educate, inspire, and activate the entire workforce in sustainability efforts.
Learn practical strategies to make sustainability part of everyday work.
Find ways to turn awareness into action across your organization.
Skills covered
Sustainability AwarenessSustainable Business StrategyHiring and InterviewingBusiness StrategyHuman ResourcesProfessional DevelopmentBusiness Analysis and StrategyLeadership and ManagementOne-Off
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Sustainability is part of everybody's job
- 02 - How I made sustainability part of my job
- 03 - Defining employee engagement for sustainability
1. The Importance of Employee Engagement for Sustainability (What and Why)
- 04 - Employee engagement for sustainability - Expanding the circle
- 05 - Employee engagement for sustainability - The talent shortage
- 06 - Employee engagement for sustainability - Avoiding risks
2. The Virtuous Cycle Framework (How and Who)
- 07 - The virtuous cycle of employee engagement
- 08 - How to educate employees to engage with sustainability
- 09 - How to inspire employees to engage with sustainability
- 10 - How to activate employees to engage with sustainability
- 11 - Challenge - Create a virtuous cycle in your organization
- 12 - Sustainability impact vs. influence
- 13 - Finding your sustainability sweet spot
3. Making Sustainability Part of Everybody's Job
- 14 - Challenges and opportunities for employee engagement
- 15 - Challenge - Overcome barriers to engage employees in sustainability
- 16 - Solution - Overcome barriers to engage employees in sustainability
Conclusion
- 17 - To change everything, we need everyone