The Role of Chief Sustainability
Officer (1-Day)
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Since the announcement of United Nations (UN) 17 Social Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015, many organisations started to be more aware on the importance of developing sustainability stewardship for their respective organisations in compliance to respective regulations on sustainability.
However, there are many challenges in the developmental process of sustainability stewardship in particular the alignment of stewardship strategy to the organisation’s sustainability goals and its overall strategic plan, obtaining buy-in from both internal staff and external stakeholders like customers, continuous upgrade on sustainability trends and changes in regulation that impact on the organisation.
Key Benefits
- Institute sustainability stewardship strategy and policies for the organisation
- Engage and support customers in the development of organisation’s sustainability goals and metrics
- Obtain buy-in from both internal and external stakeholders on the development of sustainability goals for the organisation
- Establish goal congruency between stewardship outcomes for customers and organisation’s own sustainability goals
Course Contents
- Update on latest sustainability regulations and trends - Singapore Stewardship Code; Equator Principles, UN SDGs, Paris Agreement, UN Principles for Responsible Investing (UN PRI); UN Environment Program Finance Initiative’s Environmental and Social risk Analysis; MAS Environmental Risk Management Guidelines
- The design of CSO’s job scope to create awareness of key sustainability trends, knowledge to align all staff to contribute to organisation’s sustainability goals to ensure its compliance to various regulation and its sustainability goals
- Lead the organisation’s development and implementation of sustainability strategy and policy to align its organisation’s sustainability goals and its strategic plan
- Develop techniques to engage stakeholders like customers to ensure their action is aligned to organisation’s sustainability goals
- Setup engagement strategy/methods for both internal & external stakeholders to ensure buy-in to the organisation’s pursuance of its sustainability goals to comply with regulators’ policies
- Adopt best practice and learnt from other organisations’ failure or mis-steps in the implementation of sustainability goals due to failure in stewardship
- Case Study
Who Should Attend
This workshop is suitable for the leader who is going to head the sustainability and ESG function of the organisation and wanting to learn how to develop appropriate sustainability stewardship strategy to engage both internal and external stakeholders to align to the organisation’s sustainability goals.
*This workshop is customisable to suit organisational needs. Please contact us for exclusive and attractive corporate rates.
Trainer
Dr. Christopher Goh is an experienced Adult Educator with 19 years of experience in training, facilitation, coaching, and consulting on risk, sustainability, governance, and compliance. He has worked with 6 different banks with different management styles and cultures, where he gained expertise in business transformation strategies and digitalization. Christopher's achievements include securing an ongoing ERM & Sustainability Consultancy project since 2020 where he uses solution-focused executive coaching to implement integrated risk, ESG policies across the enterprise-wide of 4,000 staff.
