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Becoming a Sustainability Champion

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Overview

Are you passionate about the environment and sustainability? Do you want to be at the heart of leading your organisation’s efforts to become more sustainable?

If so, then our public sector focused Becoming a Sustainability Champion course is just for you.

Regardless of your current role, our expert-led course gives you the necessary advice and skills to lead the day-to-day efforts of making your organisation become more environmentally friendly.  

Understand and apply environmental frameworks, learn how to set more effective sustainable strategies, understand UK environmental law legislation, and become the driving force behind your organisation’s sustainability strategy and transformation to net-zero.

Leave the day with an action plan to become that much needed influential and inspirational sustainable champion.


Director/Lecturer

Virginia is a qualified architect, project manager and BREEAM AP, with a life long passion for sustainability. She is focusing exclusively on empowering sustainability professionals to become the most confident and assertive version of themselves, and to successfully accomplish their sustainability projects even when their stakeholders think sustainability is a waste of time and money!

She is the author of SustainABLE: How to Find Success as a Sustainability Professional in a Rapidly Changing World, a practical guide for those that have a passion for sustainability but cannot make an impact.

Virginia is also a Lecturer in Sustainability and Environmental Management at Coventry University. During her previous long career at BRE…


Virginia Cinquemani

Learning Outcomes

  • Define what it means to be a sustainable organisation

  • Gain techniques on how to make your organisation more sustainable

  • Learn how to utilise your resources to support your business strategy

  • Utilise environmental frameworks and carbon footprinting tools

  • Take back an action plan to become a sustainable champion





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Agenda

09:00 - 09:30 Registration

09:30 - 10:00 Trainer’s Welcome and Clarification of Learning Objectives

10:00 - 10:45 What does it Mean to be a Sustainable Organisation?

  • Defining sustainability

  • Defining business sustainability

  • Clarifying the language around sustainability and net zero

  • Understanding the UK legislation

10:45 - 11:00 Break

11:00 - 12:00 Why is this Transformation Necessary and Urgent?

  • The imperative for the net zero transformation

  • The economic and social benefits of acting now

  • The risks to your organisation if action is not taken

12:00 - 13:00 Making Better Use of Resources to Deliver the Business Strategy

  • Reviewing operations for improved sustainability

  • The role of the circular economy

  • Innovation and cost savings

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 - 15:00 Environmental Frameworks and Carbon Footprinting Tools

Environmental Frameworks:

  • What are they?

  • When are they useful?

  • Where to find more information

Carbon Footprinting:

  • What is it and do you need to do one?

  • The pros and cons of using a footprinting tool

15:00 - 16:00 Afternoon Break

15:00 - 16:00 Workshop: Becoming a Sustainability Champion

  • Assessing your organisation’s readiness to engage

  • Identifying key stakeholders and their readiness to engage

  • Identifying drivers for change

  • Setting and managing expectations for change

  • Barriers to action and overcoming them

  • Making sustainability business as usual

  • When and how to engage the wider organisation

16:00 - 16:15 Feedback, Evaluation and Close

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