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9-week online course

CSRD and Sustainability Reporting

Ready to tackle CSRD? We'll take you through the essentials of the directive, make sure you run a robust double materiality assessment, and ensure your sustainability statement shines.

Duration
9 sessions
Start
May 2024
Format
Online
  • Focus on practice
    Focus on practice
  • Expert perspectives
    Expert perspectives
  • Real-world case studies
    Real-world case studies
  • Follow-up support
    Follow-up support
  • Completion certificate and badge
    Completion certificate and badge
Questions?
We're here to help. Contact Lucy

Walk away with...

A strong understanding of sustainability reporting, focusing on CSRD/ESRS

Certificate & Linkedin accreditation badge

Essential implementation skills and best-practice tactics to write a sustainability statement

Curated resource packs, templates and cheat sheets

An active network of cohort peers + a wider 3,500+ learning community

What to expect

From overwhelmed to job done in 3 steps

We've got your back until your CSRD disclosures shine and your management is happy. Learn about our approach.

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Step 1
CSRD simplified

Our instructors will break CSRD down for you, so you know what needs to change in your current reporting and grasp the details most relevant to tech companies.

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Step 2
Craft the basis of your CSRD disclosure on a personal canvas

Over 9 weeks, you'll be narrowing down your affected stakeholders, determining which sustainability matters to include, and learning skills to lead a CSRD reporting team.

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Step 3
Get support from peers and experts on the road ahead!

After the course ends, you'll stay in touch with your cohort through facilitated troubleshooting sessions for all your burning questions, as well as an active Slack channel.

Who can benefit
This program is for you if you are like...
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Sara, Head of Sustainability

Sara's team handles sustainability reporting. The CSRD deadline for her company is around the corner and she needs clear guidance on how to comply. However, her ambition extends beyond disclosing data points; she also aims to implement actions and policies for effective follow-up.

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Eden, Finance Manager

Eden handles financial reporting and is exploring ways to include CSRD sustainability statements in annual plans. He's working on understanding the tools, setting up a process, and connecting financial, environmental, social, and government data.

What we’ll teach
Cut to the chase with our laser-focused sessions
9 sessions | starting May 7, 2024
Get familiar with CSRD and ESRS
Module 1
May 7, 2024
Get familiar with CSRD and ESRS
Philippe DiazPiotr DrozdLucy Bowen
with Philippe Diaz, Piotr Drozd, Lucy Bowen

Grasp the fundamentals of sustainability reporting including key principles and frameworks.

  • Benefits of reporting and disclosure

  • Sustainability reporting principles and frameworks

  • CSRD & ESRS timelines, scope, and general requirements

  • Interrelationality of standards & cross-cutting standards (ESRS1)

Set up your process and build a team
Module 2
May 14, 2024
Set up your process and build a team
Fiona Quinlan-WellsDigney Eisner
with Fiona Quinlan-Wells, Digney Eisner

Understand how to get organised to start practically preparing your report.

  • How CSRD will change the "standard" process

  • How to build a team, project manage and establish governance

  • Tools for data collection and collaboration

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Who will teach
Meet your instructors

We'll be sharing news about more instructors soon, so stay tuned.

Marina Bradford

Marina Bradford

Founder & Managing Director at Bermari

Marina is the founder and strategy director at Bemari with cross-industry international experience supporting organisations to transition to more sustainable, restorative and distributive practices. With background in accounting, risk management, transformation management and sustainability, Marina's strength is in simplifying complexity to help engage and empower stakeholders across all levels to deliver collaborative problem solving and to catalyse change.

Elspeth Alexander

Elspeth Alexander

Senior Consultant & Adviser

Elspeth is a senior consultant & water professional with 10 years experience, advising clients on topics that intersect climate, water & nature recovery. She specialises in working at the nexus of political, economic and environmental systems ‘joining the dots’ across and between water and other systems (e.g. climate-water, food-water-energy) to create meaningful insights, design technical interventions, facilitate complex stakeholder negotiations and develop system change strategies.

Philippe Diaz

Philippe Diaz

Member EFRAG Sustainability Reporting Technical Expert Group

Philippe has a diverse professional background with experience in industry, consulting, non-governmental organisations as well as multilateral institutions. He has work experience of 10 years in Asia, Africa, and Europe. He is currently Senior Manager at the Sustainable Finance Unit at the WWF Germany. His expertise lies within corporate reporting, science-based net-zero commitments, biodiversity aspects for banks, and the wider issue of sustainable economy.

Piotr Drozd

Piotr Drozd

Chief Climate Officer at LFCA

Piotr is a climate activist, thought leader, and entrepreneur with over a decade of experience in leading impact-driven organizations, from social enterprises to nonprofits. Serving as Ecosia's COO, he helped the company find an impact business model and secure one of the first B Corp certifications in Europe. Piotr also consults on impact strategies and mentors startups in Google.org, Techstars, and Singularity University accelerators.

Lucy Bowen

Lucy Bowen

Sustainability Program Manager at LFCA

Lucy is an impact-driven sustainability educator and consultant with a circular and regenerative design background. Ten years of experience across the creative industries have honed her management and facilitation skills toward her goal of enabling a safe and accessible transition.

Fiona Quinlan-Wells

Fiona Quinlan-Wells

Independent Consultant

Fiona is a climate change and sustainability professional with 10 years' of experience gained through working in corporate, non-profit, and consultancy environments. Experienced in leading project teams to deliver impactful results. In her most recent role at Mott MacDonald, I led on internal implementation of the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosure (TCFD) recommendations, and delivery and development of TCFD-aligned climate risk advisory services, based within the International Development Services unit.

Digney Eisner

Digney Eisner

Senior Manager ESG at Delivery Hero and Agreena

Digney currently serves as the Senior Manager of ESG at Agrreena. In his previous position, he was responsible for Delivery Hero's CSRD readiness.

Fenja Bremer

Fenja Bremer

Environmental Sustainability Consultant at Better Earth

Fenja translates science and activism into actionable, entrepreneurial solutions. Her expertise in science-aligned sustainability management via SBTs and LCAs makes her a driving force for dynamic change within organizations.

Testimonials
What our participants are saying

Read what participants from previous cohorts had to say about our online courses

The course took away my ominous feeling about CSRD being this big insurmountable task - it feels manageable now.

Diana Pauly
Diana Pauly
Head of Sustainability, idealo

I have learnt a huge amount and really value each speaker highly. Great content and discussions throughout the course.

Leena Ceccolini
Leena Ceccolini
Founder, Socially Circular

I've found it incredibly insightful and felt like I've learned so much. The speakers have been really engaging… each lesson was packed with valuable information, designed to set us up for real-world success.

Jenna Jones
Jenna Jones
Sustainability Coordinator, Ableton

In-depth but comprehensible, delivered to a high standard by an impressive range of experts. I came away with a good grasp of the big picture as well as much of the detail… Warmly recommended!

Joe Carroll
Joe Carroll
Head of ESG & Strategy, Fixably

It's great to connect with other professionals and exchange experiences. I was inspired by all the concrete examples and case studies, too.

Dewi
Dewi
Head of Sustainability, Stepstone

An amazing learning experience… Thank you for pioneering and leading people with the amazing sessions.

Rashmi Vital
Rashmi Vital
CCO, Eevie
How to enroll
Claim your spot today!
For members

Free

Enrollment fee is included in Basic or Premium membership.

For non-members

€1999

Take advantage of early-bird pricing until April 15th! Prices go up to €2699 later.

Engaging and practical

Recommended weekly time commitment of 3-5 hours.

100% online

Interactive Zoom sessions with a dedicated learning environment.

Small groups

A regular cohort has 30 to 50 participants.

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Skills
This course teaches essential skills for long term business transformation

Advancing transformations towards sustainability calls for change agents equipped with a new set of competencies. We help you get there! Learn more about how we teach

​Understand climate science, policy, regulation & legislation, leading innovation, and the implications of these global trends for the environment, for society, for the economy and for organisations.

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