Strategic Sustainability in Global Business: Foundations and Innovation

Build strategic sustainability skills for global business leadership

In a world that’s becoming increasingly environmentally conscious, it’s important to integrate sustainability strategically within your global businesses.

On this three-week course from Salford Business School, you’ll explore the way you can integrate sustainability into strategy and innovation.

You’ll gain real-world expertise through a practice-led curriculum delivered fully online.

Learn foundational aspects of responsible and sustainable business

You’ll start this course by exploring the strategic, ethical, and operational fundamentals that underpin sustainability as a crucial pillar of modern business success.

You’ll gain fresh insights into how pioneering companies integrate sustainability into core business functions.

Case studies from global brands IKEA, Patagonia, and Unilever will support your learning and help illustrate how sustainability is embedded into everyday business operations.

Explore sector and context-based sustainability challenges

You’ll then delve into the varied sustainability challenges faced by different industries and regions, from resource scarcity to environmental regulation, social inequalities, and geopolitical dynamics.

You’ll develop the ability to tailor sustainability strategies to sector-specific imperatives, recognising that one-size-does-not-fit-all in global sustainability leadership.

Delve further into strategy, innovation, and measuring impact

Finally, you’ll learn how to develop actionable sustainability roadmaps that align business objectives with global priorities.

You’ll walk away with the skills to innovate solutions and lead sustainability strategies that deliver lasting value.

This course is ideal for junior, mid, and senior managers, and individuals with an undergraduate degree who aim to develop foundational sustainability strategy and innovation skills applicable in diverse global business contexts.

This course is ideal for junior, mid, and senior managers, and individuals with an undergraduate degree who aim to develop foundational sustainability strategy and innovation skills applicable in diverse global business contexts.

• Assess the strategic, ethical, and operational drivers of sustainability in global business environments.
• Apply frameworks such as ESG, CSR, stakeholder theory, and the UN SDGs to real-world organisational contexts.
• Evaluate sector-specific challenges and innovations in delivering responsible business practices across different global markets.
• Design practical recommendations for businesses seeking to improve sustainability performance and stakeholder impact.