Sustainable Business Strategies

Find your unique role and become a purpose-driven leader for business transformation all over the world!

The Sustainable Business Strategies school provides you with a set of sustainability concepts and its indicators for effective project management, consulting services and innovative engineering solutions. You will work with the case studies of successful companies supported by scientific research and explore the inner space within us, which is the true space of business transformation.

There are 10 training modules + 5 workshops to build a community of like-minded people for business co-creation.

 This school is for you if:

  •       You're looking for a new meaning of your career and collective efforts for a sustainable and regenerative future
  •       Your business would benefit from analyzing sustainable business models that can drive a change at the system level
  •        You'd improve your marketing by engaging stakeholders and communicating corporate social responsibility
  •        You're ready for nature regeneration by creating start-ups bringing value for the entire planet
  •        You're seeking to join a business network in sustainability within an international cohort of like-minded leaders for collaboration, innovation, and value creation
  •        You're needing an official certificate of competencies in business sustainability management and leadership

It's the best two winter weeks to expand your professional skills and increase your value.

Apply now to guarantee a place in the program!

Format of international online school includes:
- Live studies
- Live excursions
- Exclusive content for a limited number of students (records available for 4 months)
- Support 24/7
- E-certificate (transcript of records with a maximum of 2 ECTS)
- Transcript of records with a maximum of 2 ECTS (European study credits)
- Certificate of attendance after completing the course
- Individual/group guidance from professor
- Interactive classes

School Director
Prof. Dr. Ekaterina Markelova

 

Application Deadline
June 10, 2025
Dates
07 Jul - 17 Jul, 2025
Certificate
2 ECTS
International
100%
Language
English
Tuition fee
390 $
Syllabus

Business has all capacities to drive global sustainability with the awareness of science-based, biophysical constraints. This class will introduce you to the ecological systems within which business exists. It will help you relate sustainable development goals with business actions

Speakers
Ekaterina Markelova
Ph.D. in Earth, Environment & Universe, Professor of Ecology and Sustainability, Educator of National Geographic, Expert in Biogeochemistry

You will be introduced to the laws, regulations and incentives motivating for the sustainability track across the World. A touch of historical aspects with the focus on the efficiency and potential outcomes will complement this class

Speakers
Roman Kozlov
Lomonosov MSU student and researcher at IPCP RAS, Civic Leadership Summit alumni-2018, USA

How to unlock complex problems? In this workshop we will equip you with a set of tools that helps to structure your thinking and understand complex problems better. Once you start thinking in systems, this skill will help you in all areas of life

Speakers
Elena Bahanova
University of Technology Sydney

In this course we will compare sustainable and traditional business models performance. Moreover, we will discover key transformation drivers and the rationale for changes

Speakers
Alyona Yuzefovich
Sustainability Strategist. Co-founder at Boxy, battery recycling service. MSc in Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability (Blekinge Technical University, Sweden)

There is world-wide demand for more efficient and sustainable products to reduce energy and resource consumption. Circular Economy strategies rely on recycling technologies. Therefore, EcoDesign is an essential tool for improving the sustainability of products. It supports industrial innovation by promoting the better environmental performance and economic benefits

Speakers
Ekaterina Markelova
Ph.D. in Earth, Environment & Universe, Professor of Ecology and Sustainability, Educator of National Geographic, Expert in Biogeochemistry

Calculating a carbon footprint is a great first step for a business looking to understand its environmental impact. We will have hands-on exercises with calculation tools and figure out how the chosen scale of the measurements affects the results. Can a company become real neutral?

Speakers
Natalia Krylova
Ph.D. candidate in Sustainable Development, University of Geneva (Switzerland)

This course outlines the real profits and sweet-spots for every business of sustainability deployment. How does 'going sustainable' impact company valuation and performance?

Speakers
Evgenia Kuznetsova
You Social, sustainable development practices Co-founder and Development Director Russia’s UN expert

Here we will dive into how renewed companies communicate their impetus towards Sustainability. Why do they do so and what are the outcomes? Balancing between the greenwashing and "say-do" approach will be addressed

Speakers
Dr. Zuraidah Sulaiman
Senior Lecturer, Business Administration (Marketing), Azman Hashim International Business School, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM)

Whom to involve and how? Stakeholders are a source of invaluable insights, unique value and resources and, when consulted properly, they can significantly enrich the quality of the solutions/projects that businesses make. In this workshop you’ll learn when, whom and how to engage for better solutions associated with environmental sustainability

Speakers
Elena Bahanova
University of Technology Sydney

This course will introduce students into the basics of circular ecosystems with complex relationships between various actors: government, companies, academia, and civil society. You will go deep into your inner space to find the source for sustainable business transformation.

Speakers
Darya Gerasimenko
PhD, Professor for Sustainability Science of Samara University
Accommodation
Accommodation and meal options are available in your user’s account
Additional program
Detailed schedule and Tour info around St Petersburg and the capital of Russia, Moscow, are available in your user’s account
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