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t the University of Michigan’s Erb Institute, our mission is to create a socially and environmentally sustainable world through the power of business. For nearly 25 years, we’ve helped companies make better business decisions, drive change and create innovative solutions. The Sustainability Academy is our signature business program, designed to leverage Michigan Ross Executive Education’s renowned leadership expertise with our experience empowering executives to transform sustainability risks into business opportunities.
We give you a competitive edge. Partner with the Erb Institute’s leadership team to develop an executive education program tailored to your unique business challenges, opportunities and objectives. One size does not fit all. The Sustainability Academy is a fully customizable program, devised to achieve radical change in the format that works best for your company—from two-hour executive briefings to two-week skills-development workshops, to long-term culture-change initiatives. We help your company build internal capacity, external stakeholder networks and a systems approach to turning sustainability challenges into competitive advantages. Designed and delivered by the faculty of Michigan Ross, a Top 10 business school, Sustainability Academy sessions enable triple-bottom-line decision-making throughout company strategy and operations. For example: Human Bias and Consumer Perceptions Executive Decision-Making When the Stakes Are High From Recycling to Circularity Lifecycle Assessment and Systems Thinking The New Carbon Economy Global Value Chains and Integration Meet the Press: Sustainability Communications in a Crowded Media Landscape Difficult Stakeholder Conversations Stakeholder Strategy and Partnerships for Life Design Thinking and Innovation Culture
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THE SUSTAINABILITY ACADEMY
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The Sustainability Academy helps companies spark innovation and lead change. The program equips executives and managers with a road map to better align their decisions with business strategy, rising social demands and the needs of a global economy.
The Ross Business School’s Executive Education is well known as a global Financial Times Top 5 Provider, and the Erb Institute complements this deep leadership expertise with our unique sustainability focus. Together, Ross and Erb offer a wide range of custom programs to help companies build internal capacity, craft strategy and implement change across a range of industries, geographies and sustainability issue areas.
The Erb Institute is the business-sustainability partnership between the Ross School of Business and the School for Environment and Sustainability at the University of Michigan. We offer support— tailored to each company, industry and business context—via three main platforms: Executive Education, Research Partnerships and Business Convenings.
For example: Our continued work with Dow helps prepare mid- and senior-level managers to fulfill the company’s ambitious 2025 Sustainability Goals. We partner with Berry Global to support senior leadership. We help them understand the new demands of stakeholder activism in global plastics, build an internal culture for sustainability and communicate the company’s sustainability commitment to external stakeholders.
For more information, contact: TERRY NELIDOV, Managing Director, Erb Institute tnelidov@umich.edu erb.umich.edu