ESG Fundamentals Microcredential: Impacting People, Planet & Productivity

The purpose of this microcredential is to enable companies, teams, and individual employees to understand and act on Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) factors to generate positive impacts for all stakeholders. This microcredential enables participants to develop ESG strategies and actions – the fuel for our collective ESG journey. In the program, you will identify what you already do well, what you can do more of, what needs to change, and what strategies can be put into place to positively impact people, the planet, and productivity.

Participants will learn the fundamentals of environmental, social and governance factors. ESG performance requires people at all levels of organizations to consider opportunities to positively impact people, planet, and productivity. Join this training to advance your ESG understanding and design meaningful ESG actions.

What you will learn?

Explore the rise of ESG (environmental, social, and governance) and sustainable business practices and the resulting opportunities
Understand leading practice and potential environmental, social, and governance impacts
Investigate existing business processes that impact people and the planet
Explore how to integrate positive impacts on people and the planet
Design a roadmap and pitch to increase positive and reduce negative impacts on people and the planet in their work

Who will benefit from this program?

This program is most valuable to participants who:

Are curious and concerned about organizations’ impact on people and the planet
Understand the risk of not acting and are eager to make positive and meaningful change
Want to contribute to positive social and environmental outcomes through concrete and measurable actions

What you can expect from the program?

Hands-on: designing an action plan focused on advancing ESG performance within your organization
Cohort-based: receive individual attention and connect with fellow participants to build your network
Industry Practitioners: learn from instructors and guest speakers working in the field and benefit from the real-world experience of sustainability practitioners

Microcredentials are short training programs that help you quickly master new skills. Microcredentials are made up of badges: smaller components that build into a microcredential. This microcredential is made up of five badges:

ESG Fundamentals Badge
Governance Impact Badge
Social Impact Badge
Environmental Impact Badge
ESG Roadmap Badge

These five badges add up to a 4.5-credit microcredential. Upon successful completion, participants are issued digital badges and a digital microcredential that can be displayed on your LinkedIn profile to showcase your ESG impact knowledge and experience. These digital badges and microcredential signal your commitment to work towards an inclusive, sustainable, and regenerative economy.

When we asked our expert speakers what ESG impacts mean to them, here’s what they had to say:

	Brianna Brown, Co-founder, Decade Impact “All businesses have an impact on the communities around them, but without being intentional about what this impact is, these impacts may be positive or negative. A focus on ESG allows companies to be intentional and explicit about the impacts they have on people and planet, to strive towards maximizing positive impacts and using their business to leave the world a better place.”
	Alison Coates, Director, Climate Strategy and Performance “For me, ESG measurement and action is all about reducing negative impacts and increasing positive impacts of doing business. We’re living in a critical moment in history when we need to rethink how we all do business. Necessary to this shift is a rejection of the idea that profit must be maximized at the expense of things that really matter.”
	Tim Coldwell, President, Chandos Construction “ESG impact is how we help address social challenges through our business model. Our core values are a virtuous cycle that starts with inclusivity (getting the right people in the room) and moves to collaboration (active listening) and innovation comes out of that. Then the cycle repeats and it pushes the organization forward.”
	Tobi Oyewole, Sustainability Specialist, Teck “ESG impact is how we innovate to solve our environmental and social challenges. Innovation starts with redefining our strategy, minimizing risks, and leveraging opportunities to improve the relationship with our people, customers, environment and the communities where we do business.”
	Geoff Pegg, Director, Sustainability & Environment, TELUS “I think about how companies such as TELUS can work with citizens, communities, customers, Indigenous Peoples and other stakeholders to make a positive social and environmental impact when executing on its purpose, while managing associated risks with relevant oversight.”
	Valerie Presolly, Director Climate Strategy and Performance, Vancity “ESG impacts can be both negative and positive, and it’s all about bringing these impacts to the fore and elevating them in a manner that addressing them becomes part of your core business, rather than a nice-to-have.”
	James Struthers, Founder and Managing Lawyer, macushlaw “Corporations play a profound role have a profound impact on our societies and environments globally. Corporate sustainability is a moral imperative.”

Instructors bring real world expertise into the classroom with curriculum developed with industry input.

	Amy Fell, BCIT Faculty Amy Fell (she/her), MA, leads Corporate and Industry Training for the School of Business and Media and is Program Head of the Advanced Diploma in Business Management. Amy believes that the answers to organizational challenges lie in unlocking the aspiration of employees. Her work aims to enable individuals, teams and organizations to connect the ‘why and how’ of organizational pursuits in service of people, productivity, purpose and the planet.
	Tessa Jordan, BCIT Faculty Tessa Jordan (she/her), PhD, is Program Head for the Sustainable Business Leadership and Faculty in the Communication Department at BCIT. Tessa specializes in business communications and values-based business with a focus on how the private sector can create and communicate social and environmental value to support the just transition to a regenerative economy.
	Geoff Pegg, Director, Sustainability and Environment, TELUS After ten years in various customer experience and operations roles with TELUS, both locally and internationally, Geoff has led TELUS’ sustainability strategy for the past decade. Geoff has established TELUS’ long-term climate change and waste diversion goals, targets and action plans, including negotiating four Power Purchase Agreements for renewable energy in Alberta. Geoff also initiated TELUS’ leading practice of linking executive and team member pay to sustainability objectives and led efforts leading to TELUS issuing Canada’s first Sustainability-Linked Bond.

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