Programme purpose
Learning designed for immediate organisational application.
An executive programme that equips directors and senior leaders to provide informed oversight of sustainability-related risks and opportunities, climate resilience, reporting controls and management accountability without becoming operational managers.
Available datesChoose the session that works for you.
Detailed two-day curriculumSix modules, practical exercises and workplace-ready outputs.
The programme moves from core concepts to guided application. Every major module includes focused submodules and a practical exercise.
Day 1Director duties, governance architecture and strategic oversight
Module 1 — Board accountability for sustainability-related information
- Director responsibilities, fiduciary judgement and regulatory expectations
- IFRS S1/S2 governance disclosures and oversight evidence
- Greenwashing, litigation, reputation and personal accountability risks
Practical application: Board-case discussion on oversight failure and disclosure risk.
Module 2 — Effective Board and committee governance
- Mandates, charters, delegation and management accountability
- Board competence, information needs and annual agenda
- Decision records, challenge, escalation and conflicts of interest
Practical application: Review and strengthen a sample sustainability committee mandate.
Module 3 — Material risks, opportunities and strategy challenge
- Identifying matters that could affect organisational prospects
- Risk appetite, ERM integration and strategic trade-offs
- Capital allocation, business-model resilience and opportunity oversight
Practical application: Conduct a simulated Board challenge of management’s ESG strategy.
Daily participant outputA Board oversight mandate, annual agenda and strategic challenge checklist.
Day 2Climate resilience, performance oversight and disclosure approval
Module 4 — Climate risk, scenarios and financial effects
- Physical and transition risks across time horizons
- Scenario assumptions, resilience analysis and decision-useful interpretation
- Current and anticipated effects on cash flows, finance and cost of capital
Practical application: Review a climate scenario pack from a director’s perspective.
Module 5 — Metrics, targets, controls and management information
- Selecting Board-level indicators and decision thresholds
- Data provenance, estimates, control ownership and exceptions
- Performance variance, remediation and management certification
Practical application: Design a concise Board ESG dashboard and challenge questions.
Module 6 — Disclosure approval and assurance readiness
- Board review of materiality, judgements and connected information
- Sign-off workflow, evidence pack and assurance interaction
- Balanced disclosure, omissions, restatements and final approval
Practical application: Simulated Board review and approval of a sustainability disclosure pack.
Daily participant outputA Board dashboard, disclosure-approval checklist and annual oversight action plan.
Who should attendDesigned for the people responsible for delivery.
- Board directors and committee members
- Company secretaries
- Executive Management
- Chief sustainability, risk, finance and audit officers
Learning outcomesWhat participants will be able to do.
- Strengthen Board challenge and decision records
- Clarify governance and management accountability
- Improve sustainability information presented to directors
- Support credible IFRS S1/S2 disclosure approval
Participant resourcesPractical take-away tools.
- Board sustainability briefing pack
- Oversight question bank
- Committee work-plan template
- Disclosure approval checklist
Learning methodologyTechnical instruction translated into practical action.
Executive briefings, scenario-based Board cases, information-pack critique, simulated challenge and facilitated action planning.
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