The Sustainability Leadership Programme gives you leadership skills and tools to make progress on complex sustainability challenges.
Catapult designs and delivers the Sustainability Leadership Programme on behalf of the Sustainable Business Council (SBC). The SBC is a member organisation made up of organisations committed to making significant progress on environmental, social, and economic sustainability issues. SBC members account for over 60% of New Zealand’s GDP. Your organisation does not need to be a member of the SBC for you to participate in the Sustainability Leadership Programme.
Who is the Sustainability Leadership Programme for?
Is it right for me?
The Sustainability Leadership Programme is ideal for:
- Organisational leaders operating at a strategic level and senior managers with accountability for sustainability outcomes and leadership
- Organisational leaders embedding sustainability into organisational culture and value chains
- Experienced sustainability leaders implementing sustainability strategies and outcome delivery
The SLP is a leadership programme. It is not about learning technical skills for how to deal with sustainability issues.
To be a part of the programme, you must be working on, or about to embark on, a significant sustainability challenge for your organisation, industry, sector, or your community. Your sutainability challenge can be an environmental, social, or economic.
Sustainability challenges are complex and making progress requires working with others in the wider system. A significant part of this programme is about learning and applying systems leadership to your challenge.
You need to be willing to work with others on the programme and commit to applying what you learn. A strong community is forged which provides an opportunity to make connections and learn from others.
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Recommend the programme to others
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Gained insights on how to approach sustainability challenges
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Planned a new approach to their sustainability project
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Built fellowship with a network of senior sustainability change agents
Hear what alumni from the 2019 Sustainability Leadership Programme have to say about the programme.
Jamie Henry – WasteLine Manager for OCS Ltd
Sharon Manssen – Quality, Environment & Sustainability Manager, NZ Region for Aurecon
Joshua Dorman, Stuff
Katherine Buttar, Auckland Transport
Programme Overview
Workshop Dates
There is a total of four full workshop days. Attending all days is necessary to complete the programme.
Workshop One: Wednesday 6 May 9am – 7:30pm Thursday 7 May 9am – 5pm
Workshop Two: Wednesday 22 July, 9am – 6.30pm
Workshop Three: Wednesday 16 September, 9am – 5pm
Pre-course preparation: 3 hours (more if undertaking LeaderScope 360°)
Networking events: Evenings of 6 May and 22 July
Workshop preparation: 4 hours per workshop
Peer group work: 2 hours a fortnight between workshops.
Outside the workshops, time will be required to apply your learning to a real sustainability challenge facing your organisation. In this way, programme work is real work and complements your day job. Hours required will vary according to the project.
Applications Close 29 November
Pre Programme
Ready, Set…
- Application process
- Selection
- Induction
- Organisational Onboarding
- Pre-work
- 360° feedback (option)
Workshop One
Making Sense
- What is sustainability leadership?
- Systems thinking
- Diagnosing challenges
- Leadership backbone
- Leadership styles
- Storytelling: building trust
- Building resilience
- Networking event
Workshop Two
Influencing
- Co-design mindsets and methods: co-creating solutions with stakeholders
- Designing experiments, fast prototyping and scaling
- Leading change
- Influencing
- Storytelling for motivating change
Workshop Three
Leading Culture
- Systems change
- Embedding sustainability in culture
- Learning from experiments
- Storytelling
- Celebrating accomplishments
Post Programme
Extend
- Transferring learning back to your work
- Extending leadership development
- Igniting transformational relationships
- Alumni
Take your leadership further
We have two great options to extend your learning and development from the Sustainability Leadership Programme.
Additional Coaching Options
Investing in additional coaching after the programme is a smart option. Additional coaching can help you explore specific aspects of the programme more deeply, help you transfer programme learning back to the workplace and provide you with ongoing support and challenge in your leadership development.
Leaderscope 360-Degree Feedback Option
Leaderscope is Catapult’s 360-degree feedback tool. It enables you to identify your leadership strengths, areas for improvement and to develop clear learning objectives for your participation in the Sustainable Leadership Programme.
Programme Cost
SBC Members: $3,600
Non-SBC Members: $4,200
Earlybird 5% discount fee for applications received by 31 October 2019:
SBC Members: $3,420
Non-SBC Members: $3,990
Optional LeaderScope 360° feedback assessment $800.
Optional coaching three sessions $1,200.
The programme fee is exclusive of GST and covers tuition, learning materials, lunch and the networking event with business leaders.
No refund, transfer to colleagues or future programmes are possible.
Programme Dates
6 – 7 May – Workshop One
22 July – Workshop Two
16 September – Workshop Three
'Fast-paced concentrated boost of learning. It’s had a significant positive impact on how I work and what I have been able to achieve.'
Alison Howard
Head of Sustainability, Meridian Energy
'The material, delivered, with excellence by Catapult, kept me constantly thinking, reflecting, and engaged.'
Leon Jarden
Countdown
'It's given me greater self-awareness to my sustainability leadership and tools I could apply straight away, and which I continue to use well after the programme.'
Sam Bridgman, Sustainability Specialist
NZ Post
Participating Organisations
Below are organisations who have participated in the Sustainability Leadership Programme
| 4Sight Consulting |
| AA Insurance |
| AECOM New Zealand Ltd |
| Air New Zealand |
| Airways New Zealand |
| Akina Foundation |
| Auckland Council |
| Auckland Transport |
| Aurecon |
| CHEP, New Zealand |
| Christchurch Airport |
| Christchurch International Airport |
| Contact Energy |
| Deloitte |
| Downer NZ |
| EECA |
| Energy & Technical Services |
| Enviro-Mark Solutions |
| Fonterra |
| Genesis |
| KiwiRail |
| Lyttelton Port Company |
| Massey University |
| Mercury NZ Ltd |
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Meridian Energy
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| Ngai Tahu Farming |
| Ngai Tahu Holdings |
| Ngati Whatua Orakei Whai Rawa Ltd |
| NZ Post |
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OCS Ltd
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| Opus International Consultants |
| Outsourced Client Solutions |
| Ports of Auckland |
| Progressive Enterprises Limited |
| Ravensdown |
| Sanford |
| Stuff |
| Sustainable Business Council |
| thinkstep |
| Tourism Holdings Limited |
| Toyota New Zealand |
| Waikato Regional Council |
| Westpac |