Executive Education
SIRI has launched two new programs in executive education -- the "Sustainable Finance Stewardship Academy" (SFSA) and the "Sustainable Business Stewardship Academy" (SBSA)! Are you interested to become a leader in developing financial and business strategies to drive systemic change and create a more sustainable future for generations to come. Join the SFSA to master system-level investing--the new frontier in sustainable investing--and the SBSA to become an expert in business stewardship, aligning corporate social, environmental, and policy initiatives with your business strategy.
The two programs are structured around a combination of in-person and virtual sessions over a two-month period. This includes six 90-minute virtual sessions followed by a 1.5 day in-person meeting. The program faculty include world-renowned SIPA faculty and guest speakers, including William (Bill) Burckart, SIPA Vice Dean for Research and Faculty Affairs and SIRI Director Caroline Flammer, Dylan Minor, and Jon Lukomnik. These programs allow participants to learn from faculty experts as well as their peers how they have experienced systemic challenges and aimed to address them through their stewardship practices. These programs also provide a valuable networking opportunity to participants that allows them to strengthen their ties within and across industries.
Following the completion of the courses, participants will earn a Certification of Participation awarded by Columbia University as well as given the opportunity to join an alumni peer learning network.
Spring dates: February 4 to March 15, 2025
Sustainable Finance Stewardship Academy (SFSA)
Participants of the SFSA will learn how to engage in system-level investing--the new frontier in sustainable investing. They will discuss the opportunities and challenges of implementing conventional tools and advanced techniques available to investors to trigger systemic change through their capital allocation, portfolio firm engagement, coalition building, policy engagement, and much more. Pursuing system-level investing will likely help make the environmental, social, and economic systems more resilient and decrease the overall systemic risk the financial system and real economy are exposed to.
Sustainable Business Stewardship Academy (SBSA)
Participants of the SBSA will learn how to integrate and align their corporate social, environmental, and policy engagements with their business strategies to sustain their competitiveness and firm value. Moreover, they will discuss whether and how corporations can act as stewards of systemic change by actively engaging with policymakers to improve industry-wide business practices that level the playing field and mitigate systemic challenges such as climate change, biodiversity loss, social inequality, poverty, and others.
The courses will be offered in Spring 2025. For further information about SFSA and SBSA, please see the respective program websites and contact Laura McCreedy ([email protected]), the Picker Center's Manager of Executive Education, or Caroline Flammer ([email protected]), the programs' director.
For general information about SIPA's Executive Education, please visit the website.