From Sustainability Manager to Sustainable Transformation Manager
Strategic Anchoring, Role Clarity, and Transformation Competence
Contents
Strategically Positioning Sustainability
- Understanding sustainability as a framework for stability and competitiveness.
- Integrate the business model, risk management, and sustainability strategy.
- Overcoming silo mentality—establishing sustainability as a cross-functional role.
- Identify and prioritize future-oriented topics for your own company.
Further Developing Your Understanding of Your Role
- From operational support to strategic involvement.
- Identify levers to influence decision-making processes.
- Integrating sustainability from reporting into corporate management.
- Reflection on one's own current situation within the organizational context.
Recognizing and Overcoming Typical Barriers to Transformation
- Systematically categorize barriers: structural, cultural, and leadership-related.
- Identify and activate the enablers for a successful transformation.
- Real-world examples from various business contexts.
Developing Effective Strategies for Your Own Organization
- Clarify and permanently establish accountability structures.
- Leverage leadership as a key factor for transformation.
- Further develop decision-making frameworks with a focus on sustainability.
- Develop your own approaches and prepare them for implementation.
Learning environment
In your online learning environment, you will find useful information, downloads and extra services for this training course once you have registered.
Your benefit
- You will develop a clear understanding of your role as a Sustainable Transformation Manager.
- You'll learn how to strategically and effectively embed sustainability within your company.
- You can identify typical barriers to transformation early on and know how to overcome them in a targeted manner.
- You'll take away concrete, practical insights and transferable solutions that you can apply directly within your organization.
Methods
Input from trainers, interactive reflection exercises, World Café, group and individual work, facilitated exchange of experiences, best-practice examples, structured development of action plans, and work on applying the learnings to one’s own organization.
Recommended for
Sustainability managers, ESG officers, sustainability leaders, transformation leaders, as well as specialists and executives who want to strategically embed sustainability within their organizations and actively shape transformation processes.
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- Customized training courses
- Direct application in practice
- Efficient use of time and resources
Start dates and details

Thursday, 04.02.2027
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Friday, 05.02.2027
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.

Tuesday, September 14, 2027
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Wednesday, September 15, 2027
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.