Accenture Sustainability Academy

Accenture Sustainability Academy delivers engaging, online learning experiences that help companies bring essential knowledge and skills about sustainability strategies, approaches, innovations, technologies and operations to relevant workforces quickly and cost effectively. Companies can achieve better business agility and market responsiveness by embedding sustainability across their strategy, culture and operations.

Sustainability challenges and opportunities. “Sustainability started as a moral obligation, but has now become a key differentiator." That’s a key insight from one of the CEOs quoted in a recent research report from Accenture and the United Nations Global Compact. Although executives are concerned about a variety of related consumer, regulatory and business issues, they believe that sustainable products, services and operations are now a source of competitive advantage.

Yet many challenges remain if sustainability is to be fully integrated across an organization’s entire value chain. One such challenge is giving managers and other key workforces the knowledge and skills they need to execute sustainability strategies and to drive innovations in sustainable supply chains and products.

Increasing sustainability skills and leadership capabilities to create competitive advantage. Accenture Sustainability Academy offers online courses, live webinars and an ever-expanding database of research and articles covering a range of sustainability topics and proficiency levels. The blended, interactive learning environment leverages a competency-based learning approach together with rich and relevant content—supported by a flexible and cost effective delivery platform—that can create a more proficient and consistently trained global workforce.

Organizations can leverage our core, industrialized Sustainability Academy, or Accenture can also customize a curriculum to specific needs and goals. With distinctive capabilities across a range of sustainability areas, companies can achieve competitive advantage and drive added benefits such as improved recruitment and retention of top talent.

What executives are saying:
“Training and developing a new generation of managers will be crucial in creating sustainable growth.”
Ernst Bärtschi, CEO, Sika Group
A New Era of Sustainability: UN Global Compact–Accenture CEO Study 2010

Accenture is an acknowledged innovator in enterprise learning and has business, industry, training and technology skills unmatched in the marketplace.

A learning leader. Accenture is an industry leader in delivering advanced learning solutions that are scalable and flexible, harnessing innovative technologies and learning designs in a way that is also standardized and cost-effective. Accenture Sustainability Academy provides an interactive, highly engaging and blended learning environment, including online self-study courses, live webinars, case-based learning, simulations and extensive online resources.

Working with clients across the globe to drive more sustainable businesses. Accenture has deep skills, proven assets and extensive technology and consulting experience across the full spectrum of sustainability solutions and services. Our Sustainability Services group works with clients to help them drive innovation and profitable growth while striving for a positive economic, environmental and social impact. Accenture can help organizations in any industry integrate sustainable business practices across their strategies, processes and operating models.

A track record of sustainability excellence. Accenture has a long record of achievements in driving sustainable outcomes in the services we provide to clients, our interactions with suppliers and how we encourage sustainable behaviors among our employees.

Distinctive capabilities. Here’s what makes Accenture Sustainability Academy distinctive in the marketplace:

• Rich, relevant content. Course content can be tailored to the student’s job needs and current competencies. Education is provided when it’s needed, rather than as one-time events, so new employees can rapidly develop critical knowledge and skills.

• Outcome driven. Accenture Sustainability Academy is designed to help our clients achieve measurable business outcomes, and our learning professionals help our clients keep course content aligned with evolving strategies and business goals.

• Informed by sustainability specialists. Our extensive learning curriculum is created and continuously refreshed using the experience, insights and leading practices from sustainability professionals and academics around the globe.

• Anytime access to learning. Accenture Sustainability Academy is available on demand, 24/7—offering flexible access to learning for our clients around the globe and providing a low-carbon, cost-effective approach to training.

• Customized, industrialized, scalable, flexible. By combining our industrialized delivery platform with customizable learning approaches, our clients can take advantage of learning solutions that are both more efficient and more effective. The flexible architecture enables our clients to adapt the platform to their specific needs.

Accenture Sustainability Academy can help companies expand the capabilities of their workforce—in areas including sustainability strategy, operations, technologies, processes and management—with more rigor and certainty. The extensive curriculum covers:

• Strategy—including sustainability policy and regulation; sustainability strategy; innovation and new business.

• Operational excellence—including sustainable consumption; sustainability performance management; sustainable supply chain and smart building solutions.

• Emissions management—including climate and energy management; clean energy; carbon markets; and carbon trading.

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