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Ethics, Sustainability and ESG in Product Management (Udemy.com)

Design & Delivery of Sustainable Products from Concept to End-of-Life: Physical (Fashion case study) & Digital Products

Created by: Julia Mariasova

Last updated December 2025

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What you will learn

  • Evolution of corporate sustainability, including the Triple Bottom Line, ESG factors for assessing impact and risk, creating shared value
  • Sustainability as a core business strategy focused on creating value and managing risk, and a driver for competitive advantage
  • Sustainability in strategic planning, environmental performance, merging sustainability goals with core financial metrics in product OKRs
  • Adapting customer segmentation to identify and prioritise eco-conscious customer segments, market sizing tools to account for sustainability-driven growth
  • Application of eco-design principles, including circularity, dematerialisation, design for disassembly, design for longevity; use of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
  • Integration of sustainability checkpoints into product and project management methodologies, Sustainable New Product Development (sNPD)

How it compares

Against the other 54 rated Udemy courses in Product Management on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.3 out of 5higher than 22% of them
  • Reviews180#48 of 55 by number of reviews
  • Length3.8 hoursshorter than 55% of them
  • Last updatedDecember 2025more recently than 51% of them

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Course Description

Welcome to our course "Ethics, Sustainability and ESG in Product Management".

This course has been created for product managers and other professionals involved in the product design, development and delivery, as well as for business leaders and specialists who are involved in definition and execution of sustainability strategy for their organisations.

Product managers sit at the intersection of strategy, design, engineering, and business operations. They can shape what gets built and how it’s delivered. With a holistic view of customer needs, market dynamics, and operational constraints, PMs have the power to embed sustainability into product decisions — from material choices and supply chains to accessibility and product lifecycle impacts. PMs influence over priorities, metrics, and cross-functional collaboration means that they can turn sustainability from a side initiative into a core value driver, aligning impact with innovation and profitability.

In this course, I will refresh your knowledge of sustainability and ESG concepts, and we will examine how these concepts can be integrated into existing product management frameworks.  We will examine how existing product management tools, frameworks, and methodologies can be systematically enhanced to incorporate sustainability principles, thereby creating products that simultaneously deliver financial returns and positive environmental and social impact. By leveraging specialised sustainability assessments, reconceptualising market segmentation through an environmental and social lens, reframing competitive analysis to account for ESG factors, and embedding sustainability metrics throughout your product development lifecycle, you can create an operating model that makes sustainable product development a foundation for commercial success of your business.  In the second part of the course, we will look at examples of what ethics and sustainability means for physical and digital products. While it would be impossible to cover all types of physical products, I chose for this course to look at the fashion industry as one of the most unsustainable and polluting sectors of the economy.

For this course, I invited three fantastic speakers:

  • Genia Mineeva, expert in circularity, and the founder of the award-winning circular design studio and brand BEEN London,

  • Tansy Hoskins, the award-winning author, journalist, independent researcher and social justice campaigner, and

  • Ivan Glushenkov, Tech entrepreneur, digital product manager, AI consultant, and multiple hackathons prizewinner.

These people are truly passionate about sustainability, they are doing something to change the world we are living in, and I hope they will inspire you for action.

Please enrol if you want to master the integration of ethics, sustainability and ESG practices into your product management work. Drive responsible innovation and create lasting impact in your projects.


Please feel free to check out my other courses:


1.  Generative AI Practical Guide for Business and Sustainability

2. Carbon Accounting and e-Liability as Tools for GHGs reduction

3. Business Case for Corporate Sustainability: Ultimate Guide

4. Guide to Green Taxonomies and EU Taxonomy Tutorial

5. Key Climate Agreements & Role of Governments/Policymakers

6.  Every Company’s Guide to Climate Action & Achieving Net Zero

7.  Corporate Climate Reporting: Key Standards and Guidelines

8.  ESG in Executive Leaders' Agenda: Reporting and Analytics

9.  Power Sector Decarbonisation and Energy Transition

10.  Heavy Industry Decarbonisation and Energy Transition

11.  Transport and Mobility Decarbonisation & Energy Transition

12.  Blockchain Technology in Climate Change and Sustainability

13.  Into to Big Data, Data Science and Artificial Intelligence


You can find the links to all courses on my Udemy profile page - just click my name at the bottom of the course description just before the course reviews.


Thank you for choosing our courses!

Sincerely yours,

Julia Mariasova


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Instructor Details

Julia Mariasova

Julia is an experienced producer, film director and educator based in London. She is a founder of Shortlisted Productions, a company specialising in educational content. She has produced multiple video courses for Udemy, where she has over 30000 students.

Julia has been teaching a wide range of the topics from climate change, decarbonisation, energy transition to digital technologies, data science and machine learning, and AI filmmaking. 

Currently Julia explores the opportunities arising from the latest Generative AI technologies and enjoys the creative side of it. Her short AI films won the “Best AI Visuals” and “Best AI Music” awards at the AI International Film Festival in September 2025 in Los Angeles, and the bronze award for the “Best AI music video” at the Seoul International Film Festival in December 2025 in South Korea.  

Professionally, she is a management consultant, project, programme and change manager, media producer/director with 20 years of experience in financial services industry (operations and consulting) and 15+ years of experience in media/video production industry. She has masters in Banking and Finance, and she is a qualified Management Accountant (CIMA).

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Reviews

4.3

180 ratings on Udemy

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By Biljana Crnogaca on 2/17/2026

Extremely insightful course not only for product managers but anyone looking to understand how to build a sustainable product. Interviews with fashion brands were quite informative and practical.

By Katja Goebel on 2/2/2026

I am not a product manager but I work as a solution architect for software company, so I felt it was also relevant for me. I particularly enjoyed breadth and detail of the theory as well as the interviews with the three guests as it added a lot of impact for a sustainability newbe like myself.

By Ирина Миронова on 1/11/2026

Отличная постановка вопроса и контекстуализация. Этот курс просто открывает глаза на современные бизнес-практики и то, как они со относятся с концепциями Sustainability и ESG. Открытие для меня: как принципы ESG создают value для бизнеса (вместо того чтобы быть частью категории костов).

By Evgenia Vinogradova on 12/29/2025

Sustainability as a core driver, not a side project. As a trained Climate Protection Manager currently working on building a sustainable brand, I found this course incredibly relevant. I particularly appreciated the focus on making the sustainable approach the core of the brand rather than just a 'nice-to-have' side initiative. The course delivers fresh perspectives on how to operationalize sustainability strategies, ensuring they serve as the foundation for commercial success. It bridges the gap between strategy and execution, offering practical tools to embed these principles directly into the product lifecycle. A fantastic resource for anyone looking to truly align impact with innovation.

By Pavel Langer on 12/25/2025

An inspiring course for learning how to incorporate sustainability and ethics into all phases of product creation and product management both in the physical and digital domains. The instructor and the invited guests are very clear and engaging, and the material is on topic and very relevant.

By Karina Godber on 12/23/2025

Excellent course for product managers focussed on embedding sustainability and ESG

By Irina Klokova on 12/19/2025

Interesting and to the point!

By Irina on 12/19/2025

A highly relevant course for product managers, offering practical ways to integrate sustainability into strategy, tools, and delivery, and showing how ESG can move from compliance to a real driver of innovation and value.

By Dhanapal D on 7/22/2026

By Thejashree S on 7/22/2026

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Overall Score : 86 / 100