Generative AI Practical Guide for Business & Sustainability (Udemy.com)
Productivity, GenAI Tools, LLMs, Prompt Engineering, Automation, Gen AI Agents, Agentic AI, case studies, climate, ESG
Created by: Julia Mariasova
Last updated July 2025
What you will learn
- Generative AI definitions and key technological breakthroughs that made it possible
- GenAI tools and mini tutorials for everything you need for your work and maybe more
- Tutorial on Microsoft365 Copilot
- What's the hype about AI agents and Agentic AI
- Key decisions to make when choosing GenAI enterprise solutions
- GenAI applications and case studies in climate and sustainability
- Ethical and environmental considerations of GenAI
- Impact of GenAI on the required skillset across all domains
- How to get started with GenAI and keep up-to-date
How it compares
Against the other 1,210 rated Udemy courses in Business on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.3 out of 5higher than 15% of them
- Reviews469#674 of 1,211 by number of reviews
- Length4.7 hourslonger than 68% of them
- Last updatedJuly 2025earlier than 52% of them
Course Description
Generative AI (or GenAI) refers to a subset of artificial intelligence that creates new content—such as text, images, audio, video, or code—based on patterns learned from large datasets. These technologies provide a lot of new opportunities both for personal productivity and for businesses. In corporate and business environments, Generative AI is being leveraged for various tasks including automating workflows, generating business insights, enriching and validating data, enhancing customer service, managing risks, and accelerating innovation. This course will explore how professionals can tap into these advanced capabilities, especially in the space of climate and sustainability.
This is another course in my series "Technology for non-technical people", so this is not a technical course and no coding is involved. It is suitable for anyone who wants to understand the technology capabilities beyond simple queries in ChatGPT, how GenAI is being integrated in business operations, and how it is changing the way we work.
In this course you will learn the basic concepts and definitions related to Generative AI. We will give you an overview of GenAI tools and explain/show how they are used not only for fun, but professionally – to improve your productivity, automate things and enhance the quality of your work. The course will explain the hype around Gen AI agents and Agentic AI. We will cover the choices the companies should make when choosing an enterprise solution. The course provides a range of case studies of GenAI applications in climate and sustainability across various industries. And we will finish the course discussing environmental and ethical considerations of using GenAI. We will talk about future trends and why GenAI is becoming one of the most demanded skills for employment, and how you can get started with GenAI.
We also invited a number of fantastic great guest speakers for this course:
1) Elia Kabanov - a science writer focussing on sustainability and Artificial Intelligence. Elia is brilliant in explaining complex technical subjects in simple terms and has a strong interest both in sustainability and AI. He is co-hosting this courses with me.
2) Alex Vakhitov - an AI and Software architect with extensive experience as a Chief Technology Officer, who specialises in the digital transformation of the energy sector. He will bring the technology perspective to our course and will talk about his experience of using GenAI in his work.
3) Olga Isakova - the AI Business implementations expert and Product Manager responsible for Claranet’s Miscrosoft Co-pilot services, which is a great example of GenAI tools. Olga will show us how to use Copilot to boost productivity, automate processes, secure and analyse data. Given that many companies use Microsoft products, this is an essential tool for all sustainability professionals.
Hope you will enjoy our course!
Sincerely yours,
Julia Mariasova and the team
This course is part of the "CLIMATE CHANGE FOR PROFESSIONALS" series which consist of the following 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
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.
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Instructor Details
- 4.3 Rating
469 Reviews
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
By Pavol Keckes on 3/31/2026
The course showed me wide range of capabilities of AI about which I didn´t have any clue. I learned about much more models and tools I could think of and now I know there´s not only ChatGPT or Gemini but much more tools which specialize on particular tasks. The course was very helpfull for me.
By Ganesh Sankaran on 3/4/2026
Good referencer on GenAI and Sustainability exploration using GenAI
By Lekha Menon on 2/13/2026
No new insights in terms of sustainability
By Randal T. Cole on 10/14/2025
Evaluating this course for company use. I found it very useful as an introduction to a wide variety of GenAI tools and techniques. The use cases were good, but the experience could be improved with specific hands-on (low-code/ prompt-based) illustrations of GenAI use for analyses and/ or graphics generation. Overall, very good course.
By Marie-Anne Geurden on 10/2/2025
I enjoy the fact that the course is for people new to AI and who are in corporate business with an interest in sustainability. The pace is steady and comfortable...it doesn't feel rushed and one feels like one can take it all in. It looks to be a very valuable course. Its engaging and exciting.
By Ruchita Verma on 8/16/2025
It was a very informative course to begin with and if you are a person with a little technical background it is a perfect one for you to understand the various Gen AI tools and their usability. That being said, even for non-technical people this course would be very helpful in my opinion.
By Prosenjit Das on 8/15/2025
This is an in detail, "unbiased", course which helped to understand the most important thing, "ethics" in AI field. Thank you.
By Enamul Haque on 8/3/2025
Good instructor, her teaching ideas is very good and well organised.
By Anastasia IVANOVA on 7/16/2025
This course is an excellent starting point for anyone curious about Generative AI and its real-world applications. It offers a clear and engaging overview of GenAI fundamentals, tools, and use cases—not just for fun, but for boosting productivity and enhancing professional work.
By Irina on 7/10/2025
I really enjoyed this course — the content is engaging and even the more technical concepts are explained in simple language that’s easy to follow. I also picked up two super useful tools for my own academic teaching: Gamma App for dynamic presentations and NotebookLM to support research work. Thank you!
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Overall Score : 86 / 100








