Winning Strategies in Corporate Sustainability & ESG [2026] (Udemy.com)

Learn how to lead ESG strategy (with just one course) from materiality analysis to measurable impact: integrating the SDGs and circular economy principles into core business strategy, sustainable business models, and stakeholder engagement for real-world corporate sustainability application.

This course gives you step-by-step, practical training to strategically manage ESG risks and opportunities, create long-term value, and lead the transformation of the current business model into a sustainable business model innovation through a self-paced, hands-on online experience.

Stakeholders increasingly judge companies by their contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals and their commitment to addressing challenges such as climate change, biodiversity loss, resource depletion, and social inequality when making decisions. Climate and nature-related risk can disrupt supply chains and market demand at scale. It is a big business risk in this century. Integrating SDGs and circular economy practices into core business strategies is one of the highest-leverage ESG moves a company can make, and a genuine win-win strategy in ESG.

How this course is structured

You'll work through workbook exercises to build a real business case, live role-plays to practice strategic ESG decision-making, downloadable resources after every session, and short interactive video lessons throughout. This is a comprehensive course design that covers a full range of strategic planning with practical applications to build problem-solving skills to drive Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) innovation and corporate sustainability.

What you'll master:

ESG and Scaling Business Impact

• Apply new business success criteria

• Build organizational purpose by revisiting vision, mission, and purpose

• Integrate SDGs into ESG strategy for value creation

ESG and Value Creation

• Conduct materiality assessments and stakeholder analysis

• Design and manage stakeholder engagement strategies

Circular Economy and Circularity

• Apply systems thinking and circularity principles

• Conduct circularity analysis and design waste management approaches

• Develop circular supply chain strategies

Sustainable Business Models

• Design sustainable business model innovation

• Integrate SDGs and circularity strategy into business model innovation

Measuring Corporate Sustainability

• Evaluate circularity and measure sustainability performance with KPIs

• Apply the sustainability balanced scorecard methodology

• Assess ESG performance

Why this course is different

This course isn't a box-checking overview of ESG concepts. You'll build new skills and go beyond a traditional course. You'll integrate SDGs and circularity principles across the business model from stakeholder value proposition through value creation, delivery, and capture using vital frameworks, tools and methods. You'll apply them directly to real business scenarios. Most importantly, you will gain hands-on experience on when and how to use this approach to integrate SDGs and circularity principles into ESG strategy and business models strategically, track and report impact. Hence, this course further strengthens your efforts to become a sustainability leader and supports your career growth.

About your instructor

With over 20 years as a research consultant, I have learned how to tackle real-world challenges like climate risk and resource depletion, with market systems development (value chains and strategic planning) across multiple countries. In the past period, I have delivered hundreds of in-house training sessions for professionals to build skills. This experience, combined with 5 years as an instructor, I've helped over 20,000 learners build practical ESG and corporate sustainability skills to improve their lives via online learning.

Enroll today for immediate access to 5+ hours of video lectures, 26 downloadable resources, and a certificate you can add directly to your LinkedIn profile. Start building the ESG strategy skillset that will prepare you to lead corporate sustainability in your organization. I am here to help you and see you inside the course. Let’s get started.

In this course, all Role Plays were built manually using Udemy's AI-powered Roleplay feature.