Green Leadership for Low Carbon Business Growth | ONE

Opportunity North East is delivering a new programme to support business leaders to successfully adapt to the low-carbon economy. The fully-funded programme focuses on business growth in the net-zero environment.

Consumers, customers, markets and investors increasingly expect businesses to meet net-zero criteria and demonstrate environmental sustainability in their operations and through their supply chains and distribution networks.

Participants should be business owners and senior managers in north east Scotland’s key industry sectors of digital, energy, food, drink and agriculture, life sciences and tourism.

Programme content

• Understanding low-carbon ethical investment and funding
• Supply chain and procurement management
• Aligning business practices to changing customer demands and expectations
• Community responsibilities linking business to community amenity and gain
• Developing workforce skills for a net-zero world
• Learning journeys and best practice visits

Outcomes

• Confidence to adapt to a fast-changing environment
• Innovation skills development and greater resilience to diversify business products and services
• Think differently, develop a global mindset, taking inspiration from other sectors and countries
• Access to peers across sectors for support in developing entrepreneurial leadership

Delivery

The programme comprises online cohort-based learning and one-to-one coaching, best-practice visits and learning journeys. It includes online coaching and development sessions delivered by Babson College, an international leader in entrepreneurship learning.

The programme starts in November 2021 and runs through to the end of March 2022.

Time commitment

60 hours over five months – 32 facilitated hours and 28 hours of self-learning

Further information and apply

This programme is now fully subscribed and no further applications are being accepted.

Green Leadership for Low Carbon Business Growth is led by Opportunity North East and funded by the Scottish Government’s North East Economic Recovery and Skills Fund (NEERSF). The delivery partners are Entrepreneurial Scotland working with Babson College (USA). Opportunity North East worked with Energy Transition Zone Ltd to identify energy sector participants.