Sustainable Enterprise Executive Education & Development (SEED)
PROGRAM OVERVIEW
Gain practical strategies to optimize resources and design impactful sustainability and ESG (environmental, social, and governance) programs that drive innovation, boost productivity, strengthen customer loyalty and employee engagement, and expand opportunities for profitability. Discover your leadership style and become a catalyst for sustainable change aligned with your core values.
You will come away with tangible tools to drive growth, enhance reputation, reduce risks, and cut costs by applying a sustainable enterprise lens.
Unlike most executive-level programs of its kind, SEED combines the leadership expertise of faculty from the highly-ranked TikTok成人版 School of Business with the technical knowledge of professors in TikTok成人版鈥檚 first-of-its-kind Sustainable Engineering program. You will learn from those who see the sustainability landscape from multiple perspectives. On completion, you have a holistic view, the confidence to implement solutions, and a strategic advantage to thrive in today鈥檚 competitive environment.
WHO SHOULD ENROLL
Business Leaders
This program will benefit executives in significant leadership roles who are looking to enhance awareness and understanding of sustainability issues, and their impact on the organization. Directors, senior managers, and vice presidents with 5-10 years of work experience will come away from each course with insights to develop sustainable strategies.
Technical Professionals
Mid-level professionals in technical and sustainability-focused roles who wish to strengthen their business acumen around this topic with the goal of creating value for their organization, will benefit from this program. Each course is designed to provide you with tangible takeaways and leadership skills to communicate with purpose in a rapidly changing environment.
Job Functions
Mid-level sustainability professionals and those in leadership positions including:
- Engineering
- Finance
- Marketing
- Operations
- Procurement
- Research and development
- Strategy
- Supply chain
KEY PROGRAM TAKEAWAYS
Apply real-world experiences to develop sustainable solutions that address today鈥檚 business challenges. With participants across various sectors, the SEED program is designed to be interactive with built-in networking opportunities to connect with peers.
Strengthen Business Strategy
Learn to maximize resources to ensure funding for sustainability projects and ramp up your organization鈥檚 ESG programs purposefully. Students who complete the certificate will begin to develop a management action plan template to take back to their organization.
Develop a Sustainable Lens
Gain a competitive advantage by viewing four key business drivers through a sustainable lens: drive growth, enhance brand, cut costs and reduce risks. Develop a whole systems perspective to appreciate the interdependencies of social, technological, economic, environmental and political factors.
Advance your Leadership
Explore your values and how they align with your leadership style and organization鈥檚 sustainability strategy. Discover how to be a leader who ignites sustainable change in communities where they work and live.
COURSES AND DESCRIPTIONS
Consisting of a five mini-courses, this online program offers the flexibility to complete the entire series and earn a certificate or take courses individually depending on your professional development goals.
This program is non-credit, pass/fail. Upon successful completion of all five mini-courses, participants will receive a Certificate in Sustainable Value Creation and 3.75 CEUs (each individual course is equal to 0.75 CEUs).
Explore sustainability through the lens of global megatrends, emerging value drivers, and their real-world business impacts. Learn how to develop effective sustainability strategies, strengthen the business case for sustainable practices, and uncover opportunities to create long-term value for your organization. This course equips you with the tools to align sustainability with core business objectives and drive meaningful, measurable impact.
Apply Systems Thinking to tackle key sustainability issues and examine frameworks for sustainable development and the circular economy. Develop a systems mindset using mapping tools and hands-on practice: zooming-out to examining boundary spanning interconnections and zooming-in to see the unique contexts in your business. This course equips leaders with broader perspectives and a systems mindset to recognize common sustainability traps and blunders and prepares them to intervene and create new possibilities and action plans.
Build supply chain systems that embrace circular economy principles to reduce environmental impact, maximize resource efficiency, reinforce social responsibility and support long-term sustainability. Learn proven strategies for designing resilient value chains鈥攁nd how to apply them to your organization to create lasting, sustainable value.
Making the sustainable investment case starts with high quality data reporting the firm鈥檚 performance in executing its strategy using best-fit reporting frameworks. You will improve your skill in reporting and analyzing your own firm鈥檚 sustainability performance by applying perspectives internally (those reporting sustainability performance), and externally (those outside the firm), integrating material environmental, social, and governance factors to improve investment decisions.
Explore how your personal leadership style and core values can become powerful drivers of sustainability transformation across your organization. This course guides you in assessing your organization鈥檚 current sustainability maturity, envisioning future scenarios, and co-creating a strategic roadmap for meaningful, enterprise-wide change. Through interactive sessions, guest speakers, and conversations with program alumni, you鈥檒l deepen your understanding of leadership through the lens of the Inner Development Goals鈥攍earning how to inspire others to activate their own purpose and lead change at every level.
HOW IT WORKS
Each mini-course in the five-part series meets three times over a period of two聽weeks for two and a half hours per session. Sessions are held on Wednesday evenings at 6:00 PM EST. Participants will invest approximately 2-5 hours per week outside of class sessions on pre-readings and active reflections.
Format
100% Online
Model
Live, Instructor Led
Cost per course
$1049
FLEXIBLE COURSE OPTIONS
Individual Courses
Take courses in the series individually depending on your professional development areas of focus
$1049 per course
OR
Earn a Certificate
Complete all five mini-courses in the series and earn a certificate in 鈥淪ustainable Value Creation鈥�
$4725 per package (10% Discount)
Custom Programs
Interested in developing a custom program for your organization, contact Program Director, Victoria Minerva, for more information. Check out an article on our latest custom program with Boeing.
PROGRAM REGISTRATION
Price per course is $1049. Attendees who wish to register for the entire series in advance will receive a package rate of $4725 (a savings of more than $500 over registering for each individual course) and earn a certificate in Sustainable Value Creation. Each session is held from 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM EST.
DATES AND DEADLINES
Course
Understanding Sustainability & Making its Business Case
Spring 2025 Series
Session Dates: 3/5, 3/12, 3/19
Registration Deadline: 2/19
Fall 2025 Series
Session Dates: 9/3, 9/10, 9/17
Registration Deadline: 8/20
Course
Tackling Sustainability Frameworks with a Systems Mindset
Spring 2025 Series
Session Dates: 3/26, 4/2, 4/9
Registration Deadline: 3/19
Fall 2025 Series
Session Dates: 9/24, 10/1, 10/8
Registration Deadline: 9/17
Course
Designing Resilient Value Chains
Spring 2025 Series
Session Dates: 4/16, 4/23, 4/30
Registration Deadline: 4/9
Fall 2025 Series
Session Dates: 10/15, 10/22, 10/29
Registration Deadline: 10/8
Course
Developing ESG Metrics and Reporting & Influencing the Investor
Spring 2025 Series
Session Dates: 5/7, 5/14, 5/21
Registration Deadline: 4/30
Fall 2025 Series
Session Dates: 11/5, 11/12, 11/19
Registration Deadline: 10/29
Course
Leaders as Drivers for Sustainability Engagement & Enterprise Transformation
Spring 2025 Series
Session Dates: 5/28, 6/4, 6/11
Registration Deadline: 5/21
Fall 2025 Series
Session Dates: 11/25*, 12/3, 12/10
*(Tues for Thanksgiving on 27)
Registration Deadline: 11/19
INDUSTRY PERSPECTIVES
鈥淚 came into the program without a lot of background on sustainability, so it has been very helpful for me in providing some groundwork and baseline knowledge of these important topics.鈥� - Brian Bentrim, VP, Process Innovation at PennEngineering
鈥淭he program elevated our cohort of cross-functional leaders鈥� knowledge around sustainability so they could apply these learnings back to their daily work.鈥�
- Sheila Remes, Vice President of Environmental Sustainability at The Boeing Company
鈥淎 valuable aspect of this program is interacting with peer companies. Despite the differences in our products and services, we have similar business challenges and opportunities when it comes to sustainability.鈥� - Mike Brawley, President & CEO at Kingsbury, Inc.
MEET OUR FACULTY
Kathleen Iacocca, PhD
Expertise: Supply Chain & Business Analytics
Dr. Iacocca is an Associate Professor of Management and Operations at the TikTok成人版 School of Business with her PhD in supply chain management. She has taught courses such as Introduction to Business Analytics, Advanced Analytics, Supply Chain Management, Operations Management and Management Science. Her research includes applications of these topics in the healthcare industry and optimization across the supply chain. Dr. Iacocca鈥檚 work has been featured in many notable business publications including the International Journal of Production Research and Socio-Economic Planning Sciences.
Kelsea Ballantyne, MBA, MS
Expertise: Sustainability, Manufacturing and Operations Management, Transformational Leadership, Social and Environmental Intraprenuership and Entrepreneurship, Design Thinking
Ballantyne draws on her diverse experiences running Social Enterprises in Kolkata, India, coordinating Africa's representation at CoP 17 - 18, and leading corporate-wide culture change across The Boeing Company. Throughout these experiences she has leaned on her passion to recognize and bring out the light and wholeness in all people, situations, and organizations. She has 20 years of experience leading organizations small and large through behavior change and transformation to make the world a more sustainable place.
William Lorenz, MBA
Expertise: Sustainability Business & Leadership
Lorenz has more than 45 years of experience in the field of sustainable engineering. He previously worked for the Sun Oil Company, first in the refineries and then at the corporate level. During his tenure, he established new air, water, hazardous waste and audit programs that coincided with the development and implementation of the nation鈥檚 first sets of federal legislation. In 1984, Lorenz cofounded Environmental Resources Management and established the company's management consulting practice.
Therese DeVries Narzikul, 鈥�04 MBA, MSN, CRNP, EdD
Expertise: Systems Thinking & Transformational Systems Thinking & Transformational Leadership
Narzikul is a Professor of Practice at the College of Professional Studies teaching courses in systems thinking and leadership. She is also CEO of APN Strategies, a healthcare consulting and executive coaching company, where she helps clients use complexity to their advantage. She has more than 20 years as a strategic leader in both the payer and provider sectors of healthcare systems as well as in the non-profit, social enterprise space. In the governmental sector, Narzikul has worked to design new approaches that expose interdependencies with a commitment to improving outcomes.
Graham Sinclair, 鈥�04 MBA
Expertise: Expertise: Sustainable Investment and Strategy Development
Sinclair is a sustainable investment strategist, whose experience includes responsible investment strategy at Parametric with US$340 billion in assests under management. Previously he ran a sustainable investment advisory boutique designing sustainable investment theses at the intersection of investment, strategy and sustainability. Client engagements in the global institutional investment ecosystem included AIG Global Investors Group, the UN Environment Programme for the Principles for Responsible Investment, the Gates Foundation, International Finance Corporation, Istanbul Stock Exchange, the China Africa Development Fund, and The John Templeton Foundation. Sinclair has professional certifications in investment and sustainability, teaches at Harvard Extension School and hosts the .
CONTACT PROGRAM DIRECTOR
Victoria Minerva, 鈥�13 MSSE, 鈥�17 MBA
Director, Sustainable Enterprise Executive Education & Development (SEED) program
Passionate about making an impact in the field of sustainability , Minerva is excited to manage the SEED program which will help experienced professionals create value in their organizations by designing and incorporating sustainability practices into their business environments.
For more information or questions, please contact: victoria.minerva@villanova.edu
