SWoN Training Series
3-Month Acceleration Program towards Sustainability-as-the-World-Needs (SWoN)
Were you looking for our bite-sized training options instead?
What You’ve Been
Up Against
You see the gap and feel the frustration:
Attaining real-world sustainability outcomes (a liveable future and a just present for all) commands an immediate, radical systems change.
Yet much of our jobs amounts to protecting, growing and green-washing business-as-usual.
You want to step up and act for radical change - while still making a living.
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You’re tasked with nudging or green-washing the core business, without the mandate or authority to truly address its lack of sustainability.
You sense you’re wasting time while it’s “now or never”, and feel moral injury, frustration, rage.
You know a systems change is necessary for attaining real-world sustainability outcomes. But engaging and motivating the C-Suite & the Board to take on radical action has been proving hard.
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Your clients are preoccupied with compliance and public disclosures, but you know a systems change is necessary for attaining real-world sustainability outcomes.
You might lack the required arguments to advocate for radical, transformative action or feel uncertain about having the confidence, authority, or influence to challenge key decision-makers.
You might also find it challenging to navigate potential defensive or emotional responses, which can make these situations difficult to handle.
You feel torn between making a living and doing what the world needs.
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You’re increasingly aware of the polycrisis and its dire forecast for the world, and see the necessity of an authentic, swift, radical sustainability transformation. But you sense you don’t understand the issues well enough and/or do not have a toolkit to affect change within your organisation. The pressure to grow business-as-usual torments you with cognitive dissonance.
Read more about who the Series is intended for.
Our Offering
A highly outcome-oriented Training Series designed to upgrade your ability to show up to our global predicament: by learning to gain access to, influence and begin mobilising C-Suites and Boards towards radical transformation and co-orchestration of a systems change.
Read more about our theory of change.
Attending the 3-Month Acceleration Program for SWoN leaves you better equipped to do what the world needs - working towards a radical systems change - starting from your current position. In doing so, it may help you (re)claim your agency and strengthen a sense of integrity - without waiting for a dream green job to come true.
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High level insights, practical tools, social skills and emotional readiness necessary to launch 5 interventions for mobilising business leaders towards an authentic sustainability transformation and taking on Corporate Systemic Leadership.
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It combines alignment science, ethics, a systemic perspective & strategic business acumen to draw a much more realistic - and urgent - picture of future scenarios and the rapidly closing window of opportunity for us to turn things around, providing a foundation for a grounded assessment of which approaches to transformation may be viable, and which not. This sets us apart from most training offerings in this space.
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Engaging learning on all 3 levels: Head (insights), Hands (tools, skills and practice) and Heart (emotional processing and personal growth);
Catering to folks in different places across the thinking-feeling Head-Heart continuum;
Offering live sessions in 2 time zones that span most of the globe, and multiple price tiers and scholarships to match different levels of privilege.
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A global community of professionals navigating similar challenges to you and committed to a shared goal, working towards the same theory of change. The SWoN Series offers an online environment for collaboration, knowledge sharing, resource pooling, mutual support and inspiration.
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Our team brings together a wealth of expertise across various disciplines and geographies.
With thought leadership in sustainable business strategy, as well as experience in climate law, business psychology and building purpose-driven enterprises, our SWoN Team members collectively offer what it takes to help translate SWoN into business reality.
Our global presence across continents encourages a broad spectrum of perspectives from which to engage with complex sustainability issues.
The Program’s key features:
Read more: How the Series Stands Apart?
A liveable future and wellbeing for all cannot be achieved without an immediate radical systems change, with specific urgent milestones attained by 2030, before mass-extinction outcomes are locked-in (become unavoidable).
Big Business CEOs and Board Members possess unique privileges and predispositions that enable them to play a leading and critical role in co-delivering this transformation. Even more so, without their active “Systemic Leadership”, attaining the necessary 2030 milestones may not be at all feasible.
Co-delivering a systems change and the 2030 milestones is in fact a matter of business imperative and fiduciary duty - as future conditions conducive to shareholder value retention fully depend on this swift transformation.
Once provided with relevant insights and information flows, Big Business CEOs and Board Members will recognise this business imperative and form a Cohort of First-Movers, to begin actively intervening in the system, towards the 2030 milestones, in multi-stakeholder alliances with other actors.
These relevant insights and information flows therefore play the role of building a bridge across paradigms - enabling the potential to transcend paradigms.
Our Theory of Change
Why Now?
What time is it on the clock of the World?
6 out of our 9 planetary boundaries have been breached, and we are in the danger zone (possibly 8 of 9 measured - pending peer review of latest research).
We are in ecological overshoot, which is accelerating the Sixth Mass Extinction event. These combine to create an evolutionary bottleneck through which all of life on Earth, including humans, needs to squeeze, just as our Holocene Epoch living conditions - relatively stable for almost 12,000 years - are disrupted by more frequent extreme weather events, shifting climate, and pollution, during what is now called the Anthropocene Epoch.
At the same time, of the 12 social foundations (such as such as Health, Food, Social Equity, or Education), barely any country has been safeguarding all, and our current economic model existentially depends on systemic exploitation of supply chain workers and other underpaid groups, predominantly in the Global South.
No plausible future scenario can decouple GDP growth from environmental destruction or by-pass the shrinking of the global economy within the limits of the planetary boundaries - whether by design or disastrous negative feedback loops.
No morally acceptable future scenario can perpetuate current inequity and injustice.
In order to secure a liveable future and a just present, science clearly states we need an immediate, radical systems change. Yet that is not what mainstream consultancies and sustainability functions are working towards - not anywhere near.
If not now, when?