Self-learner Resource: [The Spectrum] - Company-sponsored Self-Learner Access

About the Self-learner Resource

• This resource contains full details from the Corporate Sustainability Ambition Levels: [the Spectrum] resource, sliced into a 10-page PDF document.

• The Self-Learner resource is intended as an affordable option for those who wish to develop a grasp of the dynamics and dependencies of various ambition levels in Corporate Sustainability, for their own personal development or awareness building with peers.

• Upon purchasing access, you will receive an email with a hyperlink to download the PDF.

Resource Limitations

• This is a static PDF without the option of toggling (expanding and collapsing) content in order to zoom in to detail or zoom out to big picture. This means users may find it easiest to assimilate the insights on a large computer screen, and should expect scrolling up and down the document in the process of ascertaining the relationships covered in the Spectrum. 

• As such, this version is not very practical for use in high-stakes meetings with your stakeholders, where the Digital Resource will prove more user friendly.

• Unlike the DIgital Resource, the Self-learner Resource does not come with further guidance on how to deploy the insights in a company setting, against typical scenarios conducive for planning or revisiting organisational ambition levels.

About the Spectrum

• The Spectrum is a sense-making Tool that can be used for:

• Planning a roadmap towards engaging with corporate sustainability, including planning for adopting the Sustainability-as-the-World-Needs Agenda

• Diagnosing causes of lack of progress vis-a-vis corporate sustainability

• Recalibrating towards a more relevant ambition level, including when in the Big Trap of Sustainability-as-usual

• Awareness building

• The Spectrum captures the high level dynamics and dependencies inherent to each corporate sustainability ambition level:

• The guiding principles and objectives

• Their strategic and operational implications

• Their implications for shareholder value

• Requirements for internal stakeholder buy-in

• Prerequisites on the level of internal awareness that are necessary in order to adopt an ambition level

• Limitations of each approach

• Relevance of non-financial reporting instruments such as standards, frameworks and guidelines for each ambition level

• Learn more about the resource and its benefits for organisations and individuals in our short video here.

Price Tiers

The Self-learner resource is available in 3 equitable price tiers:

Tier 1 Self-Payer Access: This price tier is intended for:

• Self-payers earning in the Global North, except for those of limited financial means, who should opt for Tier 2 (rule of thumb: if you have savings, you are not of limited means)

Tier 2 Self-Payer Access: This price tier is intended for:

• Self-payers earning in the Global South 

• Self-payers earning in the Global North who are of limited means (rule of thumb: if you have savings, you are not of limited means).

Company-sponsored Self-learner Access

• For self-learners where the expense is covered by one’s employer or business, whether the purchase is made directly by the company is reimbursed later.

Licence and permitted use

This version of [the Spectrum] resource is intended for self-learners, such as for personal sense-making purposes and/or to deliver insights to one's current or future parent organisation (as employee, partner, owner…), in non-commercial contexts. 

The contents of this document, unless specifically otherwise attributed, are original and intellectual property of arkH3.

Sharing: Sharing the full document is not permitted. Further distributing any substantial parts of this document, which have not been made public by arkH3, is not permitted. If you would like to share this Resource with anyone, please direct them to arkh3.com/resources, where they will be able to purchase their own licence.

Adaptations: Under this licence, building on top of the insights generated from the contents of this document is permitted for non-commercial purposes, however such adaptations must be attributed as follows: Self-learner Resource: Corporate Sustainability Ambition Levels: [the Spectrum]. Version: 2.2 © 2024 by Alice Kalro, arkH3 is licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International

Commercial use: If you would like to re-use any of the contents of the slides for commercial purposes, please explore available licences for the full Digital Resource, or contact us.