How to build momentum across organisations

Sustainability upskilling:

Natural Capital Symposium
Fisher Conference Center
Stanford University

Welcome to discover and experience a training that is spreading to decision makers across leading investors and banks in the Nordics.

Context

Biosphere Intelligence will share a recently developed course that makes explicit the link between global scale ecological degradation and the ways in which businesses will be impacted across industries. A new module, focused on Natural Capital, is currently under development. 

The session will provide perspectives on:

  • Upskilling/capacity development for organizations to reshape existing operations so they can face new risks from climate change and its impacts on natural capital

  • Concepts and approaches to understand the critical linkages between natural capital, risk and competitiveness in today's world

  • Pathways to integrate this knowledge into decision-making at multiple levels within organizations

Agenda

The session will cover 3 blocks:

The Concept: How to make business decision makers engage.
We share:

  • Our “sales deck” and engagement process

  • Our learning formula, tailored for busy executives

  • The sustainability skills pyramid: nailing content relevance

Demo of the training, centered around three main blocks:

  • The big picture from the last 20 years of frontier science (including what everyone will be running on/what you will read in the newspaper in a few years)

  • Synthesis of the current mobilisation for the transition (introducing a systems perspective to read change more accurately)

  • Concretely what this means for business (incl. strategic view on upcoming industry disruptions)

Open Q&A. Focus: how could this concept bring value in the broader sustainability transition?

About the speakers:

Gustaf and Peder Folke have spent a combined 20 years in tier 1 strategy consulting (McKinsey/Material Economics, BCG) and in senior business management. Having grown up with leading sustainability academics, they are in a unique position to bridge communication challenges between academia and the private sector.

SEB (major Nordic bank): Hans Beyer (CSO) stating "This is far better than anything else I’ve seen on the market." and "The training is a must do, we are running it with all our customer-facing staff."

Reference customers:

EQT (global investor): Feedback score 4.9 out of 5 in rating from participants that have done the training; now planning a broader roll out.