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Sustainability
Academy
Education is the key enabler to meeting sustainability
goals say global CEOs. How can organizations take
practical steps to develop a sustainability mindset
amongst its current and future managers?
Today’s CEOs are more committed than ever to concerns, to minimize risks and, more positively,
creating a sustainable business. A recent study by to generate significant business opportunities.
the United Nations Global Compact and Accenture
showed that, among 766 global CEOs, ninety-six To help address the need to educate employees
percent believed sustainability issues should be around the importance and impact of sustain-
fully integrated into the strategy and operations ability, Accenture has developed an online learning
of a company. The burning issue is how to better solution called the Sustainability Academy. This
incorporate sustainability into daily practice. learning platform enables a company’s workforce
to develop the knowledge foundation required to
Management on all levels needs to acknowledge “live and breathe” the company’s strategy for sus-
that awareness of sustainability issues helps exec- tainability, while providing the skills to take action.
utives to better understand societal needs and

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What makes the Sustainability Academy different?
Sustainability Academy provides a unique offering to address the sustainability talent challenge:
Challenges: Sustainability Academy:
Keeping up with
World-class instruction and research from leading academic and industry experts.
best practices
Online learning eliminates barriers to global training delivery, while being a moreenvironmentally friendly ap-
Global and
proach to training.
enterprise reach
Speed to Education is provided on a “right time” basis rather than as one-time events. New employees rapidly begin
competence development of knowledge and skill.
Continuous The Sustainability Academy’s content team develops new courses, keeping up with strategies, trends, and
improvement best practice.
Reduced cost Leverages technology delivery methods to significantly reduce training delivery costs, enabling access to
of delivery training across the entire organization.
Flexibility Access to content can be tailored to the student’s training needs and current competencies.
Sustainability
Achieves corporate sustainability targets by delivering low carbon personal training.
in practice

3. w Through the Sustainability Academy, your people gain a better
understanding of sustainability and equip themselves with the
skills required to drive innovation, efficiencies and cost savings:
Online Courses The Sustainability Academy offers dozens of online courses in all areas
of sustainability, such as Economic Impact of Corporate Sustainability,
Partnering for Optimal Sustainability, and Water: This Century’s Oil. New
courses are released each month!
Live Webinars Frequent live webinars are scheduled, giving you the opportunity to listen to
and interact with industry experts.
eKnowledge The eKnowledge contains hundreds of white papers and web articles,
updated frequently to provide the latest thinking on key sustainability topics.
Visit www.SustainabilityAcademy.com for more information.

4. w A Unique Offering Through adopting the Accenture Sustainability
Academy, organizations can create a more
Group in the Netherlands-enabling the
Sustainability Academy to operate in a
Today’s organizations need flexible, cost-
proficient and more consistently trained climate neutral fashion.
effective and sustainable solutions to their
global workforce that is able to embrace
learning challenges. The Sustainability
and execute the company’s sustainability
Academy addresses this need by offering
strategy. This also creates added benefits in
its learning fully online, while using a full
terms of workforce recruitment, development Further Information
range of approaches to learning delivery. Visit www.sustainabilityacademy.com for
and retention.
more information about how this unique
An extensive library of self-paced courses learning solution can best support you on
Why? Because employees increasingly want
enables students to learn at a time and in your journey to high performance. Or contact
to work for organizations that run their busi-
a place that best fits their schedules. Many Patricia Terra at patricia.b.terra@accenture.
nesses in a sustainable way, and show deep
programs are offered through inter-active com for online demos or to arrange a virtual
commitment this by investing in their people.
live webinars, and recordings of each
tour.
session are available for playback online
at a student’s convenience.
Sustainability Academy
Furthermore, the eKnowledge library supports and the Environment
the efforts of informal learners by providing
Online learning consumes less energy and
fast and easy access to the latest online
produces fewer CO2 emissions per student
sustainability articles and white papers.
than conventional face-to-face courses. In
addition, the Sustainability Academy limits
The available courses cover a range of
greenhouse gas emissions as much as
sustainability topics and proficiency lev-
possible, for example by working in a
els, allowing the student to increase
virtual, paperless office, working on laptops
their competence in the studied subject
as opposed to desktop computers and
through a series of related courses. By
traveling only when absolutely necessary.
offering such a blended approach to Copyright © 2010 Accenture
learning, the Accenture Sustainability All rights reserved.
Any remaining emissions are tracked and
Academy provides the optimal learning
compensated for through two different Accenture, its logo, and
experience for each student.
organizations-The Conservation Fund in High Performance Delivered
the United States and Climate Neutral are trademarks of Accenture.