Business Positive

Equip your leadership team with the knowledge and skills to drive sustainability forward. Our Continuing Professional Development (CPD) and Executive Education programmes offer comprehensive training on sustainability leadership, enabling your executives to navigate complex sustainability challenges, integrate sustainable practices, and lead with purpose in an evolving business landscape.

In a fast-changing sustainability landscape, it can be difficult to know how to achieve your long-term sustainability goals. Our specialists can support you with comprehensive sustainability audits that are tailored to your needs – whether that involves mapping your biodiversity impacts and Scope 3 emissions or identifying skills gaps and opportunities for green growth. 

We can help ensure your workforce possesses the skills for a green future. Our skills analysis assesses your organisation’s capabilities, identifies skill gaps, and recommends training and development programmes to align your workforce with emerging sustainability demands. Nurturing a skilled and adaptable workforce drives innovation, maintains competitiveness, and future-proofs your business, as well as providing the opportunity to enhance collaboration.

Uncover hidden sustainability risks and opportunities within your supply chain. Our consultants can provide thorough analysis, identifying areas for improvement, resource optimisation, and carbon footprint reduction. By optimising your supply chain, you can enhance efficiency, minimize environmental impacts, and build resilience in an increasingly sustainable-conscious market.

Embrace the circular economy by designing products for resource efficiency and longevity. Our circular economy experts can guide you in incorporating circular design principles, enabling easier repair, reuse, and recycling. Embracing circularity minimizes waste, conserves resources, and creates a more sustainable product portfolio.

While many businesses have taken steps to reduce their Scope 1 and 2 emissions, tackling Scope 3 – the emissions that occur outside of an organisation’s direct control – is a more complex challenge. At the University of Exeter, though, our extensive expertise and environmental datasets make us uniquely well-placed to simplify the process of measuring and reducing Scope 3 emissions, providing you with a clear picture of where reductions are most needed.

Doughnut Economics – the economic model that focuses on using resources within the planet’s social and ecological boundaries – has a key role to play for businesses aiming to thrive in a green, fair future. Our experts provide guidance on embracing this approach in your decision-making, helping you to create regenerative and inclusive business models that align with sustainable development goals and foster long-term resilience.

Transform your sustainability strategy with our expertise in environmental systems thinking. Our approach integrates complex environmental interactions – such as closed-loop system design and circular economy principles – into your business planning and leadership strategy, making it easier to enhance resource efficiency, reduce waste, and improve resilience.