We're committed to helping businesses thrive in the evolving field of sustainable practice. Through our dynamic partnership with Grant Thornton, we offer a range of industry-driven programmes designed to equip leaders and professionals with the skills, knowledge, and networks to create meaningful and lasting impact.
We offer tailored strategies to help businesses navigate sustainability challenges and seize emerging opportunities, with customised programmes ranging from seven days to 12 months.
Sustainability is now essential for futureproofing any organisation. As climate change, ethical responsibility and corporate accountability increasingly shape the way businesses operate, companies must adapt to remain resilient and competitive.
These 12-week modules allow businesses to study one of five in-depth sustainability topics. Each module is designed to equip learners with the knowledge and tools to address real-world sustainability challenges, providing valuable insights that can drive positive change in their organisation.
This apprenticeship empowers the next generation of leaders to embed sustainable practices across business operations. With a digital-first approach, the programme combines practical experience with expertise in environmental stewardship, social responsibility and economic sustainability. Apprentices learn how to tackle challenge like climate change and resource efficiency while driving impactful ESG strategies, stakeholder engagement and regulatory compliance.
This half-day masterclass helps leaders integrate sustainability into strategy by understanding regulatory trends, exploring environmental, social, and governance (ESG) value creation, and crafting actionable next steps for embedding sustainability across organisational processes.
This two-day programme equips executives with the ability to navigate regulatory landscapes and drive environmental social governance (ESG)-focussed change. Guided by experts, participants develop actionable plans, explore human resources' role in fostering change, and learn to measure performance using proven frameworks.
This programme is delivered by Teesside University International Business School and the Net Zero Industry Innovation Centre in partnership with Grant Thornton. This partnership combines Teesside's track-record for academic excellence with Grant Thornton's practical expertise and industry networks, providing apprentices with an innovative and future-facing learning experience.
Grant Thornton is a leading tax, audit and advisory firm, operating in 149 markets worldwide. It's UK member firm employs 5,000 people, led by 200 partners.
Committed to supporting clients with their talent and skills agenda, they are proud to have advised more than 2,500 organisations across talent development and advisory.
They have helped a range of clients with their ESG journeys across key areas including sustainability reporting, assurance, risk management, strategy and tax.
Participants explore topics including environmental stewardship, social responsibility, and economic sustainability, and learn how to develop and implement sustainable strategies within organisations.
Through our strategic partnership with Grant Thornton, learners benefit from an unrivalled educational experience. With each organisation contributing their respective expertise, our partnership harnesses a wealth of knowledge accumulated over many years in the field of sustainability.
Learners have access to the Net Zero Industry Innovation Centre, which is an innovative facility and key component of Tees Valley Combined Authority's regional innovation strategy, positioning Teesside firmly at the heart of the UK's green industrial revolution.
It is crucial that organisations upskill their employees to drive action on sustainability. Our short courses offer creative ways of instilling the necessary knowledge to move the agenda forward across the whole of the organisation. We've partnered with Teesside University to assure academic rigour and high quality education.
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Responsibility and sustainability are central to all of our activities, from our teaching and research to our engagement with the wider business community. Our future-facing learning framework encourages our students to become socially and ethically engaged and the new learning model developed by Teesside University International Business School has sustainability at its core.
We equip current and future leaders with the knowledge and skills needed to transform their organisations and wider society. To help us do this, we're proud to have joined a global network of Business Schools as a signatory of the United Nations' Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) initiative. These principles underpin our curricula to empower our students to become responsible leaders and to ensure a sustainable future for society.
The Net Zero Industry Innovation Centre is an innovative new £13.1m facility that focuses on research and knowledge exchange to address global environmental, social and governance (ESG) challenges, positioning Teesside at the forefront of the UK's green industrial revolution.
This industry-led facility collaborates with business partners and key organizations to develop new approaches to tackle the impact of waste and pollution on the environment. The Net Zero Industry Innovation Centre is committed to finding innovative solutions to global ESG challenges.
Net Zero Industry Innovation Centre
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