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ESG and Sustainability Analytics

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ESG and Sustainability Analytics

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5 hours to complete
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Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.
Advanced level

Recommended experience

5 hours to complete
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Design green-operations playbooks that convert ESG insights into process changes and track implementation.

  • Measure carbon-reduction impact using updated dashboards and present findings to leadership.

  • Build balanced scorecards blending financial, ESG, and culture KPIs with automated data feeds.

  • Analyze quarterly results to isolate purpose-linked KPIs driving business performance.

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12 assignments¹

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There are 6 modules in this course

ESG commitments without operational changes are just marketing. This module teaches you to translate sustainability data into specific, actionable process improvements that teams can implement immediately and track through sprint reviews.

What's included

3 videos1 reading2 assignments

A playbook succeeds only if it produces measurable results. This module teaches you to measure carbon-reduction impact using dashboard comparisons, calculate meaningful deltas, and present findings to operations leadership with recommendations for continuation or adjustment.

What's included

2 videos1 reading3 assignments

Traditional scorecards track financial performance. Purpose-driven organizations need scorecards that also track sustainability and culture outcomes. This module teaches you to design integrated scorecards that give leadership a complete view of organizational health.

What's included

3 videos1 reading1 assignment1 ungraded lab

Scorecards show what's happening; correlation analysis shows what matters. This module teaches you to identify which purpose-linked KPIs actually predict or drive financial performance—giving you evidence to defend sustainability investments.

What's included

2 videos2 readings3 assignments

You've learned to build culture surveys, inclusion dashboards, and sentiment analysis systems. This module teaches you to use generative AI strategically across all these people analytics tasks—accelerating analysis, generating intervention hypotheses, and drafting executive communications while maintaining the human judgment essential for sensitive people data.

What's included

3 videos1 reading2 assignments

Integrate everything you've learned about ESG and sustainability analytics into a portfolio-ready sustainability dashboard. You'll create a comprehensive performance dashboard that blends operational sustainability metrics with financial outcomes, demonstrates measurable carbon-reduction impact, and connects ESG initiatives to business value—documenting your approach in a format you can present to executive stakeholders or use to advocate for sustainability investments.

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4 readings1 assignment

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