Workshops

Our workshops are usually 4 weeks long with weekly one-hour webinars plus other individual or online assignments. Paired with an interactive on-line classroom site, ISSP’s webinars offer access to current research and other professionals working in the field.  Participants should expect to spend 3-5 hours a week. The benefits of this are many:

Better for learning:

• You have access to the best experts in the business, no matter where you or they are located in the world;
• You can absorb the information over a month and return to the ISSP forums with real-world questions
• You have access to the instructor and co-learners for a month
• We cap enrollment at 30 for-credit students (and up to 20 more people can audit). You get individual attention from the instructors.

Better for the environment:

• You don't travel so you don't have the associated greenhouse gases
• Most materials are electronic so we're not printing out lots of handouts

Better for your budget:

• You save all the travel time and expenses
• Our classes are very affordable because we don't have to provide a classroom or fly in instructors

Workshop Calendar 2012

Sustainability 101  (Open Enrollment)

Familiarize yourself with the fundamental concepts related to sustainability and sustainable development: its source, foundational principles and major practices/frameworks.  Begin to see how the solutions can weave together to create a better life for us all. You’ll explore where you fit in the picture and what your role might be in creating a sustainable world. This workshop is now a requirement for those planning on completing the ISSP Sustainability Professionals Certificate. Developed by ISSP Co-founder, Darcy Hitchcock. 

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SPaRK Sustainability Planning and Reporting (January 2012)

This course will walk you through the steps of creating a comprehensive sustainability plan: from justification for your sustainability efforts, through impacts assessment and determination of measures. The resulting plan also sets you up for reliable and pain free reporting. At the end of the course you will have a “draft” plan and experience applying each of the key steps of the process.  The instructor is Marsha Willard. 

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Business Partners for Resilient Communities (February 2012)

Businesses have the potential to play an enormous role in a community's ability to be resilient.  This course is designed as a survey of corporate/community socially responsible initiatives that make an impact. You will explore how businesses and local communities are teaming to stimulate relationships and the local economy while supporting the community capital: talented, skilled and engaged people.  The instructor is Susanne Croft. 

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Measuring GHG Impact: Enterprise GHG Inventory and Product Carbon Footprint Assessment (March 2012)

Carbon footprinting, both at an organizational and a product level, is an essential skill in bringing sustainability to organizations of all types. You will learn a rigorous process withconcrete tools for conducting a Greenhouse Gas (GHG) inventory of a company and carbon footprint of a product.  The material presented will provide key context, policy trends, and emerging protocols overview.  The instructor is Tom Gloria. 

 

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TBA (April 2012)

Practical Tools and Methods for Change Agents (May 2012)

With a focus on systems thinking, this course will guide practitioners through the jungle of sustainability techniques and change processes, and help them learn when and how to apply them successfully.  The instructor is Alan AtKisson. 

 

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Life Cycle Assessment 101 (June 2012)

 

Sustaining Sustainability Organizational Assessments & Systems (TBD 2012)

You don’t need a third-party certified ISO 14001 management system to benefit from the Plan-Do-Check-Act framework.  This course will walk you through the creation of sustainability management system (SMS) to fit your needs.  Designing a SMS allows for systematic internal review, monitoring and corrective actions for continual improvement.  The instructor is Dorothy Fisher Atwood. 

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Workshop TBD (Fall 2012)

Leadership Skills for Change Agents (November 2012)

This workshop prepares sustainability professionals at any level in the organizational hierarchy to lead an organizational change to a sustainable enterprise. It connects the dots between timeless leadership practices and how to transform an organization to a sustainability culture.  Bob teaches how to quantify the business case for sustainability strategies.  The instructor is Bob Willard. 

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