Just Business Workshop

Date: 20 January 2025 and 21 January 2025

Duration: 2 days

Format: In-person

What do we offer?

• Build the knowledge and skills you need to ensure your company operates in line with EU corporate sustainability standards. 
• Receive a certificate from CORE and Minerva BHR detailing/evidencing the workshop content. 
• Leave with a personalized roadmap to take the next steps in your sustainability journey. 

This 2-day in-person, interactive workshop is intended to upskill corporate professionals on social sustainability topics. It features real-life examples from companies of different sizes and immersive, scenario-based, role play exercises to practice concepts/learnings. 

Benefits: 

By participating in this training, you’ll learn about: 

• Corporate sustainability due diligence and the ESG landscape 
• Legal requirements for corporate sustainability in the EU and worldwide are including EU CSDDD, CSRD, Taxonomy and Deforestation Regulation
• Practical steps in sustainability risk management and implementing sustainability due diligence in your organization 
• Improving access to the EU market and to overseas financing
• Addressing investor, customer and policymaker requests, questions
• Building alliances with key functions at your organisation, obtain the resources and buy-in you need, and lead the mindset change in your organisation 
• Processes and solutions other sustainability professionals are applying to overcome common sustainability challenges/ to manage ESG topics/corporate sustainability risks
• Good practice examples from European companies already implementing corporate sustainability due diligence 

The program is also a great opportunity for networking and peer learning. You will learn in small groups and be able to exchange views and ideas with other sustainability professionals.

Recommended for: 

Corporate professionals performing or involved in ESG risk management and corporate social sustainability activities as well as anyone working in the legal, compliance, sustainability, human rights or supply-chain-related functions of an organization. 

Curriculum

What’s ESG and S in ESG? / What’s corporate sustainability? / What does human rights have to do with business?

• Evolution of sustainability from voluntary to mandatory
• UNGPs to EU CSDDD

Legal landscape: EU and beyond

• Comparative analysis of CSDDD, CSRD, LkSG, Loi de Vigilance
• Intersections with US UFLPA, EUDR, EU Taxonomy, EU Ban on Forced Labor etc.

Business case for sustainability due diligence

• Corporate illustrations/Case examples of legal, reputational, financial and operational risk
• Case examples of benefits of due diligence – responsible business

Sustainability and human rights due diligence (HRDD) steps

Good practice examples from German and French laws

• Responsible procurement
• Responsible contracting
• Responsible business models

Cultural shift/transformation in doing business

• Awareness building
• Employee capacity building
• Supply chain capacity
• Sustainability leadership

Sustainability due diligence in practice: scenario-based small group exercise

• Group exercise: ESG governance
• Group exercise: how do you go about risk identification and prioritization
• Group exercise: how do you discuss sustainability risk management with C-level/board?
• Group exercise: how can you increase leverage?
• HRO/CSO role plays – immersive decision making scenario (decision tree)

Closing Q&A 

Certificate ceremony

Instructors