Responsible Business
ESG & Sustainability
From reporting frameworks to defensible business decisions
ESG and sustainability taught for practising managers: what the frameworks require, where they are still evolving, and how to act on them credibly.
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The challenge
What this programme addresses
ESG expectations are expanding faster than most organisations can absorb them, and the frameworks themselves remain contested. This programme helps participants separate obligation from ambition, interrogate ESG claims, and make decisions they can defend to boards, regulators and investors.
Audience
Who it is for
- Professional masters and MBA cohorts
- Managers with sustainability, risk or reporting responsibility
- Executive groups preparing for ESG-related regulatory change
Outcomes
What participants can do afterwards
- 01
Interpret the major ESG and sustainability frameworks and their limits
- 02
Assess the credibility of ESG claims and disclosures
- 03
Connect sustainability commitments to operational and financial decisions
- 04
Argue an ESG position with evidence in front of a critical audience
Learning experience
How it is taught
Applied, case-driven teaching using contemporary real-world examples and participants' own organisational contexts, with structured debate and written argument.
- Real-world cases drawn from current business and regulatory practice
- Participant-context application rather than generic exercises
- Structured debate on contested and unresolved areas of ESG
- Written analysis with detailed individual feedback
Possible formats
- Executive briefing
- Short intensive workshop
- Credit-bearing postgraduate module
- In-house programme
Evidence & examples
Where this has been delivered
Related teaching includes Responsible and Sustainable Management Decision-Making (SM80.1712) at the Asian Institute of Technology, June 2026, co-delivered with Dr P.V. Gopi Krishna, with an evaluation score of 97.63% across 38 returned forms from 42 credit students. Dr Levermore is Programme Director and faculty for AIT School of Management's Professional Masters in ESG.
“Dr. Roger Levermore does a fantastic job breaking down complex sustainability and management frameworks. Instead of criticizing mistakes, he uses incorrect answers as open doors to provide detailed, actionable feedback.”
Faculty
Who delivers it
Led by Dr Roger Levermore. Co-delivery with subject specialists is available where client requirements call for it.
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