Learn tools and strategies to improve sustainability in your organization and make society and the world a better place.
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No prior knowledge required
No unnecessary risks
This internship is designed for anyone interested in improving the impact of their company or organization on the environment, people, and communities. We will introduce you to some of the key concepts and tools of sustainable business, and then teach you how to be effective change agents. By the end of the internship, you will have the tools to prepare an effective sustainability proposal, knowing who to convince and what they need to know to be convinced.
The final class will help you put all the pieces together as you produce a complete proposal for change! This proposal may be based on a case we have prepared or for your organization, or both.
The University of Colorado Denver School of Business wants to help you become an ambassador for change in your existing business. We hope that the skills and concepts you learn in this internship will help your business reduce its social and environmental impact. Being an ambassador for change is hard. It takes courage, passion, and knowledge. Making change a reality also requires the ability to convince the people in your company or organization in a language they understand. After completing the internship, you will be able to:
We are excited to offer this MOOC specialization and hope it provides you with the first step on the path to learning and taking action to make the places you work and the products you buy more sustainable.
Existing businesses change daily with new products, innovations, and ideas, so it’s important that you keep the course up to date. We look forward to learning from you on this green journey!
This is the second course in the MOOC specialization, Become a Change Ambassador in existing businesses. During the course, you will learn more Change Ambassador skills and hear from people who have created change in their organizations.
You will also learn about green design and sustainability reporting.
The skills you acquire in this course will help improve the products and services in your company or help the company issue its first sustainability report, or an upgraded report.
This is the third course in the MOOC specialization, Become an Ambassador for Change in Existing Businesses. This course deals with the big problems that companies are solving – climate change, water, employee satisfaction, and supply chain issues.
You will learn tools that will help your company deal with these issues in a smart way.
The course concludes with an assignment to set a science-based carbon reduction target for a small company. This is top-notch material. As of July 2017, only about 300 companies worldwide are doing this. You can put your company in the elite group!
With the knowledge and tools you have acquired from the 3 courses in this training, you are on your way to impacting your society and making the future brighter for everyone.
Thank you for being part of this program!
Congratulations on arriving at the capstone course of the internship. You will become an ambassador for change in existing businesses. The course will help you apply the material from the previous courses. We have developed a case study on a hypothetical ski resort that offers many opportunities for developing recommendations for sustainability. Another option is to develop a proposal for change in your company or organization. Or you can do both the case study and your proposal.
The goal of the course is to guide you through the complete process from identifying a problem, finding a possible solution, conducting an analysis to determine the economic and environmental impacts of the proposed change, formulating who to present the proposal to and what is required of them to say ‘yes’, and developing a budget and implementation plan.
Of course, this is a big task, but if you have gone through the material in the previous three courses, you should be well equipped for the challenge.
We hope that the concepts and tools we have presented will help you initiate positive change in your company, organization, community, and the world. We have provided only the most basic tools. As you progress, you will upgrade your skills and become more effective. Good luck in all your change efforts.
