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Imperial Custom Sustainability

Programme with Bain
Empowers & Company

Imperial partnered with consulting firm Bain & Company to
roll out an Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) training
programme across the company's global network. It was thoughtfully
designed by academic experts from Imperial’s Business School,
Grantham Institute and Centre for Environmental Policy together
Advanced skills for a tech-enabled future with leaders from Bain’s own sustainability practice. Aligning with
the firm’s commitment to integrate and elevate ESG in all client
Imperial Institute of Extended Learning work, the partnership highlights the urgency of ESG competence
in business leadership and equips professionals with the training
they need to steer clients towards a more sustainable future.
Our goal: We will help to future-proof careers, meet their skills and business development needs.
businesses and communities by providing the For both individuals and businesses, the Imperial
advanced skills training and values-driven leadership Institute of Extended Learning will build on
needed to thrive in a tech-enabled world. our position at the forefront of STEMB to ensure
participants are equipped with the knowledge, skills
Now: For more than a century, Imperial’s evolving and leadership capability to grasp new opportunities
research-rich educational programmes have inspired, in rapidly advancing fields such as AI, cleantech,
stretched and encouraged many of the world’s deep tech, quantum, engineering biology and
STEMB leaders. In the last ten years, they have climate science.
grown to include many exciting new interdisciplinary
programmes in response to scientific advances, the The Imperial Institute of Extended Learning
emergence of new global challenges and changing will reinforce Imperial’s role as a world-changing
workplace skills needs. Our graduates have long university that’s as future-ready as our learners.
been sought after for their talent, solution-focused
mindset and track record of creating innovations
of real significance.

Next: If humanity is to thrive in a science- and
tech-driven world, places of higher learning must
act with speed, agility and foresight. That is why
we will expand beyond degree programmes to
offer flexible and lifelong advanced STEMB training “The Imperial Institute of
through the establishment of a new Imperial Extended Learning is our
Institute of Extended Learning. The Institute
will leverage the disciplinary excellence within response to the rapid pace
our academic departments and the unparalleled of global change and will Right: Jim McCloskey presenting the Global Skills Development programme
interdisciplinary capacity within our new Schools
of Convergence Science (page 28), to provide equip people everywhere at Imperial's Business School at the South Kensington Campus.
advanced skills training for individuals, businesses, and at every life stage with
governments and other knowledge organisations.
the agility, knowledge and
For individual learners, Imperial’s cutting edge insight to first prepare for
short courses will be used to unlock new career
opportunities or stacked over time to achieve a the future, and then shape it.”
formal degree award. For knowledge organisations,
we will work with them to customise STEMB-led Leila Guerra, Associate Provost
short courses and leadership programmes to (Digital Lifelong Learning)

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