100 Hours/Instructor Supported
Our online sustainability training is a leading edge form of education that enables anyone around the world to learn about sustainability and "green" topics anytime - anywhere 24/7. People like you need information about sustainability to practice green living, remain current in the workplace, or meet the needs of your customers. Companies like yours need information about being sustainable to practice social responsibility, remain competitive, or meet the needs of global markets.
Are you a professional seeking to make yourself more competitive or trying to create a new career opportunity for yourself in today's job market? Now you can conveniently get the training you need for yourself, your team, or your entire company--and you don't have to blow your budget or change your schedule.
In Partnership with Green Supply Chain.org, the SCSP certification program is designed to give our graduates a comprehensive knowledge of sustainability across multiple functional areas along with a balance of internal and external knowledge of sustainability leadership and consultancy.
About the program:
· Our green certification and training programs are used by Fortune 200 Companies
· The certification programs we offer all meet ANSI/ISO certification instructional standards
· Coursework is based upon professional competencies grounded in research and results
· The most robust certification standards in the industry. Our certificate programs require outside course activities and assignments to demonstrate learning transfer, end of lesson tests throughout each course to ensure subject matter knowledge, and a cumulative certification examination to validate comprehensive skill mastery and knowledge proficiency.
· International organizations accredit and recognize our certifications for continuing education (e.g. ESCI & Carbon Council and ISCEA).
· Our certificate programs meet the qualifications of Kirkpatrick Level 2 and 3 assessments.
· We model what we teach working internationally in the field with organizations like USAID
· An award winning team - most recently the SBCA Best of Business 2009 (Non-Physical Research)
10 Courses Included in this Program:
Green Purchasing Fundamentals
10 Hours/45 day access
Description:
Organizational purchasing has evolved tremendously over the last decade shifting from an administrative function to a strategic role. The changing dynamics of the global economy altered the skills of procurement professionals amplifying the importance of conditions such as quality, cost, and delivery. Now, the next step in professional evolution is upon us and the functions of on-time delivery and the lowest price are no longer sufficient. Organizational purchasing is in a strategic position to influence the sustainability and carbon footprint of an organization through multiple channels. What are world class purchasing departments doing to help their organizations become more sustainable? Green Purchasing Fundamentals introduces foundational concepts that align with systems, policies, and procedures that support green purchasing practices and organization sustainability.
Key Topics:
Introduction to Sustainability & Green Purchasing
Design for Environment (DfE)
Green Labeling
Green Product Standards
Environmentally Preferred Purchasing - EPP
Supplier Relationship Management & Sustainability
Green Purchasing Program Development
Sustainability 101 & Corporate Social Responsibility Essentials
0 Hours/45 day access
Description:
Sustainability has been described as "Meeting our needs while not compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs" (Brundtland Commission) or "Not cheating our children" (former United Kingdom Environment Minister John Gummer). Sustainability resides within three foundational pillars of society: economic, social, and environment. Environmental sustainability and CSR are agenda items in boardrooms around the world not only as corporate stewardship discussion points, but as a strategic imperative and requirement so be successful. Leading organizations are taking a proactive position on transparency in reporting, auditing supply chain partnerships, innovating through community partnerships, and reacting to consumer demands. Our Sustainability 101 & CSR Essentials course establishes a common framework for employees at various levels and roles of the organization, while bringing together a global set of lenses to look through. It's easy for people in organizations to move in the same direction when everyone understands the same need and information. This course is essential for everyone in the organization.
Key Topics:
Introduction to Sustainability
The Business Case for Sustainability
Organizational Roles & Functional Influences
Corporate Social Responsibility
Sustainability in Major Business Sectors
US Green Building Council & Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design (LEED)
Introduction to Environmental Science
Carbon Strategies
10 Hours/45 day access
Description:
This course provides an overview of the World Resources Institute (WRI) Greenhouse Gas Protocol Initiative and describes various components of a climate-related strategy. It will summarize the critical steps for the firm to develop a successful carbon strategy across its boundaries, which includes assessing emissions and exposure to climate related risks, evaluating action options, setting goals and targets, developing financial mechanisms, engaging the organization, formulating policy strategy, and managing external relationships.
Key Topics:
Introduction to the WRI Greenhouse Gas Protocol Developing a Climate Strategy
Inside the Organization - Key Elements to a Successful Strategy
Tracking Emissions & Reporting - Tools & Best Practices Every Organization Should Know About
The Supply Chain's Carbon Foot Print
Developing a Carbon Policy Strategy
Sustainability Leader: Your First 180 Days to Success
10 Hours/45 day access
Description
The newly created role of sustainability leader in organizations has been evolving rapidly and the individuals charged with leading this function for companies, whether new to sustainability or to the company, or experienced within the sustainable business sector, must quickly define their roles and responsibilities, establish priorities for the organization, and build functional relationships across departments. This course examines the scope and challenges involved with the transition and offer a roadmap for success for newly created positions or maturing one.
Key Topics:
How The Role of the Sustainability Leader is Evolving
Developing the 180-day Roadmap to Success
Prioritizing Transition Tasks & Projects
Developing Key Internal Relationships.
Green Transportation: 12 Best Practices
10 Hours/45 day access
Description:
Advancements in the capabilities of the transportation industry, which included vehicles and other support systems, have created the optimum use of surface air and sea transports and the new technologies are building upon it intensively. The industry has taken to the concept of 'Greenness' addressing the global environmental concerns and challenges facing an industry that links together networks of global supply chains.
Key Topics:
Sustainability Trends in the Transportation Sector
Building the Business Case for Adopting Green Supply Chain, Logistics and Transportation Practices
Alternate Fuel Strategies and Next Generation Vehicles
The SmartWay Program – Save Fuel, Money, and the Environment
Best Practice Case Studies – Greener Transportation in Practice
Strategies for Reducing the Truck Industry's Carbon Footprint
Green Marketing & Sales Force Essentials
10 Hours/45 day access
Description:
Green marketing is growing greatly as increasing numbers of consumers are willing to back their environmental consciousnesses with their dollars, it can be extensively challenging. Consumers are growing skeptical of green claims to and companies can seriously damage their brands and their sales if a green claim is discovered to be false or contradicted by a company's other products or practices. Protect your brand and your position in the market.
Key Topics:
Corporate Greening of Strategic Marketing
The Green Consumer
The Green Marketing Mix
Eco-Innovation: Future Business Products & Services
Building Environmental Credibility
Case Studies: Green Marketing in Practice
Green Labeling & Product Standards
5 Keys to Successful Green Marketing
Green Packaging
10 Hours/45 day access
Description:
Gain an understanding of the range of sustainable packaging materials and the potential opportunities they afford for businesses. Learn about the latest sector information, trends, and technologies shaping the next generation of packaging. Gain insight into the latest information on sustainability in end-use markets such as food packaging, pharmaceuticals, industrial packaging and household goods. Will sustainability define the future of packaging? Learn this and more.
Key Topics:
Retails Perspective of Green Packaging
Packaging's Role in the Sustainable Supply Chain
The Business Case for Greener Packaging
Recycling & Waste Management
Materials & Technologies
Metrics for Sustainability & Environmental Footprint
The Sustainability Consultant
10 Hours/45 day access
Description:
As organizations pursue clean business and sustainable practices, they will seek the guidance of internal and external experts in the field to help them establish priorities for their green strategies, design the framework of corporate social responsibility programs, and to lead their business into the 21st Century along with other global organizations. In the Sustainability Consultant course will guide you through several of the skills required to be a Sustainability consultant.
Key Topics:
· developing cross functional alignment between departments
· managing change in the organization and facilitating green progress
· creating a corporate social responsibility strategy and report
· planning carbon strategies and energy reduction efforts
· leading waste elimination efforts that are "clean and lean"
· participating in design for environment product development activities
· crafting marketing communications messages that reflect responsibility
Advanced Green Purchasing
10 Hours/45 day access
Description:
Green procurement plays an increasingly strategic role in companies. Its economic contribution stems from controlling the largest budget share in most organizations, which provides the opportunity to leverage decision-making and cost reductions. Even more than efficiency gains can be achieved through jointly developed components between customer and supplier. Product engineering, and the purchaser's role in advanced sourcing, can enable a company to move its products farther down the path to sustainable development. How does outsourcing and global sourcing play into the sustainability equation? What are the strategic implications for a supply chain management organization adopting "green purchasing" practices?
Key Topics:
Environmental Accounting 101
10 Hours/45 day access
Description:
Environmental Accounting is a growing field that identifies resource use, measures and communicates costs of a company's or national economy actual or potential impact on the environment. Costs can include costs to clean up contaminated sites, environmental fines, penalties and taxes, purchase of pollution prevention technologies and waste management costs. An environmental accounting system is composed of environmentally differentiated conventional accounting and ecological accounting. Environmentally differentiated accounting measures impacts of the natural environment in monetary terms. Ecological accounting measures the impact a company has on the environment, but in physical units (e.g. kilograms of waste produced, kilojoules of energy consumed) rather than in monetary units.
Key Topics:
Introduction and the Environmental Accounting Framework
Environmental Accounting & the Conventional Accounting Approaches
Environmental Issues in Financial Accounting & Reporting
Overview of Life Cycle Assessment & Ecological Accounting
Integrating Eco-Efficiency Information In to the Corporate Environmental Management System (EMS)
Learning Methodology
The online parts of the course are to guide and summarize module material and to allow for online activities, retention checks, and quizzes. The online features also allow us to provide various electronic tools from our digital library for participants to download and use to help them quickly apply what they're learning. The online portal also hosts FAQs and a glossary
The participant manual is an Adobe pdf document that we encourage people not to print, but rather to use it on their computer as a reference. Our experience is that people will log into the online course for certain elements, but users also prefer to continue working on material while they are off line too. Using a combination of online material along with an electronic participant's manual is a convenient approach.
Research and outside activities off line and in additional to the participant manual activities in each program. Our program incorporates a few outside activities so participants gain a very rich learning experience.
Each course has an instructor assigned that is available for online communication/email exchanges with participants. The courses themselves are designed to be self-directed.
Program Advisors assigned to all certification program candidates to assist with their professional development experience.
Instructor Bio
Margaret Price, SCSP - Chairwoman & Chief Sustainability Officer of Green Supply Chain.org. She is responsible for the entire worldwide operations with more than 20 years of global operations leadership experience. She is a creative hands-on professional operation executive with extensive experience in contract manufacturing, operations, distribution, supply chain, inventory control, engineering and quality assurance/regulatory compliance. Solid management ability in effectively directing operations of a firm through significant sales growth and profitability. She has extensive experience in product manufacturing, scale-up, automation of processes and best practices. Strong background in operational improvements, process growth, product development, quality improvements and new product introduction. Has traveled extensively throughout the world including Asia, Middle East, India, Europe the Caribbean and Mexico. She holds an M.S. in Environmental Engineering and Business Management as well as an MBA in International Marketing.
Dr. Robert Price is the CEO of Green Supply Chain.org. He is an innovative leader and visionary with over 25 years of global operations and strategic management experience. He has an incredibly diverse leadership portfolio with a track record of achieving world class results in every assignment. He has led and designed the sustainability strategy for a $1.1B global organization, served as the General Manager of a logistics company, led the global supply chain operations for a $600M manufacturing organization, served as a vice president and expatriate in Asia in the pharmaceutical industry, and led a shared services group as a vice president in a service company. In 2007, his supply chain accomplishments were featured in Supply & Demand Chain Executive magazine in the cover story, The Human Quotient. He was featured in Purchasing Magazine twice in 2007 for supply chain and purchasing professional training program excellence. In2003, he led the first organization to receive the American Society for Training & Development (ASTD) Best Award, selected from among 74 global companies in 6 countries. He has been recognized by Training magazine, appearing in the Training Top 100 twice, including receiving the coveted Editor's Choice award. Robert maintains personal oversight of our curriculum development and instructional design group. His doctoral dissertation is entitled Green Supply Chains: Clean Business in the 21st Century. His graduate thesis was published - Demand Driven Supply Chains in a Global Market. Robert is a graduate of MIT Sloan and holds a Senior Executive Certificate in Technology, Operations and Value Chain Management.
Certification exam: SCSP examination fee not included in tuition. SCSP examination fee $175.00. Credentials from the Global Sustainability Institute of Technology.
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