The Sustainability Leadership Institute

The Sustainability Leadership Institute

TSC’s Sustainability Leadership Institute (SLI) helps sustainability professionals make real and impactful progress towards sustainable supply chains in consumer goods companies. TSC partners with expert facilitators to deliver tangible tools and methods that help TSC members become changemakers within their organizations and beyond.   

We have built a cohort of committed sustainability professionals who come together for in person events and virtual workshops to build their individual leadership capacity, practice new ways for addressing their biggest challenges, and look for opportunities to collaborate in our shared work of making all products sustainable.   

Purpose

TSC Sustainability Leadership Institute is a catalyst for change and mobilization.

Vision

We envision a world where business is in a mutual, regenerative relationship with humanity and with the natural world.  

Mission

Our mission is to support the courageous leadership of sustainability-minded professionals.  

Objectives

Practice new ways of thinking about your biggest “wicked” challenges in product sustainability 

Build resilience in navigating complexity and uncertainty  

Develop your capacity for transformative leadership 

Learn new tools to move from systems thinking to systems action 

Objectives

Practice new ways of thinking about your biggest “wicked” challenges in product sustainability 

Build resilience in navigating complexity and uncertainty  

Develop your capacity for transformative leadership 

Learn new tools to move from systems thinking to systems action 

Virtual Adaptive Action Labs, Spring 2024

Join us for TSC’s Sustainability Leadership Institute (SLI) 2024 Adaptive Action Lab series! This years’ webinars offer a crash course in using HSD tools to navigate the complexity and uncertainty of tackling Scope 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to collaborate with peers and expert HSD facilitators to unpack Scope 3, identify a path for action, and build your adaptive capacity for responding to other complex industry challenges.   

Please note this series is for TSC members only

Schedule

Session Details, Thursdays at 10-11:30 a.m. CST   

Session 1, February 29th:
Finding the Central Questions 

Session 2, March 7th:
Zooming Out to See Context and Zooming in to See Detail
 

Session 3, March 28th:
Working with Key Tensions
 

Session 4, April 18th:
Rivals, Rules, and Realities  

Annual in-person retreat​.

TSC’s annual SLI retreat takes place at science-centered facilities where participants dive deep into our SLI program materials while also re-connecting with the planet and our purpose. On-site expenses are covered for TSC members who attend.  

Currently Engaged Companies

Seventh Generation  

Walgreens  

WBA  

ASR Group  

Sustainable Forestry Initiative  

Bayer  

ECOS 

Pepsi Co.

Exxon Mobil  

NicePak  

Norcom  

JM Smucker  

Greenfield Solutions  

Ahold Delhaize 

2023-2024 Partner: Third Horizon

Sustainability professionals are tasked with addressing some of the most complex, wicked problems we face as a society. Climate change, poverty, and environmental justice are examples of problems for which no technical solution exists. They have multiple causes, involve countless stakeholders with varying opinions, and they are ripe with uncertainty and unknown potential consequences.  

SLI provides new concepts and tools to help you think about your work in new ways, get unstuck, and enable action and decision making in the most complex of circumstances.  

What action will you take, today, to shift patterns towards a more sustainable world  

What do SLI participants gain? 

Tangible tools to apply to your work 

New insight, ideally an “aha moment”

Inspiration to keep moving forward  

Aspiration to move beyond the status quo/ business as usual  

New connections  

Shared language for communicating about things that can be difficult to articulate (e.g. wicked issues)  

What does TSC Provide?

High-quality, vetted moderators and speakers to help bring outside perspectives on success 

A space for people to come together to talk pre-competitively about big challenges and hot button topics  

Networking with stakeholders from across the consumer goods industry

New tools and models to help you expand your thinking and problem solve

Unique experiences including an exclusive annual retreat with on-site expenses covered by TSC for TSC members

Interested in more information

Contact Jennifer Park, Manager, Collective Action