Leading the Way: Becoming a Sustainability Change Agent is designed to help you craft a meaningful career that aligns with your values and drives real change in organizations, communities, and industries. Drawing from insights shared by sustainability professionals across diverse roles, you will explore your own leadership style, understand how to build resilience and influence within complex systems, and learn how to position yourself for impact in any industry. Offering an authentic, behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to become an effective sustainability change agent - whether you’re early in a career or looking to expand your influence, this course is ideal for connecting purpose with practice, and discovering how to play a more intentional role in advancing sustainability.
Leading the Way: Becoming a Sustainability Change Agent
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您将学到什么
Articulate a personal vision for sustainability leadership that aligns with your values, strengths, and career goals.
Analyze the systems, mindsets, and organizational structures that enable or inhibit sustainability-related change.
Develop a personal action plan for advancing sustainability within your current or desired role.
Recognize opportunities to mentor, support and grow others in the sustainability space to amplify collective impact.
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August 2025
13 项作业
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- 向行业专家学习新概念
- 获得对主题或工具的基础理解
- 通过实践项目培养工作相关技能
- 获得可共享的职业证书
该课程共有4个模块
Welcome to the course, Leading the Way: Becoming a Sustainability Change Agent. In this first module, you will explore what it means to be a sustainability change agent and how people from all backgrounds can lead change without needing a formal title. You will be introduced to the course, connect with peers, and reflect on your own values and opportunities for impact. Through video, readings, and discussion, you'll begin building the mindset and skills to lead from where you are.
涵盖的内容
4个视频4篇阅读材料1个作业1个讨论话题
In this module, you will learn how to lead sustainability efforts from wherever you sit in an organization. You will explore how systems work, where influence exists, and how your personal values and skills align with opportunities for impact. Through practical frameworks like leverage points, organizational mapping, and spheres of control, influence, and concern, you will identify how and where they can step in to make a difference. You will gain greater clarity on your leadership potential and a strategy for taking the first steps as a sustainability change agent.
涵盖的内容
7个视频3篇阅读材料4个作业1个讨论话题
In this module you will explore the diverse and evolving landscape of sustainability careers. You will examine roles across industries and sectors, analyze the skills most in demand, and reflect on how their own experiences, values, and motivations align with emerging opportunities. Whether you are seeking to pivot into a new role or deepen your impact within your current position, the module offers practical tools for positioning yourself as a sustainability change agent. Through guided activities, you will craft a professional narrative that clearly communicates their purpose, capabilities, and desired impact.
涵盖的内容
6个视频4篇阅读材料4个作业1次同伴评审1个讨论话题
In this final module, you will explore what it means to lead with purpose in the sustainability space. You will define your personal leadership style, develop strategies for resilience and adaptability, and learn how to empower others through leadership and mentorship. Through reflection, role-play, and real-world planning, you will build the mindset and momentum to become sustainability change agents.
涵盖的内容
3个视频6篇阅读材料4个作业1个讨论话题
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课程 是 University of Colorado Boulder提供的以下学位课程的一部分。如果您被录取并注册，您已完成的课程可计入您的学位学习，您的学习进度也可随之转移。
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