Grow confidence in and understand foundational topics

Programme: The Sustainability Accelerator

Building high-performing teams and baking in climate competency across every function is the key to becoming a true business leader in the food industry. 

This 6 week accelerator is designed to empower leaders of the future with not only the foundational knowledge, but the confidence to challenge and create change with a new community of allies behind them. The programme encourages group interaction throughout to bring teams together to challenge each other and create real change.

THE SUSTAINABILITY ACCELERATOR PROGRAMME GIVES A FRAMEWORK FOR:

+ Helping non-technical food professionals navigate an uncertain and complex world

+ Building connections and a new network

+ Growing confidence and capacity to plug into change and relook at business as usual

+ Developing climate-first leadership.

THE MODULES:

• WEEK 1: NEXT GEN SUSTAINABILITY AND LEADERSHIP
• WEEK 2: NET ZERO
• WEEK 3: CLIMATE RISK
• WEEK 4: EQUITY, DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION (ED&I)
• WEEK 5: HUMAN RIGHTS
• WEEK 6: REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE

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• £2,000PP, PLUS VAT INCLUDING 3 MONTHS COMMUNITY MEMBERSHIP
• 25% DISCOUNT APPLICABLE FOR BUSINESS MEMBERS

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FOR FOOD SYSTEM CHANGEMAKERS

Programme: Healthy Sustainable Diets Accelerator

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Do you have the tools to deliver on the Healthy Sustainable Diets (HSD) opportunity?

EMPOWER YOUR TEAMS TO:

+ Future-proof strategic business planning

+ Influence sustainable growth strategies

+ Pro-actively support customers with their HSD targets

This 6 week online Accelerator Programme is designed to empower leaders of the future with food systems knowledge and how to support the shift to Healthy Sustainable Diets with integrity. The programme encourages group interaction throughout to bring teams together to challenge each other and create real change.

THE MODULES:

WHO IS IT FOR? C-SUITE TO FUTURE LEADERS (NPD, TECHNICAL, CATEGORY, COMMERCIAL, NUTRITION & HEALTH, SUSTAINABILITY)

Masterclass: Navigating the health and sustainable diets landscape

Find out how businesses can take proactive action to meet health and sustainability goals via joined up action, and prevent a food system crisis. Delve into how the external policy environment influences businesses practices and how to respond.

+ Explore how health and sustainability strategies can deliver impact on the two biggest issues of our time – diet related ill health and climate change

+ Understand how food businesses can be the driving forces of change in supporting a transition to healthy and sustainable diets

+ Understand UK wide diet policy milestones and what they mean for business practice

+ Create NEW commercial opportunities

+ Live masterclass with our new Healthy & Sustainable Diets Coach, Ali Morpeth (Registered Nutritionist)

What skill level is required? Manager to Director Level Class size: Up to 30 Class Length: 2 hours including Q&A plus 1 hour pre and post work

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WHO IS IT FOR? C-SUITE TO FUTURE LEADERS (NPD, TECHNICAL, CATEGORY AND COMMERCIAL)

Masterclass: 1.5 Degree Food Design

This CPD accredited masterclass is hosted by Charlie Derra.

Charlie works to build and mentor product development and innovation teams to build credibility and profile, supporting them to grow trusted, collaborative & impactful relationships internally and with customers and suppliers. Charlie has held senior category positions across small and large businesses, covering ambient, chilled and frozen categories across multiple retailers brands and own label.

New skills and thinking need to be embedded within teams that can shape the future and drive the change. Charlie believes Category Managers are uniquely placed to drive change due to their level of influence, skill set and their role in shaping food categories.

WHO IS IT FOR? C-SUITE TO FUTURE LEADERS

Masterclass: Influencing and Engaging for Scope 3 Success

Extreme weather events are only one example of the physical impacts of climate change that are already being seen on global, regional and local levels, with increasing severity and intensity. Seemingly small increases in average global temperatures can trigger a wide range of physical impacts and irreversible changes to the climate.

It is these physical impacts that are having a huge impact on the ingredients we source from around the world.

This Masterclass will help you understand how we can change the relationship between land and people, and move from a broken to an interconnected system where all parts of the supply chain work in harmony with each other.

In this Masterclass​ you will learn:

– Physical impact of climate change and rising global temperatures on our ability to procure ingredients locally and globally food supply chains​

– What growing food looks like in an interconnected way where each element works together for the benefit of the whole​

– Scope 3 emissions: what they are, and the challenges and opportunities that they give for the food supply chain​

– How to build a stakeholder map and stakeholder management to help you move sustainable supply chain projects forward that will support your work in reducing scope 3 emissions​

– How to be an effective Change Agent so you can turn frustration into effective action.

MEET YOUR COACH

This Masterclass is hosted by Caroline Mason, an expert in sustainable supply chain collaboration and action. With over 17 years of experience working and travelling across global food systems she has worked with some of the UK’s largest food retailers including the Co-op and Waitrose, fostering collaborative relationships from oceans and soils to fork.
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Caroline initiated and Chairs an industry Agriculture Wellbeing incubator hub, composed of businesses, certification bodies and charities, is a non-exec director and trustee, and is a passionate champion and mentor of young women and girls who want to be the sustainability leaders and change makers of the future. ​She is founder of Seeds to Thrive, which advises and coaches businesses, people and teams to accelerate their climate impact and ambitions.

WHO IS IT FOR? C-SUITE TO FUTURE LEADERS

Masterclass: Circular Economy for Food

This masterclass discusses the circular economy as a framework to fundamentally rethink today’s take-make-waste food system. Diving into the key principles of the circular economy, the session unpacks innovative ways to apply them through circular design for food: an approach for businesses to reimagine everyday food offerings and their packaging to generate positive results for people, nature, and farmers alike.

The take-make-waste food system demands systemic solutions that go beyond incremental ‘do less harm’ approaches. The circular economy offers a common framework to rethink products, services, and systems to actually create good. 

By the end of this masterclass, you will understand how to apply circular economy solutions to food and packaging and how you can start to put this thinking into action, at scale. 

MEET YOUR COACH

This CPD accredited masterclass is hosted by Emma Chow.

Emma Chow is a regenerative leader and educator. Her approach works at the inflection point of the inner and outer worlds, taking a deeply-human angle to fundamentally re-imagine today’s broken systems. Emma co-developed and led the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s global Food initiative, where she honed her food system knowledge and understanding of regenerative and circular design. Prior to her work at the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, Emma was a consultant at Deloitte LLP. She now weaves her experience with her skills as a meditation and yoga teacher to unleash people’s potential to solve the greatest challenges of our time. 

Emma weaves her diverse experiences — from the boardrooms of some of the world’s biggest businesses and days tending the fertile soils of farms, to practising ancient wisdom traditions and living with indigenous peoples— and bring them together to co-create solutions for a tomorrow where people, places, and nature thrive.

WHO IS IT FOR? C-SUITE TO FUTURE LEADERS

Masterclass: Food Systems Thinking

This masterclass on Food Systems Thinking with Lara Hanlon explores the principles and practices of systems thinking in the context of food systems.

In this class, participants will learn about the key concepts and tools of systems thinking, and how they can be applied to better understand and transform the complex web of actors, processes, and relationships that make up our global food system.

MEET YOUR COACH

This CPD accredited masterclass is hosted by Lara Hanlon.

Lara Hanlon is an award-winning design strategist, educator, facilitator, and keynote speaker. In 2022, Lara founded Portion Collaborative to help food businesses reimagine our food systems, including processes, technologies, and services. Before founding Portion Collaborative, she served as a Senior Designer at IBM in New York City where she worked across brand, software, and research, delivering market differentiated outcomes for the enterprise. During her time at IBM, she was integral in the facilitation of design thinking engagements for clients in the food and retail sector including Unilever, Walmart, CocaCola, McDonald’s, CVS, and PepsiCo. This work underscored the need for more strategic, efficient and diverse thinking at the board level to help fix our broken food system. In parallel to her corporate career, Lara developed “éntomo” — a multi-award winning project that used design methodologies to encourage Western society to embrace insects as a sustainable food source. In 2017, she delivered a TEDx talk on her discoveries.

WHO IS IT FOR? C-SUITE TO FUTURE LEADERS

Masterclass: Sustainable Nutrition as part of a 1.5 degree diet

A sustainable diet must also be nutritionally rich.

Delivered by our nutrition and human health expert and sustainable food systems specialist, Mary Purdy, this session will showcase how business leaders can create a positive impact by transitioning to more sustainable diets and ingredient sourcing.

Not only is our current food system responsible for 1/3 of global greenhouse gases but it is also compromising the health of our planet and in turn the health of the humans who inhabit it. A shift in what we eat and how we currently produce food offers a viable pathway in helping to achieve the 1.5 degree target laid out by the Paris Agreement. Acting on these changes can help restore ecosystems, protect the environment and result in improved human health.

The session will include exploring what constitutes a sustainable diet and steps to how reduce one’s “food print” while still honoring culture, access, and personal dietary preferences. Strategies will include realistic ways to move towards more minimally processed plant-forward diets, source more sustainably grown foods (including seafood), minimise plastic use and reduce food waste all of which can support personal and planetary health.

Hosted by our Sustainable Diets Coach, Mary Purdy.

WHO IS IT FOR? C-SUITE TO FUTURE LEADERS

Masterclass: Regenerative Food Systems

Classic sustainability tends to aim to undo damage, but what if we could do so much more? What if we raised our ambition level to be regenerative? Regenerative systems are life affirming at every level. We’ll develop a vision for a regenerative food system where food lives up to its full potential and dig into regenerative economics. We’ll build our capabilities to adopt a regenerative mindset and bring it into everything we do. 

We don’t have to look far back in history or even in indigenous cultures in existence today to see the potential for actualising regenerative food systems that nourish our bodies, ecosystems, and farming communities. In today’s industrial system, food is unable to live up to its potential to be a powerful force for good in the world. We have the tools and wisdom to make regenerative food systems mainstream. Ultimately, it hinges on our ability to upgrade the level of the mind from which we solve from. We need to shift from a ‘do good’ operating paradigm to a ‘regenerating life’ paradigm

Explores:

• An introduction to the regenerative paradigm
• Real world examples of solutions – pockets of the future in the present
• How do we ‘scale’ this?
• From thinking to doing to being 
• Risks of greenwashing ‘regeneration’

Regenerative food systems support the IPCC climate targets, WRAP waste reduction goals, and Science Based Targets and supports the economy to operate within planetary boundaries.

MEET YOUR COACH

This CPD accredited masterclass is hosted by Emma Chow.

Emma Chow is a regenerative leader and educator. Her approach works at the inflection point of the inner and outer worlds, taking a deeply-human angle to fundamentally re-imagine today’s broken systems. Emma co-developed and led the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s global Food initiative, where she honed her food system knowledge and understanding of regenerative and circular design. Prior to her work at the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, Emma was a consultant at Deloitte LLP. She now weaves her experience with her skills as a meditation and yoga teacher to unleash people’s potential to solve the greatest challenges of our time. 

Emma weaves her diverse experiences — from the boardrooms of some of the world’s biggest businesses and days tending the fertile soils of farms, to practising ancient wisdom traditions and living with indigenous peoples— and bring them together to co-create solutions for a tomorrow where people, places, and nature thrive.

WHO IS IT FOR? C-SUITE TO FUTURE LEADERS

Masterclass: Natural Capital & Biodiversity

This masterclass helps business leaders understand how to take action to manage impacts on biodiversity, natural capital, and ecosystems while building resilience into the organisation in the face of material natural capital dependencies.​

• Explore and examine the impacts and dependencies between business and nature including biodiversity, natural capital, and ecosystems​
• Identify case studies and examples relevant to the food sector with specific steps to assess impacts and dependencies for your business​
• Understand current and emerging best practices and guidelines for understanding and acting on nature-related risks and opportunities

This CPD accredited masterclass is hosted by Alexis de Liedekerke and Sara Rochat. 

Alexis de Liedekerke has a scientific background with a BSc in bioengineering and an MSc in Organic Agriculture and Agroecology; he has established and operates several micro-ventures in the farming industry and has deep experience working as a consultant on Nature conservation and Landscape Restoration. His current focus is on bridging knowledge from ecology and ecosystems into business, to support clients to reduce impacts and manage dependencies on natural capital.

Sara Rochat is a a multi-lingual, certified sustainable investment and finance professional (CSIF) who, for the last 5 years, has been creating leading international ESG conferences and tailored climate-risk training for the financial sector. She is passionate about enacting meaningful change to tackle the climate crisis, and has previous experience in international diplomacy and advisory roles in Singapore and Japan.  

WHO IS IT FOR? C-SUITE TO FUTURE LEADERS

Masterclass: Food Waste & The Value Chain

A masterclass with Andy Young exploring the environmental impact of food waste as part of the net zero transition of the food system. According to Project Drawdown, food waste alone accounts for 8% of global greenhouse gas emissions.​

• Carbon, water and land-use change ​
• Global regulatory and commercial policy commitments such as Sustainable Development Goal/SDG 12.3, Net Zero and Science-Based Targets Initiative (SBTI) ​
• How redistribution can support these goals in the context of broader food system change ​
• Question and answer session and closing reflections.

Hosted by our Food Waste Coach, Andy Young.

Andy Young has spent 15 years improving sustainability performance within the food retail sector, developing responsible sourcing strategies and leading waste reduction programmes for COOP, WRAP and multiple food manufacturers. He has also overseen Executive-level strategic planning processes.

WHO IS IT FOR? C-SUITE TO FUTURE LEADERS

MASTERCLASS: NET ZERO LEADERSHIP

To limit the impact of climate change, scientists have identified the need to keep warming well below 2°C. In order to achieve a 1.5°C pathway, Net Zero by 2050 is a must and negative emissions must be in place beyond 2050.

Do nothing scenario would lead to considerable damages to regions across the world. Future generations would pay for our mistakes.

2 degrees is still catastrophic for future generations, and the margin for error is so fine.

1.5 degrees would require a paradigm shift across the world to achieve including carbon removal technology. A collective effort that starts today.

Our CPD certified 2 hour Net Zero Masterclass engages your senior teams to get under the skin of what Net Zero means and delivers an invaluable opportunity for your leaders to understand how they and their teams play a role in transitioning the business to a Net Zero future.

Hosted by our Net Zero Coach, William Clare.

Individuals can book onto Will’s Masterclass on 27th March, click here to book. 

WHO IS IT FOR? C-SUITE TO FUTURE LEADERS

Masterclass: Regenerative Agriculture

A CPD certified 2 hour masterclass to upskill the senior leaders within the business. Delivered by our Regenerative Agriculture coach, this session delivers an invaluable opportunity for your leaders to increase their knowledge of Regenerative Agriculture and to understand how they and their teams play a role in transitioning the business.

WHO IS IT FOR? C-SUITE TO FUTURE LEADERS

Masterclass: Climate Risk

It’s no longer just about “what business is doing to the climate.” It’s also about “what the climate is doing to business.” 

A CPD certified 2 hour masterclass to upskill all senior leaders within the business. Delivered by our Climate Finance & Risk experts, this face-to-face session delivers an invaluable opportunities for your leaders to increase their knowledge of how climate change is emerging as a major corporate and financial risk to performance, not just an ESG or CSR issue for companies to manage their impact on climate.

Hosted by our Climate Risk & Biodiversity Coach, Sara Rochat.

WHO IS IT FOR? C-SUITE TO FUTURE LEADERS

Masterclass: Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

A CPD certified 2 hour masterclass on the basics of ED&I, helping you to confidently navigate inclusion conversations within your business and understand the integral role that ED&I and workplace culture plays in strategic sustainability.

Participants will explore what we mean by Equity, Diversity & Inclusion, the link to climate and sustainability,
the power and privilege, assumptions and bias, what your data tells you and what you can do in your organisation.

Hosted by our ED&I Coach, Katie Allen.

WHO IS IT FOR? EVERYONE

Masterclass: Sustainable Lifestyles

Climate change is here, and its effects are being felt all around the world. Many of us want to do something to help, but where do we start, and what can we do as individuals that will make a difference?

This CPD certified 2 hour masterclass is designed to upskill everyone in the food industry.

Hosted by our Sustainable Lifestyle coach and founder of Sustainable(ish), Jen Gale. As an active blogger, writer, podcaster, speaker, community builder and coach, Jen brings a wealth of sustainability knowledge to the table. Jen believes that everyone has the power to change the world and this masterclass shows you how you can do this and fit sustainability into your life, one baby step at a time.

Jen will cover the topics of:

• Where are we now when it comes to the climate crisis, what needs to happen, and what can we do as individuals?
• The spheres of influence we have as individuals to effect change
• A whistle-stop tour around 6 key areas where we as individuals can make a big difference, with suggestions for actions to take
• How to get started with your sustainability journey
• How to be ‘imperfectly sustainable’.

Hosted by our Everyday Sustainability Coach, Jen Gale.

WHO IS IT FOR? C-SUITE TO FUTURE LEADERS

Masterclass: Human Rights

What are Human Rights and how do they link to the global SDGs and wider society?

This masterclass offers a deeper dive into why it matters to individuals, businesses and society, with a focus particularly on food industry specific issues where a healthy planet supports healthy people.

We will discuss how businesses can strengthen their Human Rights performance and what best practice in this area looks like to help accelerate a fair and just net zero food system transformation.

Hosted by our Human Rights Coach, Louise Nicholls.

WHO IS IT FOR? C-SUITE TO FUTURE LEADERS

Masterclass: The Sustainable Transformation of the Food System

The food industry is both facing and contributing to major climate challenges, putting immense pressure on leaders to adapt their food businesses for the future. Mike Barry, former Director of Sustainable Business at Marks & Spencer, who helped to develop, implement and evolve its ground-breaking sustainability programme Plan A, will help your team understand the transformation needed to create a truly sustainable food system.

Hosted by our Sustainable Business Transformation Coach, Mike Barry.