Advancing the Corporate Sustainability Workforce
No matter where a company is on its sustainability journey, its ability and willingness to make further progress depends on its people, from board and executives, to its sustainability team, to employees in functional roles.
Work on Climate’s latest whitepaper, “Corporate Sustainability Workforce Needs”, dives into the stages of corporate sustainability transformation, pinpointing the workforce challenges and opportunities at each phase — from initial motivation to full-scale implementation — as well as ways that organizations in the workforce ecosystem, from schools to industry associations, can enable more companies to move to the next stage.
In this comprehensive report, you’ll uncover:
- What distinct stages define a company’s sustainability journey?
- How does a company’s workforce change as it progresses through this journey?
- What role does the company’s workforce play in getting it to the next stage of the journey?
- How can we use systemic workforce development levers to propel more companies forward on sustainability?
Our research, built on literature reviews and interviews with sustainability leaders across the U.S., offers a framework for understanding the corporate sustainability journey through a workforce lens, and a framework for enabling systems-level progress on corporate climate action.
P.S. Interested in solving this, or another systems-level workforce bottleneck to climate progress? That’s what we’re here for. If you represent a major stakeholder organization, agency, or grantmaker, email coalition-interest@workonclimate.org — let’s see if we can build something!