Change Leadership for Sustainability

Be a transformative leader

We prepare leaders to radically accelerate the transition to a more sustainable society.

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Coterminal Master's Program:
Sustainability Science and Practice (SUST)

 

Master of Science (MS), Master of Arts (MA)

Online Learning

Change Leadership for Sustainability's open enrollment course,  Strategies for Sustainability, is offered through Stanford Online's Energy Innovation and Emerging Technologies Program (XEIET). Explore how sustainability can contribute to an organization’s financial well-being while helping to solve some of the world’s biggest problems. Learn essential perspectives on sustainability, systems thinking, and 21st-century business strategy. 

 

Strategies for Sustainability

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Executive Education

Learn how sustainability can contribute to the bottom line and our economy. We offer custom executive education offerings for organizations and working professionals.

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Sustainability Science and Practice

A sampling of SUST coursework

 

Pursuing Sustainability: Managing Complex Social Environmental Systems

SUST 210

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Integrative Design and Entrepreneurship for Sustainability

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SUST 234

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Program News

  • Building bridges

    Passionate about “social-ecological leadership,” master’s student Fatoumata Barrie is working to bring more voices into sustainability conversations.

  • ‘Uplifted’: A philosopher takes wing

    Alain Pérez, BA Philosophy ’23, MS Sustainability Science and Practice ’24, draws on the ethical principles of philosophy to think critically about sustainability challenges and solutions.

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