Professional Certificate in Just Transition & Social Sustainability

About this course

Operates social sustainability at enterprise scale — strategic HRDD, living wage, grievance systems, just transition planning, DEIB with measurable outcomes and ESRS S1–S4 disclosure.

For social-sustainability leads running enterprise HRDD, wage-gap closure, DEIB programmes, grievance systems and ESRS S1–S4 disclosure.

What you'll be able to do

• Apply UNGP-aligned salience and HRDD at enterprise scale.
• Operationalise living wage and effective grievance.
• Lead intersectional DEIB with measurable outcomes.
• Produce assurance-ready social disclosure.

Syllabus — 8 modules

1. 01
   Social materiality & strategy

   8 lessons · narrated slides · module quiz
2. 02
   Strategic HRDD

   8 lessons · narrated slides · module quiz
3. 03
   Living wage, fair income & adequate-wage benchmarking

   8 lessons · narrated slides · module quiz
4. 04
   Grievance & remedy systems

   8 lessons · narrated slides · module quiz
5. 05
   Just-transition planning

   8 lessons · narrated slides · module quiz
6. 06
   Diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging

   8 lessons · narrated slides · module quiz
7. 07
   Disclosure quality for social

   8 lessons · narrated slides · module quiz
8. 08
   Capstone — social transformation plan

   8 lessons · narrated slides · module quiz

Standards & references

• UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights
• ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work
• EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD)
• European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) — EFRAG
• IFRS S1 — General Sustainability Disclosures (ISSB)