Program benefits

The WBCSD’s FLT program helps participants to address future challenges and create business value through:

• Recognizing sustainability risks and opportunities;
• Building a long-term business perspective;
• Acquiring project development and management experience;
• Communicating with a broad set of stakeholders;
• Sharing personal and professional knowledge and experience;
• Engaging with key sustainability thinkers;
• Creating new networks across functions, sectors and geographies;
• Shaping the future of sustainable development;
• Understanding the local and global business context.

Key program features

The FLT is a professional development opportunity focused on business leadership and sustainable development. The program is based on action learning through workshop participation, involvement in the WBCSD and the management of individual and group projects.  Participants are invited to contribute on a part time basis, 25 days spread over 9 months, clustered around three face-to-face meetings.

Each WBCSD company is invited to offer one participant per year who is not a sustainability expert and who does not have more than five years of business experience. Participants are supported throughout the year by their Liaison Delegate (the key company contact in WBCSD) who will work with them to set objectives, access people and information, identify communication opportunities and apply learning inside the company.

Throughout the duration of the program, participants will also benefit from a range of sustainability experts who will contribute to the agenda, speak at workshops and be available online. Future Leaders are encouraged to take responsibility for their own learning and for engagement and interaction with relevant stakeholders.

FLT 2012

The FLT 2012 will focus on opportunities and challenges associated with business, biodiversity and ecosystems. Participants will use the WBCSD’s Business Ecosystem Training (BET) capacity building program and work on company-specific projects. The objectives are to develop understanding of sustainability issues associated with business, biodiversity and ecosystems, to learn how companies can BETter manage its ecosystems impacts and dependencies, and to actively participate in the global debate on biodiversity conservation.