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LDC employees complete Sustainability Leadership course from Cambridge
18 Nov 2022
LDC is committed to ensuring our actions and investments deliver on-going positive impact. To help us achieve our mission, we are equipping our employees with the skills and knowledge to better consider and integrate ESG and sustainability into everything that we do across our business and our portfolio.
Given the complexity and breadth of ESG, we recently enrolled all 124 LDC employees from teams across the business on The Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership’s online ‘Sustainability Essentials for Business’ course.
The course is designed to help individuals build a common understanding of sustainability so they have a more holistic grasp of the key concepts and trends and can then apply these to their professional and personal lives. It asks participants to reflect on their own values, raises awareness of the number of sustainability considerations that involve everyday products and tasks them to spot risks and opportunities across a range of case studies.
I think we all assume we know the obvious considerations around ESG but this course fully explored many different areas that I hadn’t considered previously. I now feel more confident to be able to challenge and support businesses on their ESG journey.”
Completion of the course has prompted more conversations across our organisation on how we can improve on our ESG journey as an organisation, better understand risks and opportunities in our portfolio, and what employees can do in their personal lives to make a difference.
Commenting on the course, Alex Bexon, ESG Director at LDC said: “While everyone appreciates the importance of ESG, this training helps all of our employees to better understand it, and feel more informed and empowered to drive discussion, change and ultimately help LDC and our portfolio companies to deliver on their ESG commitments.”
Following the success of the course, all new employees joining LDC will be automatically enrolled and we are now opening the opportunity up to our portfolio companies to help them further their understanding of sustainability and how it impacts their business.
The Cambridge Sustainability Course has helped me to consider the impact of my actions in my professional and personal life and how I can make changes for the better.”
You can find out more about LDC’s ESG commitments and the work we are doing with our portfolio companies here.