Exploring Sustainable Practices Across Three Continents
Using Business for Good to Shape a Better World
Are you ready to use ‘business for good’ to shape a better world? Travel to Spain, Rwanda, and San Diego to learn practical strategies, tactics, and resources directly from high-performing organizations. Then apply those lessons to your own business or community.
“Business for good, a direct response to addressing our finite planetary resources, is a rapidly growing movement. We created this Global Executive Seminar to equip motivated professionals with the knowledge and tools to merge leading-edge social practices with enlightened commercial practices.”
Contribute Meaningfully to Addressing the World’s Urgent Problems
As the fabric of society and business disintegrates, our rapidly changing world faces wicked problems such as climate change, poverty and injustice. Too often, traditional business practices don’t help, leading instead to employee disengagement, environmental degradation, and wealth and gender inequity. Quite simply, the way we’re doing business is not sustainable. In this Global Executive Seminar, you’ll learn why it’s important to change the way we’re doing things—and gain skills and knowledge to make those changes.
For example, you’ll discover:
- How to integrate social and environmental responsibility into business and community ventures in ways that reverse current trends and help build a better world
- What sustainable business models could work best for your organization
- Where to start, step by step, to make changes in your own work
Learn Directly From What Works
In this first-of-its-kind Global Executive Seminar from the University of San Diego, you will:
Have a Global Experience
Travel to Spain, Rwanda, and San Diego for one-of-a-kind, on-location learning experiences with world-leading Benefit Corporations, worker-owned companies, social enterprises, and other high-performing sustainable organizations.
Combine these immersive travel experiences with regular 90-minute online meetings and personalized consulting sessions, where you’ll interact with social innovators and entrepreneurs who have found sustainable solutions to urgent global problems.
Deep Dive Into Business Models Shaping A Better World
Learn in-depth about various business models that balance economic success with social and environmental impact, along with an understanding of relevant legal and regulatory frameworks and the metrics used to measure sustainability performance.
Gain insights into impact investing and the principles, strategies, and approaches that can generate both financial returns and positive social and environmental outcomes.
Develop a Personal Action Plan
Create a detailed framework for applying the lessons learned in the seminar—providing a personal and professional roadmap for how various ‘business for good’ models can be applied to your business, community venture, or the next phase of your life’s work.
Receive an Executive Education Certificate and be recognized as a University of San Diego Executive Fellow.
Join Our Growing Network
Become part of a global network of experts and like-minded professionals who can empower your own impact, long after the seminar ends.
Emerge ready to help transform today’s capitalistic system into a new global economic system that values people and the planet alongside profits.
“The launch of this Global Executive Seminar, USD’s first foray into executive education, represents an important step forward for the university. It’s my hope that this USD executive seminar will set the tone for future endeavors to further the vision of USD: to confront humanity’s challenges by fostering peace, working for justice, and leading with love.”
Where You'll Go
During the seminar, you’ll travel to San Diego, California, Spain, and Rwanda to experience first-hand the inner workings of some of the highest-performing ‘business for good’ companies and organizations. This immersive travel experience with monthly online meetings provides for an executive educational experience unlike any other, focused on sustainable solutions to urgent problems. Join us as we learn directly from organizations on how they're successfully building sustainability frameworks that address the triple bottom line—the three “P's”: people, planet, and profit.
San Diego, California
Experience the vibrancy of San Diego, California. The 8th largest city in the United States, and a growing innovation hub for its bi-national region.
Barcelona and Mondragon, Spain
Explore some of the world's leading organizations on grassroots management, corporate social responsibility, innovation, and more in Barcelona, and Mondragon, Spain.
Kigali and Musanze, Rwanda
Resilience lies at the heart of Rwanda's journey. There are few places in the world can be considered a hub of progress and social innovation like Kigali and Musanze, Rwanda.
A Global Experience Focused on Local Impact
Consider San Diego as ‘home base’ for the Global Executive Seminar, spending three days here at the start of the seminar and two days at the end. Meet local leaders successful in various ‘business for good’ models, including the founders of Taylor Guitars, to explore worker ownership and environmental sustainability, and executives at Dr. Bronner’s to discuss the Purpose Pledge and the role of values-driven governance in shaping long-term impact.
Once in Barcelona, Spain, you will interact with leaders of successful ‘business for good’ organizations with a focus such as pharmaceuticals, skin care products, food retail, and fashion. After visiting the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, you will visit Mondragon, the world’s premier model of worker ownership. Here you will explore highly successful manufacturing, food, and finance co-ops.
In Rwanda, seminar participants will witness the unique collaboration and cooperation between the Rwandan government and business to advance economic growth. Learn about inclusive business models and economic empowerment through visits with experts on entrepreneurship hubs, impact funders, gender lens investing, and artisan co-ops empowering women’s economic and community advancement.
Celebrate the completion of the seminar in San Diego with a closing dinner, cocktails, Personal Action Plan presentations, certificate presentation ceremony, and networking at the home of the University of San Diego President.
“The Kroc School at USD and the seminar faculty are truly dedicated to increasing sustainability within organizations in San Diego and throughout the world. The Global Executive Seminar’s founders share my belief that we need to seek and highlight promising solutions wherever they might arise, and I look forward to working in concert with them and the cohort of seminar participants, now and in the future."
Faculty
This Global Executive Seminar was conceived and is being run by three highly accomplished and inspirational professionals who have spent their careers leading, researching, and teaching the curriculum of this seminar, managing international businesses, and forging global relationships with the experts and organizations that seminar participants will visit.
The USD Difference
At the University of San Diego, we incorporate our Changemaker mission into everything we do. We’re committed to inclusivity, diversity, social justice and the ability to make a positive difference in the world. Our goal is to empower individuals to lead purposeful lives.
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Join us in shaping a better future through the University of San Diego's Global Executive Seminar. Be part of an inspiring community of forward-thinking leaders, dedicated to leveraging business for good. Gain invaluable insights, forge meaningful connections, and immerse yourself in captivating destinations.