Corporate training and facilitation.
Led by Lorne Michael Cousins, Senior Fellow and Council Director at The Conference Board. Twenty-five years with the leadership teams of global companies across China and the Asia-Pacific.
25
Years in the field
Most of it in China and Asia-Pacific.
92
Companies trained or advised
Across automotive, pharma, financial services, energy, FMCG, and academia.
4
Universities engaged
Duke Kunshan, CEIBS, EMLyon, University of Nottingham.
Most large companies already have the sustainability strategy on paper. We work with the people who have to move on it: the leadership team, the functions, and the wider workforce.
Led by Lorne Michael Cousins, Senior Fellow and Council Director at The Conference Board: in the room in Shanghai and across the Asia-Pacific, or live online.
Every format ends the same way: a named action and a calendar commitment before anyone leaves the room.
Services.
Pick the one that fits the team you need to move. Most clients start with one and add a second in the same quarter.
Workforce Briefings
Wider staff cohorts, multi-site teams, broad audiences.
Lorne briefs your wider workforce on one topic and opens the discussion that turns awareness into language the team can use.
Executive Sessions
Leadership teams. CEO, COO, CFO, CHRO, CSO, plus one tier below.
A facilitated session that closes the gap between the strategy on the table and the one initiative that moves first.
Departmental Training
Functional teams. HR, Procurement, R&D and Marketing, Finance and Legal, Operations and Facilities.
Lorne trains the function on the technical detail it owns, using your data and workflows as the case study.
Engagement scope and investment are confirmed on the Strategy Call. Compare the services
Sustainability programs.
For organizations that want to cover the whole ground in one quarter.
Four-Pillar Briefing Series
Wider staff cohorts, multi-site teams, broad audiences.
All four Workforce Briefings over one quarter, one pillar per fortnight. A foundational literacy program for the whole workforce.
Sequenced Departmental Program
Functional leads and their direct reports across HR, Procurement, R&D, Marketing, Finance, Legal, Operations and Facilities.
All four clusters over one quarter, one cluster per fortnight, closed by a cross-cluster synthesis session.
A program is a sequenced series built from the services. All programs
When this gets booked.
Workforce Briefings
The strategy never reaches the floor.
Read by 200 people, taught to 50, acted on by 15. The gap is rarely motivation. It is language.
Executive Sessions
The strategy is agreed and the first move is not.
Leadership teams book this when they have a strategy on paper but cannot close the gap between planning and execution.
Departmental Training
The mandate keeps getting reassigned.
HR says it is Procurement’s problem. Procurement says Finance. Finance says Operations. The mandate stops moving.
“The board asks for proof, and the operation has nothing to hand them. So the strategy gets re-written, and the gap stays the gap.”
Lorne Michael Cousins
What backs the work.
Companies trained or advised
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Affiliations and credentials
Senior Fellow and Council Director, The Conference Board. Sustainability Leaders Council and Asia AI Strategy Implementation Council.
Accredited Advisor, Future-Fit Business Benchmark.
Practitioner (PIEMA), Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment.
Master of Environmental Management (MEM), UNSW Australia.
Founding Member, Sustainability Directory.
Lorne Michael Cousins
Founder. Senior Fellow and Council Director, The Conference Board.
Lorne Michael Cousins has spent twenty-five years inside corporate sustainability across China and the Asia-Pacific, as environmental auditor, sustainability consultant and leadership strategist. He works with the leadership teams and functional departments of large companies, most often when the company has a mandate on paper and needs its teams to move on it.
“Practicality without passion is like a tree without roots. My work is grounded in the need for practical actions that move the needle towards building a sustainable business.”
Lorne Michael Cousins
Workshops.
One team, one subject, one session. The goals of the Future-Fit Business Benchmark, and the leadership and management skills that carry a mandate through.
Future-Fit Break-Even Goals
One goal of the Future-Fit Business Benchmark, one team, one live session: what the standard requires, where you stand, and what to do next.
Leadership and Management
The skills managers and their teams need to carry any mandate through: leading people, working with others, and managing your own work.
Every workshop has a PDF outline you can pass on. All workshops
How an engagement runs.
Five steps, from the first call to the follow-up.
Strategy Call
Thirty minutes with Lorne to scope the right format for your team. We confirm fit before either side commits.
Scope
Engagement scope and investment are confirmed on the Strategy Call.
Preparation
Pre-work goes out ahead of the session: a short brief and a questionnaire for leadership teams, a crash course or a readiness pack two weeks ahead for larger groups.
The session
Lorne leads the session. The content is built on your operations, your data and your workflows.
Follow-up
A follow-up pack after every session. Executive Sessions and Departmental Trainings add a 30-day review and an optional debrief call with Lorne.
Book a Strategy Call.
A 30-minute call with Lorne to scope the right format for your team. We confirm fit before either side commits.