Leadership Development for Sustainability Professionals

We know that it takes more than technical expertise to succeed in purpose-led roles but recognize that there is a shortage of individuals with the non-technical skills required to drive change and deliver desired business outcomes. We deliver recruitment and talent development solutions that are designed to tackle this gap head-on. We upskill sustainability professionals across the globe with the non-technical skills essential to be effective in their role. 

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Leadership Assessments

We look beyond experience and technical expertise to discover a candidate's strengths, development needs and potential fit for a role. We benchmark these insights against our database of 2,000+ purpose-led professionals; the largest of its kind for sustainability, health and safety-related functions.

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Coaching

Effective development requires a fail-safe environment to explore motivations and to frame challenges as opportunities. We activate leadership potential through structured coaching solutions for every stage of the employment life-cycle; from onboarding through to succession and for emerging through to senior leaders.

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Leadership
Training

We develop high-performing sustainability, health and safety teams through structured training programmes that allow teams to experiment with new and different skills. We call these programmes 'Learning Pods' which are our solution to creating more effective and engaging virtual training environments.

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Meet the Team

Testimonials

  • Marta Kęsy - Amazon - Testimonial

    Excellent customer experience!

    I have completed 6 coaching sessions and I am happy with how they are shaped and what they have helped me achieve. I think the Acre Team is very professional and I can see how they positively influenced my personal development. I was so happy with them, that I am starting another set of sessions next month.

    Marta Kęsy - EHS Manager, Eastern Europe

    Amazon

Featured Content

  • The 2023/24 Sustainability Census is Now Live

    The 2023/24 Sustainability Census is Now Live

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    With over 2,200 responses, the report aims to paint a global, holistic picture of the sustainability profession within business and finance today.

    The 2023/24 Sustainability Census is Now Live
  • The Value of a Growth Mindset at CBRE

    ​If you don’t often find yourself immersed in the professional development space, you may not be overly familiar with the concept of a growth mindset. So, you might be wondering, what exactly is this?

    Think: Someone who is not only open to new ideas and concepts but actively makes decisions and achieves outcomes based on them.

    Enter: Dave Dite, QHSE Director at CBRE.

    Dave is no stranger to the idea of a growth mindset. Having worked with him here at Acre for the better part of the last eight years, we’ve seen him continue to raise the bar for himself and those around him when it comes to abandoning ‘the way we’ve always done things’ and opting for new ways of achieving the desired outcomes.

    The Value of a Growth Mindset at CBRE
  • Becoming a Coach

    ​​Hi! I’m Ana, and I’m a Coach at Acre Frameworks. I’m the newest team member, although I’ve been part of Acre for almost 2 years. I wanted to share my story about why I became a Coach, as it’s not exactly a typical profession that’s talked about at university career days.

    I was interested in human behaviour from a young age – I was an observant child (according to my family), and I always asked ‘why.’ For example, why people were motivated to do what they do, what made them tick, and the reasons behind their decision-making was always fascinating to me. But how could I forge a career out of my interests?

    Becoming a Coach
  • Acre Frameworks - Client Testimonials

    ​​Acre Frameworks' clients from REM, Selfridges, Lloyd's Register and Vodafone discuss the benefits of using the development tool within their HSE team.

    Acre Frameworks - Client Testimonials
  • The Call to Action for Vulnerability & Courage in Leading Risk

    In the midst of the evolution of the health and safety industry, where human skills are being championed with equal weight as technical skills, a call to action has emerged for more courageous leaders.

    The Call to Action for Vulnerability & Courage in Leading Risk

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More Information

The world needs big outcomes, so we don’t think small and since businesses want new outcomes, we recruit and develop talent differently.

We don’t just recruit people with the right knowledge and experience, we assess their potential fit for a role and a business. We then develop them to translate their passion and knowledge into a language that their business understands, equipping them with the skills needed to disrupt traditional thinking and deliver measurable impact at every level of an organisation.


Why is Acre best placed to coach and train sustainability, ESG and health & safety professionals?

  • Our development services are underpinned by a market-leading competency framework that we co-created in collaboration with 100+ industry leaders to determine 'what good looks like' in purpose-led professions. This includes, but is not limited to:

      • Corporate Responsibility & Sustainability

      • Corporate Affairs & Communications

      • Health & Safety

      • Energy & Cleantech

      • Climate Change & Environment

      • ESG & Impact Investing

  • We access Acre’s extensive network, built over 18 years of niche recruitment experience with sustainability and safety professionals from all over the globe.

  • We leverage data from 2,000+ purpose-led leaders - the largest of its kind for professionals in sustainability-related functions - to support our clients to make more informed decisions.


How does Acre approach non-technical development?

​Our experience coaching safety and sustainability professionals has taught us that individuals and teams need a structured platform for professional development that allows for flexibility within that framework to freely self-develop. With that, we consider the following three 'stages' of development to be fundamental to achieving sustainable behaviour change:

Discover - Leadership Assessments

Before you can help someone acquire skills, you have to get them into a position where they’re ready and willing to learn – particularly, if they’re naturally resistant to change. We like to think of the ‘discover’ phase of development as unlocking your ‘why’ and we do this with the help of our Acre leadership & behavioural assessments.

Our leadership assessments provide objective insight into an individual’s underlying behavioural preferences and how these preferences are likely to impact their performance in a work setting – be that in a positive or limiting way.

By understanding strengths and limiting behaviours, those who are effective in the discovery phase of development reflect on their motivations, their accountability in their role, what’s in it for them to change, what resources they’ll need to do so and more. Once the intention and motivation behind development plans are clear and individuals are consciously practicing self-awareness, they can move onto evaluating how they will set and achieve their goals.





Explore - Leadership Coaching

Once an individual or team understands their motivations and what’s in it for them to change, we help them to explore their thinking, to frame challenges as opportunities and ultimately, to develop a growth mindset to become a more effective leader. We like to think of the 'explore’ phase of development as unlocking your ‘how’ and we do this through a range of individual and group coaching solutions.

Our coaching journeys begin by reviewing and redefining objectives that were highlighted during the discovery process. Coaching provides our clients with much-needed time and space to actively reflect on their personal development and to put strategies in place to achieve meaningful outcomes.

Experiment - Leadership Training

After discovering an individual’s need for development and exploring how they might affect sustainable behaviour change, it is time for participants to turn coaching insights into actions. With that, we like to think of the ‘experiment’ phase of development as unlocking your ‘what if’s’ and we do this by creating fail-safe training environments for individuals and teams to experiment with practical strategies to address their development objectives.  

A fundamental element of our training programmes involves replacing traditional, full-day workshops with ‘bite-sized’ learning sessions that allow for time and space in between sessions for participants to practice and to reflect on their progress.

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