Our sustainability consulting firm, Achieve Sustainability Inc, offers training /education services to a wide variety of clients, including SMEs and start-ups. We have heard from a number of accelerators that a course on how to embed sustainability in a business plan would be a valuable. We would like to collaborate with students to create a training module on this topic.

Tasks would involve:

• Understanding the components of a standard business plan
• Understanding the value of sustainable business for attracting customers, employees and investors
• Creating an outline for the training module
• Work to add sustainability elements to various facets of the plan including considerations around choice of building/office, location of office, sustainable sourcing of equipment/materials, energy, waste and water minimization, mode of business travel, mode of goods transportation etc.
• Providing 1-2 case studies of sustainable businesses
• Generating a draft deck of Powerpoint slides
• Revising the Powerpoint slides based on our feedback

By the end of the project, students should demonstrate:

• Understanding of sustainable businesses
• Understanding of business plan components
• Understanding on how sustainability can be embedded in a business plan and tracked

Final deliverables should include

• A Powerpoint slide deck constituting the training module

• Students will connect directly with us for feedback and mentorship throughout the project.
• We would meet with the student regularly to be sure we are all on the same page and provide constructive feedback
• The student would be provided access to our Google Drive to house the slide deck.