Goals and Ambitions

IMD aims to build on its strong foundation of developing responsible leaders and organizations. Its objectives for 2022 and beyond are rooted in the five core focus areas. Through these objectives, IMD both challenges and inspires others to embrace sustainable business transformation and embeds sustainability in its own operations and culture. The institution has defined the following objectives within these areas:

IMD will strengthen its focus on responsible leadership development through its teaching, research, and outreach. In 2022, IMD plans to:

• Build its offering of open-enrollment programs on sustainability culminating in a professional certification
• Develop offerings on sustainability governance for boards
• Strengthen its custom program for corporate partners portfolio in ESG and sustainability
• Launch a new Center for Sustainable and Inclusive Business to research the intersection of sustainability with strategy and leadership
• Engage in fundraising to support scholarships and research related to the social and environmental impact of business
• Build a community of sustainability leaders to foster peer-to-peer learning

IMD has successfully transitioned from a face-to-face on-campus environment to a fully enabled technology-mediated interactive learning environment.

• While IMD will continue to develop this capability through virtual reality and exploring the “metaverse”, it will also revisit what it means for some of our participants to come back on to the campus.
• This will include creating a campus application that will pro-actively welcome participants using personal handheld devices as the platform for content delivery, authentication to access facilities and find other participants, faculty, restaurants or classrooms. This will reduce paper consumption and the need to use plastic badges, while providing a stronger sense of proactive care to all.

IMD will continue to promote and enable workforce diversity and inclusion.

• A new inclusion index, in the employee engagement survey, will offer data to assess and act on to enhance inclusive leadership as well as an inclusive working environment.
• IMD will add to job profiles and HR documents an officially articulated commitment to equal opportunity, regardless of creed, race, gender, sexual orientation, and disability.

The COVID-19 pandemic has radically changed the way IMD delivers its programs, reducing IMD’s impact on the environment related to faculty and participant travel. As participants return to campus and restrictions ease:

• IMD expects to continue to incorporate technology in its programs to reduce the need for travel.
• IMD also plans to develop emissions targets and develop a roadmap for reduction through new policies and more sustainable campus operations practices.