Jump-start or advance your Sustainability, ClimateLiteracy & CircularEconomy skill set
In-house team or individuals can start now with the Swivel Skills comprehensive Core Sustainability Program or refine your capacity through our Leadership and Industry-specific training programs.
The Swivel Skills platform is based around a three-part Core Learning Experience dedicated to literacy and capacity building for the Circular Economy, ESG and Climate Action.
Sustainability Skills
Chapter 1: Introduction to Sustainability
Chapter 2: Sustainability Decision Making
Chapter 3: Sustainability Key Concepts & Terms
Chapter 4: Applying Sustainability to Business
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the Sustainability course, you should be able to confidently identify critical impact areas, understand how to measure and assess those impacts, and be ready to start taking tangible actions to activate sustainability within your organization.
Through 4 distinct, dedicated learning experiences, this course dives into ensuring your foundational understanding of what sustainability is and what it is not.
Content includes:
The four different dimensions of sustainability
Planetary boundaries
Externalities of pollution
Environmental, Social, Governance: ESG
Emerging global sustainability regulations
Green myths and greenwashing, and so much more
Climate Literacy
Overview
Climate literacy is critical for companies of all sizes and within all industries, as the growing global demand for significant action is placing pressure on pubic and private organizations to take responsibility for their direct and indirect carbon contributions. In this Climate Literacy course, you will level up your understanding of climate change and action by diving into the key terms and concepts. You will also attain the necessary tools for developing substantial actions within your organization, such as carbon footprinting, GHG emissions, impact measurement, the Greenhouse Gas Protocol, Scope 3 emissions, and target setting. Stand out as a climate leader after you've learned to distinguish what's most impactful for organizational and corporate climate strategy, and help ensure that your organization is taking accountability for its contribution to the climate crisis on its way to becoming climate positive.
Chapters
Chapter 1: Introduction to Climate Literacy
Chapter 2: Climate Impact Measurement
Chapter 3: Climate Action
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this Climate Literacy course, you should:
Know what climate change is and the risks associated with inaction
Understand how the global community is working to address climate change and your role within this
Recognize the impacts of climate change on the Earth & society
Identify the contribution of different industries to climate change, and begin formulating actions that your company can take now
Build knowledge to expand your climate literacy by immersing yourself in topics like climate risks and opportunities, along with climate leadership, in turn honing skills that you can integrate right away into your climate strategy
Circular Economy
Overview
Embracing the shift to sustainability means embracing the circular economy, a movement away from a take-make-waste model of production and business, to one that is waste-free and regenerative. As such, here you'll immerse yourself in understanding the shift to the Circular Economy, how it is affecting businesses, and what opportunities, issues and approaches for circular redesign and business development are available. You will also walk through the key science that underpins the circular economy, get up to speed with critical circular concepts, and review circular business models that can help inform your own circular redesign strategy. There are practical activities to complete, including a circular SWOT and redesign process to explore which circular business models fit your business case.
Chapters
Chapter 1: Introduction to the Circular Economy
Chapter 2: Circular Economy Key Concepts & Terms
Chapter 3: Circular Business Approaches
Learning Outcomes
The circular economy course rounds out the core learning experience by detailing the global circular economy movement to eliminate waste, make things last longer and regenerate nature by design.
This content clearly demonstrates:
What the circular economy is and how it applies to businesses
Ways to implement circularization into business strategies
Circular design strategies
The benefits, opportunities and issues of transitioning to a circular economy, and much more
To get started now, you can click below to enroll yourself or up to 50 people in any of our available programs.
Our platform is designed for at-scale training from 1-10,000 people, easily accommodating large groups, connecting to your in-house training system or providing a unique branded portal. Reach out for a call to find out about group rates and bulk access benefits.
The Core Sustainability Training Program
Included in this package is:
12 months of access to the Core Sustainability Training Program content
An engaging and interactive experience with scientifically-validated content and supplementary resources to continue your learning journey
Quizzes and assessments to make sure you’re on the right path
The Core Learning Experience is supported Action Learning Modules (ALMs) that provide industry-relevant deep-dives into a specific content area, with several real-world case studies, examples, action prompts and downloadable worksheets to apply the content right away in your business context.
Action Learning Modules can be provided in any custom-built platform and is used to stack together leadership and industry-based learning journeys. They are also available for additional add-ons to your core learning experience, or custom development.
In addition to our Core Sustainability Training Program, we have curated leadership programs and industry-specific learning journeys designed to track you through the content in a progressive journey. Just like our Core Sustainability Training Program, you can sign up for available leadership programs right now or reach out for discounted group packages or white-labeled internal programs.
We offer certificates of completion for individuals, and when partnering with industry associations, we offer organizational certifications (reach out for more information).
Leadership Learning Programs
All leadership training programs include x1 course from the Core Sustainability Training Program (either Sustainability, ClimateLiteracy or CircularEconomy), plus x4 Action Learning Modules. These modules include curated content with detailed management-level programs and actions ready to apply to your business decision-making and leadership right away.
Our five industry-based learning journeys each include the three-part Core Sustainability Training Program with Sustainability, ClimateLiteracy and CircularEconomy content, plus a curated set of Action Learning Modules.
These are designed to provide advanced capacity building for your specific industry, and when partnered with industry groups, we offer full certification.
All learning journeys can be supplemented with additional content from our library of over 20 Action Learning Modules.
Register Your Interest
Design Industry
3 x Core Learning Courses:
Sustainability Skills
Climate Literacy
Circular Economy
5 x Action Learning Modules:
Sustainable Design Strategies
Circular Business Models
Life Cycle Assessment & Thinking
Environmental Footprinting
Experience-based Impacts & Opportunities
Hospitality Industry
3 x Core Learning Courses:
Sustainability Skills
Climate Literacy
Circular Economy
5 x Action Learning Modules:
Materials and Waste streams
Life Cycle Assessment & Thinking
Environmental Footprinting
Experience-based impacts & opportunities
Supply Chains & Scope 3
Finance Industry
3 x Core Learning Courses:
Sustainability Skills
Climate Literacy
Circular Economy
5 x Action Learning Modules:
ESG and Materiality Matrix
Environmental Impact Assessment
Social Impact Assessment
Policy Development
International Regulations
Production Industry
3 x Core Learning Courses:
Sustainability Skills
Climate Literacy
Circular Economy
5 x Action Learning Modules:
Supply Chain & Scope 3
Manufacturing & Industrial Impacts
Reporting and Transparency
Materials and Waste streams
Circular Business Models
Building Industry
3 x Core Learning Courses:
Sustainability Skills
Climate Literacy
Circular Economy
5 x Action Learning Modules:
Sustainable Design Strategies
Circular Business Models
Life Cycle Assessment & Thinking
Environmental Footprinting
Experience-based impacts & opportunities
“Green skills are the building blocks of the green transition and the key to unlocking the human capital that will power it… We have to upskill workers who currently lack those skills. And we need to ensure green skills are hardwired into the skillset of future generations.”
— LinkedIn Green Skills Report, 2022
Program Features
Duration & Access
The entire 10-chapter Core Sustainability Training Program can be completed in 4-10 hours.
The curated learning programs are much more extensive and can take between 15-30 hours to complete.
All programs have a 12-month access, with the option to pay for extensions if required.
Access with ease from desktop, mobile or tablet.
Credentials
Earn in-platform skill badges for each of the three core courses: Sustainability, ClimateLiteracy, and the CircularEconomy and any ALMs you complete.
Skills badges stack to offer you certificates of completion and some specific industry-validated certifications.
All Swivel Skills programs include a certificate of completion.
For corporate packages, we can customize the badges and certifications. Just reach out to find out more.
Flexible Learning
Programs are optimized for mobile viewing and provide a combination of written, verbal and graphic content.
Start and stop anytime, with an engaging series of videos, written content and interactive quizzes to keep you moving forward.
You can take courses in any order within your program.
Courses are broken up into short modules for easy-to-digest content.
“The largest perceived challenges to companies are a lack of organizational skills and processes to understand all of the implications of the Green Deal, quantify the costs of Green Deal levies, benefit from available incentives, and maximize the opportunities arising from the transition to more sustainable economies.”
— Business Readiness for the EU Green Deal Survey by PWC, 2021