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HP Creating Impact Leaders

IICA Certified ESG Professional: Impact Leader Programme

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Programme Overview

GENESIS

For more than 80 years, HP has prided itself on being a high-performance, purpose-driven company that, through the technology we create and the values we uphold, contributes to a better future. We are aware that the long-term success of our business depends upon the well-being of the people and communities we serve.

This mindset was instilled in the culture of HP by our founders, and today, it has never been more important. Because when you think about the sheer scale of the challenges we face—from the growing threats of climate change to persistent inequality— it’s clear we have much more work ahead.

That is why, at HP, we don’t treat Sustainable Impact as a separate initiative. It’s deeply embedded into how we run the company—from the way we design, manufacture, and distribute our products to the services and solutions we create to meet changing customer needs to the investments we make to help people reach their full potential. We constantly push ourselves to challenge the status quo and lead our industry forward. We hold ourselves accountable, which is why every member of our executive leadership team is responsible for achieving specific goals each year.

As we work to protect our planet, we’re also empowering people—both inside HP and across our communities. HP has never been a company that shies away from challenges. It’s one that creates solutions beyond what we previously thought possible.

HP understood that to implement the ESG strategies at every layer of its business, every stakeholder must be educated on the philosophies and principles of ESG, and only when every stakeholder becomes knowledgeable can a paradigm shift be possible. It was this thought that motivated HP to partner with IICA, a well-known government body expert in delivering ESG ideologies to create Future Impact Leaders.

ESG – KEY TO SUSTAINABLE BUSINESSES

“Every company and every industry will be transformed by the transition to a net zero world. The question is, will you lead, or will you be led?”

Larry Fink

Chairman & CEO, Black Rock

“By helping people to reach their full potential while protecting human rights across our supply chain, we can help build stronger communities, societies, and economies.”

Enrique Lores

President and CEO, HP Inc.

It is necessary to put company’s purpose at the core of its relationship with all its stakeholders and once the stakeholders synchronize with the organization’s purpose, they become the staunchest of the advocates causing the creation of long-term value and sustainable business. Hence, it has become necessary for the “Impact leaders” to have a clear vision of the organization’s purpose, a coherent resilient strategy and a long-term view towards value creation.

ABOUT THE PROGRAMME

The Certified ESG Professional: Impact Leader programme is designed as a comprehensive course on ESG giving a holistic understanding of the philosophy of ESG, its principles, its relevance and its implication in the current scenario. IICA’s Certified ESG Professional Programme is a step towards fortifying the businesses’ efforts to achieve the vision of ‘Purpose before Profit’. The Six-Month course comprising of 8 Self paced learning modules will be delivered online. Renowned ESG professionals of International & National repute are involved in delivering the live interactive Master classes. There will be one In-person Session where participants will get the chance to meet their fellow participants.

TARGET AUDIENCE

  1. C – Suites (CEOs and CXOs).
  2. Members of Board
  3. Sustainability and CSR Professionals.
  4. Executives of Banks, Asset Managers, and Rating Agencies responsible for ESG related compliances etc.

KEY LEARNINGS

  1. Understand the Global ESG Landscape
  2. Indentifying ESG Risk & Opportunities
  3. Indentify and layout the materiality aspects of ESG.
  4. Managing all ESG aspects in an organization - turning theory into actions.
  5. Reporting and implementing the trio – ESG.
  6. Integrating ESG Best Practices into core operations – creating ESG sensitive culture.
  7. Build resilient ESG Strategies

IICA ADVANTAGE

  1. Up skill and gain a competitive edge in your profession.
  2. Gain advanced expertise to be change agents
  3. Get professional recognition by an institute of prominence
  4. Learn from the stalwarts with domain expertise
  5. Be a member of “NAIL – National Association of Impact Leaders”. NAIL is an association of IICA trained and certified ESG Professionals that maintains the database of Members and provides opportunity for continuous professional advancement.

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF IMPACT LEADERS (NAIL)

NAIL is an association of IICA trained and certified ESG professionals that maintains the database of Members and provides continuous professional advancement. Benefits of NAIL: Platform for exchange of Information and Ideas, continuous professional advancement, continues learning opportunities. Certified professionals under HP projects will be provided an opportunity to join NAIL.

COURSE CURRICULUM

Understand the philosophy of ESG, its pillars and the Global ESG landscape

Understand the Environmental issues, Risks, Opportunities, Risk Mitigation and the innovative processes that could be adopted by organizations to be able to move towards sustainability

The Module delves deeper to gain an in depth understanding of the pertinent Social Issues that the businesses should identify and address these issues

Understanding of the Key Governance issues, its impact, the risks and opportunities that it presents and how corporates could leverage these to their benefit through its Governance Risk Management Mechanism

The Module explains the aspects of Materiality and provides guidance to the Corporates to enable them to identify the material ESG issues pertinent and conduct a Materiality assessment for their businesses

The module intends to explain the various ESG Evaluation and Reporting frameworks available, its significance, differences and applicability. The module will also enable practitioners to interpret and analyze ESG reporting/disclosures

The module will enlighten practitioners to enable them to embed sustainable investment strategies throughout their businesses keeping the full spectrum of ESG in consideration. The module will also provide an insight of the various ESG Engagement & Communication Strategies that the organizations could adopt.

The Module gives a step – wise guidance for Corporates that are embarking on the ESG adoption journey.



ELIGIBILITY & SELECTION CRITERIA

Eligibility

  1. Graduate in any discipline
  2. Minimum 5 years work experience in relevant domain
  3. Commitment for six months dedicated online learning

Selection Criteria

  1. Statement of Purpose (SoP) submitted by applicant

Selection of the applicants will be based on the recommendations of the scrutiny committee

Application Process

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FEE & SCHOLARSHIP

The training fee for the entire course is 200,000 INR however; it would be entirely free for the candidates selected for this program.

To ensure continued engagement and seriousness in the course, a nominal security deposit of 15,000 INR would be charged while applying for the course, and the candidates would have the option of either getting back this security deposit after successful completion of the course or, could adjust the same towards their NAIL registration at the end of the course Candidates who are not selected for the program after applying, would immediately be refunded with this security deposit within 21 days of announcement of selected candidates.

This security deposit would, however, be forfeited for selected and enrolled candidates in the case the candidate drops out in between the course tenure with only exception of serious medical condition or death.

REGISTRATION

Guidelines to apply
  1. Go to IICA website
  2. Register using the Online Registration Option
  3. Fill up the details asked in Application Forms. Ex. Name, email etc.
  4. Pay the required amount of security deposit i.e. Rs.15000/-(Mode of Payment – Online or Net banking)
  5. Click Submit after fulfilling the details and payment of Fee.






Frequently Asked Questions

Enrollment

One can apply for the course by filling up an online application form and making the payment of security deposit. All the applications will be reviewed and successful shortlisted applicants will be informed about their enrollment in the course.

Payment of course fee can be done online through the link (………………) or through Net banking, the details for which are as under.

This course is sponsored by HP India Sales Pvt. Ltd. Only a nominal security deposit of 15,000 INR would be charged while applying for the course (which is refundable or adjustable with NAIL Membership)

No

Yes. Candidates, who are not selected for the programme after applying, would immediately be refunded the security deposit within 21 days of announcement of selected candidates.

After the final exam of the course, our team will review the participant coursework. Once this review is completed, you will be notified about the completion of the course and the certificate will be then sent through courier to your correspondence address.

No.

Academics

The course has one in-person teaching session that would be organized during the course delivery.

It is a self-paced learning program (with weekly deadlines). The course will be delivered through recorded sessions along with the self learning study material which will be available online.

Live interactive session - the “Masterclass” would be conducted once a week wherein Subject matter experts of International & National repute would be invited to conduct the Masterclass.

The Masterclass will be scheduled during evening of weekdays or over the weekends to make it convenient for the working professionals. In case the Masterclass is to be delivered by an international speaker/faculty, the session may be conducted at any time, subject to the availability of the expert and the time zone.

Yes, there is a provision of one in-person contact teaching session to be organized during the course.

No, but recommendatory

Yes. The course fee includes the food and accommodation charges (twin sharing basis) during the in-person teaching sessions.



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