Working Session: How to move forward in this moment: Leading a Sustainability Action Audit

Working Session:

How to move forward in this moment: Leading a Sustainability Action Audit

ABOUT THE EVENT

Sustainability is facing strong headwinds, but you have no intention of giving up. Yet how do you keep moving forward in this moment when budgets are cut and disillusionment is growing?

In this interactive working session, you’ll learn how to conduct an Action Audit: a structured, team-based process that helps sustainability leaders identify what’s working, what’s stalled, and what needs to shift. It provides a moment to reflect on successes but also to focus on what is going to deliver the most going forward.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

1. Evaluate: Apply a structured framework to assess the effectiveness and ROI of your top 10 sustainability
initiatives.

2. Diagnose: Identify common patterns in success or struggle using key prompts (e.g., readiness, complexity, motivation, systems of support).

3. Prioritize: Clarify which actions are worth doubling down on and which may need to be redesigned or let go.

4. Align: Facilitate team-wide reflection and comparison of priorities, assumptions, and perceived impact.

5. Empower: Leave with a replicable process to drive strategic focus, renew team energy, and celebrate visible
impact—even in tough times.

PROMPTS:

Come to this session with your current sustainability initiatives in mind. Be ready to talk about the barriers you’re facing, unexpected successes, what worked and what didn’t.

We’ll be matching your experience to science based change
strategies and building out a roadmap for what works, what to adjust, and what to take off your plate.

If you want to use this opportunity to review your initiatives with your sustainability team or trusted peers, bring them along to work together. The goal is to learn from each other’s successes and struggles, while being guided by the science
of what works. Often your gut is right, but if you can’t explain it, you can’t replicate it.

This session will help you take away the magic ingredients for successful change that you can apply to all your projects.

Based on the psychology of change and implementation science, this tool helps you to unpack the reasons for success so you can move forward with a credible science based action plan.

You’ll leave with a clear process you can use with your team to recognize success, align priorities, and to spend time on doing more of what works, not just doing more.

MEET YOUR PRESENTER

Dr Jacqueline Kerr 

Dr. Kerr has been published in HBR, Kogod Sustainability Review, and is in the top 1% of most cited social scientists worldwide. She has been involved in large scale change efforts at the individual, organizational, community, and policy levels. She brings lessons learned from these experiences to support sustainability leaders when implementing change and facing resistance. Using behavior change, implementation science, and systems change strategies, she supports sustainability leaders to deliver even when resources are constrained.

This event addresses the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Specific Focus on: 

• Climate Action
• Responsible Consumption and Production
• Life on Land
• Partnerships for the Goals

CONTINUING EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS

ISSP credential holders will earn 0.75 CEUs for attending this webinar.

RECORDING

The webinar recording and materials will be available to ISSP members after the session as a member benefit.