Taster sessions for new MBA in Sustainable Energy Futures
Strathclyde Business School is launching a new MBA in Sustainable Energy Futures in September 2022 in response to the current global energy challenges and the drive to reach net zero by 2050 - and a series of taster sessions are planned in the lead up to the programme launch.
The MBA Masters programme has been co-created by industry leaders, who understand the practical challenges facing the sector, alongside esteemed academics, resulting in a cutting-edge course with current and relevant content to drive solutions.
Aimed at managers and leaders working in the energy industry, the course is designed to provide future leaders with the knowledge, skills and behaviours to stimulate change, innovation and adopt a systems-thinking approach to the challenges that we are seeing in the world today.
Participants will gain the knowledge to support their organisations transition to NetZero and can work alongside other industry leaders to create policy change and social innovation.
Dr Phil Considine, Director of Executive Education at Strathclyde Business School said, “We are excited to be bringing this programme to market. We are facing unprecedented systemic pressure driven by a wide range of factors including geo-politics, climate change, net zero, cost of living, pension deficits, migration of people, global equity markets and part of the solution to these problems relies on new ways of building, consuming and paying for gas and power. The MBA Sustainable Energy Futures provides the knowledge and skills required to navigate these challenges.
“As well as an innovative design of the programme content, we have been equally focused on the cohort size and structure. It was important to us that all elements of the energy supply chain from generation, transmission and trading, to pressure groups, suppliers, customers and the regulator are represented. We want to create an environment whereby problems are being solved in a holistic manner. Not only is this a hugely relevant MBA, but we expect the systems approach to create new practices will solve some of the most pressing global problems.”
Core modules will include topics such as Strategic Leadership Development, Accounting & Financial Practise of Energy Transactions, Energy Supply & Trading, as well as completion of a final project that will tackle a management challenge specific to the participant’s sector and organisation. The first of these courses will begin in September.
Meanwhile Strathclyde Business School will be holding a series of taster sessions throughout the summer for applicants and interested parties. The first taster session will take place on Thursday May 26 from 3-5 pm online and will be delivered by Dr Matthew Hannon, Module Lead for the Sustainable Energy Organisation module, and the session will also include a guest lecture by Ian Stillie. More taster sessions will be announced in due course.
Published: 24 May 2022
