Sustainability Strategy Executive Immersion Program

See . Learn . Connect . Transform

A premium executive learning experience designed for senior professionals, business leaders, government executives, and decision-makers seeking practical exposure to sustainability leadership, innovation, energy transition, and future-ready business practices in Australia.

Through expert sessions, industry visits and action-learning workshops, participants explore sustainability challenges and approaches relevant to their organisations.

Program at a Glance

Duration
5-7 days (customisable)

Group Size
15-40 participants

Location
Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra, and selected regional destinations.

Who should attend?

Senior managers and executives
Business owners and entrepreneurs
Sustainability and public sector leaders
Industry association representatives
Infrastructure, energy, and utility professionals
Emerging leaders identified for executive development

Participant Outcomes

Understand global sustainability and energy transition trends.
Learn how leading organisations implement sustainability strategies.
Explore practical net-zero, circular economy, and ESG approaches.
Identify emerging business opportunities and innovation pathways.
Strengthen leadership capabilities for transformation.
Build international professional networks.
Develop practical action plans for implementation.

Why This Program Matters?

Organisations across the world are navigating unprecedented disruption – climate change, energy transition, ESG accountability, digital transformation, and shifting stakeholder expectations are no longer distant trends, they are present-day strategic imperatives. Yet for many senior leaders, the gap between understanding these forces and knowing how to act on them remains significant. Classroom learning can inform, but it rarely transforms. The Australia Executive Immersion bridge that gap – a premium, curated experience that puts senior executives directly alongside Australia’s leading sustainability practitioners, industry innovators, and real-world implementation examples. Designed and delivered by Strategy&Ops Consultancy, a Melbourne-based advisory organisation with a global network of more than 120 experts and a track record spanning governments, corporations, and international organisations worldwide.

Learning Themes

Climate Risk, Resilience, and Adaptation

Net-Zero and Energy Transition and Initiatives

Circular Economy and Resource Productivity

Smart and Sustainable Cities

ESG, Governance, and Sustainable Finance

Sustainable Tourism and Developments

Program Experience

The Executive Immersion Program combines expert-led learning, industry engagement and practical exploration of sustainability initiatives in Australia. Depending on the program design, participants may take part in the following activities and experiences.

Executive Learning and Expert Engagement

Executive masterclasses: Explore sustainability leadership, energy transition and future-ready business practices.
Industry engagement sessions: Learn from industry practitioners and experts about real-world sustainability challenges and approaches.
Executive roundtables and peer networking: Exchange insights, discuss shared challenges and learn from other leaders.

Action Learning and Application

Action-learning workshops: Explore how sustainability concepts can be applied to organisational challenges.
Reflection and practical application: Identify insights and potential actions relevant to participants’ organisations.

Indicative Industry Visits and Learning Experiences

To provide participants with practical exposure to Australia’s sustainability and innovation landscape, each Executive Immersion Program may include visits to a selection of leading organisations, landmark projects, and industry facilities. The exact itinerary is customised for each cohort based on learning objectives, participant interests, and availability.

Renewable energy projects and battery storage facilities

Smart and sustainable city developments and facilities

Circular economy and resource recovery facilities

Green buildings, facilities and sustainable precincts

Ports, logistics, and supply chain operations

Water management facilities

Innovation and research centres

Sustainable tourism initiatives

Why Australia?

Australia offers one of the world’s most comprehensive living examples of the sustainability transition in action, from large-scale renewable energy deployment, sustainable urban development and tourism, circular economy initiatives, to ESG governance and climate resilience. As a nation actively navigating the shift to a low-carbon economy, it presents a rare opportunity for leaders to observe, question, and learn from organisations implementing real solutions at scale.

Why Strategy&Ops Consultancy?

Strategy&Ops Consultancy is an Australian sustainability advisory, training and research organisation headquartered in Melbourne, with a multidisciplinary team of more than 120 experts, practitioners, and academics spanning Australia and internationally. Through our Sustainability Training Institute (STI), we design and deliver executive education and leadership development programmes that bridge global best practices with on-the-ground implementation – drawing on direct experience supporting governments, corporations, and international organisations across the public, private, and non-for-profit sectors.

Meet Our Key Experts in Executive Immersion & Industry Innovation

Margaret Hudson

Margaret Hudson is an international strategic leader recognised for building partnerships across universities, industry, government and research organisations. Her experience connecting senior decision-makers, institutions and innovation initiatives is especially valuable for executive immersion programmes. She helps design opportunities that go beyond observation to meaningful dialogue, industry access and applied learning, enabling visiting executives to engage directly with the organisations and ideas shaping sustainable transformation.

Qualification: MBA‑Executive; BEc

Prof Fang Zhao

An internationally recognised scholar in digital innovation, strategy and sustainable transformation, Professor Fang Zhao has published more than 120 peer-reviewed works, many in leading international journals. Her distinguished career spans senior academic leadership across continents and major research funded by the Australian Research Council, British Academy and UKRI. She connects frontier research with government policy, smart cities and practical business transformation.

Qualification: PhD in Business Management

Andrew Haschka

Andrew Haschka is a technology executive and board adviser whose career includes Google, VMware and GitLab. As GitLab’s Field CTO for Asia Pacific and Japan, he has advised customers and partners on modernisation and the business implications of technology change. With experience across financial services and other major industries, he brings executive-level insight into digital innovation, implementation choices and the organisational capabilities needed to turn strategy into results.

Qualification: Mini MBA – Management. INSEAD Board of Directors program

Arek Sinanian

With more than 35 years of international experience, Arek Sinanian brings rare depth to greenhouse-gas accounting, emissions abatement and climate resilience. His technical and strategic perspective helps organisations move beyond ambitious net-zero commitments to credible measurement, risk-informed decisions and implementable emissions-reduction pathways. His experience across greenhouse-gas reporting, abatement planning and adaptation offers senior leaders a grounded view of evolving climate obligations, investment priorities and delivery risks.

Qualification: Member, Emissions Reduction Assurance Committee (ERAC)

Dr Alan Collier

Dr Alan Collier combines law, engineering, entrepreneurship and academic experience in an unusually broad perspective on innovation and sustainable business. His interdisciplinary background helps connect commercial decision-making with regulatory, ethical and technological considerations. For executive immersion participants, he offers a practical view of how organisations can navigate governance responsibilities, manage complexity and pursue innovation without losing sight of legal and operational realities.

Qualification: PhD

Dr Alex Settimi Sohler

Dr Alex Settimi Sohler is a digital and business-transformation leader with experience driving organisational restructuring, technology adoption and operational improvement across diverse industries. His work focuses on the leadership choices and implementation processes required to make innovation effective in practice. He contributes a valuable executive perspective on modernising business models, improving customer experience and building organisations capable of sustaining change beyond an initial technology investment.

Qualification: DBA & MBA,GAICD

Michael Vines

Michael Vines is a Chartered Professional Engineer and global energy project director with more than 20 years of experience delivering complex, multibillion-dollar projects across Australia, Qatar and the Asia-Pacific. His work combines major-project execution with energy-transition strategy in demanding industrial settings. He offers executive immersion participants firsthand insight into the governance, investment, engineering and delivery decisions that determine whether large-scale energy initiatives succeed.

Qualification: Master of Business Administration

Gregor Aschoff

Gregor Aschoff is an international business and board adviser whose work spans corporate strategy, ESG, digital transformation and business development. He brings a commercial perspective to sustainability innovation, linking market opportunities and growth with the practical realities of strategic change. His contribution to executive immersion is to help senior leaders explore how governance, transformation and cross-border partnerships can support competitive, sustainable business models.

Qualification: MSc, MBA, GAICD

Partnership Opportunity

We welcome collaboration with executive education providers, universities, professional associations, government agencies, and corporate learning organisations to co-design and deliver tailored immersion experiences for your cohort.

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Take the first step toward transforming how your organisation leads through sustainability.

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