Foundations in Corporate Sustainability
This course provides essential knowledge and tools for understanding and implementing sustainable business practices that align with global standards and drive long-term impact.
This course offers a practical deep dive into sustainability for procurement and supply functions, providing the essential frameworks and trend insights needed to navigate non-financial reporting and integrate ESG considerations into everyday business operations and supplier selection.
Whether you are procuring or supplying, this course will offer you insights on global and
regional sustainability trends, practical guidance on applying sustainability to improve
business practices and enhance existing work functions, an overview of non-financial
reporting frameworks and tools to embark on your own reporting journey.
7 & 8 May / 15 & 16 Jul / 24 & 25 Sep 2026
9am-5pm
Singapore Sustainability Academy, 180 Kitchener Rd, #06-10, Singapore 208539
2 days
Non Member: $1500 SGD
Member : Enjoy additional 21% discount. Avail the offer at $1185 SGD
This training will help participants to equip businesses and their partners within a supply chain with the knowledge, skills, and tools necessary to identify, measure, manage, track and get started on reporting across a diverse range of ESG topics.
At the end of this course, businesses will able to make more informed decisions in supplier selection and suppliers will be equipped with knowledge to integrate ESG considerations into their operations for better credentials.
Upon completion of the course, participants will be awarded a certificate of completion by United Nations Global Compact Network Singapore
Registrations will only be confirmed upon successful completion of payment
| FORMAT | MONTH | DATE | REGISTRATIONS |
|---|---|---|---|
| In-person | May | 7-8 | Registrations open |
| In-person | July | 15-16 | Registrations open |
| In-person | September | 24-25 | Registrations open |
Deputy Director, Sustainability & Capability-Building
UN Global Compact Network Singapore (UNGCNS)
Sue Meng has 20 years experience in strategy, sustainable development and strategic communications. At UNGCNS, her work encompasses training, partnerships development and management, thought publications, and events that inspire businesses to engage in and deepen sustainability efforts. In September 2025, she was onboarded as an APAC Regional Council member of the Taskforce on Inequality and Social-related Financial Disclosures to contribute to its development over the next two years.
Innovative yet practical and solution-oriented, since 2010, she helped businesses to develop or co-create strategies and solutions that consider impacts, dependencies, risks and opportunities over short, medium and long terms, also supporting implementation and operationalisation of sustainability programmes that create inclusive outcomes - concurrently for people, planet and profit. Her strategic communications capabilities are applied to her work as a trainer, writer, speaker and in relationship-management.
She has a glocal orientation, having lived, studied and worked in Singapore where she is a permanent resident, Malaysia her native country, and in England and China. She holds an M.A. in Asia Pacific Studies and is a published author, with a heritage project in her home town, Ipoh - on the mission to contribute to a peaceful, safe and harmonious world, her project leverages untapped history to advance responsible tourism and advance pressing sustainable development goals like education, job creation, living wage, health and wellbeing and circular economy.
Join a cohort of leaders defining the future of sustainability.
This course provides essential knowledge and tools for understanding and implementing sustainable business practices that align with global standards and drive long-term impact.
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This programme combines the expertise of UN GCNS and Nanyang Technological University to equip leaders with the knowledge and tools for advancing corporate purpose and sustainable finance.
