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External and Executive Education & Mobilization
Featured Program
The Stanford Leadership Experience: Science, Innovation, and Resilience
Join other senior leaders, renowned Stanford faculty, industry experts, and leading innovators to explore what it means to lead in a rapidly changing landscape.
Stanford Faculty Academic Directors for our programs
- Associate Professor of Environmental Social Sciences and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment
- Director, Precourt Institute for Energy, Kimmelman Professor, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, of Energy Science and Engineering, of Photon Science and Senior Fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy
- Melvin and Joan Lane Professor of Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies, Director, Woods Institute for the Environment & Professor of Earth System Science, of Biology and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute and at the Precourt Institute
- Professor of Chemical Engineering, of Energy Science Engineering, of Photon Science and Senior Fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy
- William and Eva Price Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment and Professor, by courtesy, of Oceans
- C. L. Peck, Class of 1906, Professor and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment
- The Robert K. Jaedicke Professor of Accounting at Stanford Graduate School of Business, and a senior fellow at the Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research (ABFER)
On Campus and Custom Programs
Stanford Master Classes
Stanford Master Classes offer a unique opportunity for business leaders to engage in interactive discussions with industry experts and world-class faculty from across Stanford University. We’ll explore the insights, tools, and perspectives needed to accelerate innovation and drive meaningful change.
On campus
The Stanford Leadership Experience: Science, Innovation, and Resilience
Senior leaders and board members will strengthen their strategic adaptability, deepen their self-awareness, and rethink what it means to lead a business in a rapidly changing global landscape.
On campus
The Strategic Sustainability Leader Program
CSOs, emerging & aspiring CSOs, and heads of sustainability learn the language of business and make the strategic case for sustainability through financial frameworks, personal leadership skills, and a deeper knowledge of today’s sustainability landscape.
On campus
Custom Stanford Programs For Your Organization
Each organization faces its own unique opportunities and challenges. We collaborate with your team to create custom programs and support learning across key sustainability and leadership topics in formats that best suit your needs – either on-site, online, or a combination of both.
Please contact Jenn Gardner at jenns@stanford.edu to learn more about our offerings and custom capabilities.
Online Learning
Building Decarbonization and The Clean Energy Transition
Through expert-led modules you will learn how to use energy efficient, electrification, renewable energy, and market-based approaches to achieve sustainable, energy-efficient buildings.
Online
The AI, Climate, and Energy Connection
This course demystifies the connection between AI, data centers, energy, and water and includes case studies demonstrating AI climate solutions. You will build an impact plan for cleantech, procurement, operations, or strategy to effectively lead change.
Online
Energy Innovation and Emerging Technologies
This program equips you with the knowledge and tools needed to drive impactful change through a comprehensive curriculum that covers emerging technologies, finance, and sustainability management.
Online
Sustainability Strategies: Develop Initiatives to Transform Your Business
Understand the impacts and root causes of climate change so that you can communicate the value of sustainable business practices to key stakeholders and develop a proactive mindset to effectively lead change.
Online
Introduction to the Natural Capital Approach
People depend on nature to sustain human life, yet nature's value is typically ignored in decisions. Modeling ecosystem services helps highlight the diverse benefits nature provides and how those benefits change under different options.
Online
Harnessing the Power of Geophysical Imaging to Recharge California’s Groundwater
This course focuses on determining if subsurface composition allows efficient water movement from the surface to the water table, identifying "fast paths".
Online
Global Sustainability Challenge
An annual international competition where students design, implement, and showcase real-world sustainability solutions—supported by a Stanford-led collective of leading educational institutions and experts worldwide. Learn More
Additional resources
Stanford offers many opportunities for working professionals to learn new skills, wherever they are in their life or career.
- AI and Climate: Trade-offs and Transformation This course is for public servants covering topics from AI, data centers, energy and water demand, and applications of AI for climate solutions.
- The Stanford Understand Energy Learning Hub This free source is designed to build your literacy around energy resources from fossil fuels like oil and coal to renewable resources like the wind, the sun, and efficiency; energy currencies like electricity and hydrogen; and energy services such as transportation and buildings.
- Move Fast and Fix the Planet (podcast)
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