Turn sustainability into business value.
IRIS is an executive education institute for senior leaders who need sustainability to pay — not just to comply. Short, intensive programmes built on systems thinking, the 7 Principles of a Sustainable Company and applied AI, anchored to a real challenge from your organisation.
Built for leaders who are accountable for results — not just reports.
Every IRIS programme is designed for people with budget authority and decision-making proximity over sustainability, strategy or investment.
Sustainability & ESG leaders
Move your function from reporting and compliance to strategic value the board recognises.
- Chief Sustainability Officers and heads of ESG
- CSR, risk and regulatory leads
- Senior sustainability and ESG consultants
Business & functional leaders
Connect sustainability to long-term profitability, resilience and new sources of growth.
- P&L and business-unit leaders
- Heads of supply chain, procurement, operations and innovation
- Strategy, transformation and L&D leaders
Investors & operating partners
Protect and grow portfolio value by turning ESG data into decisions that change outcomes.
- Private equity operating partners
- Portfolio sustainability leads
- Investors responsible for sustainable portfolios
A decision lab, not a lecture hall.
Most sustainability training explains the landscape. IRIS programmes make you decide something — and defend it.
Anchored to your real challenge
You arrive with a live question from your organisation and leave with a plan you have already stress-tested with peers and faculty — a 90-day or 100-day roadmap ready for your CFO or board.
Taught by practitioners
Our faculty run sustainability strategy, deploy AI and lead systems change inside real organisations — from a €35bn energy-technology company to the Singapore public service — and teach at SMU, INSEAD, UCL, HEC Paris and CEDEP.
Tools you keep
The 7 Principles of a Sustainable Company, a benchmarked Sustainability Compass™ diagnostic, the Adapt / Thrive / Catalyse framework and a prioritisation system for AI use cases — road-tested, research-grounded, yours to reuse.
Choose the depth you need.
From a one-day practical workshop to a two-day decision lab with a 60-day follow-through. All programmes are in person, small-cohort and application-driven.
Applying AI to Sustainability: From Compliance to Value Creation
A two-day executive decision lab. Build a working AI prototype around a real sustainability question, map three initiatives and defend a 90-day plan.
- 2 days + Day-60 clinic
- Singapore, 29–30 Oct 2026
- SG$2,700
- 12–20 participants
Value Creation for Sustainability with Systems Thinking
A two-day tailored masterclass. Leave with a benchmarked Sustainability Compass™ report, a purpose narrative with impact KPIs and a board-ready 100-day plan.
- 2 days, in person
- Paris · London · Singapore
- Dates to be announced
- Fully customised
Transforming Sustainability into Value
A one-day practical, research-backed workshop for change-makers: diagnose what is holding you back and apply the three power principles of systems change.
- 1 day, in person
- London · Paris · Singapore
- Next dates to be announced
- Register interest
The 7 Principles of a Sustainable Company
A framework and a roadmap for companies that want to lead on sustainability without giving up a profitable path. Developed by IRIS founder Arnaud Blandin and published by Palgrave Macmillan, it anchors every IRIS programme.
People who do this work, not just teach it.
Arnaud Blandin
Founder & Lead Faculty, IRIS · Adjunct Professor, SMU
- Senior sustainability advisor to Fortune 500 companies, private equity firms and startups
- Author of The 7 Principles of a Sustainable Company
Justin Tan
Managing Director, Evolutio Consulting · Adjunct Associate Professor, UCL
- Senior advisor on AI education, strategy and transformation
- Guest lecturer at INSEAD and AIT
Sorouch Kheradmand
Global Head / Partner Sustainability, Schneider Electric
- Leads sustainability strategy and digital solutions across a €35bn energy-technology company
- Teaches at INSEAD and NUS
How to Create Durable Value: Bringing Together AI, Sustainability and Profitable Growth
A 60-minute masterclass with Arnaud Blandin, Justin Tan and Sorouch Kheradmand on where durable value sits at the intersection of AI and sustainability — and how to tell a real use case from an interesting experiment.
Watch the recordingIn this session
- Where durable value actually sits — beyond short-term AI productivity
- The second return on sustainability data
- How to identify AI use cases that start with a valuable decision, not a tool
- Where human judgement remains essential
Bring a real challenge. Leave with a plan you can defend.
Applications for Cohort 2 of the AI × Sustainability Decision Lab are open. If you are exploring a programme for your leadership team, talk to us about an in-company edition.