Sustainability is not a constraint on strategy. It is how strategy gets redefined.
IRIS — the Institute of Responsible Innovation and Sustainability — exists to develop the skills leaders need to implement true sustainable solutions while keeping a profitable path. We turn sustainability from a compliance challenge into a strategic advantage, with impact that is meaningful and measurable.
Responsible leaders who create enduring value.
IRIS cultivates leaders who integrate environmental, social and governance principles into core business strategy — creating enduring value for their organisations, for society and for the planet.
We do it through innovative, data-driven education and collaboration that builds critical thinking, creativity and ethical decision-making. Our programmes are short and intensive because the people we work with do not have time for anything else.
- Evidence over ambition. We work from your organisation's data — benchmarked diagnostics, real cases, real numbers — not from pledges.
- Decisions, not decks. Every programme ends with a plan you have defended in front of peers and faculty, with owners and dates.
- Profitability stays in the room. The CFO conversation is part of the curriculum, not an afterthought.
- Practitioner faculty. Our faculty run sustainability, AI and systems change inside real organisations.
- Small cohorts, senior peers. 12–20 participants, selected for decision-making proximity.
The 7 Principles of a Sustainable Company
Written by IRIS founder Arnaud Blandin and published by Palgrave Macmillan, The 7 Principles of a Sustainable Company provides a framework and a roadmap for companies and professionals who want to lead in the sustainability field. The seven are a system, not a checklist — purpose without a measured footprint is aspiration; resilience without stakeholder alignment is brittle.
Purpose aligned with positive impact
Does purpose govern decisions, or decorate them?
A growth strategy that respects planetary boundaries
Does growth depend on extraction, or on flourishing?
Aligning with stakeholders: from materiality to value
Do stakeholders shape the strategy, or receive it?
A measured and managed environmental footprint
Is the footprint measured across the value chain, owned and funded?
Value creation beyond financial metrics
Is profit being drawn from the depletion of another capital?
Resilience and adaptability
Are dependencies known, and is adaptive capacity protected under pressure?
Be truly impactful
What actually changed that would not have changed anyway?
Learn the framework in depth
A structured course on the 7 Principles is in development. Register your interest to be notified when it opens.
Road-tested methods, not theory.
Sustainability Compass™
An AI-driven assessment of where your organisation stands, benchmarked against current market and industry data. Used in the masterclass to read your starting point honestly before designing anything.
Adapt · Thrive · Catalyse
A way to sort initiatives into value protection, value creation and strategic options — and to prioritise AI use cases against business value, strategic risk and feasibility, including in regulated contexts.
90-day and 100-day plans
Every programme ends with a dated execution plan with owners and governance logic, defended in front of peers — and, in the Decision Lab, revisited at a Day-60 clinic.
Singapore, Paris, London — and in-company anywhere.
Open cohorts run at Singapore Management University and in Paris and London. Our faculty also teach at some of the world's leading business schools.
See how this works in practice.
Explore the programmes, or watch the free masterclass with our Decision Lab faculty.