Driving Change: Integrating SDGs into Corporate and SME Practices

Focus on understanding business sustainability principles and the integration of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors into organisational practices.

Gain insight into assessing and improving sustainability performance, attracting support from investors, donors, and other stakeholders.

This course includes:

Learning Outcome

To understand the concept of social enterprise, including its purpose, principles, and different models.
To strategically align their business operations with the SDGs,
To engage stakeholders effectively to garner support for their SDG initiatives.

Modules

This course is structured into comprehensive modules, each strategically curated to provide you with the skills and knowledge necessary for you to understand what you have and make them your biggest weapons:

Meet the Instructors

Jey Bala

Jey’s journey in search of sustainability has brought him to Biji-biji Initiative & Mereka as the Chief Ecosystem Officer (CECO) after his experience at HP and Dell as a trainer. His skills include running corporate training, hackathons, upcycling workshops, mentoring businesses, and conducting civic engagement campaigns, which are second nature to Jey. Committed to lifelong learning, he is also MIT-certified in Design Thinking.

His experience and expertise are leveraged by traditional and social businesses to develop their enterprises through consultancy, coaching, and mentoring sessions. His ability to wear multiple hats in leadership of the Mereka Space team, the Biji-biji and Mereka Ecosystem, training and directing several high-impact projects and maintaining positive client relationships with Fortune 500 companies, leading financial institutions, embassies, and industry giants like Mondelez International, Microsoft, PwC, CIMB, Petronas, UNESCO-APCEIU, and the U.S. Embassy in Kuala Lumpur, among others.