ESG Leadership Book

The book to the ESG Leadership Masterclass from Handelsblatt. The only sustainability and digital transformation book you’ll ever need

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Client-ready tools and models

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Trusted by Sustainability Executives, Digital Experts and Interested Individuals

Made for everyone who wants to act sustainable. From individuals to growing sustainable companies, ESG Leadership fits the way you work so you can establish sustainable practices without the headaches.

For Chief Sustainability Officers

Reduce sustainability strategy ramp-up time by 50% with the ESG Leadership guardrails that offer best practices and hands-on tools for ESG strategy development.

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For Digital Transformation Managers

Practical digital transformation tools and hands-on transformation examples to enhance both customer and employee experience.

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For ESG Consultants

Everything ESG Consultants and Advisors need—client-ready library of ESG models, actionable examples across industries and sectors and hands-on to-do-lists.

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For Individuals Interested in Sustainability

Create your personal sustainability and digitization approach easily with simple ESG Leadership process blueprints, powerful visualizations and full case studies.

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Join the 1,000+ Sustainability and Digital Executives That Grow with ESG Leadership Every Day

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Exceptional ESG book! This reference book goes above and beyond to meet Chief Sustainability Officers‘ needs. I couldn’t be happier with the actionable insights on sustainability and digital transformation.

Dr. Anne Meindl

Chief Sustainability Officer

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Outstanding quality and quantity of visualizations. I’ve been a loyal reader for years and have never been disappointed.

Daniel Wittmann

ESG Consultant

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Reliable and trustworthy. I highly recommend this book to anyone looking for top-notch best practices on the sustainable and digital transformation.

Bea Maier

Nachhaltigkeitsmanagerin

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Impressive attention to detail and excellent tools and models. Applying this exhaustive sustainability canvas library has been a pleasure.

Bernd Utz

CIO

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I can’t say enough good things about this ESG reference book. Victoria Riess consistently delivers excellence with over 62 best practices and exceeds expectations with more than 141 tools and models.

Kathleen Bauer

HR Manager

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A practical guide for sustainable success. This book has played a significant role in our sustainability growth and digital transformation achievements.

Cameron Hill

Transformation Manager

The Bestseller ESG Leadership

Discover the powerful sustainability advantage that our bestseller reveals.

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Client-ready tools and models

Actionable best practices

Over 266 Pages of Exclusive Sustainability Insights Without Limits

Take complete control of your sustainability and digital transformation. ESG Leadership makes it easy to develop and implement the ESG strategy while keeping your data, AI and cybersecurity responsible.

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Largest Library of ESG Leadership Tools

Full sustainability and digital transformation templates for every company and industry.

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70% OF TRANSFORMATIONS FAIL

70% of Transformations Fail Because Companies Overlook the Fact That People Need to Change Their Mindsets, Behaviors and Actions

Avoid failure with the only sustainable and digital transformation book that connects every silo—offering a proven, step-by-step approach and all the tools you’ll ever need.

The ESG Leadership Framework

An end-to-end solution that connects all silos in sustainability management. The first comprehensive ESG leadership framework. A practical guide to closing the sustainability reporting gap.

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Sustainability Transformation

Learn how to develop and implement sustainable strategies.

Digital Transformation

Explore digital transformation as an enabler for ESG transformation as well as an ESG issue in its own right.

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Key Exponential Growth Principles

Adopt a validated, scalable roadmap that guides you from developing a sustainable business model to implementing an effective digital operating model.

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Client-ready Tools and Models

Includes over 141 tools, ready for use in your sustainable and digital workshops.

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Actionable Best Practices

Includes more than 62 actionable global best practices for the sustainability and digital transformation.

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Actionable Best Practices

Turn sustainable and digital best practices into action—learn what works for the sustainability transformation and apply real-world digital transformation examples immediately.

ACHIEVE GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY LEADERSHIP

ESG Leadership Principles Help You to Achieve Sustainable Growth

ESG Leadership Without Limits.

Make the Business Case for Sustainability

Build the case for sustainability-driven strategic opportunities by using the six levers. Discover why sustainability is still a top priority for boards and understand the ESG imperative and its role in outperformance.

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The ESG Leadership The ESG imperative and its role in outperformance
The ESG Leadership Taking ESG factors into account in the form of five levers
The ESG Leadership A compelling business case creates more value

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Align Sustainability and Strategy

Build a roadmap for integrated sustainability. Learn how you can fulfill your responsibility to all stakeholders through sustainable corporate governance and a clearly defined corporate purpose.

How
The ESG Leadership Maturity assessment framework
The ESG Leadership Assessment of materiality ESG mapping – Roadmap to ESG leadership
The ESG Leadership ESG materiality matrix – Top 10 ESG topics

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Build a Culture of Sustainability

Create a sustainability culture to help people shift to more sustainable practices. Focus on defining ESG as a large-scale transformation, in which a cultural shift in corporate leadership at all organizational levels is crucial to its success.

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The ESG Leadership Four ways to strengthen ESG strategy through culture
The ESG Leadership The power of authentic ESG storytelling
The ESG Leadership ESG as an organizational change movement

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Manage Sustainability Data

Manage sustainability data at scale. Explore how to achieve ESG Leadership through excellent data management.

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The ESG Leadership ESG reporting – ESG leadership is synonymous with data management
The ESG Leadership ESG reporting
The ESG Leadership Generative AI to simplify ESG reporting

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Manage Data Protection Responsibly

Learn about business data protection and how to manage it responsibly. Understand why data protection is one of the next key pillars of ESG.

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The ESG Leadership Sustainability reporting process for stakeholder engagement

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Secure AI Transformation

Implement Responsible AI as your key to secure AI transformation. Learn how you
can leverage strategic advantages through generative AI and put your employees at the center.

How
The ESG Leadership Framework for the principles of trustworthy AI
The ESG Leadership Prioritize use cases along the value chain
The ESG Leadership AI use case matrix

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Implement Resilient Cybersecurity

Implement resilient cybersecurity to help build sustainable protection. Receive valuable insights into current cybercrime trends, effective management of your digital attack surface and how to protect
your business results with robust cybersecurity measures.

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The ESG Leadership Effective management of your digital attack surface
The ESG Leadership Protecting business results with robust cybersecurity measures
The ESG Leadership Use of security level agreements to ensure high security standards

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Everything You Need to Integrate the Sustainability and Digital Transformation

ESG Leadership business toolkit combines sustainability and digital transformation tools into one powerful stack—so you can develop and implement sustainability strategy faster, report ESG easier and implement Responsible Data, AI and Cybersecurity without limits.

ESG Leadership and Outperformance

Systematically understand the relationship between ESG leadership, responsibility and outperformance in this introductory chapter.

Developing Holistic ESG Strategies

Explore how to develop comprehensive ESG strategies for your company, providing a guide to ESG management through ESG mapping.

Implementing ESG Across the Organization

Learn how to implement ESG throughout your organization by integrating the ESG strategy into the corporate culture in four steps.

ESG Reporting and Data Management

Experience why precise data management and responsible data processing are essential to the success of your sustainability strategy.

Corporate Data Responsibility

Learn how to link privacy and data protection to ESG and explore how companies can achieve holistic management through data.

Corporate AI Responsibility

Explore corporate responsibility in the field of artificial intelligence in this in-depth analysis.

Corporate Cybersecurity Responsibility

Understand the priority of the emerging ESG topic, cybersecurity, based on the current state of cybercrime and its impacts.

ESG Leadership Masterclass

Learn from Victoria Riess how sustainable corporate leadership ensures long-term success in the Handelsblatt Masterclass

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