External Education & Mobilization
The Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability offers programs for individuals and organizations to gain new skills and knowledge for a more sustainable future.
Our external education programs are designed to motivate and empower participants to make informed decisions about strategy, operations, policies, and lifestyles that affect global sustainability.
Find learning experiences
Select a program that meets the needs of your organization and helps you achieve your professional goals.
On campus
Stanford Climate Innovation Master Classes
These immersive one-day workshops equip forward thinking leaders with the tools necessary to navigate the frontier of climate innovation with fluency in emerging technologies, data tools, and policy dynamics.
On campus
The Stanford Leadership Experience: Science, Innovation, and Resilience
For senior leaders and board members to strengthen their adaptability, deepen their self-awareness, and rethink what it means to lead in a rapidly changing landscape.
On campus
The Strategic Sustainability Leader Program
For CSOs, emerging CSO, aspiring CSO, and heads of sustainability to make the business case for sustainability with strategic and financial frameworks, personal leadership skills, and a deeper knowledge of today’s sustainability landscape.
On campus
Custom Programs
Each organization is facing its own unique opportunities and challenges. We provide custom programs to support your organization’s sustainability goals – either on-site, online, or a combination of both.
On campus
Contact Jenn Gardner at jenns@stanford.eduto learn more about our offerings.
Online learning
Energy Innovation and Emerging Technologies Program
This program will equip you with in-depth knowledge and the tools necessary to drive impactful change and leadership. The comprehensive curriculum covers emerging technologies, finance, and sustainability management, empowering you to spearhead the transition to a sustainable future. You will learn how sustainability business practices and clean energy drives economic growth, and learn 21st-century business strategies to drive your organization towards long-term prosperity. This program is designed for anyone who is interested in shaping the future of energy and organizational business strategies..
Online
Sustainability Strategies: Develop Initiatives to Transform Your Business
Develop an understanding of the impacts and root causes of climate change to communicate the value of sustainable business practices to key stakeholders. Learn to identify business opportunities that arise by transitioning to an environmentally sustainable organization. Understand the interdependence between innovation and sustainability as a guiding force for developing your own sustainability initiatives. Develop a proactive mindset to lead change effectively, with an eye toward positioning the organization as an agent of change.
Online
Introduction to the Natural Capital Approach
People depend on nature to sustain and fulfill human life, yet the values of nature are typically ignored in decisions. Mapping and modeling ecosystem services can help highlight the diverse benefits provided to people by nature (what and where) and explore how those benefits might change under different management options – thus bringing information about nature's values into decisions in practical ways. With these approaches, we can improve the state of biodiversity and human well-being by motivating greater and more cost-effective investments in both.
Online
Harnessing the Power of Geophysical Imaging to Recharge California’s Groundwater
Using advanced Airborne Electromagnetic (AEM) Imaging and towed-Time-Domain-Electromagnetic (tTEM) imaging technologies and techniques with advanced software simplifies finding good groundwater recharge sites. This course focuses on determining if subsurface composition and geology allow efficient water movement from the surface to the water table, identifying "fast paths" via geophysical imaging.
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 and meet their personal learning goals, 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.
- First Nations' Futures Institute
- Local Governance Summer Institute
- Move Fast and Fix the Planet (podcast)
- Stanford Engineering Global and Online Education (CGOE)
- Stanford Graduate School of Business Executive Education
- Stanford Online
Meet our team
Our school's External Education & Mobilization team focuses on designing programs that motivate and inform successful efforts to advance sustainability and expand access to sustainability knowledge.
Dave Weinstein
Associate Dean
External Education
Jenn Gardner
Director
Professional Programs
Parul Gupta
Managing Director
Mobilization
Jeff Ball
Editor-in-Chief
