Business & Sustainability Programme - Asia Seminar
Insignia Ventures Academy is partnering with the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) to deliver the Asia seminar of their Business & Sustainability Programme (BSP), a 4 day immersion programme with executives from across the region at the heart of Singapore’s business district.
The 4-day seminar brings together senior executives with academics, industry experts, CSOs, and peers for multidisciplinary sessions that equip participants to build enterprises and to transform businesses in ways that accelerate a shift towards sustainable economies. Participants gain access to a global network of 40,000 senior leaders and practitioners, exclusive events across continents, and certification. Let us know if you are interested in joining the 2026 cohort.
Upcoming seminar: 13-16 October 2026 at the Singapore Exchange
The Business & Sustainability Programme (BSP) offers senior leaders the chance to join a world-class programme at the cutting edge of innovative, market-based responses to sustainability challenges. Since 1994, the BSP has evolved and grown into a global series run in key locations around the world, becoming a benchmark for leadership education focused on accelerating business transformation. More than 4,000 alumni now form a powerful international network driving business action, innovation and market-wide change.
The programme equips leaders with the knowledge, inspiration and networks to build and execute ambitious strategies, aligning commercial performance with sustainability transition. During the seminar participants identify opportunities for innovation and market influence, to build the conditions for sustainable solutions to scale.
Who is this for?
The programme welcomes senior leaders looking for the tools to understand and act on their organisation's sustainability across dimensions. Each seminar includes a mix of carefully selected senior executives from a range of geographies and industries, to enhance peer-learning and collaboration.
The programme attracts C-suite executives, founders, MDs, CSOs and ESG leads, senior investment professionals, board members, and family office principals across financial services, consumer, industrials, energy, tech, and beyond.
Benefits for participants:
During the four-day seminar, participants will:
- Build a critical understanding of the current forces shaping the global operating context, and the impact on short, mid and long term horizon, to inform today’s strategy and capital allocations.
- Identify the most strategic and pragmatic pathways to strengthen commercial performance in a carbon and resource constrained world and to accelerate and benefit from transition to more sustainable markets.
- Gain insight into some of the most promising innovations, and effective approaches to building the conditions to scale internationally.
- Explore the potential for pre-competitive collaboration and market-making to create the enabling conditions for innovation and investment in the solutions of the future
- Build insight into what works in driving sustainable business transformation today, aligning capital and culture to unlock rapid progress.
- Gain a lifelong peer network of senior leaders navigating similar decisions, with opportunities to engage on key topics.
A global programme for impact
Blending global frameworks with regional case studies, the seminar empowers delegates to drive high-impact change within complex operating environments, building a regional network of forward-looking, sustainability-informed leaders.
Key themes include:
- Navigating the forces restructuring global markets: drive growth and adaptability in your business amidst energy and resource security concerns, supply chain disruption, geopolitical realignment, rapid innovation developments in AI, computing, and financial technology, climate and social risks
- Implementing strategies for a resilient business: move from compliance, reputation and incrementalism toward future-fit innovation and competitive transformation
- The architecture of market-making: align your business's commercial performance with rapid industry transition, leveraging blended capital structures, risk-sharing mechanisms, and pre-competitive collaboration
- From individual conviction to organisational action: close the gap between leadership awareness and organisational action, especially for multi-market businesses with highly complex behavioural and institutional dynamics
- The role of leadership in navigating the transition: how senior executives and investors can build the personal credibility, institutional authority, and coalition-building capability to drive ambitious strategies, shape enabling market conditions, and sustain momentum through complexity, political headwinds, and organisational resistance.
"The program has reshaped my approach to sustainability and leadership, encouraging me to think differently about how I lead and drive sustainable initiatives. It has challenged me to adopt new strategies that not only enhance sustainability efforts but also strengthen my leadership in this critical area."
The BSP in Singapore, consisted of perfect ingredients - a rich mix of intellectual and high-quality sharing, insights and revelations from the faculty,
contributors and delegates all around. It certainly gave us
a shake-up and birthed a calling in many.
Faculty and Speakers
Each programme is facilitated by an expert faculty of business and policy leaders, academics and influential thinkers, bringing together global perspectives with regional understanding.
Previous experts contributing to BSP Asia include:
- Spencer Low, Head of Sustainability, APAC region, Google
- Jason Pomeroy, Founding Principal, Pomeroy Studio
- Lindsay Hooper, CEO, Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL)
- Kelvin Ng, EVP, Green Bridge Partners Singapore
- Chu Xian Oh, Founder, Magorium Pte. Ltd.
- Benjamin Horton, Director, Earth Observatory of Singapore
- Paul Gilding, CISL Fellow, independent writer, corporate advisor and advocate for action on climate change. Former CEO of Greenpeace international
- Sam Mostyn AO, Non-Executive Director on boards including, Mirvac, Citibank, and Transurban
- Ian Ellison, CISL Fellow. Former Sustainability Lead in Product Development with Jaguar Land Rover
- Kate Beddoe, Chief Sustainability & Risk Officer at Silver Fern Farms
- Munish Datta, Director of Sustainability, Specsavers Group
- Outi Grüner, Head of Market Development, The Purpose Business
What you leave with
01
Stress-tested action plan
Your own action plan sharpened by the
toolkit taught in the programme.
02
CISL & IVA certification
Certificate from a global
leader in sustainability executive
education.
03
CISL's global network
40,000+ leaders across CISL
programmes, plus curated alumni only
convenings on every continent.
04
Asia peer cohort
Senior leaders a WhatsApp away as
you navigate your organisation's
next transformation.
How to apply
To apply for the seminar please complete the application form. Please note that you will need to complete the online application form in one sitting, so please ensure that you have all required information with you.
If you have a colleague who you feel would be suitable and interested in attending the CISL Business & Sustainability Programme, please email us and we can share materials for you to pass on.
All nominations are subjected to a robust vetting procedure to ensure delegates build diverse, international networks and foster ideas that cross traditional boundaries.
About Insignia Ventures Academy
Insignia Ventures Academy (IVA) is the venture capital and innovation executive education arm of Insignia Ventures Partners, a Southeast Asia early-to-growth stage venture capital firm partnering with unstoppable founders since 2017. Insignia's portfolio includes unicorns Carro, Ajaib, GoTo (IDX: GOTO), Groww (NSE: GROWW), J&T Express (HKG: 1519), Ye Siang (TWSE: 7909), and Appier (TSE: 4180), alongside category leaders Surfin, Tonik, Flip, Super, Finhay, Aspire, Youtrip, Reaqta (acquired by IBM). The firm manages capital from premier institutional investors including sovereign wealth funds, foundations, university endowments, and renowned family offices across Asia, Europe, and North America. Now in its fifth year and 10th cohort of its flagship Certificate in Venture Capital programme, IVA has built a community of 250+ alumni including active VC fund managers, angel investors, founders, and operators across the region, alongside bespoke executive education and venture creation programmes for organisations.