Our new Strategic Plan 2024-2026
Making a difference and helping to build a better society through management training is the commitment that our School wants to make and that which inspires our new strategic plan. We strongly believe that education is an extraordinary tool for changing the world, and for this reason we are committed to building a more equitable, inclusive and sustainable future with a strong desire to generate a positive impact for our students, for the companies we work with, and for our entire community. This is the inspiration for our new Strategic Plan 2024-2026, which will guide our actions in the coming years. We have called it the Positive Impact Through Education Plan, or PIE PLAN: an ambitious project that sees management training as the main tool for generating positive change.
The PIE PLAN is based on our conviction that education, particularly management training, is a key lever for tackling and resolving major global challenges. In this sense, the plan aims to develop skills and sensibilities that enable all our students to become agents of positive change for society. Nelson Mandela repeated that “Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world.” This is a message that fully expresses our commitment: we want education to become a practical tool for improving the world in which we live. Our PIE PLAN was built as an ambitious project to serve our School’s purpose: "We nurture innovators to shape a better future for all".
The PIE Plan 2024-2026 is divided into three priority areas of action, each with ambitious and concrete objectives, which aim to project our school towards its 50th anniversary in 2029: Educate People; Inspire People; Mobilise Resources.
Reducing our Carbon Footprint as the School Expands
We realise that to achieve these goals we need to grow, both in terms of attracting new students and by increasing the number of projects we carry out with our partner companies. We want to expand our community - always guided by our values, but with a responsible and sustainable approach.
One of the main challenges in this respect is to ensure that this growth does not lead to an increase in the negative externalities it produces for the environment. For this reason, the PIE Plan includes a series of practical initiatives to decouple our environmental impact from the growth of the School.
Recently, the Net Zero Training project was launched, which aims to cancel the emissions produced by the training we do for companies. Since this area of our activity has reached significant numbers in the last year (about 20 thousand students were trained in over 160 client companies through 250 training programmes), the School has developed a model to quantify the emissions of the training courses dedicated to companies to be used as a basis for agreeing mitigation actions with its customers and offsetting residual emissions through the Envira Amazonia project of Green Future Project, the climate tech B Corp active in the regeneration and conservation of natural reserves in the world.
The School already offsets the emissions related to energy consumption at its locations in Milan Bovisa and Milan Navigli and, from 2024, it will also calculate the CO2 consumption generated by staff travel and its supply chain.