Society’s growing environment and social concerns leads to companies increasingly incorporating sustainability in their business strategy. The Responsible Business program addresses corporate social responsibility – environmental, social, economic and governance – stimulating discussion and participation among the participants regarding these themes. The Faculty of excellence and the group of participants, each with different backgrounds, contributed in a decisive way towards enriching the sessions. I recommend it to all those who wish to adopt a responsible business management model.

Participating in the 1st edition of the Responsible Business program was a very personal learning experience that deeply changed the way I see the role of companies and the role each one of us plays in society. Learning how to fulfil the increasingly demanding expectations of those around us, and continuously doing so means we need to know exactly what our values are and what is the underlying goal of each action we take. This is my definition of sustainability. Without this strategic vision, no company will ever be able to reach its maximum potential. Thank you.

The Responsible Business course offers a clear vision over challenges which companies, such as the society, face towards climate changes, whose impact jeopardize the planet, the people and the business and which require a new way of action, individual and collective. But more important, is that this course, which is relevant for all the business sectors and functions, proves how an responsible action is the way to secure the business competitiveness and create a value generation.

Meet the different dimensions of a responsible business in which discovers a new language of the companies that intend to take an active role in promoting sustainability of all the ecosystem that surround us. Learn how to be a change agent with in mind the impact of our decisions and discover the value of social innovation. These are some of the reflections I do for my participation in a programme that I consider to be absolutely critical in the education and re-education of all economic agents of the present and with future’s ambition! It was also a singular opportunity of  diverse experience sharing in a very specific environment which promoted team spirit, unique, to all that made part of the first edition of the program “Responsible Business”! Congratulations to the teaching staff and to Católica University.

The best way to settle business plans is to plan how they will see us as a company in the future. We all can agree that there is not a single person who won't aspire being recognized as the one who make responsible and ethical business, wherever it is clear the way how he acts, with respect for the environment and people.
 
Teacher Nuno Moreira da Cruz, who has his speech perfectly aligned with the action and his personal experience in top companies, clearly drive us through paths of sustainability while thinks, inspires, promotes experience-exchange, and, especially, motivating us.
 
The effect of Responsible Business program extends beyond its timeframe; it is a business plan for life.

Participating in this executive training at Católica was a decision that I am very proud of: the net-working, the testimonies of participants and guests, and everything that was said during the several sessions, they were a tremendous personal enrichment. The awakening of an awareness (which I already had in some way, but which was largely stimulated). I fully recommend, the more we share this knowledge, the better the companies we work in and, inherently, the world in which we live.