As part of the Embed Nature program, the A‑Track project will be offering Board Awareness sessions for transformative nature positive action. These sessions are designed specifically for board members and C-suites, providing foundational knowledge and practical content on why nature‑related risks and opportunities matter, and how boards can respond.
Through case studies and discussion on internal business cases, participants will explore how to integrate nature into risk management, financial planning, and corporate strategy using tools such as natural capital accounting and assessment methods.
By combining board‑level engagement with organisational training, these Board Awareness sessions form part of the Building Leadership Buy‑in for Transformative Nature Action program. They are designed to ensure effective leadership direction while creating multiple entry points for nature integration in business strategy.
Sessions are delivered online and co‑led by Capitals Coalition, CISL, ICAEW, WBCSD, and other A‑Track consortium partners.
Audience
The target audience of these sessions is the boards of the organisations participating in the Building Leadership Buy-in for Transformative Nature Action programme, typically engaged through by their sustainability managers or finance teams. Organisations can broaden internal uptake by proposing a dedicated board session to their own leadership.
The sessions may bring together the board alongside the C-suite —such as CEO, CFO, CSO— or, if the board is unavailable, can be held with the C-suite alone. Each board session is organised individually for the participating organisation, ensuring tailored engagement and relevance.
Board session structure and content
Time commitment
Each board group is asked to commit two hours in total, structured as follows:
- 30 minutes of offline learning: pre-reading materials provided before the session to build foundational understanding.
- 90 minute interactive session: highly inspirational, with ample time to explore the organisation’s practical case in depth, discuss risks and response actions.
- Post-reading: sent after the session to deepen knowledge and outline recommended next steps, shaped by board discussions and the internal case.
Content
- Awareness of natural capital assessments, including impacts, dependencies, measurement, and valuation.
- Risks and opportunities nature presents to business models, and strategies for transitioning toward nature positive business models.
- Why nature matters to board members: key strategic decisions and dilemmas boards must consider.
- How board members can respond—actions they can take and ways to empower their teams, including suggested questions to ask.
- Real-world case study: examples of how other organisations have succeeded.
- Internal case presented by the business representative who participated in the training and Dolphin tank.
- Board discussion on the business case proposed, solutions to existing challenges leading to concrete next steps.
Learning objectives
By the end of the information session, board members will:
- Have expanded their understanding of why nature matters to their organisation and board, gaining foundational knowledge on impacts, dependencies, performance measurement, and valuation.
- Feel inspired and empowered to initiate strategic decisions on nature, aligned with their organisation’s level of ambition.
- Have a set of questions and information to look for internally.
- Have been exposed to specific risks or areas of the business related to nature as a challenge to solve to build and preserve business’ value
- Have discussed and advanced their own internal business case for nature with practical next steps for improvement of business actions and governance.
Next steps: register your interest
Please register your interest in the Board Awareness Session. Filling up this form is not a binding registration, but gives a possibility to explore if the board of your organisation would be interested in having their own session. To fill up this form, you don't yet need to know whether your board would be interested in the session; but rather knowing that you - as a company representative - are committed to suggest it to your top management. After receiving your registration of interest, we will be in touch and, if of interest, we can offer a bilateral call with other company representatives (directors, C-suite or board secretariat). We will not contact your board members without your permission.
All the information shared in the context of this board session will remain confidential.
