Get an holistic, interdisciplinary and collaborative view on the complexity and dynamics of the Energy Transition. Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM) and DRIFT partnered to offer you an intense, high-paced and interactive week. Gain the knowledge, skills and network to challenge your mindset, and become a change agent. Move your organisation forward and motivate your team, to successfully reach your Energy Transition goals.
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During this five-day intense programme delivered by experienced faculty from RSM and DRIFT, you will get a holistic view on the Energy Transition. You'll approach it from five perspectives: leadership & transformation, geopolitics, technology/operations, finance & innovation and social engagement & stakeholder management. This programme offers a unique mix of academic excellence and know-how, practical application and reflection.
Supported by leading professors and expert practitioners, you will take a deep dive into the different perspectives of the Energy Transition through interactive lectures, case studies, simulations, project and group work, site visits and inspiring guest speakers. RSM’s Leading the Energy Transition programme will take you on a learning path, during which you will be confronted with the urgency of the Energy Transition. You will learn to understand and embrace the complexity of the Energy Transition, experience how to move forward in highly uncertain circumstances, and how to adopt a transformative attitude through connectivity. Your learning will be directly applicable to your own complex Energy Transition challenge in your organisation. Take on the challenge for your organisation. Become part of the solution.
*Your application will be final once we have informed you, based on the intake call, that your application has been accepted. If you don’t meet the admission requirements, but want to deepen your understanding of innovation, we advise you to look at our Innovation Management programme instead.
“The programme surpassed my expectations with its carefully curated set of activities that stretched us and drew out how, as committed global citizens, we can contribute to the system-wide changes we need to make. This programme supports my ongoing evaluative and analytical work to steer the Green Climate Fund towards meeting the challenges of funding and designing investments for paradigm shifts and transitions across energy, building, industry and transport systems – alongside harnessing the potential of ecosystem-based approaches.
The course encouraged all of us participants to commit to our climate values – we can all learn from each other and contribute to solving the climate crisis.”
During Leading the Energy Transition Programme you will learn from Derk Loorbach, Prof. Carla Irene Koen, Dr Steve Kennedy, Louise van Schaik and Dr Ferdinand Jaspers. Occasionally we may substitute other faculty members according to the content of the programme and their availability.
Derk Loorbach is director of DRIFT and Professor of Socio-economic Transitions at the Faculty of Social Science, both at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Derk is one of the founders of the transition management approach as new form of governance for sustainable development. He has over one hundred publications in this area and has been involved as an action researcher in numerous transition processes with government, business, civil society and science. He is a frequently invited keynote speaker in and outside Europe.
Prof. Carla I. Koen is Professor of Sustainable Innovation at TIAS Business School and a visiting professor at RSM. She teaches, coaches and advises industries, governments, businesses, and funding organisations. She has worked as a researcher in Japan and Germany, and has published in national and international journals. Her PhD is in International Political Economy from the University of Warwick.
Steve Kennedy is Associate Professor of Business Sustainability at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University. His research approaches how systems and resilience thinking can help organizations to tackle grand societal challenges such as climate change and biodiversity loss. Dr Kennedy has experience collaborating with partners on sustainability in a wide variety of sectors including finance, construction, agriculture, electronics, and chemicals. His research has featured in peer-reviewed scientific journals such as Journal of Management Studies, Strategic Organization, Long Range Planning, Business & Society, Journal of Cleaner Production and Business Strategy & the Environment.
Louise van Schaik is Head of Unit EU & Global Affairs. She also coordinates Clingendael research in the field of climate change and sustainable development. In her research she has extensively analysed the EU’s performance in multilateral bodies, including in the fields of climate change, health and food standards. She has also published on related research areas such as EU foreign policy, EU climate change and energy policy, EU research policy, scarcity of natural resources and green growth.
Ferdinand Jaspers is programme director at the Erasmus Centre for Entrepreneurship. He teaches innovation leadership, strategy and entrepreneurship through courses, masterclasses and boot camps to help entrepreneurs move beyond lean start-up, design thinking, business modelling and effectuation. With experts from DSM and ING, Ferdinand founded the ECE Innovation Leadership executive programme.
23-27 June 2025
€ 6,500 (excl. 21% VAT) including course materials, lunches, and snacks. This fee does not include hotel accommodation.
15% discount for alumni from Erasmus University Rotterdam and RSM
All our short courses can also be delivered as personalised in-company training to groups of employees from the same organisation. This enables us to develop a course that focuses on your organisation’s own situation and issues.
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