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Skills4ESG: Intesa Sanpaolo ambition to drive and boost the social change by spreading ESG culture and awareness across Clients
Innovation presentation
Intesa Sanpaolo has the ambition to be an active agent for setting the ground for a social change, starting from its business clients. Its commitment is meant by taking ownership of its role in combating climate change and improving responsible corporate governance, diversity, equity, and inclusion internally and externally.
Within this aspiration, Intesa Sanpaolo and Intesa Sanpaolo Formazione - the business unit focused on supporting learning and leadership growth on Corporate and SMEs - jointly launched in the end of 2021 Skills4ESG, an initiative to support the more than 200.000 Intesa Sanpaolo Group’s client companies to spread the ESG culture through a tailored training offer.
For Skills4ESG grounding, a dedicated portal has been developed as a unique point of access to all the training initiatives provided by Intesa Sanpaolo Group on the ESG topics (e.g.: environment safeguard, people wellbeing, gender equality, responsible corporate governance, etc.) and to all the relevant news/events on ESG matters and related regulatory framework to keep clients always up to date.
Analysis on context and Group’s business clients’ needs was conducted to better fit the training proposal. From the inquiry, some points are more of interest:
- a high percentage of investors and clients have a little a knowledge about topics like responsible investments and sustainable strategies
- a strong interest in increasing and enhancing the ESG skills to reach a more prominent market position towards stakeholders
Furthermore, ESG criteria are becoming more and more new way of doing business and each client companies need to find their own way to do it, in line with their core values.
Skills4ESG satisfies client growing demands for:
- training their own workforce to boost ESG awareness
- helping the employees in the adoption of worthy behaviors and sustainable practices
Uniqueness of the project
Skills4ESG training offer is both live and on demand and it has been designed keeping in mind clients’ specific needs and leveraging on ESG capabilities already embedded in Intesa Sanpaolo.
The innovative aspects of the initiative are the following:
- Reward of clients’ effort in participating to ESG initiatives by granting them loans to make sustainable investments with low interest rates
- Start of distinctive partnerships with public institution and Italian excellences such as those with ASviS, the Italian alliance for a sustainable growth, Nativa, the first Benefit Company in Europe and Certified B Corporation in Italy and some of the best professor from Italian universities, as faculty
- Leveraging on bank owned technology assets, like Skills4Capital portal shaped by user-friendly experience and on demand up to date contents
- Distinctive live learning initiatives with a mix of customized activities (one-to-one or one-to-many) and synchronized or asynchronized training, tracked through a monitoring system
- Registration of Skills4ESG own domain
- Development made up by a modular front-end and multichannel experience with direct link to Intesa Sanpaolo and Intesa Sanpaolo Formazione corporate websites.
Live training has been developed with certified partners which have allowed the involvement of mixed and specialized faculty, and consists of:
- Executive master on sustainable development dedicated to SMEs entrepreneurs and management, composed by one-to-many and one-to-one learning session, webinar, training labs, talks, tutoring and on demand contents
- One-to-one coaching program with specialized tutors for business clients, aimed to support them in reaching sustainability goals
- Multi-clients’ workshops on specific ESG topics (e.g., circular economy, climate change, etc.) for SMEs entrepreneurs and management.
