Management & Administration
Turn responsible business conduct into a practical and explainable part of your organisation. This programme connects social and environmental impacts with strategy, operations and transparent communication. Identify relevant issues, examine available evidence and develop realistic actions. Swiss institutional guidance helps establish context, while specific obligations and priorities depend on your company's activities, size and operating environment.
Request informationYOUR PROGRAMME AT A GLANCE
For individuals & organisationsWe agree a start that fits your professional and personal commitments.
OSAM certificates: according to your starting level and learning goals. Company group programmes are usually planned in days or half-days.
Synchronous teaching. Both formats include the OSAM platform for course materials and organisational information.
From an eduQua-certified institution.
An individual quotation confirms the programme, delivery format and applicable fees.
Highly personalised teaching with experienced practitioners working at a high professional level.
FROM KNOWLEDGE TO CAPABILITY
For business leaders, sustainability coordinators, HR, procurement and communications professionals, and SMEs seeking a structured approach to their social and environmental responsibilities.
YOUR LEARNING JOURNEY
These modules form the core programme. Where useful, we refine the emphasis, examples and learning activities to reflect your professional context, starting point and objectives.
Clarify key concepts and distinguish voluntary ambitions from legal requirements. Examples connect environmental matters, working conditions, human rights and fair business practices. Analyse the relationship between sustainability and your business model and identify the responsibilities of leadership, functional teams and other relevant participants.
Map people and groups affected by the organisation's activities or holding important expectations of it. Use structured assessment to prioritise relevant issues. Separate evidence from assumptions and plan how to obtain missing perspectives before treating the organisation's internal view as a complete understanding of its impacts.
Consider potential negative impacts associated with operations and business relationships. Cases illustrate a risk-based review process with clear ownership and documentation. Learn to direct limited resources towards meaningful priorities and recognise questions about complex supply chains or specific obligations requiring specialist assessment.
Translate priority issues into practical initiatives in areas such as procurement, work organisation or resource use. Define the baseline, ownership, effort and review method for each action. Examine trade-offs and dependencies so that sustainability can be integrated into existing decisions and processes rather than isolated from them.
Choose information that explains both progress and the limits of an initiative. Exercises examine data sources, responsibility and traceability. Distinguish information used for internal management from external claims and identify reporting obligations that require a separate assessment for the particular organisation concerned.
Write statements with a clear scope and visible evidence. Examples explore the risks of broad or ambiguous sustainability promises. Develop an implementation roadmap covering internal communication, periodic review and a transparent approach to unresolved questions or objectives that have not yet been achieved.
THE PEOPLE BEHIND YOUR PROGRESS
Educational direction, subject expertise and adult learning support. Your final trainer assignment is confirmed in your proposal.
DIRECTOR’S PERSPECTIVE
Managing Director
Simon Pawolleck provides OSAM’s overall direction. The focus is on relevant skills, a clear learning structure and personal support that connects professional ambitions with practical progress.
EXPERT’S PERSPECTIVE
Programme Director · Corporate Responsibility
Claire Luchini brings the programme’s subject expertise into focus. The educational approach connects a structured foundation with practical situations, relevant exercises and feedback aligned with your professional objectives.
ADULT LEARNING & ANDRAGOGY
Head of Adult Learning
Federal Diploma of Higher Education in Adult Education
Sandrine Mélé oversees the adult learning approach: coherent progression, active participation and learning methods that take account of prior experience. She supports a structured, practical and human approach to developing competence.
Active at a high professional level, selected against demanding criteria.
Developing the skills of their employees with OSAM.
An experience centred on the people who learn with us.
Personal career goals. Shared organisational priorities.
SERI / SEFRIeduQua-certified institution. Federal qualifications listed by SERI in selected pathways.
TRUST, BUILT THROUGH EXPERIENCE
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LEARNERS’ VOICES
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As displayed on the OSAM website, 4 November 2026.View Google reviews“Patient teaching and very engaging lessons.”
“Excellent quality and personalised practical scenarios.”
GOOD TO KNOW
For business leaders, sustainability coordinators, HR, procurement and communications professionals, and SMEs seeking a structured approach to their social and environmental responsibilities. The programme is available to private individuals and organisations, including company teams. OSAM welcomes learners living or working in Switzerland as well as international participants joining live online.
OSAM is an eduQua-certified continuing education institution. An OSAM certificate documents the learning agreed for your programme; eduQua is a quality label for the institution, not federal recognition of every individual course.
OSAM’s work connects individual professional development with the needs of companies in Switzerland and internationally. Client references and learner reviews below offer a practical view of that work.
You develop skills you can apply in real situations, with guidance from experienced practitioners and access to learning materials on the OSAM platform. The programme focuses on these outcomes:
Yes. We start with the established programme and refine the emphasis, practical cases and learning support where useful. Adjustments take account of the individual or company’s professional context, existing skills and goals. The agreed programme is confirmed before enrolment; federal examination requirements remain binding where applicable.
For the OSAM certificate, contact us to review your current level, prior experience and objectives. We will confirm the appropriate entry requirements and any recommended preparation.
No. SMEs can also assess impacts and risks systematically. The depth of the process should suit their activities and resources, while specific legal obligations must be assessed for the individual business.
The programme develops methods and supports preparation. It does not replace individual legal assessment, independent assurance or certification of a report or organisation.
Yes. Existing objectives, processes and reports can provide a starting point. Exercises, delivery format, scope and quotation are adapted to the development needs discussed with OSAM.
YOUR CAREER, IN PERSPECTIVE
Depending on your experience and qualifications, this subject can support development in the following professional directions.
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Tell us where you want to go. Together, we will define the learning journey that gets you there.
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