Sustainability has evolved from a reporting obligation into a strategic business imperative. Regulatory expectations, investor scrutiny, and stakeholder demands are reshaping how organisations compete, create value, and build resilience. Yet many organisations continue to treat ESG and CSR as standalone initiatives rather than integrating them into enterprise-wide strategy.
The ET Edge GSA Masterclass Series – Delhi Edition is designed to bridge this gap. Through a three-day executive learning experience featuring expert-led masterclasses, real-world case studies, immersive business simulations, and a field visit, participants will gain practical insights to embed sustainability into strategy, governance, finance, operations, and organisational transformation.
Intensive learning with expert-led modules, simulations & field immersion
Case studies, boardroom simulations & hands-on workshops
Covering strategy, governance, climate, finance & social impact
Leave with a practical sustainability plan for your organisation
Social Scientist and Invited CSR and Sustainability Expert - BIS (GoI), CII, BCC&I, ICC, Balmer Lawrie, EBG Federation
Driving sustainability, strategy, transformation, and enterprise-wide decision making.
Including CSOs, ESG leaders, CSR heads, sustainability teams, and climate managers.
Including BRSR, ESG reporting, compliance, investor relations, and CFO offices.
Including government officials, regulators, consultants, and sustainability advisors leading organisational and sectoral transformation.
Speaker:
Prof. Kaushik Ranjan Bandyopadhyay
Chairperson, Centre for Business Sustainability
Member, Board of Directors, Enterprise Incubation Centre (EIC), IIM Lucknow
This session explores how organisations can integrate ESG and CSR into core business strategy to create long-term value. Participants will learn practical approaches to align sustainability with governance, decision-making, performance management, and business growth, moving beyond compliance to build resilient, competitive, and future-ready enterprises through enterprise-wide sustainability leadership
Speaker:
Sheetal Sharad
Chief Ratings Officer, ICRA ESG Ratings
As ESG regulations continue to evolve and stakeholder expectations rise, organisations must move beyond compliance to build robust governance systems that strengthen accountability, manage sustainability risks, and enhance credibility. This session explores India’s evolving ESG regulatory landscape, governance best practices, disclosure frameworks, risk management, and assurance processes, equipping participants to build transparent, resilient, and investor-ready organisations.
Speaker: To be announced
This case study examines how a listed company strengthened its governance and reporting practices to enhance transparency, improve disclosure quality, and build greater investor confidence.
Speaker: Ankit Todi, Group Chief Sustainability Officer, Mahindra Group
This case study explores how a diversified business group manages ESG reporting across multiple entities. It covers data collection and verification, governance structures, materiality assessment at group and business-unit levels, and the development of disclosures that satisfy regulatory requirements while meeting investor expectations.
Speaker:
Prof. Rohan Sarma
Social Scientist & Senior Fellow, Centre for Responsible Business (CRB)
Through this session, participants will explore how organisations can transform CSR from a compliance obligation into a strategic business function by designing high-impact social investment programmes aligned with ESG priorities and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Speaker: To be announced
This case study explores how a large corporate foundation partnered with local governments, NGOs, and communities to design and scale CSR initiatives focused on livelihoods, education, and climate resilience.
Speaker: To be announced
This case study examines how a diversified multinational organisation embedded sustainability across business strategy, operations, procurement, and investment decisions.
Participants will assess their organisation’s current sustainability maturity and identify opportunities to strengthen ESG readiness and strategic integration.
Participants will assess their organisation’s current sustainability maturity and identify opportunities to strengthen ESG readiness and strategic integration.
Speakers:
Sharif Qamar
Associate Director, Transport & Urban Governance, TERI
Akash Deep
DGM & Treasurer, GRIHA Council – Decarbonizing Habitat Programme, TERI
This session explores how organisations can move beyond Net Zero commitments to develop practical climate transition strategies that reduce emissions while strengthening business competitiveness. Participants will gain insights into climate risk assessment, decarbonisation planning, transition finance, and sustainable finance instruments that enable organisations to fund and accelerate their sustainability journey.
Speaker:
Ganesh Chandra Tripathy
Global Head – EHS & Sustainability, Piramal Pharma Limited
This practitioner-led case study shares practical insights into integrating resource efficiency, water stewardship, waste management, climate action, operational excellence, and responsible supply chains while balancing regulatory compliance, business performance, and long-term sustainability outcomes.
Speaker:
Dr. Mini Govindan
Senior Fellow
This session explores how organisations can build resilient and future-ready value chains by managing Scope 3 emissions, strengthening supplier engagement, improving resource efficiency, and embedding sustainability across the value chain to meet evolving regulatory, investor, and stakeholder expectations.
Speaker:
Naveen Ahlawat
President & Head – Sustainability & Decarbonization, Jindal Steel Ltd.
This case study explores how steel manufacturers are driving the transition towards low-carbon and sustainable operations by embedding sustainability into business strategy, manufacturing processes, and organisational transformation.
Speakers:
Dr. Pushplata Singh
Director, Sustainable Agriculture, TERI
Mr. Shailesh Ganeshrao Tembhurnikar
Distinguished Fellow, Land Resources, TERI
Nature is rapidly becoming a strategic business priority, and this session explores how organisations can identify, assess, and manage nature-related risks by integrating biodiversity and natural capital into corporate strategy, governance, and decision-making. Participants will examine emerging global frameworks, including TNFD, and learn how nature-positive strategies can strengthen resilience, unlock new opportunities, and create long-term business value.
Speaker:
Senior Representative, Council of Corporate Sustainability, TERI
In this immersive boardroom simulation, participants work as an executive leadership team to navigate competing business priorities while developing an integrated enterprise sustainability strategy. Through collaborative decision-making, participants will prioritise ESG investments, allocate resources, strengthen governance, and respond to evolving regulatory, investor, and stakeholder expectations before presenting a practical sustainability roadmap that balances commercial performance with long-term environmental and social value.
Participants will visit a leading sustainability project to experience first-hand how ESG strategies are translated into operational practice. The visit concludes with a facilitated reflection session that connects field learnings to participants’ own organisational priorities.
The biggest sustainability challenge today isn’t ambition—it’s integration. This session explores how organisations can move ESG and CSR from standalone functions into the heart of enterprise strategy, governance and business transformation.
CSR has evolved beyond regulatory compliance into a strategic lever for creating long-term business and social value. Learn how organisations can design impactful programmes that align with ESG priorities and deliver measurable outcomes.
Strong governance builds trust, strengthens accountability and enables sustainable growth. This session focuses on India’s evolving ESG landscape, disclosure frameworks and governance practices that inspire investor confidence.
Climate transition requires more than ambitious commitments. Explore practical decarbonisation strategies alongside sustainable finance mechanisms that enable organisations to fund and execute long-term climate action.
Future-ready organisations build responsible supply chains that are resilient, circular and nature positive. Learn how sustainability can be embedded across operations and procurement.
Sustainability success depends on measuring performance and building organisational capability. Learn how leading organisations use ESG metrics, leadership and governance to drive continuous improvement.
Apply your learning in an immersive executive boardroom simulation where participants make strategic ESG decisions, prioritise investments, allocate capital and develop an enterprise sustainability roadmap.
Experience sustainability beyond the classroom through an immersive visit to a live sustainability project, gaining first-hand exposure to implementation, governance and operational excellence.
