Welcome to those who have had no previous contact - we hope you find here what you are looking for!

A particular welcome back to those who knew us as the Brunel Management Programme, the Brunel Environmental Management Programme and Centre - and those who have had links with Brunel before - we look forward to seeing you again soon.

Whatever your current role or business function, if you have n some responsibility for sustainability, climate change, environmental management, corporate responsibility or governance, please read on...

CSEM-BMP provides open intensive training and management/ leadership development to help you meet your current needs - easily and effortlessly. The programme can also help you and your your busines meet your development needs.

How does this work?

Our Management Education programme provides a coherent integrated programme of four-day seminars and workshops to help develop sustainability-focused management and leadership and achieve an outstanding programme of results.

Our Seminar Training provides the above seminars which are designed to help you meet current business challenges, e.g. EU regulations such as REACH or a programme for carbon management.

We are happy to receive management and management policy Research commissions, particularly if the interest is in a collaborative management research mode (working alongside the holder of a problem they want solved).

CSEM-BMP's approximately one hundred Associate contributors being corporate sustainability pioneers and advisors will generally be interested in pioneering and break-through consultancies. For a small proportion of our earlier work, please see Sustainability Advisory Services.

Benefits of Management Education & Training with CSEM-BMP

1. Huge practical experience: thirty-five years' management and leadership development experience, working with 17,000 managers from blue-chip companies and government from across Europe
2. Reputation: pioneering of some 11 of the main areas of sustainability management training at the level of corporate functional management
3. Good company: CSEM has developed or trained some 1500 environmental and sustainability managers
4. Professional: management and organizational knowledge, concepts, frameworks, techniques are centred in the  body of advanced theory and practice - and go beyond - in daily use all over the world.
5. Some of the best: Our Associate Course and Contributors are peer-rated as amongst the best in their aspects of the field
6. Staff Update: Practitioner gatherings facilitate growth of knowledge, to the benefit of clients.
7. Competitive Edge: CSEM focuses on giving you and your business real competitive edge.

CSEM-BMP - Towards an extraordinary possibility

No corporate organisations can yet claim to have realised real ecological sustainability. But...

What if the sustainability and environmental managers and leaders of our concentrated global industries had the knowledge and leadership capability to demonstrate the possibility of real sustainability to their management and shareholders - and their organisations led the world into a new future, beyond the environmental and climate change crisis? 

In the last three years or so, it has become clear that pioneers of sustainability management can now convey what is necessary for a single organisation to achieve, in principle, real sustainability. In relation to our future, there is new an extraordinary possibility. 

CSEM has pioneered the thinking and training that has led to this possibility - and can now provide all the training and management development necessary for the largest organisations. Now it is up to us!

CSEM-BMP Background

CSEM (pronounced ceesem), formerly the Brunel Environmental Management Centre (EMC), was founded in 1990 by Ross King and Ken Knight within the Brunel Management Programme (BMP) at Brunel University. BMP itself was founded in 1971 by Ken Knight, within BIOSS, Elliot Jaques' Brunel Institute of organisation and Social Studies and became the largest senior management programme in the UK over many years.

EMC and BMP merged and became independent as 'CSEM' at the close of the 90s. CSEM followed the route of some twenty or so Institutes, Centres and Units out of Brunel, leaving to avoid losing identity in a few main departments - a process driven by UK government University funding rules of the time.

BMP, EMC and CSEM have always been self-funded, self-managed and self- organised, with their own business infrastructure and systems, operating autonomously in relation to their validating institutions.

CSEM-BMP Activities

CSEM's main activities are Education & Training (at both post-graduate and seminar level), Research and Consultancy, directed to the prime purpose of supporting the development of Sustainable Business in the UK and world-wide.

CSEM-BMP Structure

CSEM's structure is changing to meet the needs of growth. 

Until now CSEM-BMP has been a small-core: large periphery organisation, a model shared with many of the most successful Business Schools and other service organisations. The core typically includes two to four directors, an acting Board, some Senior Associate Programme Directors and a small administrative office. The 'periphery' normally includes other senior Associate Course Directors and Contributors.

CSEM-BMP Associate Course Directors & Contributors - the faculty:

Members of both the core and periphery are selected on the basis that they are already successful pioneering managers, advisors or academics in their field. They need to have the commitment, knowledge, professional reputation and personal skills in Environmental and Sustainable management development to be fully credible and attractive to delegates and clients. In particular, what makes them credible to clients, is their generally strong record of achievement in corporate business, government or consultancy. See the list of Associate Faculty & Contributors.

CSEM-BMP Record of Achievement

CSEM-BMP has a strong ethos and record of achievement:

• Launching in 1990, and pioneering sustainability-focused Environmental Management training for senior and functional managers, directors and their advisers in the UK, with the first broad programme at this level
• Providing 25-30 seminars a year over first decade - some 1700 delegates to some 160 seminars - and eventually approximately 100 participants in the first UK modular MSc in Environmental Management
• Providing the first audit of agovernment department
• Pioneering 11 out of the 15 principal subjects in the field, designing the first public seminars and presentations.
• Sourcing McGraw-Hill's 1995 'Strategy for Sustainable Business' - the first strategy hand-book for sustainability in business - based on CSEM open and Masters programme.
• Designing the first on-site, hands-on Environmental Audit training in early 90s, taken up by the Environmental Audit Registration Association and leading to a global explosion of such training over the next years - with over 110,000 trained through versions of this course
• Training some 600 environmental and sustainability auditors via on-site, hands-on, real-time process
• Selected in mid-90s as the management training centre best suited to meet RAF emerging environmental management needs
• Assisting the Japan Management Association (10,000 participants a year)to set up its own Environmental Management Education Programme - including 5 demonstration 6-day Audit courses
• World-first sustainability management "cascade" training programme through 40,000 staff for one corporate major.
• Training the Heads of Environment for Russia and the Confederation of Independent States
• First UK Management Masters Programme delivering corporate capability to achieve real sustainability over a suitable transition time...
• CSEM graduate becoming the Programme Director for the UNFCCC (the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change)
• And more...

CSEM-BMP Transition to accredited sustainability-focused College/ School:

Following a first decade of intensive development and delivery, CSEM is in co-operative partnership with Middlesex University to facilitate the development of the present Integrated Sustainability Management Programme for Business, see modular Masters Programme called 'Integrated Sustainable Management for Business'. This operates from beautiful and conducive surroundings of the Grim's Dyke Hotel & Conference Centre (www.grimsdyke.com) in the 'Greenbelt' north of London, UK.

CSEM-BMP Management and Core Group:

The Management and Core Group of CSEM consists of:

Honorary President - Goodspeed Kopolo - Finance Director, UNCCD, UN Synergies Project 

Acting Chairman - Ian Parker, Head of Missouri Mission in Europe 

Chief Executive and Joint Programme Director - Ross King - Professor Emeritus, CEnv, MIEMA

Joint Programme Director - Dr. Michael Baker, CSEM Senior Fellow

Non-Executive Director - Geoff Prout, FRICS and former Senior Advisor, Abu Dhabi Investment Authority 

Non-Executive Director - Tom Bramley, f. Member Ford Global Purchasing Council

Executive Director - Stephen Price, Tai Chi and Chi Kung provision

Student & Participant Representative - Poul Wend Hansen - Global Business Systems, Lend Lease Corporation

CSEM-BMP Invitation to potential Sponsors and benefactors:

CSEM -BMP warmly invites potential Sponsors and benefactors. 

• • If you wish to sponsor a suitable Masters participant - then you could hardly put your resources to better social and envirnmental use!
  • If you wish to support the growth of the first decicated centre of excellence for the development of organisational leadership for real sustainability - then again, you could hardly put your weight behind a project with more far-reacing potential to make a difference for our future.

Contact in the first instance - or via:

Mary Hurley

Programme Secretary
+44 (0)1923 249648
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