Celemi Sustainability Simulation

During Celemi Sustainability Simulation participants get to experience the greatest challenge in business today by stepping into the driver’s seat of a sustainability transformation. Teams explore sustainability from a People, Planet and Profit perspective and take on the role of advisors to a simulated company, executing a sustainability transformation. During this fast-paced, team-driven simulation participants collaborate and take decisions to improve sustainability performance.

Problem

Organizations often find implementing ESG strategies difficult due to the complexity of balancing financial, environmental, and social factors. The CELEMI Sustainability Simulation allows participants to experience real-world ESG trade-offs in a controlled learning environment.

Main Topics of the Celemi Sustainability Simulation  

• People, Planet, Profit model and ESG strategy alignment
• Managing sustainability risks while maintaining financial performance
• Understanding customer expectations, regulatory compliance, and market pressures
• Short-term vs. long-term decision-making in corporate sustainability

What the Celemi Sustainability Simulation does

• Provides a team-based business simulation, where participants navigate ESG-related risks and opportunities.
• Helps decision-makers understand the long-term financial impact of sustainability choices.
• Demonstrates the consequences of short-term vs. long-term ESG strategies.

What Makes It Special

• A highly engaging and realistic learning experience through a business simulation
• Competitive, team-based learning experience that mirrors real-world business challenges.
• Immediate application—participants make sustainability decisions under business constraints.
• Helps organizations see the financial implications of ESG choices in a practical setting.

Expert Insights

CELEMI Sustainability™ Simulation helps teams understand that ESG is not a cost – it’s an opportunity. By simulating sustainability trade-offs, leaders learn to effectively integrate ESG into business strategy.

Benefits/Results for Participants

• Ability to make strategic ESG decisions with confidence
• Improved understanding of financial vs. sustainability trade-offs
• Experience in collaborative ESG problem-solving

Company Benefits from the Celemi Sustainability Simulation

• Helps companies align ESG strategy with profitability
• Ensures cross-functional ESG understanding and collaboration
• Reduces risks by preparing teams for regulatory and investor demands

Impact

Leaders and employees gain a practical, hands-on understanding of ESG trade-offs, helping them make informed sustainability decisions.

Sustainability is essential for our future.

The Celemi Sustainability™ business simulation puts the learner at the heart of the challenge: creating viable future businesses where People, Planet, and Profit are equally important.

Serious fun through simulation.

During Celemi Sustainability Simulation participants get to experience the greatest challenge in business today by stepping into the driver’s seat of a sustainability transformation.

The Celemi Learning Space™ platform provides the flexibility to offer experiences in a face-to-face setting, fully virtual classes, or a hybrid setup.

Class sizes vary from cohort groups of 12 to 30 people up to large events of several hundred.

What do participants learn?

• Prioritizing change initiatives with a limited budget
• Impact on people, planet and profit – across the whole value chain
• Expectations of customers, employees, and society
• Finding synergies to succeed against several measures
• Balancing short-term and long-term targets
• Risks with making the transformation – or delaying it

Potential follow-up courses:

• Green Mindset
• Green Business
• Diversity & Inclusion
• Psychological Safety