Goal of the workshop:
Over the course of one day, we want to continue shaping our vision of a biodiversity academy aimed at leaders in industry and the financial sector. We want to explore what high-impact biodiversity leadership looks like in practice and how an academy could enable leaders and their organisations identify and manage their biodiversity-related risks and opportunities by creating the necessary mindset, capabilities and behaviours.

Expected outcomes:
1) Participants will co-create a leadership toolkit focused on positive storytelling and biodiversity impact, and reflect on how they might inspire and lead nature-positive change within their own contexts. We will seek to empower attendees to take further steps toward integrating biodiversity leadership into organizational cultures, and foster a peer support network to sustain momentum.
2) For the University of Zurich, we will look to test our emerging thinking on a skeleton for a biodiversity academy aimed at enabling leaders in the private sector. To achieve this objective, we will carefully consider the audience of the workshop and will potentially use it as a first high-profile opportunity to bring together a first cohort of the leaders we are looking to move along on the journey

Date: 14 June 2026, Sunday

Duration: 4 x 90-minute sessions (morning and afternoon), followed by an informal networking dinner