Supporting ESSEC graduates who want to help make their company have a positive impact
In July 2022, ESSEC Alumni, in partnership with the Observatoire Société et Consommation (Society and Consumption Observatory or ObSoCo), carried out a survey on ESSEC graduates and the social and environmental transition.
It revealed that 82% of alumni were in favour of a radical transformation for companies, although only 15% considered that the company they work for was on this path. It also highlighted a desire to upskill in our graduates, with 71% interested in courses offered by ESSEC and 68% in courses selected by ESSEC Alumni.
If you feel the same way, read on to find out more about the results of the association’s work to help you boost your company’s transformation. With our ambitious action plan, ESSEC Alumni is committed to supporting you on this journey, along with the entire ESSEC ecosystem.
The ESSEC Alumni action plan for the environmental and social transition
1. The key parts of the action plan
Our watchword is action, which breaks down into a 3-stage transformation process for our alumni:
 | Develop awareness |
Developing awareness means creating a core of knowledge. The Climate Fresk, the 2Tonnes Workshop and now the Diversity Fresk, created by ESSEC, are run every six weeks, both in person and remotely. And we help alumni who wish to set up the Climate Fresk in their own company. Over time, we will be adding other kinds of sessions, with Fresks on Digital Technology, Biodiversity, Construction, Finance and more...
Please note that these workshops are only available in French for the moment.
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Keen to sign up for a fresk or workshop, but not available for the dates listed?
Don’t panic! New sessions are organised regularly.
To be among the first to know about future workshops, sign up to our special email list!
 | Become an actor |
Becoming an actor means positioning yourself and/or receiving training to lead the transformation of your company, whether you choose to transform it from the inside, join a positive-impact company, or create your own company.
Since 2021, the ESSEC Alumni Careers Department has offered a whole range of lifelong learning courses dedicated to the environmental and social transition. Lifetime members enjoy full access to our Edflex platform, which includes a section dedicated to “corporate social responsibility (CSR)”. In this section, you can find a selection of
Not yet a lifetime member, and keen to join to access Edflex? Find out everything you need to know in our Membership section.
 | A podcast by ESSEC Transition Alumni. Discover conversations with alumni who are taking action within their companies or have chosen to leave them, to move towards a low-carbon world that respects all living things. What was their lightbulb moment? Why did they stay? How can you get your organisation moving? How can you create change and speed up the shift? Hear testimonials of real-life experiences of taking action, from within or without... Together, let’s move for the planet! You can access all the « »Bouge de là ! » episodes (only available in French) :  Credits: Marie Husson (E00), interview and recording & Alice Krieff, editing (Les belles fréquences)
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 | Degrowth, let's get on with it? - A "Bouge de là" episode exceptionally live! As part of a series of conferences and round tables dedicated to economic models and the place of business in the context of the radical changes required by environmental and societal issues, the team of the "Bouge de là" podcast welcomes Timothée Parrique* for a live episode! You can now watch the replay of this live episode on our Youtube channel. *Timothée Parrique is a researcher at the University of Lund in Sweden and author of Slow down or perish. The economics of degrowth. |
You can also access all the MOOCs developed by ESSEC on the Coursera platform: 
 | Join a positive-impact collective |
Join a positive-impact collective to grow the scope of your individual action. We hope that a large number of alumni will join our community-minded clubs and use these new services... and that they will be satisfied with them. We also plan to dedicate part of our editorial policy to sharing the inspiring stories of graduates who have already gotten involved in the transformation.
The ESSEC Alumni clubs you can join:
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2. ESSEC Alumni Day: let’s look back at an unprecedented event dedicated to diversity and inclusion
13 October 2022 was the day that ESSEC Alumni chose to bring together the entire ESSEC community - students, graduates and professors - for over 12 hours, from Singapore to New York via Cergy, to take action together for corporate diversity and inclusion.
ESSEC and ESSEC Alumni are committed to helping make the world more inclusive, so that everyone can find their own place where their uniqueness is respected.
At the School, these questions are already included in training programmes, allowing ESSEC to have a positive impact on the future companies that students join or create. And now, the Association is also getting involved in this process, so that collectively, we can increase this impact by helping to build another business model, one that’s more solidarity-oriented, equitable and responsible.
Watch the videos of the day’s round tables and various talks on YouTube :
Watch the videos
3. Key statistics and indicators of impact
1 000 | 18% | 12% |
alumni attended workshops (including 400 Fresk attendees) each year since 2021 | of alumni say they are actively engaged in the transformation of their company | of the ESSEC Alumni budget dedicated to the social and environmental transition |
4. Contacts
Want to know more about the ESSEC Alumni strategy?
Feel free to contact the environmental and social transition team at the address transition@essecalumni.com
5. Going further
Want to know more? Check out our action plan: