ESG and sustainability training built around what procurement, HR, finance, operations, facilities and sales already do, department by department.
Strategy that stops at the boardroom never becomes practice. Cascade is built for the six departments that turn it into one.
Procurement, HR, finance, operations, facilities and sales, under one organisation-wide licence.
Practical templates, tools and a personalised action plan your team keeps for every department.
Self-paced training, refreshed annually as reporting requirements evolve.
None of the following numbers are Cascade's. They're what outside researchers found when they looked at the same gap.
workers worldwide has one or more sustainability skills, and the gap with employer demand is widening.
LinkedIn, Global Green Skills Report, 2023
of businesses that engage with ESG admit they lack the skills across it to actually deliver on it.
The Open University, 2023 survey of 500+ UK businesses
or fewer of companies are on track to meet the emissions targets they've already set for themselves.
PwC, State of Decarbonization Report
You can’t operate a more sustainable business without training the people who operate it.
Cascade equips every department to understand its role, make better decisions and turn your ESG strategy into business as usual.
Most ESG training starts with the regulation and leaves people to work out what it means for their role. Cascade starts with the role and builds the learning program from there.
Every department already produces data a sustainability report depends on. Most of them don't realise it. Here's what each learning program changes.
A routine contract renewal can quietly become a line in next year's sustainability report.
Equips procurement to screen suppliers, run due diligence, and write contract and evidence clauses that hold up to scrutiny.
The turnover number in payroll rarely matches the one that ends up in the report.
Equips HR to calculate defensible workforce metrics and document data the way regulators and auditors expect to see it.
A missed disclosure rarely shows up on the balance sheet. It surfaces later, when a tender stalls or a lender asks.
Equips finance to trace ESG-linked figures to source and prepare evidence that holds up under external assurance.
Most operational KPIs were set before the ESG strategy existed, and nobody has gone back to reconcile the two.
Equips operations to validate emissions and operational data, and bring floor-level KPIs back in line with reporting.
Energy and waste figures usually live in a maintenance log: useful for upkeep, not built for scrutiny.
Equips facilities to measure and report energy, water and waste data with evidence that holds up.
A tender response can commit to a decarbonisation roadmap that nobody in operations has agreed to deliver.
Equips sales to answer ESG questionnaires and verify sustainability claims before they go into writing.
Every learning program follows the same arc, translated into that department's own decisions.
Where this touches the job, and the standards that already shape it.
Turn strategy into decisions, controls and daily practice.
Meet regulatory obligations and answer real disclosure requests.
Present the case, and leave with a personalised action plan.
Cascade is a self-paced ESG training platform built around six departments: procurement, HR, finance, operations, facilities and sales. Each learning program is written in the language of that job, not generic sustainability theory.
Organisations that already have an ESG strategy and need the departments responsible for delivering it to actually know how. It's sold to companies, not individual learners.
No. Every learning program is built around what that department already does day to day, and starts from there.
Entirely online and self-paced. Your team works through the learning programs in whatever order suits your organisation, and content is kept current as reporting requirements evolve.
No. Cascade is practical training, not a certified or accredited qualification. It's built to leave your team with working skills, not a certificate.
"I spent years in the rooms where ESG strategy gets written, and just as long watching it die somewhere on the way to the departments that actually have to act on it. Cascade is the translation layer I kept wishing existed."Tasneem Bakri, Founder
Self-paced, built around real jobs, and ready to roll out across your organisation now.