Sustainability Leadership in Investment Management
Value-driven leadership in a turbulent world
We live in a fast changing world, where the sustainability agenda increasingly proves most effective when approached from a risk and resilience perspective.
Climate and nature are under pressure. What are the latest insights? What are risks and opportunities of the transition? How do we manage sustainability risks and ensure opportunities are recognized?
Investment management is all about building and managing future-proof portfolios with appropriate risk-return profiles, that align with our values and those of our clients.
Sustainability leadership in investment management is essential to fulfil our fiduciary duty.
The Golden Circle of Value
The program is founded on our Golden Circle of Value. This value-driven framework provides insight into the many dimensions of sustainability and impact within investment management. It offers a structured overview of the why, how, and what of both sustainable and impact investments. It supports participants in managing portfolios that are future proof and create real-world value.
The Program
- Blended learning
- Brief preparatory assignment
- Two consecutive training days
- Intervision moment in pairs
- Online feedback session
- Group size: max. 12 people
- Engels: (Nederlands afhankelijk van groep)
- Trainers: Yvonne Bakkum & Anne Wagenmans
For Whom
- You are a manager or experienced professional in the Investment Management industry.
- You have the ambition to stay ahead in your work, the sustainable transition and sustainable investments.
- You are curious about what becomes possible with the latest insights.
- You want to give more direction to change and explore with like-minded peers how to truly embed long-term value creation in your work.
- You have a higher professional or academic work and thinking level and feel this is the time to deepen your leadership.
Data
Training dates
- March 19 & 20, 2026
- June 23 & 24, 2026
Location: The Green House Utrecht (near CS Utrecht).
Cost €1,950 exempt from VAT
Email info@susc.nl for more info.
Built around three core themes of the Cambridge Impact Leadership Model
Thinking
Participants are given a concise overview of key sustainability developments in investment management. We analyse how the energy transition, materials transition, and biodiversity affect portfolios and work in the investment management industry.
Using The Golden Circle of Value as a framework, we explore how these developments impact business cases of investments. What are the risks and where do the opportunities lie?
Values
Personal reflection on your motivations and intentions is a valuable part of the program.
You’ll gain unique insight into your core values, what truly drives you as a leader.
We also reflect on key skills essential for sustainability leadership like systems thinking and understanding how market transformations unfold. These skills and insights are explored in greater depth throughout the program.
You will shape and articulate your own personal narrative for leadership. A story that will inspire others and position you as a role model in the transition.
Practice
With practical insights, peer learning and effective tools, we support you to naturally and purposefully weave sustainability into your daily work. This approach strengthens your professional impact as well as your contribution to the organization’s sustainability ambitions.
Our strategic stakeholder engagement approach helps you actively involve both internal and external stakeholders in the transition.
This way, you increase your influence and create meaningful long-term value for both your organization and society.
Yvonne Bakkum
Experienced impact leader, independent consultant and supervisor.
Yvonne is an experienced impact leader, independent consultant and supervisor focused on increasing the positive impact of capital.
Yvonne chairs the Netherlands Advisory Board on Impact Investing. An active impact investing practitioner, she advises Achmea Investment Management, chairs the Supervisory Board of Incofin Investment Management and is a member of the Investment Committees of the Social Impact Funds in Rotterdam, The Hague and Amsterdam. In 2022 and 2023, she was included in the Dutch top 50 ‘Women in Sustainable Finance’.
As founding Managing Director of FMO Investment Management, she led the mobilization of more than EUR 2 billion in private capital for the SDGs. Prior to that, she was Director of Private Equity at FMO, where she built a global portfolio of direct investments and fund investments. She began her career at ABN AMRO Bank.
Yvonne holds a master’s degree in business economics from Erasmus University Rotterdam.
Anne Wagenmans
Founder of SUSC
Anne Wagenmans is the owner of SUSC and a leadership and sustainability professional focused on strengthening customer-focused engagement, future-proof leadership, and biodiversity impact. Since 2020, over 1,800 professionals and managers have participated in programs she developed at the intersection of transition, behavior, and business strategy.
Born into an entrepreneurial family, Anne is always looking for the economic drivers behind accelerating the sustainable transition. After completing her Master’s in Business Economics at Tilburg University, she started her career at international organizations such as FMO, AEGON Asset Management and ExxonMobil. In 2017 she obtained a Postgraduate in Sustainability at the University of Cambridge, where she also worked on sustainable energy projects within FMO’s sustainability team and served as an assessor for several Cambridge programs.
In 2020, she founded SUSC, with clients including Rabobank, ABN AMRO, Nationale Nederlanden and KPN. Since 2024, she expanded the portfolio to include biodiversity programs in partnership with Naturalis. In 2025, Anne became country coordinator for the Biodiversity Collage.