Sustainable Value Creation Institute

The Sustainable Value Creation Institute (SVCI) was established with business, for business, with the purpose to fundamentally advance sustainable value creation across corporate Australia.

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Today’s business leaders face a complex challenge:

How to deliver long-term financial value for shareholders and navigate the transition to a more sustainable economy during profound global challenges such as the rise of artificial intelligence, volatile geopolitics, increasing trade barriers, and evolving community expectations.

The Sustainable Value Creation Institute supports leaders to identify, prioritise, and act on what matters most in transforming sustainability challenges into drivers of innovation, resilience, and long-term value creation.

We do this by bringing together business, academia, and other stakeholders to:

Convene cross-sector senior-leader dialogues
Produce rigorous, actionable research on priority business problems
Provide world-class capability building for senior leaders and managers.

"Sustainable value creation is delivering long-term shareholder value and enabling sustainability transitions. This requires a clear strategy and bold leadership to address issues core to a company’s purpose. Leaders must focus on what materially matters, make challenging strategic choices, and build the capabilities to execute. Inaction heightens risk, erodes opportunity, and undermines collective prosperity."

Professor Will Harvey
Director, Sustainable Value Creation Institute

Our Focus

SVCI’s focus spans three interconnected areas of sustainable value creation – where transition, opportunity, and complexity converge.

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Climate change & decarbonisation
Helping organisations develop and execute credible transition and decarbonisation strategies, and address physical risks – identifying pathways that sustain long-term competitiveness and resilience.

Nature & circularity
Supporting leaders to unlock business value through nature-positive strategies and circular-economy models – connecting science, markets, and innovation to drive measurable outcomes.

Thriving communities & society
Exploring how organisations build trust, inclusion, and shared prosperity by aligning purpose with operations and strengthening social capital.

Our Goals

To deliver on our mission, the Institute is guided by a set of goals that direct our research, capability building and cross- sector engagement.

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Build corporate and leadership capability, extending into value chains and community partners.

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Support collaboration and system-level progress through research, advocacy, upskilling and dialogues.

Increase the visibility and evidence base for SVC across Australian companies.

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Enable enterprise-level transformation in how organisations integrate and deliver SVC.

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Strengthen national competitiveness and resilience by embedding SVC into mainstream business practice.

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Contribute to tangible sustainability outcomes across the Institute’s key areas of focus.

Sustainable Value Creation Institute Dialogues and Events