Asia’s Sustainability and Digital Innovation Goals Proliferate by Executive Education and Corporate Training

From a business perspective, sustainability is defined as the adoption of business strategies, activities, and operations that meet the needs of the firm and its stakeholder today while protecting, sustaining, and enhancing the human and natural resources that will be needed in the future. Executive Education and Corporate Training also referred to as “corporate” or “professional up-skilling”, provides executives, leaders and organizational stakeholders an opportunity to ascertain new knowledge necessitated to enhance skills by furnishing an independent space away from their organization to “step back” and gain new perspectives. Executive Education and Corporate Training (EE&CT) are important mechanisms for global businesses to nurture talent in cultivating top leadership. In this context, especially in regards to “digital innovation and sustainability” in Asia, EE&CT, is considered one of the most significant requirements to ameliorate ability and capacity acting as a catalyst to increased performance of managers, policymakers and other organizational leaders faced with the challenge of navigating and ultimately solving the region’s sustainability problems. This chapter will explore the impact of international Executive Education and Corporate Training in relation to digital innovation and sustainability and its successful execution and implementation throughout Asia. The research associated within this chapter indicates that business leaders throughout Asia, who received international EE&CT, in particularly related to digital innovation and sustainability, found their experience positively furnished individual growth and enhanced performance contributing to their organization’s progression, maturation and evolution.