Materiality assessment for
ESG reporters
In this course, we will guide you step by step through all the key stages of the materiality assessment process. You will learn how to engage with stakeholders effectively and prioritize topics accurately. We will explore various approaches and methodologies required by international standards such as GRI, ESRS, and IFRS 1 and 2.
You will gain the skills to systematically assess impacts, risks, and opportunities related to ESG topics, ensuring a comprehensive understanding of both financial materiality and impact materiality. This approach will provide you with actionable insights to improve decision-making processes, strengthen sustainability strategies, and align your reporting with international requirements.
By the end of the course, you will have the tools and knowledge needed to effectively integrate double materiality into your organization’s sustainability framework and stakeholder engagement processes.
You will gain the skills to systematically assess impacts, risks, and opportunities related to ESG topics, ensuring a comprehensive understanding of both financial materiality and impact materiality. This approach will provide you with actionable insights to improve decision-making processes, strengthen sustainability strategies, and align your reporting with international requirements.
By the end of the course, you will have the tools and knowledge needed to effectively integrate double materiality into your organization’s sustainability framework and stakeholder engagement processes.
Materiality assessment for ESG reporters is a personalised mentorship course built on 15+ years’ experience of ESG reporting for the leading national and global companies.
Step-by-Step Process for Materiality Assessments
We will guide you step by step through the entire materiality assessment process — from selecting the right tools to making well-informed decisions. You will explore each key stage in detail to ensure the process is structured, transparent, and aligned with international standards.
Effective Threshold Setting and Prioritization Techniques
We will learn how to set threshold values to prioritize the most impactful factors and develop reliable methodologies for objective analysis and ranking of risks and opportunities.
Mastering Double Materiality: Practical Tools and Real-World Applications
Using real-world case studies, we’ll explore practical assessment techniques and show you how to integrate them with ESRS, GRI, and IFRS 1,2 standards. Understand how business decisions simultaneously affect your organisation and the wider environment.
Best-in-Class Documentation Practices
Proper documentation is key to ensuring transparency and credibility. We’ll teach you how to accurately document findings and results in line with international best practices, making them easily accessible for internal use and external reporting.
Ready-to-use templates
To streamline your materiality assessment process, including a stakeholder engagement template for gathering input, a risk assessment template for evaluating key risks, a topic prioritization template for ranking material topics, and a materiality matrix template for visualising and presenting your results.
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In a complex, multi-dimensional field like sustainability reporting—with its many nuances—we believe only personalized mentoring can ensure a thorough understanding of the material, empowering you to apply it independently and effectively in real-world scenarios.
Looking for Tangible Learning Results?
Choose MENTOR-LED
Courses
In a complex, multi-dimensional field like sustainability reporting - with its many nuances - we believe only personalized mentoring can ensure a thorough understanding of the material, empowering you to apply it independently and effectively in real-world scenarios.
Theme 1: Introduction to Materiality Assessment
Theme 2: The Materiality Assessment Process
Theme 3: GRI, ESRS, IFRS 1, 2: Approach to Materiality
Theme 4: Stakeholder Engagement Strategies
Theme 5: Topic Identification and Prioritization
Theme 6: Identification of Impacts, Risks, and Opportunities (IROs)
Theme 7: Assessment and Determination of Impact Materiality
Theme 8: Assessment and Determination of Financial Materiality
Theme 9: Consolidating Impact and Financial Materiality Outcomes
Theme 10: Documentation and Reporting the Materiality Assessment
Theme 11: Implementing and Reviewing the Materiality Assessment
Theme 12: Common Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
Mentorship
Self-Paced+
Self-Paced Classic
Duration
Access to the platform for 6 months
4 mentor sessions to be completed over a 6-month period.
Access to the platform for 6 months
Access to the platform for 6 months
Access
Building on all the benefits of Self-Paced+, plus:
- Curated materials reflecting your progress and mentor feedback
Constantly updated and evolving learning content reflecting all ongoing changes in the regulatory environment and standards application practices
Constantly updated and evolving learning content reflecting all ongoing changes in the regulatory environment and standards application practices
Materials
- Additional resources in MS Word and PDF upon request for specific areas of study interest
- Custom-prepared study materials aligned with your industry or regional specifics
- Course translation into any native language, supplied as a PDF and sent straight to your inbox
- Videos, texts, pictures, tables, infographics, tests
- 100+ illustrative practical disclosures
- 100+ real-life reporting examples from top companies for each disclosure requirement
- Course translation into any native language, supplied as a PDF and sent straight to your inbox
- Videos, texts, pictures, tables, infographics, tests
- 100+ illustrative practical disclosures
- 100+ real-life reporting examples from top companies for each disclosure requirement
Flexibility
- Enjoy a flexible pace with one requirement: schedule mentor session(s) within the first 6 months
Total freedom:
study at your own pace, pause whenever you want, or speed up to reach your goals sooner.
Select one date within the next 6 months for a single mentor meeting.
Total freedom:
study at your own pace during 1 year, pause whenever you want, or speed up to reach your goals sooner.
Support
- Direct access to a mentor for personalized guidance and support
24/7
dedicated team support
- Only on weekdays from 10 AM to 6 PM London time.
Mentor Session Focus
Building on all the benefits of Self-Paced+, plus:
- Sessions customized to your individual objectives and professional needs
- Option to adapt the curriculum and study materials to your personal preferences and goals
- Individual assignments tailored to your specific needs and objectives
Onboarding (kick-off call)
At the start, you and your mentor review your learning goals, agree on the best study approach, and—if helpful—receive extra resources tailored to those goals.
Final meeting (wrap-up Q&A)
At the end, you bring every remaining question, get in-depth answers, and, when needed, receive additional materials for your future self-study.
Pace
- Opportunity to request or receive additional materials on practically any ESG reporting or disclosure topic
- Curriculum customization at each study stage to address your specific needs, experience, and learning objectives
- In-depth review of your assignments, challenges encountered, and experience gained
- Opportunity to discuss, develop, and refine your real-world project with an experienced mentor
Follows a practice-oriented curriculum covering essential knowledge of the methodology and application, with progress checks through multiple-choice tests.
Follows a practice-oriented curriculum covering essential knowledge of the methodology and application, with progress checks through multiple-choice tests.
Mentor Sessions
- Four 1.5-hour sessions
- Two 1-hour sessions
Price
1,200 GBP
+ VAT (if applicable)
Interested in mentoring format?
Discover how to skyrocket your reporting goals in a free 1-on-1 session with our expert mentor.
Discover how to skyrocket your reporting goals in a free 1-on-1 session with our expert mentor.
350 GBP
+ VAT (if applicable)
99 GBP
+ VAT (if applicable)
Payment Flexibility
Discounts for groups of 3 or more
20% discount for students or NGOs
Option to pay in up to four instalments
One-time payment
Discounts for groups of 3 or more
One-time payment
Discounts for groups of 3 or more
Our course blends the best of traditional and modern teaching methodologies
LIVE WORKSHOPS:
Interactive sessions led by industry expert.
HANDS-ON EXERCISES:
Apply your knowledge through practical exercises.
CASE STUDIES:
Real-world examples to reinforce learning.
MENTOR SUPPORT:
Get personalized guidance and insights throughout the course.
Ross Kurinko, Dr. is a distinguished expert with over 15 years of experience in sustainability, ESG, integrated ESG communications and corporate reporting. Throughout his career, he has been instrumental in establishing ESG governance frameworks and comprehensive disclosure systems, notably building one from scratch for one of Europe’s largest railway companies. As an independent consultant, he has guided over 20 prominent businesses and educated hundreds of professionals, enabling them to make significant strides in sustainable practices. His work has consistently emphasized the enhancement of corporate governance, reduction of environmental impacts, and strengthening of social responsibility initiatives, with a particular focus on creating robust, transparent reporting and disclosure frameworks. These efforts have been widely recognized with awards and honours.
Ross Kurinko’s expertise is particularly concentrated on ESG reporting and disclosure, where he has been at the forefront of aligning corporate practices with the rigorous demands of responsible finance and ESG analytics. His close professional relationships with leading organizations like GRI, S&P Global, Moody’s, Sustainalytics, and CDP have delivered direct value to his clients, enhancing their brand reputations and increasing shareholder confidence. His strategic guidance has positioned these businesses as leaders in their industries, driving measurable impact and fostering a culture of continuous improvement. Ross Kurinko’s unwavering commitment to sustainability and corporate responsibility has established him as a key figure in advancing transparency and accountability in corporate reporting.
In addition to the aforementioned roles, Ross Kurinko, Dr., is a frequent speaker on ESG/Sustainability reporting, strategy, and management. He serves as an official tutor for the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and is a qualified CSR consultant under the EBRD Business Advisory Services Programme. Moreover, he has authored several books for UN agencies and written articles for both US and European academic institutions, contributing to renowned institutions such as Cambridge and Harvard Universities.
Ross Kurinko, Dr. is a distinguished expert with over 15 years of experience in sustainability, ESG, integrated ESG communications and corporate reporting. Throughout his career, he has been instrumental in establishing ESG governance frameworks and comprehensive disclosure systems, notably building one from scratch for one of Europe’s largest railway companies. As an independent consultant, he has guided over 20 prominent businesses and educated hundreds of professionals, enabling them to make significant strides in sustainable practices. His work has consistently emphasized the enhancement of corporate governance, reduction of environmental impacts, and strengthening of social responsibility initiatives, with a particular focus on creating robust, transparent reporting and disclosure frameworks. These efforts have been widely recognized with awards and honours.
Ross Kurinko’s expertise is particularly concentrated on ESG reporting and disclosure, where he has been at the forefront of aligning corporate practices with the rigorous demands of responsible finance and ESG analytics. His close professional relationships with leading organizations like GRI, S&P Global, Moody’s, Sustainalytics, and CDP have delivered direct value to his clients, enhancing their brand reputations and increasing shareholder confidence. His strategic guidance has positioned these businesses as leaders in their industries, driving measurable impact and fostering a culture of continuous improvement. Ross Kurinko’s unwavering commitment to sustainability and corporate responsibility has established him as a key figure in advancing transparency and accountability in corporate reporting.
In addition to the aforementioned roles, Ross Kurinko, Dr., is a frequent speaker on ESG/Sustainability reporting, strategy, and management. He serves as an official tutor for the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and is a qualified CSR consultant under the EBRD Business Advisory Services Programme. Moreover, he has authored several books for UN agencies and written articles for both US and European academic institutions, contributing to renowned institutions such as Cambridge and Harvard Universities.
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Sustainability Professionals
You will enhance your expertise in sustainability reporting by developing the technical skills needed to conduct a comprehensive double materiality analysis and create a fully compliant report.
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Sustainability Reporting Consultants
You will build your expertise in guiding clients through the complexities of double materiality assessments, helping them align with CSRD/ESRS requirements. You will enhance your ability to provide strategic advice, ensure accurate reporting, and meet evolving regulatory standards in sustainability.
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ESG analysts working with Data
You will understand how sustainability metrics are integrated into CSRD reporting, learn which key indicators apply to your organization, and develop a data-driven approach to measuring impact.
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Internal Project
ManagersYou will gain clarity on how a Double Materiality Assessment applies to your projects and discover actionable ways to support your company’s sustainability strategy.
For all inquiries about the course, bespoke trainings, and group bookings, please feel free to reach out to us at lra@reporting.academy, and we will be delighted to assist you
