Systems Connector Training OnePlanet

Climate pressures, health, inequality, economic uncertainty, AI transformation and fast-changing organisational needs are all connected. Yet many organisations still work through rigid roles, isolated plans and disconnected projects.

Systems Connector Training helps you build the practical skills to connect the dots. Across two expert-led online sessions, you’ll learn how to use OnePlanet to map complex challenges, connect people around shared outcomes and turn systems thinking into practical action.

Become a Certified OnePlanet Systems Connector™ and help your organisation work in a more joined-up way.

Why this matter now

The world is experiencing interconnected challenges across climate, health, jobs and equity. These challenges can feel overwhelming because they are rarely caused or solved by one organisation, one team or one intervention.

At the same time, AI and digital transformation are changing how organisations work. The organisations that get the most value are not simply adding new tools to old processes, they are redesigning workflows, systems and operating models around more connected ways of working.

This creates a growing need for people who can:

See the bigger picture
Connect strategies, people and projects
Work across departments and sectors
Identify shared outcomes
Help teams move from fragmented activity to coordinated action

What is a Systems Connector?

A Systems Connector is someone who can work across silos and help teams understand how different plans, actions, indicators and stakeholders relate to each other.

Using OnePlanet, Systems Connectors learn how to:

Map complex challenges
Share and improve plans
Connect work across an ecosystem
Collaborate with stakeholders around shared outcomes
Identify points of leverage for greater impact

What will you learn

MAP

Systems map plans to understand the links between critical issues

SHARE

Develop and publish plans to start building ecosystems

CONNECT

Understand your ecosystem and identify your points of leverage

COLLABORATE

Identify and work with stakeholders to increase impact

Who is this for

This training is for professionals who want to make change happen in complex environments, including.

Sustainability and climate professionals
Local government and public sector teams

Consultants and facilitators
Planners and place-based practitioners
Community and NGO leaders
Business leaders and project managers
People working across partnerships, networks or supply chain

We learned about the principles of systems thinking - and how using IT-based tools and approaches can offer new ways to plan and develop solutions. It was also really valuable to consider the different aspects of what it takes to be an effective systems connector. It was definitely time well spent!

Thanks to the OnePlanet Systems Connector accreditation, I now have this tool in my pack to take forward. I would love to bring this approach into future projects. But I also want to encourage others to discover it for themselves.

I thoroughly enjoyed being on this Systems Connector training course, and am looking forward to deepening the connections I made with my fellow students.

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How the training works

This is not a passive webinar. It is a hands-on learning experience where you will apply a systems approach using the OnePlanet platform.

* Price: £395+VAT excluding assesment. Combined price training and assessment: £595+VAT. Discounts available.

Upcoming cohorts

All dates include an additional 1-hour 1:1 technical support session.

Course trainers

The course is run by Ben Gill, a Chartered Environmentalist (ISEP) with 20 years experience in a systems approach to sustainability and qualified coach. He is supported by Viviana Junca, environmentl engineer with 10 years in sustainability and circular economy.

Pooran Desai, OnePlanet’s founder and whose work inspired the UN Sustainable Development Goals, will provide the introduction and context.

Certification and assesment

Following the course, participants can undergo an assessment to become a certified OnePlanet Systems Connector™ with a profile on OnePlanet. The assessment will test:

Your practical understanding of the OnePlanet platform
How you are / planning to use OnePlanet to drive change within your organisation or with clients or stakeholders.

The assessment process includes:

One group training
Up to 2 sessions to support on your project

Six months access to OnePlanet platform (to complete the assessment)
Access the Systems Connector network and periodic meet-ups, where professionals demonstrate the platform’s usability in different types of organisation and sector and learn about the latest tech updates.

On successful completion of the assessment, you will receive a further 12 months of platform access.

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Learn how to connect people, plans and stakeholders around shared outcomes and create lasting change in your organisation, community or ecosystem.

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