Circular Economy Program

Starts 31 October 2026 · Applications Open

India's First Circular Economy Practitioner Cohort

A 6-week live practitioner cohort for sustainability and ESG professionals — co-delivered by Value Sustainable and the International Council for Circular Economy (ICCE). Move beyond circularity theory and build the real capability to design and implement circular economy strategies inside your organisation.

📅 6 Weeks · 8 Live Sessions 👥 Limited to 20 Professionals 📜 Certificate on Completion 🎥 Recordings Provided
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Cohort Details

Format Live Online
Duration 6 Weeks
Sessions 8 total · Saturdays & Sundays
Seats Limited to 20
Experience 3+ Years Required
Invoice Corporate Available
🎟 Early Bird — Limited seats — closes soon
₹15,000
Early bird closes 5 October 2026
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Knowledge Partner

In Partnership with

This programme is delivered by Value Sustainable in partnership with the International Council for Circular Economy (ICCE) — India's leading circular economy institution. The co-branded certificate you earn carries ICCE's institutional authority alongside Value Sustainable's practitioner credibility.

Value Sustainable

Value Sustainable

Programme Design & Delivery

International Council for Circular Economy

International Council for Circular Economy

Knowledge Partner & Co-branded Certificate

Why This Program Exists

Circular Economy Is No Longer Optional.
But Implementation Is Still Rare.

Circular economy is now embedded in regulation, ESG reporting requirements, investor scrutiny, and supply chain expectations. Yet inside many organisations:

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Circular strategies remain disconnected from business decisions

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Sustainability teams struggle to secure cross-functional buy-in

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Reporting exists without implementation depth

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Pilot projects fail to scale beyond initial rollout

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Metrics are unclear or poorly aligned to business performance

The gap is not awareness. Most sustainability professionals understand circular economy principles well. The gap is implementation capability — the ability to translate circular concepts into strategies that hold up inside real organisations, real procurement processes, and real leadership conversations.

This program is built to close that gap.

Who This Is For

Built for Working Professionals
with 3+ Years of Experience.

This cohort is designed for professionals who are already responsible for sustainability and ESG outcomes inside their organisations — and want to move from understanding circular economy to confidently implementing it.

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Sustainability Managers

Leading sustainability strategy or operations inside mid-to-large organisations.

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ESG Professionals & Reporting Leads

Responsible for ESG disclosure, BRSR reporting, or investor sustainability queries.

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CSR & Responsible Sourcing Managers

Managing CSR portfolios or supply chain sustainability mandates.

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Supply Chain & Operations Leaders

Navigating EPR compliance, circular design, or waste reduction targets.

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ESG & Sustainability Consultants

Building advisory capability to serve clients on circular economy implementation.

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Manufacturing & FMCG Professionals

Working in sectors where circular economy regulation and EPR obligations are accelerating.

Not suited for: Students or early-career professionals without organisational sustainability experience. This program assumes you are already navigating real sustainability decisions and want to strengthen your implementation capability.

What You Will Walk Away With

From Awareness to Authority.

By the end of 6 weeks, you will not just understand circular economy — you will be able to implement it.

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Design Circular Strategies

Build structured circular strategies aligned to corporate priorities — not just sustainability frameworks.

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Build Implementation Roadmaps

Translate circular concepts into practical, phased roadmaps that work inside real organisational constraints.

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Integrate with ESG & Regulation

Align circular initiatives with ESG reporting, EPR obligations, and evolving regulatory requirements.

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Secure Cross-Functional Buy-in

Navigate procurement, operations, and finance stakeholders — and build the internal case for circular investment.

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Develop Meaningful KPIs

Set circular performance metrics that are credible, measurable, and aligned to business performance — not just sustainability reporting.

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Present with Confidence

Walk into leadership conversations with a business-aligned circular strategy you can defend — not just a sustainability presentation.

Program Structure

6 Weeks. 8 Live Sessions. Real-World Application.

6 core sessions every Saturday (90-120 minutes each) plus 2 special Sunday sessions — one Featured Expert session with Shalini Goyal Bhalla and one Capstone day. Between sessions, you work on your CE Roadmap — a real deliverable for your own organisation.

Session 1 · Sat 31 Oct

Foundations — CE Framework & India's Transition Reality

Beyond recycling — the real CE framework. Why linear models are becoming a business liability. India's CE landscape: EPR, Mission LiFE, CBAM implications. Workshop: map your organisation's linear dependencies.

Session 2 · Sat 7 Nov

Legislation, Frameworks & Financing — EPR, BRSR, Mission LiFE, CBAM, Green Finance

India's regulatory reality for circular economy. What EPR, BRSR, and CBAM mean for your organisation. How to access green financing and circular economy funding. Practical implications for CSR and sustainability teams.

Session 3 · Sat 14 Nov · Includes Guest Practitioner

Circular Business Models — How Companies Are Actually Doing It

Product-as-a-service, take-back schemes, industrial symbiosis — real India and global examples. Where CSR budgets can fund circular pilots. Guest practitioner from ICCE's network shares real-world implementation experience.

Session 4 · Sun 15 Nov · Featured Expert Session

Featured Expert — Shalini Goyal Bhalla, ICCE

India's circular economy movement — where we are and where we are headed. Policy landscape: EPR, NITI Aayog's CE roadmap, and what it means for industry. Lessons from ICCE's work across sectors and geographies. Live Q&A with the cohort.

Session 5 · Sat 21 Nov · Includes Guest Practitioner

Water, Materials & Sector Deep-Dive

Water as a circular resource — closed-loop systems in industry. Material flow analysis: what goes in, what leaks, what can be recovered. Sector spotlight: plastics, electronics, built environment or fashion. Guest practitioner from ICCE's network.

Session 6 · Sat 28 Nov

Measuring & Reporting Circularity — ESG, BRSR, GRI

Circularity metrics that work at the company level. Linking CE outcomes to ESG reporting and BRSR disclosures. Workshop: build a circularity scorecard for your organisation. Between sessions 6 and 7 — async assignment to draft your CE Roadmap.

Session 7 · Sat 5 Dec

Capstone Workshop — Draft Your CE Roadmap

Participants present their draft CE Roadmaps. Structured peer feedback and refinement. Format: problem statement, current state, one circular intervention, 90-day action plan. Final version to be presented on Capstone day.

Session 8 · Sun 6 Dec · Capstone Day

Capstone Presentations + Q&A with Shalini Goyal Bhalla

Final CE Roadmap presentations to the cohort. Peer review and structured feedback. Shalini Goyal Bhalla joins for a live Q&A and closing remarks. Certificate acknowledgement and cohort close.

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Capstone Strategy Project

Every participant develops a structured Circular Economy Strategy for their own organisation or a selected industry. You graduate with a portfolio-ready strategy document and implementation roadmap — something you can actually use.

Sustainability strategy
"This program distils 17 years of corporate circular economy experience into 6 weeks of structured, implementation-ready learning."
— Sumit Jugran, Founder, Value Sustainable

What Makes This Different

Not an Academic Overview.
Built from Real Execution.

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17 Years of Corporate Experience

Built from leading circular economy and sustainability strategy inside Coca-Cola and Tetra Pak — across FMCG, packaging, and manufacturing environments.

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Implementation-First, Not Theory-First

Every session is structured around what actually works inside real organisations — not academic frameworks designed for classrooms.

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Small Cohort, Real Conversations

Limited to 20 professionals. You will have direct access to the instructor and genuine peer exchange — not a webinar with 500 attendees.

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A Real Deliverable at the End

You leave with a portfolio-ready Circular Economy Strategy — not a certificate and a folder of slides you'll never open again.

Your Instructor

Sumit Jugran

Sumit Jugran

Sustainability & ESG Strategist · Founder, Value Sustainable

Ex-Coca-Cola Ex-Tetra Pak 17+ Years Circular Economy ESG Strategy

17+ years leading sustainability and circular economy strategy inside Coca-Cola and Tetra Pak — across supply chains, packaging, regulatory environments, and multi-stakeholder ecosystems. What's taught in this program comes from having done it, not from having studied it.

  • →Founded India's first beverage carton recycling consortium (AARC) — 30+ corporates, 30+ cities, 40% recovery improvement
  • →Managed ₹700M+ CSR & sustainability portfolios across India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka & Nepal
  • →Governed partnerships with UNDP, World Bank WRG, GIZ & World Vision across four markets
  • →ICC Social Impact Award 2019 — recognised for circular economy ecosystem building at scale
  • →Fellowship in Impact Investing & Sustainable Finance — NEIII, 2025

This program distils that experience into structured, practical learning for professionals who are serious about implementation — not just awareness.

Featured Expert

Shalini Goyal Bhalla

Shalini Goyal Bhalla

MD, International Council for Circular Economy (ICCE)

ICCE Founder Global CE Expert NITI Aayog Author Policy Leader

Shalini Goyal Bhalla is the Managing Director of the International Council for Circular Economy (ICCE) — India's foremost circular economy institution. She is the author of India's first book on Circular Economy, a Global CE Expert, and a Committee Member at NITI Aayog for Dry Waste and Construction & Demolition Waste.

  • →Author of India's first book on Circular Economy — a landmark publication shaping CE discourse in India
  • →Committee Member, NITI Aayog — Dry Waste and Construction & Demolition Waste
  • →Represented India at the World Circular Economy Forum — Global South-North CE collaboration
  • →17,000+ LinkedIn followers — India's most followed circular economy voice

Shalini delivers the Featured Expert session in Week 3 and joins the closing capstone in Week 6 — bringing India's most credible CE policy and practitioner voice directly into the cohort.

Pricing & Enrollment

Investment in the Program.

Limited to 20 professionals. Corporate invoices available on request.

🎟 Early Bird

First 7 Seats

₹15,000

Limited availability

  • 8 live deep-dive sessions
  • Session recordings access
  • Capstone strategy project
  • Certificate on completion
  • Corporate invoice available
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🎟 Regular

Standard Enrollment

₹18,000

After early bird seats fill

  • 8 live deep-dive sessions
  • Session recordings access
  • Capstone strategy project
  • Certificate on completion
  • Corporate invoice available
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Applications are reviewed personally. Selected candidates will receive a payment link within 48 hours.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Common Questions.

This programme is delivered in partnership with the International Council for Circular Economy (ICCE) — India's leading circular economy institution, led by Shalini Goyal Bhalla. ICCE serves as the institutional knowledge partner, contributing a Featured Expert session, guest practitioner access, and co-branded certification. The certificate you earn carries both Value Sustainable's and ICCE's names — making it the most credible CE learning credential available to Indian professionals today.
On successful completion of the cohort including the capstone project, you receive a certificate jointly issued by Value Sustainable and the International Council for Circular Economy (ICCE). This is not a participation certificate — it reflects six weeks of structured, practitioner-level learning and a real deliverable in the form of your CE Roadmap.
Sessions are designed to be attended live for the full cohort experience. Recordings of missed sessions are made available to participants upon request, at the discretion of the faculty.
Sessions 8 total (1.5–2 hours) plus light between-session assignments to apply concepts to your own organisational context.
This program is designed for working professionals with at least 3 years of relevant sustainability, CSR, or ESG experience. It is not an introductory course.
Yes. Corporate invoices are available upon request. Reach out via the contact page to discuss corporate enrollment.
Yes — international participants are welcome. The cohort is conducted in English and is relevant to sustainability professionals across South Asia and globally. Please write to us at info@valuesustainable.in for international payment options and any other queries.
No refund after 5 October 2026. If you are unable to attend, your seat will be deferred to the next cohort run at no extra charge.

Ready to Build Real
Circular Economy Capability?

Limited to 20 professionals. If you are serious about moving from awareness to implementation — this is where to start.

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