Elevate Your Sustainability Impact
At ED4S, we're revolutionizing the way organizations approach sustainability, starting by enhancing the proficiency of your employees and stakeholders. Our mission is to make your sustainability efforts more impactful, your strategies more innovative, and your achievements more remarkable.
Our mission
Transforming businesses for a sustainable future
Our mission is to bridge the sustainability knowledge gap in corporations by equipping their workforce with the skills needed for driving meaningful and sustainable economic change.
Our story
A journey towards enlightening corporate
sustainability
ED4S was born from a vision. Our founder, Maria Maisuradze, sparked the idea after contributing to the PRI Quebec Conference in 2019, where she noticed a critical gap in sustainability education. Seeing the need for a systemic approach to sustainability training, Maria was motivated to take action. Her goal: to democratize access to sustainability knowledge, making it accessible for all. The journey began with our flagship course, ESG & Sustainable Investing 101, which quickly garnered outstanding feedback and revealed a strong demand from financial institutions. This initial success transformed ED4S from a mere passion project into a thriving mission-focused organization, dedicated to closing the sustainability knowledge gap within the workforce of companies worldwide.
ED4S at a glance
105
countries
18,000+
professionals trained
proud to be a
women-owned business
32
industry experts
40+
Sustainability, Finance, Education
headquartered in
Montreal, Canada
CERTIFIED
BUSINESS
Meet the team
Fulfilling our purpose through mastery
We are a diverse group of visionaries from fields as varied as education, investing, stewardship, innovation, fintech, portfolio management, policy engagement, research, storytelling, instructional design, technology, and videography. United in our mission to forge a sustainable world, and serve our clients, our collective expertise fuels groundbreaking solutions and transformative strategies, propelling us toward a brighter future for all.
Join the expert network.
Partnering with ED4S
Calling all sustainability advocates, leaders, and change makers. If you’re committed to global sustainability capacity-building work, we would like to hear from you, and explore how to create synergies that will elevate collective intelligence around some of the biggest challenges of our time.
Our values
Living our values in every action, every interaction
Maximizing our impact
We are deeply committed to enhancing the effectiveness of our solutions by first acknowledging our clients' needs and then, ensuring that our services are specifically tailored for maximum impact.
Foundation of confidence
Trust is our cornerstone, establishing us as a dependable, long-term ally for our entire ecosystem.
Elevating client experience
We are driven by the aspiration to go above and beyond in delivering exceptional results, consistently exceeding client expectations.
Adaptive excellence
Our agility ensures that we are always in sync with market changes, enabling us to improve our solutions to meet emerging needs.
Collaborative innovation
We embrace cocreation and partnership, working closely with clients and partners to design training experiences that are both inclusive and transformational.
Precision in every moment
We meticulously design our solutions so that our learners benefit from impactful and meaningful training time.
Our commitments
PLANET
We are committed to measuring, reducing and offsetting our carbon footprint (scope 1 & 2) as of 2023
PEOPLE
We actively strive for diversity and inclusion, work-life balance, continuous learning and skill-sharing
GIVING BACK
We volunteer our time to help other mission driven organizations and individuals
SUPPLIERS
Being mindful of our suppliers and partners, we prioritize local businesses that embrace sustainable practices
Why choose ED4S
INTEGRATED
Skill assessments, course library, learning paths and analytics.
PERSONALIZED
High quality content tailored to each specific industry and role.
COST EFFECTIVE
Save over $ 50,000 per year on average.
SCALABLE
Have complete access anytime, anywhere, from almost any device.
FOR PROFESSIONALS
We offer continuous training of sustainability skills for professionals.
BUILT BY EXPERTS
Over 40 years of experience in sustainability, finance, and corporate governance.
Accreditation
ED4S is accredited by The CPD Standards Office. This accreditation demonstrates high-quality training content, as it signifies our adherence to rigorous continuing professional development standards and best practices. This certification ensures that the training not only meets educational excellence benchmarks but also delivers relevant practical knowledge that professionals can apply in their careers, thus underscoring the quality and effectiveness of the content.
Platform Security
ED4S Learning development platform is built on a strong foundation of security and privacy.
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In The News
ED4S is now a certified Women-Owned business by WeConnect International
ED4S is now officialy certified as a Women-Owned Business by WeConnect International. This certification recognizes our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, and we are excited to continue expanding our impact through this powerful community of women entrepreneurs.
ED4S joins The Green Link Ecosystem Alliance
ED4S is proud to join the The Green Link Ecosystem Alliance, which under the leadership of Bernard Lebelle brings key sustainability solutions providers together.
Sustainable Finance Summit in Montreal
Our CEO Maria Maisuradze, will be present on 14-15 May representing our powerful partnership with Finance Montréal dedicated for upskilling the financial sector.
Advisor.ca and Investment Executive
Secret shopper campaign report was featured on these prestigious magazines. Read the article on advisor.ca and Investment Executive.
Navigating the Sustainability Wave
ED4S released its report revealing a concerning gap in the readiness of financial advisors to cater to this demand. Download the report.
Championing Women Award
Our CEO, Maria Maisuradze is the winner of the JFD Canada entrepreneurship award under the high patronage of the president of the French Republic.
Panelling at the ISSB Symposium
Our Chief Advisor, Nawar Alsaadi presented a session on Integrating Sustainability data into investment process at the ISSB’s Symposium.
Harvard Law School Forum of Corporate Governance
Our Chief Content Officer, Matt Orsagh wrote an article for the Harvard Law School Forum of Corporate Governance on topic of degrowth. Read the Article
Yahoo Finance: Sustainability Capacity Building in the Financial Sector
Results of our market consultation, which led to the creation of the Whitepaper were featured in Yahoo.
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