Practicing what we teach

Members of the local community were invited in for the Drapanos launch

In addition to its core training around business management training, ESA operates as a social enterprise for the good of the local community.

The ESA building is made available to the community for meetings and events, including art and music functions. The seminar hall is used without charge as a cinema for the local youth.

From the beginning, the local community have been involved in, and contributed to, the ESA initiative. During the building stage, the village children learned about ecological approaches to building and, in particular, making adobe bricks from the soil.

ESA provides pro-bono workshops and debates for the people living and working in the region covering urgent issues affecting Greece which include waste, climate change, sea degradation, water shortages and air pollution. We support the education of local children on the importance of practice of animal welfare.

News updates

Essential skills development for Sustainability Activators

This is what the participants said about the new ESA Sustainability Activator and Changemakers skills development workshop
Post date: 29th March 2023.

Sustainability Activators and Changemakers Skills Development Workshop

CALLING SUSTAINABILITY ACTIVATORS and CHANGEMAKERS
Post date: 18th July 2022.

Health and wellbeing impact of Green Buildings

Our research on the health and wellbeing impact of Green Buildings on people (Biophilia), has been PUBLISHED in SpringerNature Advances in Science, Technology and Innovation (ASTI) series.
Post date: 2nd October 2021.

What we do

Since 2012, ESA has delivered international, high calibre, leadership and management education, with a focus on the knowledge, skills and behaviours that are necessary to futureproof organisations and preserve the planet, through the practical application of sustainable business models.

Sustainable business needs new thinking, innovation and creativity which is rarely provided by mainstream business teaching. ESA founder Sharon Jackson has been teaching and lecturing on sustainable leadership and management since 2000 and believes that busy executives can focus on the principles of sustainability in a more meaningful and practical way when energised by a rich ecological backdrop.

Host your event at ESA

Powered only by Cretan sunshine, ESA is a beautiful building rooted in the earth amongst ancient rocks and olive trees, surrounded by nature. Its construction is a leading example of sustainability in practice. ESA is an experiential and creative place where people feel enlivened, uplifted and creative. Great living and great learning happen at ESA. A perfect setting for:

Leading sustainable enterprise

Our passion is contributing towards co-created sustainable enterprise for positive impact on communities and the natural environment on a global scale. Leadership and entrepreneur issues of adaptation, resilience, authenticity, sustainable-self, values connected sense-making and the continued emancipation of women (WISE) to take up more leadership roles in the world are at the core of the ESA sustainability experience.

Make sense of sustainability

Crete is the sustainable destination of the past and of the future.

Home of the Minoans, one of the earliest civilisations on earth, nestled between Europe, Africa and the Middle East, Crete is rich with mythology, gastronomy, music, art and agriculture. You can have your own authentic experience of a sustainable lifestyle and feel first-hand the strong connection between nature and community.