Corporate Training
Knowledge that bears fruit. Season after season.
Most corporate training is consumed and forgotten. Ours is planted.
Whether you are building your own capability or your whole team’s, we train executives in circular economy, sustainability leadership, and ESG: capability that stays with you and keeps producing long after the room empties.
You have sat through it before. The energising five days. The full flipcharts. The certificate that changed nothing about your Monday.
And if you are the one who books training for others, you know the sequel: six months later the same decisions are being made the same way, and you are justifying a budget that moved nothing.
The problem was never you, and it was never your people. It’s that most training is designed to be delivered, not to take root. Content is poured in; nothing is planted. And when the sustainability questions arrive (from your board, your regulator, your market, or across the interview table), the structure to answer them isn’t there.
In a wine valley, training is what makes things bear fruit.
I was formed in one wine valley and work from another. Five days after defending my doctorate in Kassel, I started work in the Rheingau, at EBS, as a research director. The valley where these photographs were taken is where I learned what every wine region knows: a vine left to itself sprawls on the ground and produces almost nothing. The same vine, trained along a structure by a skilled hand, produces every year for decades. Today, I live and work in the Vinodol, the valley whose very name means wine, where people understood this for centuries.
That is how we build our programmes. Not content to be consumed, but structure to grow along: frameworks your people will still be using in five years, cases argued until the reasoning holds, and the language to defend a circular decision in front of a sceptical CFO. The trellis doesn’t constrain the vine. It’s what makes the harvest possible.
Three Steps
1. Choose the ground. We start with your context: your industry, your regulatory pressure, your starting point or your team’s. Every programme is adapted to its terrain; an engineer from a Gulf energy company and a public agency in Zagreb do not need the same vines.
2. Train the growth. In the room (on the Adriatic, at your site, or in the Gulf) you work with real cases, live scepticism, and frameworks you practise until the structure holds without the trainer. Days are demanding by design. Sprawling is comfortable; climbing takes a trellis.
3. Harvest, repeatedly. You return with capability, not just a certificate: decisions you can defend, language that convinces, and, if you came as a team, a shared framework the whole organisation can build on. That’s the difference between an event and a planting: one ends, the other starts producing.
Our programmes
Every programme is designed by me, Gordana Kierans, and delivered by me or by one of the experienced professional trainers MGT OPEN partners with — in English, German, or Croatian. More than 12,000 learners worldwide have taken my courses.
Two ways in, depending on who found whom first:
Come yourself. Open programmes you can register for as an individual:
Circular Economy & Systems Thinking for Executives: Crikvenica Riviera, Adriatic coast. Programme on the Adriatic returning in 2027. Register your interest.
Circular Leadership: Zagreb (October 2026)
ESG for Public Leaders: Zagreb (December 2026)
Partner-delivered programmes across the Gulf and beyond.
Bring us to your organisation. In-company programmes in circular economy, sustainability leadership, ESG, CCUS, low-carbon development, and communication: designed for your organisation and delivered where you are, from a single intensive to a multi-month journey.
Untrained capability doesn’t announce its cost. It shows up slowly: in the question from the board you couldn’t quite answer, in the role that went to someone who could, in the sustainability report written by consultants because no one inside could, in the talented people who left for organisations that invested in them. A vineyard nobody tends doesn’t die. It just stops producing.
Plant capability. Harvest it for years.
Tell us where you, or your organisation, needs to grow. The first conversation costs nothing, and if we’re not the right trainers for your terrain, we’ll tell you that too.
