Executive education for the development of the renewable energy industry

Developing awareness of the skills needed by Business Development for green technology investments and offering the vision to interpret the role in innovative and effective ways are the main goals of the ongoing collaboration between Enel Green Power’s (EGP) Business Development BU and SDA Bocconi.

The course is designed specifically for Enel and prepares participants to face the challenges associated with the crucial role of the business developer. The reality of being part of a close community of professionals in the energy sector at an international level is reinforced through high-impact training experiences and classroom discussion among participants, SDA faculty and Enel executives. Through the BD School journey, participants continue to strengthen their role as ambassadors of Enel’s values and practices around the world.

These were the dynamics proposed in the EGP School of Business Development’s sixth edition – just repeated in the seventh edition – which has just come to a close under the direction of Prof. Matteo di Castelnuovo, Associate Professor of Practice of Energy Economics at SDA Bocconi and Director of the Master in Sustainability and Energy Management (MaSEM) at Università Bocconi.

Learning to seize all the career opportunities

EGP was founded with the meta-objective of putting technology at the service of countries so that natural resources – water, sun, wind and steam from the earth – could be transformed into energy. Over the years the company has undergone significant changes, and has set itself the goal of a new business model capable of entering markets around the world. This mission has always required that we invest in human capital, so that everyone could expand their vision and be able to seize the many opportunities offered by the company, without stopping at the first hurdle. The EGP School of Business Development was established with the specific goal of providing the versatile knowledge and skills to best m the challenges of this strategically important function and year by year it continues to develop in this direction.

Finishing a chapter and starting a new one

On the last day of the course, which has recently finished, there was an in-person ceremony attended by, amongst others, Matteo di Castelnuovo, director of the EGP BD School, Carlo Zorzoli, Head of Business Development at Enel Green Power, and Rosanna Di Gaeta, Global Industry P&O Business Partner.

Above all, the participants were able to celebrate the conclusion of an eighteen-month journey, with an impressive 42 days of training (31.5 days designed and delivered by SDA Bocconi and 10.5 days held by internal Enel faculty), which engaged them in many different training methods and activities both in-person and remotely.

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