The risks companies don’t see coming
The Business and Human Rights Resource Centre, an independent organisation that documents corporate human rights impacts worldwide, publishes new findings every day. Many of these impacts are long-recognised issues. But some are impacts few companies would have flagged as a due diligence priority until allegations started to arise, human rights abuses linked to the clean energy transition, for example, or the working conditions behind emerging technologies.
That’s the real challenge with due diligence. It’s not a checklist you complete once. Risks keep evolving and are hard to predict, and the difference lies in whether a company has a solid due diligence foundation to meet them steadily, or ends up paying for their absence later, a cost carried by people and environment as much as by the business itself.
Due diligence as a capability, not a compliance exercise
Most companies we work with already have policies, supplier requirements and risk frameworks in place. That’s rarely the problem. The real question is whether it leads to decisions that catch harm early and actually change it.
Getting there is not about knowing what the CSDDD requires. It’s about building a working method, how to identify where impacts on people are occurring, prioritise what needs attention first, and respond in a way that holds up as new risks emerge. That method is a capability, and like any capability, it takes practice to build, not a one-off training session to tick off.
What our course is built to do
Enact’s Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Course is built around exactly this. Across four live sessions, we work through legal frameworks and how the CSDDD connects to other EU legislation, governance and impact identification, moving from impact to action and using leverage effectively, and stakeholder engagement, grievance mechanisms and remedy.
The course combines international good practice with practical insights and implementation examples, drawing on real cases, including complex contexts, from Enact’s work across sectors and geographies. Sessions run on 14 October, 4 November, 18 November and 2 December, and participants receive a Certificate of Attendance.
The course is built around the CSDDD, but the capability it teaches is not limited to companies the Directive directly applies to. Due diligence expectations are increasingly shared across markets and regulations, and the underlying method, identifying impacts, prioritising them, and responding effectively, holds value for any organisation working to strengthen how it operates responsibly, whether or not the CSDDD applies to them.
Why this is worth the investment
Due diligence capability doesn’t build itself, and it doesn’t build overnight. It takes structured practice, exposure to real cases, and time set aside to actually think through how impacts get identified, prioritised and addressed, not squeezed in between other tasks. That’s the case for treating this course as an investment in a core organisational capability, not an optional extra.
Full agenda and registration: Enact’s Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Course – Autumn 2026