GreenOps Practitioner Course & Certification
The GreenOps Practitioner Course teaches digital sustainability as an operational discipline. You learn how to measure the environmental impact of your digital services and find where it wastes energy and money, judge the evidence behind vendor sustainability claims, and turn that into decisions a CFO will accept. It is written for the people who run and build technology.
$895
Sustainability that changes how digital services are designed, built, and run.
Built for the people who run technology
Most sustainability training teaches people to report. It produces a footprint number, a target, and a slide, but little that changes how the digital services run. This course starts from the opposite end: what the telemetry shows, where energy and compute are being wasted, and whether the numbers in front of you are good enough to act on.
Digital sustainability has moved from a reporting exercise to an operational problem with a cost, a capacity, and a resilience dimension. Power availability constrains data center expansion. AI is pushing rack density beyond what many facilities can cool. Cloud bills and carbon come from the same idle, over-provisioned capacity. Regulation is tightening from disclosure toward evidence. The people who can act on this are practitioners, and most have never been trained for it.
The course is practical. A single worked example, Meridian Financial Group, runs from module two to the end, so you apply each technique to a realistic organization with real constraints, real vendors, and two sites. You work with live grid carbon data, build a business case, run a maturity assessment, and produce a 90-day plan you could take back to your own organization.
Efficiency, utilization, and evidence quality are the core of the discipline. Offsetting and narrative come last, if at all.
By the end of the course, you will be able to:
Measure with real evidence
Measure the environmental impact of an IT estate using operational evidence, and tell the difference between measured telemetry and weak modeling.
Judge vendor evidence
Read vendor sustainability claims critically, grade the quality of the evidence behind them, and know which numbers will not stand up to scrutiny.
Find the waste
Find the waste: over-provisioning, idle capacity, poor utilization, and lifecycle mismanagement across data center, cloud, software, and end-user estates.
Build the business case
Build a credible GreenOps business case that connects efficiency to cost, capacity, resilience, and risk in terms a CFO will accept.
Plan and sequence the work
Assess your organization's maturity and design a 90-day plan that changes real decisions rather than producing another dashboard.
Put accountability where it belongs
Bring accountability for consumption and efficiency to the teams and leaders who actually control it, rather than leaving it with a reporting function that cannot act.
Seventeen modules, three tracks
Module 0 orients you, then sixteen modules run across three tracks, from first principles to leadership decisions. Foundation is for every practitioner; Operations and Leadership go deeper for the roles that own delivery, spend, and strategy.
Foundation
Why it matters, what it is, how to measure it, reading vendor evidence, impact domains, software and emerging technology.
For all practitionersOperations
Reporting to operational excellence, software engineering, procurement and supply chains, governance and maturity.
Leadership
Regulation, business case, strategy, courageous leadership, sustainability by IT, wrap-up and next steps.
Throughout the course you apply everything you learn to a single example organization. Meridian Financial Group is a fictional enterprise with two sites (London and Frankfurt), its own vendors, and real operating constraints, introduced in module two and used through to the end. You practice each method in context, in an environment that mirrors how IT is actually run, how decisions get made, and, most importantly, how people behave.
New to GreenOps? Start here.
You do not need to be a sustainability specialist to get value from this course. It is a practical entry point for the people who run and build technology, and for the leaders who set direction.
You leave able to measure an estate, see where the waste sits, and work with finance, sustainability, and operations teams without losing the operational detail that matters. Every technique is applied to a realistic organization, so the skills transfer to your own.
The missing operational layer.
GreenOps is not a rebrand of sustainability reporting, and it is not a bolt-on to your cost program. It is the operational discipline that connects them.
If you run FinOps or TBM, you already hold the utilization and consumption data GreenOps depends on. This course shows you how to turn the same levers (rightsizing, demand reduction, lifecycle control) into carbon and capacity outcomes as well as cost. If you sit in sustainability or ESG, it gives you the operational and evidence foundation most disclosure work is missing: how to tell decision-ready telemetry from portfolio averages, and grade the evidence behind Scope 3 claims.
And if you lead the estate, you leave with a business case, a maturity baseline, and a sequenced plan you can act on.
GreenOps Practitioner Accreditation
The course carries a formal accreditation. The assessment is organized into fifteen categories aligned to the course structure, with an 80 percent pass mark. It tests applied understanding across measurement, operations, and leadership decisions, not recall of definitions. Passing certifies you as a GreenOps Practitioner through the TBM Council.
This is the practitioner foundation for a broader, role-based GreenOps education program. It sits alongside the TBM Council's wider work connecting technology cost, value, and sustainability, and gives FinOps, TBM, and ESG practitioners the operational grounding they increasingly need.
Waste you pay for twice.
Idle and over-provisioned capacity is paid for twice, once on the energy bill and once in the carbon account, and that's before you get to the wider environmental impact. Practitioners who can measure it honestly, find the waste, and connect it to a decision are what separates a program that changes the estate from one that only reports on it.
This course not only helps you develop your career, it also helps save the planet.
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