Climate Action and Sustainability speakers

Why organisations work with Michelle Bachelet Has personally led major institutional reform inside a G20 economy, including pension overhaul, tax reform, and the creation of Chile’s Ministry of Women and Gender Equality. Held the UN’s senior human rights office at the moment human rights frameworks became binding inputs into corporate due diligence and sanctions risk. Built UN Women from the founding stage as its first Executive Director, which gives her a credible voice on gender equality as an institutional discipline. Brings personal moral authority to questions of democratic resilience: imprisoned and tortured under the Pinochet dictatorship, she returned from exile to become the first woman elected President of the country that had jailed her. Currently nominated as a candidate for the next UN Secretary-General, which keeps her active at the centre of debates on multilateralism and global governance. Biography highlights Twice elected President of Chile (2006-2010 and 2014-2018), the country’s first and only woman in the role. Former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, 2018 to 2022. First Executive Director of UN Women, established 2010. First woman Defense Minister of Chile and of Latin America. Previously Chile’s Minister of Health. Recipient of the 2024 Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development. Distinguished Fellow at Columbia University’s Institute of Global Politics. Biography Human rights frameworks have moved from political commentary into the substance of investor due diligence and regulatory scrutiny. Bachelet has been at the centre of that shift. She served two terms as President of Chile, then four years as the seventh United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. Her two presidencies delivered structural reform of a kind few G20 leaders attempt. Pension overhaul, tax reform, equal pay legislation, and Chile’s Civil Union Act for same-sex couples were each politically expensive inside a centre-right legislative environment. Her administrations also established the Ministry of Women and Gender Equality, the National Institute for Human Rights, and the Museum of Memory and Human Rights. Between her presidential terms she served as the first Executive Director of UN Women, building the agency’s mandate from the founding stage. She returned to the United Nations in 2018 as High Commissioner for Human Rights under António Guterres, leading global human rights monitoring across country situations from Myanmar to Venezuela. Earlier in her career she had been the first woman to serve as Defense Minister of Chile and of Latin America, and Minister of Health before that. In 2018 she founded Horizonte Ciudadano, a civic foundation working on territorial democracy and climate adaptation in Chile. She is a Distinguished Fellow at Columbia University’s Institute of Global Politics and the recipient of the 2024 Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development. In February 2026 she was nominated by Brazil and Mexico as a candidate to succeed António Guterres as Secretary-General of the United Nations. Key speaking topics Geopolitics and political risk Democratic governance and institutional resilience Global human rights frameworks in business and policy Multilateralism and the future of the United Nations Gender equality and women’s leadership Social protection and public-sector reform Civil-military relations Ideal for Boards and CEOs facing political risk and democratic instability in their operating markets CHROs and ESG leaders integrating human rights and gender frameworks into corporate practice Governments, multilateral institutions, and development finance leaders working on social policy reform Sovereign and institutional investors with long-dated political and governance exposure Audience outcomes A first-hand reading of how political risk plays out inside a country’s executive The mechanics of how human rights frameworks now shape corporate due diligence and sanctions exposure A frank assessment of where multilateral institutions are working and where they are failing A perspective on gender equality as institutional discipline, drawn from building UN Women from the founding stage The case for democratic resilience, made by someone who returned from exile to be elected president of the country that had imprisoned her

Why organisations work with Mike Kaplin Built sustainability under genuine resource constraints. The Center for Creative Ecology at Kibbutz Lotan has spent nearly three decades producing food, energy, and shelter from waste streams and brackish water in the Arava desert. Pioneering work on natural building in Israel led to the legalisation of natural building regulations there, a rare case of grassroots ecological practice changing the regulatory environment. A working demonstration site to point to: around 700 Israeli and international participants have come through the Green Apprenticeship programme since 2000, and the regenerative system can be examined in operation rather than only on paper. Integrated regenerative practice runs as one connected operation, where organic agriculture, alternative energy, natural construction, and waste management feed into each other. Biography highlights Co-founder and Director of the Center for Creative Ecology (CfCE) at Kibbutz Lotan, established in 1997. One of Israel’s first permaculturists; pioneered the country’s first recycling area. Led the natural building work that contributed to the legalisation of natural building regulations in Israel. Initiator and coordinator of the Green Apprenticeship work/study programme. Around 700 Israeli and international participants have completed it since 2000. The Center for Creative Ecology received the Israel Ministry of the Environment’s Shield award in 2000 for environmental education. Kibbutz Lotan received the Global Ecovillage Network’s Ecovillage Excellence prize in 2006. Biography Kibbutz Lotan sits in the southern Arava desert, where the founding settlers had little more than sand and brackish water to work with. The Center for Creative Ecology grew out of that constraint. Established in 1997, the CfCE has become a working centre for training, research, and demonstration in sustainability under arid conditions. Mike Kaplin co-founded it and now directs it. The work spans organic food production from composted municipal and agricultural waste, energy-efficient construction using straw bale and natural materials, water systems built around brackish irrigation, and community waste management. Every part has been built, run, refined, and documented on site. Some of the work has reshaped what Israel allows. Mike’s pioneering of natural building methods contributed to the legalisation of natural building regulations in Israel, and the recycling area he developed at Lotan was the country’s first. The CfCE received the Israel Ministry of the Environment’s Shield award in 2000 for environmental education; Kibbutz Lotan received the Global Ecovillage Network’s Ecovillage Excellence prize in 2006. Around 700 participants from Israel and overseas have come through the Green Apprenticeship programme since 2000, learning permaculture design, natural building, and community-scale sustainability on the kibbutz itself. For organisations rethinking their use of resources, Lotan offers something unusual: a board can examine operations that have run for decades, in conditions harsher than any corporate setting, and ask what transfers. Key speaking topics Permaculture design Sustainable agriculture in arid environments Natural and ecological building Community-scale waste management Organic food production from composted waste Renewable energy in desert conditions Regenerative community design Ideal for Sustainability and ESG leaders are looking for working examples of regenerative practice rather than aspirational frameworks. Boards examining what climate transition demands are at the operational level, including under genuine resource constraints. Real estate, construction, and built-environment teams interested in natural building methods and the regulatory work that legalised them in Israel. Education and learning leaders responsible for designing experiential sustainability programmes. Audience outcomes Direct examples of regenerative practice from a desert site that has run since 1997. The story behind one of Israel’s clearest cases of grassroots practice changing national regulation, via natural building. A working reference point for integrated sustainability across food, water, energy, and waste, designed as a single system. What serious sustainability looks like when supply chains and conventional inputs cannot be assumed, drawn directly from the operations Lotan has run for decades.

Why organisations work with Miranda Brawn She brings the perspective of a sitting non-executive director across an NHS Foundation Trust, FTSE 100 sustainability funds and AI start-ups, so her recommendations land as practitioner advice rather than commentary from outside the boardroom. The Brawn Review, launched at the House of Lords in October 2025, gives clients access to a named, evidenced governance framework with 50 specific recommendations, not a general lecture on why diversity matters. She is a barrister called to the Bar of England and Wales with an MBA and academic appointments at Roehampton and previously Oxford, which gives her credibility with general counsel, audit committees and regulators in equal measure. Her foundation has run the UK’s first diversity leadership lecture and scholarship programme since 2016, giving her a decade of evidence on what actually shifts representation, useful for clients tired of pledges that do not move numbers. She covers ESG, AI ethics and inclusive leadership from the same vantage point, which suits boards that no longer want three different speakers for three governance topics that have collapsed into one. Biography highlights Author of The Brawn Review: Boardroom Sustainability, Inclusion and Corporate Governance, launched at the UK House of Lords in October 2025. Honorary Professor in Business and Law, University of Roehampton; former Senior Visiting Fellow, University of Oxford. Barrister, Bar of England and Wales; MBA; Honorary Doctor of Letters (Brighton); Honorary Doctor of Laws (University of Law). Non-executive director, chair, trustee and advisor across an NHS Foundation Trust, FTSE 100 sustainability funds with over GBP 2 billion AUM, VC funds and AI start-ups including X0PA AI. Former Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan; founder and CEO of The Miranda Brawn Diversity Leadership Foundation (2016). Financial Times Top 30 Ethnic Minority Leaders; Prime Minister’s Point of Light; Woman of the Year, Women in Finance Awards. Biography The Brawn Review landed at the House of Lords in October 2025 with 50 recommendations on boardroom sustainability, inclusion and governance, drawn from contributions by 1,000 global board members and endorsed by Lord Davies of the 2011 Davies Review. It is the work of an author who sits on the boards she is writing about, not a researcher describing them from outside. Miranda Brawn is a barrister, MBA, honorary professor at the University of Roehampton and former Senior Visiting Fellow at Oxford, where the review began. Her board portfolio runs across the UK’s largest NHS Foundation Trust, FTSE 100 sustainability funds with more than GBP 2 billion in assets under management, venture capital funds and AI start-ups. Before the boardroom she traded for Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan. Most inclusion speakers offer advocacy. Her contribution is governance design: what a sustainability committee should actually do, how directors should oversee AI deployment, how inclusion outcomes should be measured against legal and fiduciary tests. The Miranda Brawn Diversity Leadership Foundation, which she founded in 2016, has run a decade of scholarship and mentoring programmes that give her a longitudinal view of what shifts representation in finance, law and technology. Her recognition reflects the breadth of that practice rather than a single domain: Financial Times Top 30 Ethnic Minority Leaders, Prime Minister’s Point of Light, Woman of the Year at the Women in Finance Awards, and Top 50 Afro-Caribbean Leadership Award presented at the House of Lords. Key speaking topics Boardroom governance of sustainability, inclusion and AI Inclusive and values-based leadership ESG strategy and board oversight AI ethics and responsible technology Non-executive director practice Diversity, equity and inclusion in regulated industries The Brawn Review recommendations Ideal for Boards, chairs and non-executive directors reviewing committee structure on ESG, AI and inclusion General counsel, company secretaries and heads of governance preparing for investor and regulator scrutiny CHROs and chief sustainability officers translating board commitments into operating practice Financial services, healthcare and professional services firms with concentrated DEI and governance exposure Audience outcomes A named governance framework, The Brawn Review, with specific recommendations on board composition, committee remits and oversight of AI and sustainability. A clearer view of where DEI commitments sit in fiduciary and regulatory terms, not only reputational ones. A practitioner reading of what NEDs are actually being asked to evidence on inclusion and ESG by investors and regulators. Evidence from a decade of scholarship and mentoring programmes on which interventions move representation in finance, law and technology.

Why organisations work with Mónica Muriel She has built two B Corp certified businesses, Zurita Madrid and NEST Solutions, and speaks from the position of someone who has signed the supplier contracts, not someone advising from outside. Operating experience inside Chinese textile supply chains, including blockchain-enabled traceability, gives her a credible voice on what regulators and auditors will actually accept. She translates circular and regenerative business models into commercial decisions that protect margin, useful for boards under pressure on both ESG and price. A double legal and business background and a Hult Executive MBA mean she briefs equally well to compliance, commercial, and sustainability leaders in the same room. Biography highlights Founder and CEO, Zurita Madrid, B Corp certified sustainable fashion business launched in Shanghai in 2015. Founder and CEO, NEST Solutions, B Corp certified consultancy applying Zurita’s methods to third-party textile and consumer goods companies. Global Executive MBA, Hult International Business School. Double degree in Law and Business Administration, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid. Associate, WAS (Women Action Sustainability), the Spanish women-led sustainability network. More than 15 years operating between Shanghai and Madrid across fashion and impact businesses. Biography Most sustainability strategies are written in headquarters and executed thousands of miles away, inside factories the brand does not own. The work that closes that gap, on materials, traceability, audits, and supplier behaviour, is what now decides whether an ESG commitment is operating substance or marketing. Mónica Muriel has built two B Corp certified businesses on the operating side of that question. Zurita Madrid, launched in Shanghai in 2015 with two Hult Executive MBA classmates, is a sustainable fashion label built around traceable supply, ethical production, and circular design. NEST Solutions takes the methods, certifications and supplier relationships developed for Zurita and applies them to third parties in textiles and consumer goods. Her training is unusually well matched to the brief. A double degree in Law and Business Administration from Universidad Autonoma de Madrid gives her a working grasp of the regulatory side. A Global Executive MBA from Hult gives her the commercial discipline. Fifteen years between Shanghai and Madrid gives her something rarer in the speaker market: direct experience of how Asian supply chains actually behave when a brand asks them to change. She is an associate of WAS, the Spanish women-led sustainability network, and a regular voice on circular economy, regenerative business models, and blockchain-enabled traceability. The argument she brings to a boardroom is not that sustainability is morally right. It is that the companies treating it as an operating discipline today are the ones that will still be able to sell into European markets when the next compliance cycle lands. Key speaking topics Sustainable and regenerative business models Circular economy in textiles and consumer goods Supply chain traceability and certification Blockchain in supply chain verification B Corp practice and corporate impact Fashion industry transformation Women, culture and sustainability Ideal for Boards and executive teams committing to ESG targets that must now be evidenced in the supply chain Chief sustainability officers, heads of supply chain, and procurement leaders in consumer goods, fashion, and retail Founders and growth-stage CEOs designing circular or impact-led business models Industry associations and women-in-business networks focused on sustainability leadership Audience outcomes A clearer picture of what regulators and auditors will accept as evidence of supply chain sustainability Working examples of how circular and regenerative models hold up commercially A founder’s account of what changes and what does not when a business pursues B Corp certification A grounded view of Asian, and specifically Chinese, supply chain dynamics from someone who has operated inside them

Why organisations work with Nadja Swarovski Three decades of brand-building inside one of the world’s most recognisable luxury names. She initiated the Swarovski Collective (1999), Swarovski Crystal Palace (2002) and Atelier Swarovski (2007), and oversaw collaborations with more than 200 designers including Alexander McQueen, Zaha Hadid, Karl Lagerfeld and Viktor & Rolf. Sustainability built into commercial strategy at executive board level, not bolted on as communications. She established Swarovski’s sustainability function in 2012, ran it through 2020, and aligned the company with the UN Global Compact and the UN Women’s Empowerment Principles. Family-business governance from the inside. She sat on the executive board of a fifth-generation family company through a major repositioning, and can speak credibly to how creative direction, sustainability and commercial discipline coexist at scale. An ecosystem of working relationships across fashion, design, philanthropy and conservation. Built through chairmanship of the Swarovski Foundation, presidency of Fashion Council Germany, and roles at UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, FIT Foundation, and The Nature Conservancy’s European Council. Currently CEO of Really Wild Clothing and Managing Partner at Pegasus Private Capital. She is using the same brand-building principles in her own businesses now, with her own capital and her own operational time at stake. Biography highlights First female member of the Executive Board of Swarovski, with responsibility for global brand strategy, communications and sustainability across a business with annual turnover of approximately €3.5 billion. Created and led Swarovski Crystal Palace and Atelier Swarovski, the platforms behind collaborations with Zaha Hadid, Alexander McQueen, Karl Lagerfeld, Viktor & Rolf, Yves Béhar, Tom Dixon and more than 200 other designers. Founded the Swarovski Foundation in 2013, a UK-registered charity supporting culture and creativity, human empowerment and environmental conservation, including the Swarovski Foundation Centre for Learning at the Design Museum in London. Established Swarovski’s Sustainability Department in 2012 and ran sustainability strategy through 2020, aligning the company with the UN Global Compact and the UN Women’s Empowerment Principles. Currently CEO and majority owner of Really Wild Clothing and Managing Partner of Pegasus Private Capital, a UK investment firm focused on heritage and craft-led brands. Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (2016), honorary doctorate from the University of the Arts London (2019), Business of Fashion BoF 500 (2020), Positive Luxury Business Leader of the Year (2020). Biography Most heritage luxury brands lose cultural ground when they cannot reconcile preservation with relevance. Swarovski, the Austrian crystal company founded by Daniel Swarovski in 1895, became one of the few heritage houses that did both, through twenty-six years of work led by Nadja Swarovski as the first woman on its executive board. The contribution was structural. She built Swarovski Collective, Swarovski Crystal Palace and Atelier Swarovski as platforms for designers who otherwise had no commercial reason to engage with a crystal supplier. The collaborator list runs to more than two hundred and includes Alexander McQueen, Zaha Hadid, Viktor & Rolf, Karl Lagerfeld and Christopher Kane. Swarovski moved from component supplier to cultural participant, and the brand equity that followed underwrote the broader business. In 2012 she established Swarovski’s sustainability function and ran it through 2020, aligning the company with the UN Global Compact and the UN Women’s Empowerment Principles, and embedding ethical sourcing and traceability into a global manufacturing operation. The Swarovski Foundation, which she founded in 2013, made the philanthropic side of that work formal as a UK-registered charity organised around three pillars: culture and creativity, human empowerment, and conserving natural resources. Since leaving the family company at the end of 2021, she has moved from operator inside one company to operator-investor across several. As Managing Partner at Pegasus Private Capital she invests in heritage businesses where craft and traceability function as commercial advantages rather than aesthetic gestures. As CEO of Really Wild Clothing, the British countryside brand she and her husband acquired in 2024, she is rebuilding the supply chain around UK mills including Lovat, Kynoch, Harris Tweed, Lochcarron, Linton and Liberty. The investment thesis is the same one that worked at Swarovski: cultural relevance compounds when the supply chain is real. Key speaking topics Brand strategy in heritage and luxury businesses Sustainability as commercial strategy Creative collaboration as a brand asset Family-business governance and next-generation leadership Philanthropy and corporate foundation design Women’s leadership in legacy companies Ideal for CEOs and executive boards of heritage, luxury and consumer brands Chief Brand Officers, CMOs and creative directors managing cultural relevance Chief Sustainability Officers integrating ESG commitments into commercial strategy Family business owners and next-generation leaders preparing for repositioning or succession Audience outcomes A specific account of how creative collaboration generated brand equity at Swarovski, traced through the named platforms that built it. Examples of sustainability translated into operating decisions across product, supply chain, governance and reporting, with the UN frameworks the company aligned to. Insider knowledge of family-business governance at executive board level during a major brand repositioning. Honest assessment of which sustainability and brand trade-offs are commercially real, drawn from current investment decisions at Pegasus Private Capital.

Why organisations work with Narendra Taneja Reads global energy from an Indian and Global South vantage point that Western commentary routinely misses, particularly on the gap between developed-world decarbonisation timelines and emerging-economy growth needs. Holds standing in both academic and policy worlds: Distinguished Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies and Chairman of the Independent Energy Policy Institute in New Delhi. Speaks directly into the operator and investor audience he has worked alongside for over two decades, having served as Founder President of the World Oil & Gas Assembly between 2001 and 2011. Carries advisory weight across multilateral energy forums, with seats on the ONS International Advisory Board in Norway and the Energy Intelligence Group’s Advisory Board in the United States. Tested in the highest-pressure broadcast formats, including BBC HARDtalk and CNN’s Amanpour, where energy claims have to survive cross-examination. Biography highlights Chairman, Independent Energy Policy Institute, New Delhi Distinguished Research Fellow, Oxford Institute for Energy Studies Founder President, World Energy Policy Summit; former Founder President, World Oil & Gas Assembly (2001 to 2011) International Advisory Board member, ONS Foundation (Norway) and Energy Intelligence Group (United States) Former National Convener of the BJP Energy Cell and former National Spokesperson for the BJP Regular contributor to BBC HARDtalk, CNN’s Amanpour and major Indian and international media Biography India is the world’s fifth-largest economy and third-largest electricity producer. It is also among the most climate-exposed major economies, with historical cumulative emissions far below those of the United States or China. The global energy transition will not be solved by Western timelines alone, and the implications run through New Delhi. Narendra Taneja works the seam between rich-world and emerging-economy energy systems. He is Chairman of the Independent Energy Policy Institute in New Delhi and a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies. That dual standing puts him inside the academic debate on transition and inside the policy machinery that has to act on it. His operator credibility is older. He was Founder President of the World Oil & Gas Assembly from 2001 to 2011, the decade energy moved from sector concern to the centre of foreign policy. He now leads the World Energy Policy Summit and holds advisory seats on the ONS International Advisory Board in Norway and the Energy Intelligence Group in the United States. His public reach is unusual for a policy specialist. He served as National Convenor of the BJP Energy Cell and as National Spokesperson for India’s governing party, with direct line of sight into one of the world’s largest energy markets. He appears regularly on BBC HARDtalk and CNN’s Amanpour. He is widely cited as a powerful voice on the energy question between rich and developing economies, a position most international commentary still struggles to hold. Key speaking topics Energy geopolitics and global energy systems Energy security and supply dynamics Energy transition policy across Global North and Global South Oil and gas markets in a decarbonising world India’s energy strategy and global role Geopolitics of climate policy Political risk in emerging market energy Ideal for Energy and utilities boards weighing transition strategy and capital allocation Investors and asset managers with cross-border exposure to oil, gas and renewables Government and policy audiences engaging with India and the wider Global South International business forums analysing geopolitical risk in energy markets Audience outcomes How Global North decarbonisation timelines collide with Global South growth imperatives, and what that means for capital allocation Where political risk actually sits inside the energy transition, by region and asset class A working view of India’s energy strategy and its implications for global supply and capital flows Sharper questions to ask before approving long-horizon energy investment or partnership decisions

Why organisations work with Navi Radjou He has named and codified two frameworks, Jugaad Innovation and Frugal Innovation, that give leadership teams a shared vocabulary for doing more with less rather than relying on bigger R and D budgets. His client work spans Fortune 500 firms including IBM, Microsoft, Procter and Gamble, GM, SAP, and Ernst and Young, so the case material in his sessions is operational, not academic. The Thinkers50 Innovation Award and three consecutive appearances on the Thinkers50 ranking (2021, 2023, 2025) place him among the small group of innovation thinkers whose work boards take seriously. His 2024 book The Frugal Economy, published by Wiley with Thinkers50, gives senior leaders a current playbook for B2B sharing, distributed manufacturing, and regenerative business models. He brings empirical material from emerging markets that most Western innovation speakers cannot, drawing on field research in India, China, Africa, and Latin America. Biography highlights Former Fellow of Cambridge Judge Business School and former Executive Director of its Centre for India and Global Business. Thinkers50 Innovation Award winner, ranked on the Thinkers50 list in 2021, 2023, and 2025. Co-author of Jugaad Innovation (Jossey-Bass), an international bestseller, and Frugal Innovation: How to Do More With Less (The Economist Books, foreword by Paul Polman). Co-author of From Smart to Wise (Jossey-Bass), a study of wise leadership judgement in technology-driven business environments. Author of The Frugal Economy: A Guide to Building a Better World With Less (Wiley and Thinkers50, 2024). TED Global speaker with over two million views on his talk on frugal innovation. Former Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research; faculty member of the World Economic Forum. Published in Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, and strategy plus business; covered by the Financial Times, The Economist, BBC, NPR, New York Times, and Wall Street Journal. Biography R and D budgets in most large companies have stopped producing the returns they once did. Pilots multiply, capital tightens, and the question on the executive agenda becomes how to generate growth without spending more. This is the territory Navi Radjou has worked in for two decades, first as a Forrester analyst studying global innovation networks, then as Executive Director of the Centre for India and Global Business at Cambridge Judge Business School. His central contribution is a managed practice for innovation under constraint. Jugaad Innovation, co-authored with Jaideep Prabhu and Simone Ahuja, took a Hindi term for resourceful improvisation and turned it into a corporate framework backed by case work from emerging markets. Frugal Innovation, published by The Economist Books with a foreword by Paul Polman, codified the practice for Western firms. The Frugal Economy, his 2024 book with Wiley and Thinkers50, extends the argument into a model for B2B sharing, distributed manufacturing, and regenerative supply chains. The credentials sit underneath the work. Thinkers50 awarded him its Innovation Award in 2013 and has ranked him among the world’s most influential management thinkers in 2021, 2023, and 2025. He has consulted for IBM, Microsoft, Procter and Gamble, GM, SAP, and Ernst and Young, and he serves as a faculty member of the World Economic Forum. His TED Global talk on frugal innovation has been watched more than two million times. What makes the perspective unusual is the empirical base. Most innovation thinkers write from Silicon Valley or business school faculties. Born in Pondicherry, educated at Ecole Centrale Paris and the Yale School of Management, and a French-American dual citizen, Radjou builds his arguments from case material in India, China, Africa, and Latin America, where resource constraint has always been the operating condition, then translates the discipline back into the boardrooms of Fortune 500 firms. Key speaking topics Frugal innovation Jugaad and resource-constrained creativity The frugal economy and regenerative business models Intrapreneurship and corporate growth Innovation strategy in emerging markets Wise leadership in the AI era B2B sharing and distributed manufacturing Ideal for Boards and executive teams reviewing innovation portfolios under capital constraint Chief Strategy Officers and Chief Innovation Officers planning growth without expanding R and D spend Sustainability leads and CEOs translating ESG commitments into operating substance Leadership development programmes for senior executives in multinational organisations Audience outcomes A working definition of frugal innovation that distinguishes it from cost-cutting and connects it to growth Case-based examples from Fortune 500 and emerging-market firms that show the discipline in operation A vocabulary for Jugaad and intrapreneurship that senior teams can carry into their own innovation reviews A view of the frugal economy as a commercial opportunity, with named mechanisms (B2B sharing, distributed manufacturing, regenerative principles) A more rigorous standard for what counts as innovation when resources are scarce

Why organisations work with Neri Karra Sillaman Her eight-principle longevity framework in Pioneers (Wiley, 2025) is built on original academic research rather than case-study observation – it provides strategic leaders with a testable, applicable structure for long-term competitive positioning, not an anecdote collection. Pioneers was named Thinkers50 Best New Management Book of 2025 and a Financial Times Readers’ Choice – the two most credible independent signals in management thinking, giving buyers a defensible basis for the engagement beyond the speaker bureau description. She runs a manufacturing business with 25 years of partnerships with leading Italian fashion labels, recognised as both a B Corp and a Positive Luxury venture. The argument she makes about sustainable, values-driven longevity is one she has applied and revised under commercial pressure. Her Cambridge doctoral research used her own family business as a primary case study – an insider position on immigrant entrepreneurship that no other management scholar in this space holds, and which is the source of her most counterintuitive findings: that constraint, outsider perspective, and community cohesion function as durable competitive advantages. Her academic research has been published in the Journal of Business Venturing, Strategic Organization, and Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, while her practitioner work has appeared in Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, and the Financial Times – giving her credibility across board, executive, and academic settings. Biography highlights Professor of Practice and Entrepreneurship Expert at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford PhD from the University of Cambridge; doctoral research on born-global firms and immigrant entrepreneurship Author of Pioneers: 8 Principles of Business Longevity from Immigrant Entrepreneurs (Wiley, 2025) – Thinkers50 Best New Management Book of 2025, Financial Times Readers’ Choice, and Next Big Idea Club Must Read Named to the Thinkers50 Radar Class of 2024 and recipient of the Thinkers50 Radar Award 2025 Co-founder of Neri Karra, a luxury leather goods brand with 25+ years of manufacturing partnerships with leading Italian fashion labels, recognised as a B Corp and Positive Luxury venture Founder of Moda Métiers, a fashion and luxury business consultancy Academic research published in Journal of Business Venturing, Strategic Organization, and Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice Contributed articles to Harvard Business Review and Fast Company; covered by the Financial Times, BBC, CNBC, Newsweek, Monocle, Bloomberg, and Vogue Business Biography The question of why some companies survive for decades while others peak and fade is one of the most commercially consequential questions in strategy – and one of the least rigorously studied. Neri Karra Sillaman spent two decades approaching it through an unusual lens: the immigrant entrepreneurs behind brands including Chobani, WhatsApp, Duolingo, and PayPal, who built iconic and enduring businesses while starting with limited capital, no institutional networks, and no margin for failure. That research, rooted in her Cambridge doctoral work and developed across her faculty career at Oxford’s Saïd Business School, produced Pioneers (Wiley, 2025) – an eight-principle framework for business longevity drawn from the structural choices that explain immigrant entrepreneurial success. The book was named Thinkers50 Best New Management Book of 2025 and a Financial Times Readers’ Choice. She holds roles as both Professor of Practice in Strategy and Entrepreneurship Expert at Oxford, and was named to the Thinkers50 Radar Class of 2024. The practitioner dimension matters here. She is co-founder of Neri Karra, a luxury leather goods business with 25+ years of manufacturing partnerships with leading Italian fashion labels, recognised as a B Corp and a Positive Luxury venture. The principles she applies in the boardroom and lecture hall – around purpose, constraint, community, and sustainable growth – are ones she has had to test, revise, and defend commercially over the same period she was researching them. Her writing appears in Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, and Newsweek. Her academic research has been published in the Journal of Business Venturing, Strategic Organization, and Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. She has contributed commentary to the Financial Times, BBC, CNBC, Monocle, Bloomberg, and Vogue Business, and has delivered TEDx talks on creativity, resilience, and entrepreneurship. Born in Bulgaria, she fled as a child refugee to Turkey before making her way through the University of Miami and Cambridge to the research that has defined her career – and which gives her a lived understanding of the very principles she argues make businesses last. Key speaking topics Business longevity and long-term competitive strategy Immigrant entrepreneurship and outsider advantage Sustainable growth and purpose-driven enterprise Fashion and luxury entrepreneurship Iconic brand building and brand durability Creativity and innovation in organisations Resilience as a strategic asset Ideal for CEOs, founders, and boards engaged in long-term strategy and business durability reviews Chief Strategy Officers and senior commercial teams seeking research-grounded frameworks for sustainable growth Fashion, luxury, and consumer goods executives navigating brand longevity, sustainability pressures, and global expansion Executive education and MBA audiences at business schools Audience outcomes A concrete eight-principle framework for what drives business longevity, applicable across sectors not limited to fashion or luxury A reframed understanding of constraint, outsider perspective, and community as structural competitive advantages rather than liabilities Specific strategic principles drawn from the companies behind Chobani, WhatsApp, Duolingo, and PayPal – examined analytically, not biographically Clearer language for board and leadership conversations about the gap between short-term performance and lasting competitive advantage A research-grounded basis for evaluating whether current strategic decisions are building for durability or optimising for the next cycle

Why organisations work with Nicholas Stern He authored the most influential economic study of climate change ever commissioned by a government. The Stern Review (2006) put the cost of inaction at 5 to 20 percent of global GDP and reframed climate as the largest market failure in economic history. Boards and treasuries still cite it as the standard reference. He is a former Chief Economist of both the World Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and a former Second Permanent Secretary at HM Treasury. The institutional authority means he speaks to investment committees and finance ministries from inside their own decision frameworks. He chairs the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at LSE, the centre that produces the analytical work most quoted in serious climate finance and net-zero policy debate. His talks draw on its current research. He co-chaired the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate and the High-Level Commission on Carbon Prices, the bodies that shaped how governments and central banks now approach carbon pricing and transition finance. He is a crossbench life peer in the UK House of Lords and a Companion of Honour. His arguments are taken seriously across political administrations and inside major financial institutions because they sit outside any party or commercial alignment. Biography highlights IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government at LSE and Chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment Lead author of The Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change (HM Treasury, 2006) Author of The Growth Story of the 21st Century (LSE Press, 2025), updating the Review’s economic case for climate action two decades on Former Chief Economist of the World Bank and of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development; former Second Permanent Secretary at HM Treasury and Head of the UK Government Economic Service Crossbench life peer in the UK House of Lords as Baron Stern of Brentford; Companion of Honour; Fellow of the Royal Society; former President of the British Academy Recipient of the Blue Planet Prize, the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award, the Leontief Prize and the Schumpeter Award Biography For two decades, the question of whether climate action makes economic sense has shaped how governments and large financial institutions make capital decisions. The Stern Review, published by HM Treasury in 2006, is the document that gave that question its first authoritative answer. It put the cost of inaction at 5 to 20 percent of global GDP and framed climate change as the largest market failure in economic history. The case it made for early action is still cited by policymakers and finance ministries today. Stern’s authority on this rests on an unusually broad institutional base. He was Chief Economist of the World Bank from 2000 to 2003, having previously held the same role at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. He was also Second Permanent Secretary at HM Treasury and Head of the UK Government Economic Service during the period when the Review was conducted. He now chairs the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at LSE. Its analysis is the reference most often cited in serious debate over climate finance and net-zero costs. He also co-chaired the High-Level Commission on Carbon Prices and the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate, the latter with Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and Paul Polman. He sits in the UK House of Lords as a crossbench peer and was made a Companion of Honour in 2017. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and a former President of the British Academy. His most recent book, The Growth Story of the 21st Century (LSE Press, 2025), revisits the Review two decades on and frames climate action as the central growth opportunity of the next two decades. Key speaking topics Economics of climate change Climate risk and capital allocation Net-zero policy and the energy transition Climate finance for emerging economies Sustainable growth and economic development Policy design for the climate transition Ideal for Boards of financial institutions and large industrial firms with material climate exposure Finance ministries, central banks and senior government policymakers working on transition policy Chief sustainability officers and chief climate officers at multinational organisations Asset owners and fund managers with net-zero or transition mandates Audience outcomes An economic argument for climate action that holds up against board-level scepticism A clearer view of where capital is and is not flowing in the energy transition, and what that means for investment and policy decisions A working understanding of how carbon pricing now sits inside government and central bank thinking A defensible position on the economics of net zero that can be referenced and revisited inside the organisation

Why organisations work with Nina Moghaddam Two decades of live broadcast and corporate event hosting across Super RTL, RTL, RTLZWEI, ProSieben, VOX, Sat.1 and WDR, including current presentation of Lokalzeit OWL and the consumer affairs programme Servicezeit on WDR. Fluent in six languages (German, English, French, Spanish, Farsi and Mandarin), which means she can hold a multilingual room without flipping to translation. Particularly useful for international audiences and for German-Persian programmes. A corporate moderation portfolio across automotive, FMCG, foundation and public-sector clients. Includes Audi, Porsche, MAN, FERRERO, the Liz Mohn Stiftung at Bertelsmann (Zeitenwende on tour) and the City of Cologne (Viva la Green). A personal sustainability practice running back to 2014 (her HappyAndFitDIY YouTube channel, focused on homemade sustainable beauty products), which gives her honest footing on climate-themed agendas without playing the substantive expert. Works as a Moderationstrainerin, coaching others in presentation and moderation craft. For internal events, this means she can prep speakers and panel chairs ahead of the day, not only host the room. Biography highlights Current presenter of Lokalzeit OWL on WDR (since February 2024) and Servicezeit on WDR (since 2025). Two-decade run as a presenter on Super RTL, RTL and RTLZWEI, including Toggo TV, WOW Die Entdeckerzone, Kiddy Contest, Deutschland sucht den Superstar Das Magazin, Das Supertalent Backstage, and Wohnen nach Wunsch Das Haus on VOX. Adolf-Grimme-Preis nominee in 2005 (Spezial category) for her work on Super RTL’s youth programming. Studied Regional Studies East Asia (China focus) at the University of Cologne. Speaks German, English, French, Spanish, Farsi and Mandarin. Corporate event portfolio includes Audi, Porsche, MAN, REWE Group, FERRERO, Vodafone, UNESCO, the Liz Mohn Stiftung at Bertelsmann (Zeitenwende on tour) and the City of Cologne (Viva la Green). Operates the HappyAndFitDIY YouTube channel since 2014, focused on homemade and sustainable beauty products. Also coaches presenters as a Moderationstrainerin. Biography Most corporate sustainability programmes share the same failure mode: a celebrity host who introduces but cannot moderate, and a panel that reverts to talking points by question two. The organisations doing this work seriously want a different kind of room, one where a host knows the territory well enough to ask the right second question. Moghaddam has spent more than twenty years on German live television. She presented Toggo TV, WOW and Kiddy Contest on Super RTL in the early 2000s, work that earned her a Grimme-Preis nomination in 2005. From there she moved to RTL, anchoring the backstage magazines for Deutschland sucht den Superstar and Das Supertalent. She now presents Lokalzeit OWL and Servicezeit on WDR. That broadcast spine carries into a corporate setting. Live television teaches four habits: hold a drifting panel, keep an executive answer crisp, recover from a missed cue, and never let the room feel the strain. Her client list reflects where this lands: Audi, Porsche, MAN, FERRERO, REWE Group, UNESCO and the City of Cologne (Viva la Green). Foundation work includes Zeitenwende on tour for the Liz Mohn Stiftung at Bertelsmann. Her sustainability footing comes from personal practice. She has run the HappyAndFitDIY YouTube channel since 2014, focused on homemade sustainable beauty products, which gives her honest credibility on climate-themed agendas. The booking is for moderation craft. Senior corporate audiences on values-led programmes get a host who has run live television for two decades and works in six languages including Farsi and Mandarin. Key speaking topics Corporate event moderation and hosting Awards ceremonies and gala moderation Sustainability and conscious consumption Climate-themed corporate programmes Multilingual and cross-cultural events Presentation and moderation coaching Ideal for Sustainability summits, ESG awards programmes, climate-themed corporate forums and foundation-led panels needing a moderator with broadcast credibility and topical fluency International or multilingual corporate gatherings with German, English, French, Spanish, Farsi or Mandarin audiences CHRO, Head of Communications, and CSR/Foundation leads commissioning senior-audience programmes where the moderator has to do real work Awards ceremonies, gala dinners and after-dinner programmes for German-speaking corporate audiences Audience outcomes A programme that finishes on time, with senior speakers having said what they came to say Honest panel exchanges that do not drift into talking points, because the moderator pushes when a question gets dodged Broadcast-quality opening and closing that hold the room without feeling like corporate set-piece Content delivered cleanly across language groups, including mixed German-English audiences and wider international rooms

Why organisations work with Norbert Csizmadia He brings the operating perspective of someone who has sat inside national economic planning, as State Secretary at Hungary’s Ministry for National Economy and Executive Director at the country’s central bank. His Geofusion framework gives leadership teams a map-based vocabulary for connectivity, complexity and long-term sustainability, drawn from a published body of work that includes Geofusion, GeoFuture and GeoVision. He sits inside the institutions that shape Eurasian strategy, including the Fudan Institute of Belt and Road and Global Governance in Shanghai and the Board of Bank of China CEE, which gives clients a perspective on the East that few European speakers can match. He treats geography as a strategic asset, not background context, which is useful for boards trying to make sense of supply chain reconfiguration, energy corridors and shifting trade blocs. In 2025 the World Complexity Science Academy awarded him its Medal for Sustainability for the Geofusion research, a signal that the work is taken seriously beyond bureau circuits. He delivers through cartography, not slideware. Two decades of building visual maps means a keynote reads as a guided journey across regions and time horizons, which holds large executive and conference audiences on complex material. Biography highlights Former State Secretary at Hungary’s Ministry for National Economy and former Executive Director at the Central Bank of Hungary, responsible for economic strategy and planning. Author of the Geofusion series (LID Publishing / World Scientific), published in English and Chinese, including Geofusion, GeoFusion 2.0, GeoFuture and GeoVision. 2025 recipient of the World Complexity Science Academy Medal for Sustainability for the Geofusion research. Member of the International Advisory Board, Fudan Institute of Belt and Road and Global Governance, Shanghai, and Independent Director, Bank of China CEE. Goodwill Ambassador of the Association of Universities of Asia and the Pacific (AUAP). Founder of the Turquoise Zones concept, presented across higher-education and city forums in Central Asia and Southeast Asia through 2025 and 2026, including keynotes covered by The Astana Times. Biography Geography is making a return to the strategy room. Trade corridors, energy routes, semiconductor chokepoints and sanctions maps are once again decisive variables for capital allocation. Norbert Csizmadia’s work, gathered under the Geofusion banner across four published volumes with LID Publishing and World Scientific, treats this return as the central organising fact of twenty-first century strategy. The argument is built from inside the machinery, not from a desk. As State Secretary for Planning Coordination at Hungary’s Ministry for National Economy, and later as Executive Director at the Central Bank of Hungary, he helped design national economic strategy at the level where geopolitics, infrastructure and capital allocation meet. That experience is rare in the geopolitics speaker pool, where commentary often dominates over operating perspective. His institutional footprint runs East as well as West. He sits on the International Advisory Board of the Fudan Institute of Belt and Road and Global Governance in Shanghai, is an Independent Director at Bank of China CEE, and chairs the Boards of Trustees at John von Neumann University Foundation and the Pallas Athene Domus Meriti Foundation. For European audiences, this gives him an unusually direct line of sight into Chinese strategic thinking on Eurasian connectivity. In 2025 the World Complexity Science Academy recognised the Geofusion body of work with its Medal for Sustainability, citing the research’s ability to map the interconnections between places, disciplines and long-term sustainability questions. That recognition matters because his proposition rests on it: that a map-based, cross-disciplinary reading of the world produces sharper strategic decisions than topic-by-topic analysis. Key speaking topics Geoeconomics and global strategy Eurasian connectivity and the Belt and Road Long-term sustainability and complexity The geography of trade, capital and supply chains Hungarian and Central European economic policy The role of maps in twenty-first century strategy Digitalisation and AI in a geopolitical frame The geography of livable and sustainable places (Turquoise Zones) Ideal for Boards and executive committees stress-testing geopolitical exposure across Europe and Asia Strategy, corporate development and policy leads in industries exposed to Eurasian trade corridors and energy flows Family offices, sovereign investors and asset allocators with capital deployed across East-West blocs Universities, foundations and policy bodies running long-horizon scenario work on connectivity and sustainability Audience outcomes A map-based reading of how Eurasian connectivity, energy and trade corridors are reshaping commercial and capital decisions A clearer view of how Chinese strategic thinking on Belt and Road frames European exposure A working vocabulary from the Geofusion framework for talking about complexity, connectivity and sustainability inside the same conversation A perspective on long-term sustainability that is grounded in geography and capital allocation rather than ESG narrative Strategic questions a leadership team can take into its own scenario planning

Why organisations work with Oliver Heath He authored the Human Spaces report with Interface, the first global study quantifying the impact of biophilic design on workplace wellbeing and productivity, and brings that evidence base directly into the room. His design practice has delivered biophilic workplace projects for Apple, Bloomberg, Booking.com, Deutsche Bank and Knight Frank Investment Management, so the talk is grounded in live commercial fit-outs, not theory. He works at the intersection of design and research through projects like the BRE Biophilic Office, giving leaders post-occupancy data on what design changes actually shift staff behaviour and outcomes. He translates complex environmental psychology into specific actions a property, HR or facilities team can brief their architects on the next morning. Biography highlights Founder and Director of Oliver Heath Design, an architecture and interior design practice focused on health, wellbeing and biophilic design in the built environment. Trained at Oxford Brookes and The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL (Postgraduate Architectural Studies, with distinction). Winner of the BBC Young Designer of the Year, 1998. Author of “Design a Healthy Home” (Dorling Kindersley, 2021) and “Urban Eco Chic” (Quadrille). Lead author and presenter of the Human Spaces global report on biophilic design in the workplace, in partnership with Interface. Television credits include BBC’s Changing Rooms, DIY SOS and Home Front, and a TEDxUCL talk titled “Biophilic Design: Supporting People and Planet”. Biography The argument for designing offices around human wellbeing used to sit on the soft side of a property brief. The Human Spaces report, written with Interface and based on data from sixteen countries, quantified what designers had been claiming for years: workplaces that bring in natural light, planting and views report measurable lifts in employee wellbeing and productivity. Oliver Heath was the lead voice behind that study. His Brighton-based practice, Oliver Heath Design, has applied the same principles to live workplace projects for Apple, Bloomberg, Booking.com, Deutsche Bank and Knight Frank Investment Management. The work pairs design with measurement; the Knight Frank project, for example, was followed by a post-occupancy staff survey to evidence the shift in how the space supported its people. He also sits on the research side. Oliver Heath Design has worked with the BRE on the Biophilic Office project, a long-running study of what specific design interventions do to occupant behaviour over time. That combination of practising studio and research collaborator is what allows him to brief a board on biophilic design without slipping into either jargon or hype. His training is architectural: Oxford Brookes, then a postgraduate at The Bartlett, UCL, with distinction. He won BBC Young Designer of the Year in 1998 and has remained a public-facing voice on sustainable and healthy interiors since, through his books “Design a Healthy Home” and “Urban Eco Chic”, a TEDxUCL talk on biophilic design, and television work for the BBC. Key speaking topics Biophilic design in the workplace Healthy buildings and occupant wellbeing Sustainable and regenerative interior design Workplace productivity and design strategy Post-occupancy evaluation and design evidence ESG and the built environment Healthy homes and residential wellbeing Ideal for Heads of corporate real estate, workplace and facilities planning a major office redesign or relocation CHROs and people leaders linking wellbeing, engagement and physical environment Sustainability and ESG leads embedding human-centred design into net zero programmes Architects, interior designers and developers commissioning research-led briefs Audience outcomes A clear definition of biophilic design and the specific patterns that have measurable wellbeing and productivity effects Quantified evidence from the Human Spaces report and BRE Biophilic Office on what design changes shift outcomes Named workplace examples, from Apple to Knight Frank, showing how biophilic design is actually delivered at scale A practical brief that property, HR and sustainability teams can take back to their architects and project managers A sharper view of how building design connects to wellbeing strategy, ESG reporting and talent retention