Keynotes & Executive Talks
Arnaud Blandin delivers keynote talks for boards, executives, investors, and leadership teams navigating sustainability, innovation, AI, and long-term value creation. His sessions combine strategic frameworks, real business cases, and clear executive language to help leaders move from compliance and complexity to competitive advantage.
Each talk can be tailored to your audiences, event format, and strategic priorities.
The Integration Gap: Why Your ESG Strategy Is Failing
Most companies still treat sustainability as an add-on or reporting exercise. This keynote shows what changes when ESG is integrated at a systems level and why that shift creates compounding business value.
From Compliance to Competitive Advantage: Turning ESG Requirements Into Market Differentiation
A practical session for leaders who want to move beyond cost-center thinking and use ESG requirements to strengthen market position, resilience, and long-term value creation.
The Measurement Problem: Why Your Sustainability Metrics Don’t Inform Strategy
Most companies measure what is easy, not what is strategically useful. This keynote explains how to build measurement systems that guide decisions rather than decorate reports.
Building the Business Case: Quantifying Sustainability ROI for Skeptical Boards
Designed for executives who need to translate sustainability into financial language, board logic, and decision-ready frameworks.
AI and Sustainability: leading to a new economy
The hard truth about where sustainability issues stand and what we can do about it, AI being an enabler
Behavioral Economics Meets Sustainability: Designing Organizations for Long-Term Value Creation
How to design organizations so that sustainable behavior becomes easier, more natural, and more durable than command-and-control approaches.
Stop Optimizing for the Wrong Century: Rethinking Business Models for Planetary Constraints
A keynote for leaders ready to rethink extractive models and explore what regenerative business architecture looks like in practice.
Why Your Sustainability Strategy Is Theater — and How to Make It Real
A sharper, more contrarian session for audiences ready for an honest diagnosis of performative ESG and a practical path toward substance.
Future-Proofing Strategy: Identifying Emerging Patterns Before They Hit Mainstream
A methodology-driven talk on spotting strategic shifts early and using pattern recognition as a source of competitive advantage.
Innovate and Create Value Through Impact
A keynote on how organizations can turn sustainability and impact into new sources of innovation, resilience, and long-term business value.
Format
Available as 30–45 minute keynote, 45–60 minute keynote, fireside conversation, executive roundtable, board session, or workshop. Most talks are designed for senior audiences and can be adapted for conferences, leadership retreats, investor events, and internal executive programs.
Typical audiences
Board members. C-suite executives. CFOs. CSOs. Investors. Strategy leaders. Innovation leaders. HR and culture teams. Executive education cohorts.
What audience can expect?
Every session is practical, intellectually rigorous, and grounded in real operating experience. Audiences leave with sharper language, better frameworks, and concrete ways to connect sustainability, innovation, and business performance.
Arnaud led a thought-provoking conversation at Is Compassion Relevant to the Economy?—an event exploring the intersection of compassion and economic systems. Arnaud joined leaders such as Sandrine Dixson-Declève (Co-President of the Club of Rome) and Mel Young (Founder of the Homeless World Cup) to delve into how a compassionate approach can reshape our understanding of the economy. Challenging traditional economic thinking by examining how compassion can drive systemic change, from the distribution of resources to the nature of work and social safety nets, remains central to creating more equitable systems.
Arnaud Blandin led the session on Green AI: Reducing Data and Model Footprints to Achieve Sustainability at World AI Cannes. With a focus on the intersection of artificial intelligence and sustainability, Arnaud explores strategies for minimizing the environmental impact of AI technologies. He highlights how reducing data and model footprints can drive efficiency, lower energy consumption, and contribute to more sustainable AI practices. This session offers executives and AI leaders practical insights into optimizing AI systems for both performance and sustainability, ensuring that innovation aligns with the growing demand for environmental responsibility in technology.
