Jeremy Schwartz’s authority and reputation on sustainability comes from his roles as Chairman of Kantar’s Sustainability and Diversity  Transformation practice, CEO of The Body Shop, host of the podcast Saving Tomorrow’s Planet and over twenty years delivering environmental &  social, ESG, programmes. What makes him unique are his real-life stories of how to profit from sustainability, gain competitive advantage through sustainable initiatives, overcome stakeholder resistance, innovate profitably and report without greenwashing.

“Jeremy’s session was excellent. He nailed (and exceeded) the brief; he was very engaging and entertaining, and the content was highly insightful and actionable which is exactly what we were after. It was a great highlight to our event.”

COO – US Tech company.

In parallel, Jeremy Schwartz is an expert on the future of leadership. Business leaders in all functions and at all levels are on a timeless quest to accelerate the performance of individuals and teams. At the same time, they are under pressure to profit from sustainability, must embrace AI and be ever more competitive in the face of disrupters.

Jeremy brings world-class insights and actionable leadership tools to infuse throughout audiences the mindsets and behaviours of market leaders. Examples of which include empowering teams to make decisions faster, the courage to overcome self-limiting mindsets, stepping up to be accountable leaders and embracing sustainability as source of competitive advantage.

“Jeremy’s session was absolutely awesome! Jeremy is a talented & very professional speaker, who really understood the message we wanted to convey. On top of that, it was a real pleasure to work & share insights with Jeremy in advance to prepare the final presentation.”

CEO Retail – German car company.

With Schwartz’s broad CEO experience, he crafts every speech to each client’s needs and his interactive approach has audiences, from tens to many thousands, actively participating and contributing during his speech.
Jeremy’s vision of the future has seen him anticipate what business leaders need to embrace ahead of time. For example, Schwartz was commissioning sustainability strategies as early as 2005 and back in 2018 authored and presented the BBC program: ‘Retail’s AI Revolution’ where he subsequently incorporated AI into the Pandora transformation.

JEREMY SCHWARTZ – AUTHOR

He is currently publishing his book titled: Act Fast & Get Things Done.

This takes learnings from turnarounds, tech companies and AI to empower business leaders and their teams to act faster.

JEREMY SCHWARTZ – PRESENTATION STYLE

Jeremy’s content is rich in TikTok reels and videos, so there is no death by PowerPoint with him. Every speech, masterclass and workshop are personalized to the client and the message they wish to deliver, and his probing questions in the scoping call gets to the heart of every event to give clear actionable insights for every audience.

JEREMY SCHWARTZ – SPEAKING TOPICS

1 Make your purpose count

Are you struggling to create a memorable purpose and see it align, inspire and mobilize your employees?

Employees, consumers and investors want to engage companies with an inspiring, authentic purpose that guides their actions. Jeremy shares how, from his own CEO experience, to become a sustainable company who makes their purpose count every day to drive spectacular results.

2 Profit from Sustainability

Do you want to know how your company can take a leadership role, mobilize employees, engage investors and create new profitable business models that can contribute to saving the planet?

All too often the sustainability debate focuses solely on cost. Jeremy’s challenges this with a CEO’s P&L vision and shows how to identify opportunities to innovate sustainably and profitably.

3 Innovate to Inspire Consumers

Can your business benefit from a deeper understanding of your consumers and customers?

The empowered and fickle consumer has made growing market share a tougher battle than ever before. Be inspired from the extensive experience and unique techniques to reach out, listen and act on consumer insights that have led to multibillion-euro innovations and growth results.

4 Mindset Makes Culture

​Do you want to create a company culture that will make you world-class, but not sure how?

An open, curious growth mindset underpins great cultures. Experience and learn from Jeremy’s important approach to nurturing authentic, modern, world-class cultures one-mindset-at-a-time.

5 Everyone’s a Leader Now

Do you feel the command-and-control models and hierarchical decision-making remain insufficient as a leadership model for our hyper-fast-moving and Gen X environment?

Everyone’s a leader now brings fresh ways to mobilize talent across all organisation levels, elevate contributions from a diversity of employees and empower and challenge them to show leadership behaviours too.

6 Slice Through Silos

Can you see how silo working across functions and teams undermines high-performance output?

Find out how to rapidly craft structures and embrace new ways of working that slice through silos and liberate teams to collaborate in seamless ways. Learn to compress decision-making timelines and accelerate speed-to-market to beat the competition and grow faster.

In his private life, Jeremy Schwartz is married with three Gen Z sons who are his personal advisors on what their generation needs. He is a driven by fitness being an accomplished mountaineer, cyclist and fundraiser as founding trustee for the Against Malaria Foundation.

Call +44 1753 439 289 or email Great British Speakers now to book Jeremy Schwartz for your next live event or corporate video.

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