Jeremy Schwartz – Sustainability
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.
He is also the co-founder of the business Glorious! Foods alongside chec Marco Pierre White.
“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.”
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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.”
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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 programme Retail’s AI Revolution where he subsequently incorporated AI into the Pandora transformation. In the programme, Jeremy highlighted how AI could transform competitive advantage through innovations like real-time algorithmic testing, programmatic content creation, and optimised marketing strategies.
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’s talks transform challenges into opportunities with actionable insights that drive measurable results. By addressing key areas that shape today’s business landscape, he equips companies to thrive in an increasingly complex and competitive world.
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Jeremy Schwartz – Keynote Topics
Turning Today’s Business Challenges Into Opportunities: In the ever-evolving business landscape, companies face unique challenges that need to be transformed into growth-driving opportunities. Jeremy focusses on key areas such as AI-driven innovation, branding, sustainability, marketing, and faster decision-making, all with the aim of delivering transformative results.
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Amplify and Stretch Brands: Many companies struggle to evolve their brand’s narrative and leverage their brand assets to create new value, resulting in a declining market share and consumer relevance. Jeremy demonstrates how businesses can increase their brand’s relevance in today’s culture. A strong, adaptive brand is no longer optional; it is the foundation of sustained competitive advantage in a fast-paced world.
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Apply AI to Drive Innovation: Are you integrating AI into your operations or are missed opportunities holding you back? Without targeted adoption across functions, businesses risk losing competitive advantages. Jeremy demystifies how companies can harness AI for real-time logistics, consumer-drive innovations, and marketing efficiencies. Companies that fail to adopt AI risk falling behind agile competitors who leverage data to predict trends, drive efficiencies, and personalise customer experience.
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Marketing to Grow Super Spenders: Without targeted strategies, high-value customers remain an untapped potential, limiting business growth. Jeremy teaches businesses how to pinpoint and grow their super spender base. From advanced segmentation to personalised campaigns, he shares proven methods to maximise the value of these critical consumers and ensure sustained growth.
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Corporate Branding to Mobilise Talent: Is your business struggling to attract and retain top talent in today’s competitive labour market? Does your company lack the clarity and purpose to act as a magnet for the best talent and inspire employees to perform at their very best? Jeremy provides techniques to position your organisation as an employer of choice. From recruitment innovations to fostering a positive workplace culture, he shows the power of a memorable, actionable purpose to inspire innovation and attract top talent.
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Faster Competitive Decision-Making: In today’s world, speed is a key driver of competitive advantage, rewarding brands that act quickly and launch innovations faster. Jeremy shares strategies to accelerate decision-making, enhance a cross-functional collaboration, and reduce the time taken to develop and launch new offers.
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Profit From Sustainability: Do your leaders view sustainability as a cost rather than a source of profitable growth? Jeremy helps organisations unlock the financial potential of environmentally conscious strategies.
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Jeremy Schwartz – Previous Talks
Make your purpose count: Are you struggling to create a memorable purpose and see it align, inspire and mobilise 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.
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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.
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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 nurture authentic, modern, world class cultures one-mindset-at-a-time.
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Everyone’s a leader now: Do you feel the command-and-control models and hierarchical decision making remains 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.
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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.
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JEREMY SCHWARTZ – AUTHOR
Jeremy has been working on two books:
- Act Fast & Get Things Done takes learnings from turnarounds, tech companies and emergencies to give the tools we can all use in business to act faster.
- Cut the Marketing Bullshit provides 11 marketing fundamentals for business leaders goes back to the core of marketing to secure better results in this digital age.
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In his private life, Jeremy 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.
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