Sustainability Leadership in a Time of Great Change, New York

Date and Time

June 18, 2024
12:00 pm-3:00 pm EDT

Location

New York

Topic

Business Transformation

The context for sustainable business is being roiled by rapidly changing dynamics including heightened reporting and regulatory requirements, powerful new technologies like artificial intelligence, the increasing urgency of the climate crisis, a volatile (geo)political landscape, and pressures to scale back on just and sustainable business.

Amidst this turbulence, the fundamental goals of sustainable business remain the same, and as important as ever: accelerating the shift to an inclusive clean energy economy, ensuring that revolutionary new technologies are designed and deployed in service of society, creating more equitable societies and economies, and enabling business transformation that positions companies to succeed and work towards these goals.

Making progress on these goals will require novel competencies, new alliances, and different ways of thinking and working. For sustainability leaders, the new context presents paradoxes: increased emphasis on compliance over innovation, heightened visibility leading to backlash, and greater ambition accompanied by more scrutiny and skepticism.

Through this series of global events, BSR is gathering sustainable business leaders for private discussions to understand this evolving landscape, strategize for success, and to reframe their roles to deliver the unique value that only they and their teams can. This event is an opportunity to reassess and reclaim what is most important about sustainable business leadership and a way to continue to find inspiration in this work.

Participants will engage in peer-to-peer dialogue, sharing tactics and strategies to sustain leadership vitality in a redefined world.

Scheduled Speakers

• David Korngold, Managing Director of BSR Innovation Group, BSR
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David Korngold
Managing Director of BSR Innovation Group, BSR
New York
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David partners with corporate boards, executives, and investors to develop high-impact sustainability strategies. As part of BSR’s Transformation team, he co-leads engagement with boards of directors to promote effective board governance and leadership ambition on sustainability. 
Having previously led BSR's Financial Services team, David continues to work closely with financial companies on sustainability, ESG integration, and impact investing. David has led engagements in nearly all of BSR’s focus areas and major industry groups. This includes leading climate scenarios workshops with boards, creating net-zero road maps for investment firms, designing and operationalizing a leading impact investing fund, conducting materiality assessments, undertaking human rights impact assessments, and co-authoring research on topics like ESG for emerging public companies and responsible investment policies for private equity firms.
Before joining BSR, David worked in strategy and management consulting at Bain & Company.
David holds a BA in History from Amherst College.
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• Jacob Park, Director, Transformation, BSR
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Jacob Park
Director, Transformation, BSR
New York
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Jacob leads BSR’s Sustainable Futures Lab, a new practice using strategic foresight techniques to help businesses engage with emerging issues that are reshaping the global landscape.
Before joining BSR, Jacob was the lead futurist in the New York office of Forum for the Future, where he used scenario planning and other futures techniques to develop sustainability strategy and drive innovation for leading businesses, foundations, and multistakeholder groups. Prior to that he worked at Adaptive Edge, a boutique strategic foresight consultancy, on collaborative scenario planning. Jacob began his career doing human rights research and advocacy at Human Rights First and the Center for Economic and Social Rights. He speaks English and French.
Jacob holds an M.B.A. in Sustainability from Presidio Graduate School and a B.A. in History from the University of Chicago. 
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