Why Choose Me
Why I'm not your typical sustainability speaker
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I was doing sustainability before it had a name
PhD Physical & Analytical Chemistry, Sorbonne University. I started solving sustainability problems in 2004, back when "green" was just a color and most boardrooms thought carbon footprint was something hippies worried about.
Here's what two decades in the lab taught me that MBA programs won't: real sustainability breakthroughs don't happen in strategy decks. They happen when you understand why one polymer bonds differently than another, how molecular structure determines whether a material can actually be recycled (or just gets greenwashed), and which chemical processes are burning money while claiming to save the planet.
I've watched entire industries bet billions on "sustainable" solutions that violate basic chemistry. I've seen C-suites reject profitable innovations because they couldn't distinguish science from science fiction. And I proved, in peer-reviewed research published in the International Journal of Business Administration, what I've known since my first article: sustainability ROI isn't soft metrics and stakeholder feelings. It's quantifiable, it's molecular, and it's sitting in your operational inefficiencies right now.
Most sustainability experts translate business problems into environmental language. I translate molecular realities into profit margins.
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I prove profit, not preach
Most sustainability conversations force you to pick a side: financial performance or environmental responsibility. Quarterly results or long-term impact. But what if that's the wrong question entirely?
Here's what I've learned managing €25M P&L and advising companies across industries: your problem might not be sustainability per se, but the solution always is.
The companies that will lead aren't choosing between false binaries. They're embracing a different reality: Profit and purpose. Efficiency and empathy. Innovation and impact. Not as trade-offs, but as multipliers.
I've watched organizations transform sustainability from cost center to competitive advantage, not through sacrifice, but through smarter strategy. The insight that changes everything? Sustainability isn't about doing less harm. It's about unlocking value that was always there, hidden in inefficiencies we've normalized.
The question isn't whether you can afford to prioritize sustainability. It's whether you can afford not to.
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I shape policy, not just opinions
Most sustainability consultants read policy briefs and make predictions. I sit on the Experts Climate Committee of the Brussels Capital Region and the Governing Board of the European Policy Centre. When regulations shift, I'm often in the room where it happens.
But here's why that matters to you: I don't operate in just one domain. I move between lab benches and boardrooms, between molecular innovation and policy corridors, between startup execution and institutional influence. That's rare, because most experts are either technical scientists who've never managed P&L, or business strategists who couldn't explain a carbon bond if their quarterly results depended on it, or policy advisors who've never actually implemented what they recommend.
I've delivered profitable sustainability transformation at scale because I understand what works in all three worlds: the chemistry that makes solutions viable, the business model that makes them scalable, and the regulatory landscape that makes them inevitable. Global recognition and board appointments followed, not because I chased awards, but because cross-cultural fluency and policy influence open doors that credentials alone never will.
The advantage? When I explain where sustainability is headed, it's not speculation. It's pattern recognition from inside the system that's reshaping your industry, whether you're ready or not.
Most consultants tell you what's wrong. Most scientists tell you what's possible. Most policy experts tell you what's coming.
I'm the rare professional who tells you what actually works, and I have the profit margins to prove it.
Dr Audrey-Flore Ngomsik
Awards & Recognitions
Al Gore Climate Reality Leadership Corp (2025)
Best CSR Consulting firm in Europe by Acquisition International (2025)
Finalist Western European Green Tech Startup Awards by Global Startup Awards (2025)
Most inspiring women in Sustainability (2024) by American Association of Women in Sustainability
Finalist Veuve Clicquot Bold Woman Award (2024)
#22 - LinkedIn Top 50 EU Sustainability Influencer (2024)
Finalist Woman Award in STEM and Technology (2024) by Innoviris
A glimpse into my experience
20+
YEARS IN SUSTAINABILITY
15+
YEARS BOARD ADVISORY
80%
PROFIT INCREASES ACHIEVED
3
PILLARS:
PEOPLE-PLANET-PROFIT
don't treat environmental, social, and economic sustainability as separate initiatives. They understand these are interconnected systems that, when aligned properly, create unprecedented competitive advantages.
The organisations that truly succeed
when companies were still afraid of environmental regulations and social responsibility was considered charity. I was in Sorbonne laboratories developing solutions for industrial pollution while business schools were teaching that profit and purpose were incompatible.
My journey began before "sustainability" was trendy
I've seen the evolution from compliance-driven approaches to strategic integration. Today, I help mid-market companies ($50M-$500M) avoid the mistakes larger corporations made and build sustainability into their competitive DNA from the start.
That early start gave me a unique perspective:
Here's what I've discovered after two decades of holistic sustainability work:
HERE IS WHAT I WILL NOT DO
Show up with a generic sustainability deck and pretend the chemical industry faces the same challenges as fashion, or that cosmetics can solve problems the same way food systems do. I won't recycle the same TED talk across every conference room, drop buzzwords like "circular economy" without addressing your sector's specific barriers, or ignore the hard trade-offs your industry actually faces.
BECAUSE SUSTAINABILITY
IS NOT ONE SIZE FITS ALL
The path to decarbonization in chemicals looks nothing like it does in tech. Textile circularity hits fundamentally different barriers than food waste. And anyone selling you a universal playbook is either naive or doesn't care if it actually works for you.
I WORK ACCROSS INDUSTRIES
AND THEIR MESSY REALITIES
From the staggering environmental cost of colour in textiles to building disability-inclusive pathways in the low-carbon transition. From sustainable food systems and green materials innovation to waste transformation that closes loops instead of creating expensive PR. From untangling the CSR-ESG-SDG alphabet soup to asking what a genuinely sustainable cosmetics industry would require beyond "clean beauty" Instagram posts. Each talk is adapted to your industry's specific constraints, opportunities, and the uncomfortable questions no one's asking in your boardroom yet.
WHAT STAYS CONSTANT
The challenge to move past performative sustainability toward strategies that are measurable, profitable, and actually transformative. Someone needs to tell your industry's specific truth, not just the sanitized version that fits nicely in your annual report.
Speaking topics that challenge everything you think you know
These are my signature talks that challenge conventional wisdom with data-driven insights.
Each keynote can be fine-tuned and customized for specific industries including food systems, textiles, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, materials, and energy sectors, drawing from my 20+ years of expertise across these industries.
Every industry has its unique sustainability challenges.
Every keynote delivers breakthrough insights tailored to your sector's specific opportunities.
AI: Sustainability savior or Silent threat?
Balancing innovation with responsibility
Is AI truly the answer to our sustainability challenges, or are we overlooking its hidden costs? This talk moves beyond the hype to address critical environmental, social, and business considerations.
I'll provoke thought, inspire action, and encourage a more holistic understanding of AI's role in creating a sustainable future, because someone needs to ask the uncomfortable questions.
Sustainable Leadership: When CSR Becomes Strategy (Not Green Decoration)
Is your CSR program actually driving change, or is it just expensive window dressing for investors?
This talk cuts through the corporate sustainability theater to expose what actually moves the needle.
This session isn't about feel-good sustainability stories. It's about the hard ROI of sustainable leadership, the measurable impact of inclusive teams, and why the companies that survive the next decade won't be the ones with the best AI, they'll be the ones with leaders brave enough to make different choices.
Because someone needs to say it: the real disruption isn't technological. It's having the guts to lead differently.
Forward Thinking: When Sustainable Innovation Becomes Real
Everyone loves talking about "sustainable innovation." But let's be honest: most initiatives are just press releases featuring solar panels and a vertical farm in the background.
Real forward thinkers don't chase trends, they rewrite the rules to create measurable environmental, social, and economic impact. Because sustainability that doesn't generate value always dies quietly, no matter how beautiful the marketing deck.
This talk exposes the gap between innovation theater and actual transformation, and provoke you to think differently about what moves us from pilot projects to planetary impact.
Why some solutions scale globally while others remain expensive experiments.
This session dissects what actually distinguishes visionaries from the crowd, and how their contrarian approach transforms sustainable innovation into something global, measurable, and impossible to ignore.
Innovate to Last: When Companies Transform Climate and Their Bottom Line
Let's be blunt: companies ignoring climate and social urgency aren't just bad corporate citizens, it is business malpractice. Regulators are circling, investors are pulling out, customers are switching brands, and your best talent is already updating their LinkedIn profiles.
Yet most boardrooms still treat sustainability like expensive charity work instead of what it actually is: survival strategy with a profit margin.
This talk challenges the myth that environmental action is a trade-off against performance. I'll show you why that's not just wrong, it's financially reckless. Reducing CO₂ isn't about appeasing activists; it's about operational efficiency that drops straight to your bottom line. Social innovation isn't HR window dressing; it's building teams that actually outthink and outperform homogeneous committees.
We'll explore how visionary companies don't just "adapt" to climate reality, they rewrite the playbook entirely.
Because here's the uncomfortable truth: sustainability isn't slowing down growth. It's the most powerful growth engine of the 21st century, if you're brave enough to actually use it instead of just talking about it.
Someone needs to say it: adapt or disappear.
Hidden Innovators: The Untold Stories That Shaped Our World
History loves its lone genius narrative. Einstein in his patent office, Newton under his apple tree. But here's the uncomfortable truth: behind nearly every "breakthrough" we celebrate, there are women whose contributions were erased, minimized, or outright stolen.
From space exploration to HIV research, drug safety to climate science, the real architects of progress were systematically written out of the story.
This isn't a feel-good diversity lecture. It's an interactive investigation into hwhy our mythologized version of "genius" is costing us solutions to today's biggest challenges.
You'll uncover the hidden figures whose insights transformed medicine, computing, and physics, then ask the question no one wants to answer: if we erased this much talent from history, how much are we still ignoring today?
Because here's what matters now: we're facing climate crisis, sustainability challenges, and technological disruption that demand breakthrough thinking. Yet we're still using the same broken innovation playbook that celebrated lone male geniuses while brilliant women did the actual work in obscurity.
Understanding who really drove human progress isn't just historical justice, it's unlocking how we solve problems in 2025.
Someone needs to tell the real story of innovation. And then challenge us to stop repeating the same expensive mistakes.