Turn sustainability into profit
Dr Audrey-Flore Ngomsik
From Paris Sorbone Labs to Boardrooms
Sustainability is not
a "nice to have"
Done strategically, it unlocks growth, protects margins, and strengthens your market position. Whether your organization is just starting its sustainability journey or looking to deepen an advanced strategy, Dr. Audrey-Flore Ngomsik makes sustainability understandable, actionable, and inspiring.
Why chose Dr Ngomsik
for your event?
As a conference organizer, you need a
speaker who can:
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Show why sustainability matters today, with science-backed insights your audience can relate to.
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Translate sustainability into practical business decisions, connecting strategy, sector realities, leadership priorities, and measurable P&L impact.
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Inspire immediate action, giving delegates tools and ideas they can apply right away, whatever their level of experience.
Every keynote is tailored to your company and audience, ensuring relevance, engagement, and impact.
"Dr. Ngomsik’s knowledge, expertise, and ability to communicate complex ideas through clear, relatable anecdotes are always on full display. An obviously talented speaker.”
"Audrey-Flore is an outstanding speaker: intelligent, captivating, funny, and committed! How can you not be hooked to her lips when Audrey-Flore speaks?"
ABOUT
Dr Audrey-Flore Ngomsik
She inspires leaders to see sustainability not as a constraint, but as the next level of performance.
Most consultants tell you what's wrong.
Most scientists tell you what's possible.
Most policy experts tell you what's coming.
Dr Ngomsik is the rare professional who tells you what transforms industries with the data to back it up.
She started working
on environmental &
social challenges
when people were
still scared of the word
"SUSTAINABILITY"
HER VALUE PROPOSITION
She identifies opportunities invisible to traditional approaches.
Her international experience, from Europe to Asia and Africa, gives her unmatched insight into multicultural and sectoral sustainability challenges. Her clients see results: up to 80% profit increases and better decision-making from diverse leadership teams.
A TEDx speaker and climate advisor to governments, she translates scientific complexity into actionable, engaging narratives, using humor to break resistance and provoke fresh thinking.
“Your problem may not be sustainability. But the solution? It is.”
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
Think of me as your sustainability translator: I speak fluent Science, Business, and Policy, and I can teach your organization to speak all three
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.
03
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.
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.
Signature key notes
Designed to captivate and inspire, these talks focus on strategic insights and transformative ideas. Ideal for C-suite executives, leadership forums, and large conferences.
Topics include:
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.
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.
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 transforms sustainable innovation into something global, measurable, and impossible to ignore.
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.
We'll explore how visionary companies don't just "adapt" to climate reality, they rewrite the playbook entirely.
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 why 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?
These keynotes combine storytelling, humor, and data to deliver a message your audience will remember, and act on.
Sector focused keynotes
For organizations seeking in-depth, scientific & actionable knowledge tailored to their industry
(food, pharma, cometics, textiles, materials, energy).
C.S.R is here to stay
Is circular economy THE answer for more sustainability ?
Sustainable innovations
How to enhance a more sustainable cosmetics industry?
Regenerative sustainability
Sustainable food & farming
Decolonising sustainability
Become an authentic and useful ally for DEI
A disability inclusive transition to a low carbon economy
The link between CSR, ESG and SDG
The return on investment on social sustainability
Rethinking leadership for a sustainable future
Ideal for internal teams, strategy sessions, and executive training, these sessions transform complex scientific concepts into practical tools for decision-making.