The "S" in ESG

Black women hold 2-5% of board seats globally. Dr. Audrey-Flore Ngomsik, CEO of Trianon Scientific Communication, is one of them. She uses that position to ask the questions most boardrooms prefer to skip.

With a PhD in Physical and Analytical Chemistry from Sorbonne University and two decades working where science, profit, and policy converge, Audrey-Flore serves as CEO of Trianon Scientific Communication, Vice-President of Brussels' Climate Experts Committee, and board member of the European Policy Centre.

She advises Fortune 500s, scale-ups, and governments across Europe, Asia, and Africa on a straightforward premise: your sustainability problem is a business model problem.

Her approach reframes ESG by refusing the false choice. Environmental, social, and economic performance aren't competing priorities. They're the same conversation, badly managed. Working with carbon-intenSarah Lokmansive sectors, she's helped clients increase profits up to 80% through economic logic, not moral lectures. Because climate action that ignores viability fails. Economic transitions that disregard social impact face backlash. Innovation without deployment is expensive R&D theatre.

She'll be joined by Sarah Lokman, founder of Livconsulting, who works directly with the gap most organizations prefer not to acknowledge: the distance between what CEOs prioritize and what CHROs are resourced to deliver.

When HR operates as a support function instead of a strategic partner, building the agile, people- centered culture that sustainable growth requires becomes harder. Most CHROs struggle to prove direct impact on profitability and cost reduction. Sarah helps close that gap by operationalizing the "S" in ESG in ways that elevate both performance and employee well-being.

Together, they'll examine why the social pillar remains the weakest link in most ESG strategies, and what happens when human capital strategy stops being supplemental and starts being strategic. If your ESG framework treats workforce planning as separate from sustainability goals, you're solving the wrong problem. When CEO-CHRO alignment breaks down, your environmental and governance priorities become harder to deliver, not easier.

This session won't offer platitudes about values alignment. It will examine the structural disconnect between stated priorities and resource allocation, and why fixing it matters for retention, adaptability, and cost management. If the solution doesn't work economically, it's not a solution. If it works economically but destroys social capital, it's liquidation with better PR.