Arnaud Blandin in discussion with executives at a seminar table
Speaking

Keynotes and executive talks

Talks for boards, investors and executive teams navigating sustainability, innovation, AI and long-term value creation — combining strategic frameworks, real business cases and clear executive language.

Eleven talks

Each one can be tailored to your audience and format

Sessions are adapted to your audience, event format and strategic priorities. What follows is the starting point, not the constraint.

Signature talks

Two questions every board faces: is it real, and is it worth it?

01
Evidence

Why your sustainability strategy is theatre — and how to make it real

A sharper, more contrarian session for audiences ready for an honest diagnosis of performative ESG and a practical path toward substance.

02
Value

Building the business case: quantifying sustainability ROI for sceptical boards

For executives who need to translate sustainability into financial language, board logic and decision-ready frameworks.

Also available

Nine further talks from the same body of work.

03

Regenerative capitalism: when impact creates value

The Seven Principles applied to a simple question: when does impact create value rather than cost? Most organisations measure activity and stay stuck in old mental frameworks. This keynote shows what changes when they measure the outcomes that matter. First given at the CEE4Impact Day in Budapest, October 2026.

04

The integration gap: why your ESG strategy is failing

Most companies still treat sustainability as an add-on or a reporting exercise. This keynote shows what changes when ESG is integrated at a systems level, and why that shift creates compounding business value.

05

From compliance to competitive advantage

A practical session for leaders who want to move beyond cost-centre thinking and use ESG requirements to strengthen market position, resilience and long-term value creation.

06

The measurement problem: why your sustainability metrics don’t inform strategy

Most companies measure what is easy, not what is strategically useful. How to build measurement systems that guide decisions rather than decorate reports.

07

AI and sustainability: leading to a new economy

The hard truth about where sustainability issues actually stand, what we can do about it, and where AI is genuinely an enabler rather than a claim.

08

Behavioural economics meets sustainability

How to design organisations so that sustainable behaviour becomes easier, more natural and more durable than command-and-control approaches.

09

Stop optimising for the wrong century

For leaders ready to rethink extractive models and explore what regenerative business architecture looks like in practice under planetary constraints.

10

Future-proofing strategy: identifying emerging patterns early

A methodology-driven talk on spotting strategic shifts before they hit the mainstream, and using pattern recognition as a source of competitive advantage.

11

Innovate and create value through impact

How organisations turn sustainability and impact into new sources of innovation, resilience and long-term business value.

Practicalities

Formats and audiences

Format

30–45 minute keynote, 45–60 minute keynote, fireside conversation, executive roundtable, board session or workshop. Adaptable for conferences, leadership retreats, investor events and internal executive programmes.

Typical audiences

Board members. Investors. C-suite executives. CFOs. CSOs. Strategy leaders. Innovation leaders. HR and culture teams. Executive education cohorts.

What audiences leave with

Every session is practical, intellectually rigorous and grounded in real operating experience. Audiences leave with sharper language, better frameworks and concrete ways to connect sustainability, innovation and business performance.

Recent stages

Where these conversations have happened

November 2026

INSEAD Centre for Entrepreneurship at JTC, Singapore

October 2026

Impact CEE, Budapest

Keynote at the CEE4Impact Day on the Seven Principles and how impact creates value once organisations measure the outcomes that matter, followed by a panel led by Edina Csanyi.

Green AI: reducing data and model footprints

At the World AI Cannes Festival, Arnaud led a session on minimising the environmental impact of AI — how reducing data and model footprints drives efficiency, lowers energy consumption, and lets innovation align with environmental responsibility rather than trade against it.

Is compassion relevant to the economy?

A conversation on the intersection of compassion and economic systems, alongside Sandrine Dixson-Declève, Co-President of the Club of Rome, and Mel Young, founder of the Homeless World Cup — examining how a compassionate approach reshapes resource distribution, the nature of work and social safety nets.

What organisers say

From the CEE4Impact Day, Budapest

Inviting you to be one of the keynote speakers at this year’s event was an excellent choice. The vision you have developed — along with the practical advice and thought-provoking ideas featured in your book — could truly lead to a better world, provided that European nations are able to commit to it together.
Impact CEE
Organiser, CEE4Impact Day, Budapest
We were extremely grateful for your presence during the CEE4Impact Day, as your keynote was amazing! You are definitely part of the impact ecosystem.
Nora Bogsch
Executive Secretary, THBE – Social Impact Investors’ Association
Next step

Tell me about your audience

The most useful brief describes who is in the room, what decision they are facing, and what you want to be different when they leave.