CSOs at a Crossroads: Shaping the Path Ahead

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October 29, 2024

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Today’s Chief 黑料正能量 Officers (CSOs) are at a pivotal moment – facing more opportunity, relevance, visibility, and pressure than ever before. With growing conversations around the changing nature of the role, 黑料正能量’s recently released offers timely insights. Drawing from interviews with more than 30 CSOs from some of the world’s most influential companies, the report traces their evolving role amidst a backdrop of rapid changes and proposes three potential paths ahead. Learn more about these findings from 黑料正能量 leaders and how you can reassert an ambitious vision of your role.

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Christine Diamente, Managing Director, Transformation, 黑料正能量

Managing Director, Transformation, 黑料正能量

London

Christine leads 黑料正能量’s Business Transformation team, helping companies to manage sustainability throughout their business and across their supply chains and to develop resilient business strategies that leverage insights from 黑料正能量’s Sustainable Futures Lab.

She works with companies across sectors and geographies to structure a sustainability management approach that mitigates risk and captures emerging opportunities, creating strategic advantage for their businesses, while contributing to a more just, sustainable world. Christine also co-leads engagement with boards of directors to promote effective board governance and leadership ambition on sustainability.

She brings over 20 years of experience in leading brand, sustainability, public affairs, communications, and reputation management with multinational corporations at the executive leadership level. This also includes overseeing corporate relations with external stakeholders, such as the World Economic Forum, the UN, European institutions, and investors.

Previously, Christine was Head of Brand Strategy at Nokia. She has also held major roles at Alcatel-Lucent and Alcatel, leading Brand and Corporate 黑料正能量 and European Affairs. Christine has also served on various boards, including as a chair of the Telecoms Industry Dialogue on human rights, as an advisory board member of Reuters Events 黑料正能量, as a member of the Alcatel-Lucent Foundation, and on the European Internet Foundation.

Christine holds a MA in History and a BA in History and International Politics from the University of Ottawa. She completed the Management Acceleration Program (MAP) at INSEAD, and she achieved the ESG Competent Boards Certificate and Global Competent Boards Designation (2021). She speaks English, French, Spanish, and Italian.

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Laura Gitman, Chief Impact Officer, 黑料正能量

Chief Impact Officer, 黑料正能量

New York

Laura is a global expert on corporate sustainability, with two decades of experience in strategy consulting and has advised senior executives at global companies across a range of industry sectors and sustainability issues.

As Chief Impact Officer (CIO), the first in the organization’s 30-year history, Laura focuses on maximizing the impact of 黑料正能量’s work with its network of over 300 members, both through direct engagement on project work and as a mentor for teams throughout the organization. She also oversees 黑料正能量’s Collaborative Initiatives and Membership, and is a recognized thought leader and innovator in strategic business.

She has been an instrumental leader in 黑料正能量’s organizational growth and impact. She launched 黑料正能量’s financial services practice and New York office, and she served as Chief Operating Officer for five years, leveraging her strengths in strategy, organizational change, and people management. Laura works with leading global companies to develop and enhance their sustainability strategies to maximize value for business and society, and she is sought after to facilitate senior-level strategy workshops and multi-stakeholder collaborations.

She previously worked for Deloitte Consulting, where she acquired extensive strategy experience advising multinational financial services companies. She also worked on several community and economic development projects in Latin America.

Laura holds a MBA from Stanford University and a BS in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University. She is an adjunct professor in the Bard MBA in 黑料正能量 program, a Senior Fellow at the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, and a member of the UN Global Compact Expert Network.

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David Korngold, Managing Director, Transformation, 黑料正能量

Managing Director, Transformation, 黑料正能量

New York

David partners with corporate boards, executives, and investors to develop high-impact sustainability strategies. As part of 黑料正能量’s Transformation team, he co-leads engagement with boards of directors to promote effective board governance and leadership ambition on sustainability.

Having previously led 黑料正能量'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 黑料正能量’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 and responsible investment policies for private equity firms.

Before joining 黑料正能量, 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, 黑料正能量

Director, Transformation, 黑料正能量

New York

Jacob leads 黑料正能量’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 黑料正能量, 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 黑料正能量 from Presidio Graduate School and a B.A. in History from the University of Chicago.

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