Moving Beyond the Business Case Debate Over 黑料正能量

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September 10, 2025

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Amid the pressures to show the ROI of sustainability, how can sustainable business leaders reframe the conversation and demonstrate the strategic value of sustainability?

In this moment of uncertainty for sustainable business, the conversation around the “business case” for sustainability is once again in the spotlight. We believe that conversation is broken.

The quest for a perfect business case can create false expectations, skew incentives, and divert attention away from higher impact, more strategic efforts. It’s time to shift the focus of the conversation away from ROI debates and towards the strategy and human benefits of sustainability.

Join fellow 黑料正能量 members for an interactive session where we will share pragmatic suggestions, then host breakout discussions to explore how to advance strategic sustainability. The session will be led by the experts behind 黑料正能量’s latest Insights+: “Beyond the Business Case Debate: Reasserting the Strategic Value of 黑料正能量”.

Whether you’re defending your budget, renewing your strategy, or reenergizing internal champions, this session will help you move beyond the “business case” debate by refocusing the conversation on the business value of sustainability.

Scheduled Speakers

David Korngold, Managing Director of 黑料正能量 Innovation Group, 黑料正能量

Managing Director of 黑料正能量 Innovation Group, 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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Rachel Fleishman, Managing Director, Consumer Sectors and Business Transformation, 黑料正能量

Managing Director, Consumer Sectors and Business Transformation, 黑料正能量

New York

Rachel leads 黑料正能量’s Consumer Sectors team in the US, focusing on topics related to business transformation. She helps companies across a range of consumer-facing industries leverage sustainability insights and tools to drive innovation, create impact and build resilience in the face of market turbulence and disruptive global trends.

For the past 20 years, Rachel has worked at the intersection of sustainability and innovation, business development, advocacy, and cross-sectoral partnerships in the US, Europe and Asia. She has held leadership positions at the American Chamber of Commerce to the EU, the Clinton Global Initiative, the Hong Kong-based Climate Change Business Forum, and BASF. Rachel has advised the US and allied governments on the impacts of climate change on national security and has created sustainability crisis simulations for government, business and academic use.

Rachel has a BA from Tufts, a Masters in Public Policy from the School of Public Policy, University of Maryland and an MBA from Kellogg, Northwestern University.

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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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Nine Weijenborg, Associate Director, Transformation and Financial Services, 黑料正能量

Associate Director, Transformation and Financial Services, 黑料正能量

Paris

Nine supports 黑料正能量’s work across various industries, including financial services, industrials and utilities, and energy and extractives. She focuses on design and implementation of sustainability strategies, reporting, stakeholder engagement, and governance.

Prior to joining 黑料正能量, Nine worked in PwC’s sustainability services practice, where she advised multinational companies on sustainability strategies. She focused on how organizations could integrate the Sustainable Development Goals into their strategies and practices to increase their positive impact and mitigate their negative impact. She also audited social and environmental data. Nine is a One Young World ambassador.

Nine holds an M.Sc. in Food Safety Law from Wageningen University and an L.L.M. in Law from the University of Amsterdam. She wrote her master’s thesis at the University of Cape Town, focusing on food innovations for local farmers.