Keynotes: where business meets sustainability
Earth on Board delivers powerful keynotes, drawing on best practices across sectors and our global project and training experience.
Straight Talk from a former top executive
A frank exchange with one of your peers, board member and former Deputy CEO of Alstom
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Your speaker : Philippe Joubert
Philippe Joubert, a Franco-Brazilian, spent 25 years in Brazil and the USA working in the banking and energy sectors. After returning to Europe, he held key positions, including President of Alstom's Energy divisions and Deputy CEO of the Group, leading the turnaround of Alstom Power and playing a significant role in the strategic evolution of the company.
Founder of Earth on Board, he is a global leader committed to integrating sustainability at the core of business strategy, raising awareness and training boards of directors and executive committees to embrace the responsibilities and leadership granted to them by laws and good governance practices.
He is or has been a non-executive member of various boards of directors and advisory committees of publicly listed companies in Europe, Brazil, Singapore, and Africa. He advises CEOs and Chairs of boards of major international companies on the profound changes required to genuinely address sustainable development challenges.
Top keynotes
Business as usual
is dead
A brief overview of the ongoing transformations of the Earth system (climate change in its current and future disruptions, pollution, biodiversity loss) and of their consequences for the context in which companies operate. The growing influence of environmental considerations among various stakeholders.
The concrete implications of these changes for corporate business models: new risks, market opportunities/transformations, the behaviour of financial resources, and talent attractiveness.
Shaping Tomorrow’s Business Models :
What makes a winner ?
​We will explore the new political and institutional environment influencing the economy at large and how these changes will create winners and losers, making clear that being among the front-movers is safer than being among the laggards in the transformation ahead. We would also discuss what are some key features that makes winning companies in this transformation.
A Fresh Look at the Board’s Role and Responsibilities in a Shifting World
In the face of today’s environmental and social disruptions, the role of the board is evolving — and fast. Guiding a company through this transformation is no longer just about oversight: it’s about long-term stewardship, purpose, and impact.
We will revisit the board’s specific duties to defend the company’s interests and how these translate into concrete governance practices.
Water, Energy, Food: Managing Strategic Interdependence
The NEXUS shows the interdependence of water, land, and energy: pressure on one disrupts the whole system.
Today, climate change drives unprecedented stress. States will face tough trade-offs, and businesses will only secure resources by proving collective value, efficiency, and respect for planetary boundaries.
Resilience of the company and its ecosystem
We have opened a Pandora’s box of novel, systemic, and hard-to-quantify threats. In a disrupted system, the past offers no guidance. These interconnected risks reinforce one another, creating constellations of disruption.
Boards must focus on what truly needs protection and build organizational resilience: respond to the unpredictable through flexibility and redundancy, shift from rigid financial planning to scenario planning, and recognise that resilience is collective — companies survive only within resilient ecosystems.
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Yasotha K.R Gopal, Kuala Lumpur
​CGM Global Summit Oct 2025
"Resilience"
«Thank you Earth on Board. Philippe Joubert's session was an eye-opener full of hard-hit facts which provided clear guidance on what we should be doing responsibly. »
Marie Marchand-Pilard, Paris
EpE Sept 25
"Business as usual” is legally dangerous ?
« Many thanks to Philippe Joubert and Earth on Board for this very insightful presentation, which highlighted the growing and important role of legal departments in supporting Boards on environmental issues.»
Anne Bain, Clichy
« Un bon témoignage peut booster l'image de votre marque. Cliquez pour modifier et ajouter le vôtre. »
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