Jeremy Schwartz is an expert in innovation, management and sustainability having held senior roles at some of the world’s biggest brands including Coca-Cola and L’Oréal, renowned for fusing sustainability with commercialism. As a speaker, he offers businesses the opportunity to improve their brand, while putting sustainability and innovation at the heart of what they do. Jeremy's insightful speeches shed light on how organisations can put the protection of the environment at the core of their operations without forfeiting profitability, backed by his credibility as the Founder & CEO of Maxius Advisory ESG.
Jeremy graduated from the University of Cambridge after completing a degree at the University of Sheffield. He then moved into the world of business and was named Marketing Director of L’Oréal in 1992. During his five years with the health care brand, he relaunched the ‘Because I’m worth it’ slogan and established it worldwide. In 1997 he became Director of Innovation and Marketing at Coca-Cola. While in this position he created Coke Black, which over time has evolved to be Coca-Cola Zero and became a $5billion product. Jeremy’s career continued to progress and in 2002 he was tasked with halting a 10-year decline as Director of Brand Marketing at Sainsbury’s. Tackling the challenge head-on he delivered a 5% growth in sales for the 2005 financial year and set the platform for the business to experience 20 continuous quarters of growth and recruit six million new customers.
Continuing in the food industry, he became the CEO of The Sauce Co. He achieved award-winning success as the company was the Best New Supermarket Brand and Best Chilled Soup in the Supermarket Quality Food Awards, Winner of the Grocer. Branded Excellence Award. He held this role while holding a position on the Board of Trustees of The Against Malaria Foundation. Over 10 years after leaving the company he became Managing Director of L’Oréal. Again, as he has done throughout his career Jeremy experienced great success. He drove the company forward to become the number one cosmetic company in the UK after 30 years of being number two or three. He has also been the CEO of The Body Shop, where he launched the Enrich Not Exploit campaign, the companies promise to support a greener more sustainable planet. He was also largely responsible for making 100% of the products vegan, creating incomes for indigenous people and protecting endangered rainforests. The success of the business saw it win the World Retail Awards for Responsible Retailer. In 2018 he was named Joint CEO of Pandora and oversaw a £145million cost-saving programme and boosted the brand's sales. More recently he became the Chairman of Sustainability and Inclusion at Kantar, Senior Advisor for McKinsey Business Transformation and Non-Executive Director of Revolution Beauty.
Available to hire as a speaker, Jeremy Schwartz’s wide range of experience means he can turn his hand to pretty much anything business-related. Be it leadership, innovation, sustainability or getting your team ready for its next big push, Jeremy brings knowledge and real-world examples in informative and engaging discussions that every business audience would benefit from.
Recently, Jeremy was included in the selection of the Sales Kick Off Events Top 18 Keynote Speakers To Inspire Your Workforce - a testament to his expertise as a businessman and his ability to transform organisations on a global scale.
Reviews
Jeremy Schwartz received a 5 star rating across 10 events in 2023
Agent Recommendation
"Jeremy Schwartz is a distinguished sustainability and business speaker, whose vast expertise in innovation and management is invaluable. His unique approach seamlessly integrates sustainability with commercial success. Engaging and informative, Jeremy empowers businesses to embrace eco-friendly practices while bolstering profitability, drawing from a rich background with top brands like Coca-Cola and L’Oréal."
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Jeremy Schwartz's official speaking topics are listed below:
Make Your Organisational Purpose Count:
Are you struggling to create a memorable purpose and see it align, inspire and mobilise, your employees into action every day? Purpose is a driver for High-Performance Organisations (HPO). As an expert speaker on Organisational Purpose, get Jeremy to help you become a celebrated company that makes every word of their organisational purpose count every day.
Profit from Sustainability Consultancy:
Do you want to know how your company can take a leadership role, mobilise employees and create new profitable business models to save the planet? Let Jeremy's extensive sustainability experience and expertise help you to innovate, and then migrate, your business models from the existing to the new.
Innovate To Inspire Consumers:
Do your teams need to spend less time on internal meetings and more outward focus on the consumer? Use Jeremy's Customer Obsession/CX systems and experience, to help you be inspired to reach out, listen and act on the needs of potential consumers to ignite faster growth, and build your brands. Gain years of advantage regarding Customer Service/CX and Customer Obsession Strategies to build your brand equity.
New Mindsets Makes Culture:
Creating a winning fearless mindset is very achievable because every employee knows exactly what that feels and looks like. Have your eyes opened to the new one-mindset-at-a-time way to nurture a better culture and unleash PURPOSE. Inspire your leadership teams to higher performance, and build internal brand equity with Jeremy's Inspirational leadership talks and proven Customer Service strategies.
Everyone's a Leader Now:
Let's re-brand Middle Managers as Middle Leaders and seek out, listen and empower those employees of any age or level who can step up and contribute. Find out how to mobilise great talent across an organisation and remove the saboteurs spoiling the leader's strategies and plans. Enhance culture and organisational purpose. Jeremy is an inspiring leadership speaker who has created high-performance teams and enhanced customer obsession.
Innovate the Way We Work:
Can you see how people working together from different functions, cultures and beliefs, will create better results faster than if they don't? Find out how to rapidly craft more sustainable structures and embrace new ways of working, to create high-performance workplace cultures that deliver exceptional customer service, and build stronger brands and organisational sustainability.
Official Feedback from In-Person & Virtual Events
Feedback from In-Person Events:
"Thanks to Jeremy’s wake-up call we upgraded our merchandising expertise and he gave us the good kick we needed to launch a new range of sustainable packaging – not at the pace Jeremy would expect but he inspired us to get moving." - Craig, Vice President Global Frontline, Wella Professionals
"His ability to communicate the unvarnished truth about a business with charm and insightfulness, accelerated progress around our key decisions by 12 months at least." - Charles, Global CEO, Interbrand
"I thought Jeremy was fantastic and the team were really inspired by his talk and presentation. He brought a lot of energy, points to ponder and tools to use. It was really great" - Paul, MD, HSO
"It went really well with Jeremy, he did a very good job. His session was appreciated as it was crisp, full of real life and experience examples, which made him very authentic, and also the fact that he knew our industry and really did some research on our business made it very impactful." - Cotyinc
"Thank you for your brilliant sustainability presentation which really struck a chord, as you could tell from the lively discussion. You balanced high-level views with practical insights to perfection, and obviously, you did lots of homework in advance." - Christian, Managing Partner, Carnstone
"Jeremy made our clients and my team braver together to create successful new digital campaigns." - Juliet, Founder, Cheetah Digital
"We were very happy with Jeremy Schwartz and he was well received by the team and our CEOs. His messages were on point with the overall content of the conference." - Tapestry
- 2023 - Keynote Speaker at the Eden Project for Anthropy23
- 2022 - Founder & CEO of Maxius Advisory ESG
- 2021 - Non-Executive Director of Revolution Beauty
- 2021 - Chairman of Sustainability & Inclusion Transformation Practice for Kantar
- 2021 - Commercial & Marketing Director of Terra Firma Capital Partners
- 2020 - Senior Advisor of McKinsey Business Transformation Practice for McKinsey & Company
- 2018 - Interim CEO of Pandora
- 2013 - Chairman and CEO of The Body Shop
- 2010 - Managing Director L'Oreal UK
- 2004 - Founding Trustee Member for The Against Malaria Foundation
- 2002 - Director of Brand Marketing at Sainsbury's
- 1997 - Director of Innovation & Marketing at the Coca-Cola Company
- 1992 - Marketing Director of L'Oreal