Jeremy Schwartz is a business expert specialising in accelerating the performance of individuals and teams to profit from sustainability. As a former CEO and Managing Director with iconic consumer and retail companies including Coca-Cola, L’Oréal, The Body Shop, and Pandora, he delivers audiences valuable, actionable insights. Schwartz draws on his leadership roles, where he inspired teams to turn around Pandora and Sainsbury’s, and innovated sustainability initiatives that delivered over $20 billion in shareholder value. He combines this experience with foresight into the future of business.
Jeremy’s authority and reputation in sustainability stem from his roles as Chairman of Kantar’s Sustainability and Diversity Transformation practice, CEO of The Body Shop, host of the podcast Saving Tomorrow’s Planet, and over 20 years of delivering environmental and social ESG programmes. What makes him unique is his use of real-life stories to illustrate how to profit from sustainability, gain competitive advantage through sustainable initiatives, overcome stakeholder resistance, innovate profitably, and report transparently without greenwashing. As former CEO of The Body Shop, he oversaw its growth to 3,000 stores and 25 e-commerce sites across 90 countries, ultimately selling the company to Natura Brazil for $1 billion. As CEO of Pandora, he reversed declining sales and added €7 billion in shareholder value within just 20 months.
In addition, Jeremy is an expert on the future of leadership. Business leaders at all levels face the dual challenge of accelerating team performance while also profiting from sustainability, embracing AI, and remaining competitive in the face of disruptors. Jeremy provides world-class insights and actionable leadership tools to instil the mindsets and behaviours of market leaders. Examples include empowering teams to make decisions faster, overcoming self-limiting beliefs, stepping up as accountable leaders, and embracing sustainability as a source of competitive advantage.
With Jeremy’s extensive CEO experience, he tailors every speech to the client’s needs. His interactive approach engages audiences, from small groups to thousands, encouraging active participation and contribution throughout his talks. Champions Speakers are proud to represent Jeremy Schwartz as an official speaker agent.
Jeremy’s vision for the future has enabled him to anticipate key trends ahead of time. For example, he was commissioning sustainability strategies as early as 2005, and in 2018 authored and presented the BBC programme Retail’s AI Revolution, subsequently incorporating AI into Pandora’s transformation. He is currently publishing a book titled Act Fast & Get Things Done, which draws on lessons from turnarounds, tech companies, and AI to empower business leaders and their teams to act with greater speed and agility.
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."
How to hire Jeremy Schwartz
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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:
“Jeremy’s session was excellent. He nailed (and exceeded) the brief; he was very engaging and entertaining, and the content was highly insightful and actionable which is exactly what we were after. It was a great highlight to our event.” - COO, US Tech Company
“Jeremy’s session was absolutely awesome! Jeremy is a talented & very professional speaker, who really understood the message we wanted to convey. On top of that, it was a real pleasure to work & share insights with Jeremy in advance to prepare the final presentation.” - CEO Retail, German Car Company
"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
