Quarterly Member Insights: What’s Shaping Sustainable Business in Q1 2026

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Webinar

February 11, 2026

11 am - 12 pm EST

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Stay ahead of emerging sustainable business trends with insights and analysis on the critical economic, geopolitical, regulatory, and market developments shaping the quarter ahead from BSR. Our Quarterly Member Insights webinar, and accompanying report, are designed to help your business to navigate the short-term shocks and enduring changes shaping our world with strategic foresight.

The webinar is open to all employees of BSR member companies. We encourage you to invite colleagues across your company to learn, engage, and take full advantage of BSR’s member benefits.

Scheduled Speakers

Laura Gitman, Chief Impact Officer, BSR

Chief Impact Officer, BSR

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 BSR’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 BSR’s Collaborative Initiatives and Membership, and is a recognized thought leader and innovator in strategic business.

She has been an instrumental leader in BSR’s organizational growth and impact. She launched BSR’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 Sustainability 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, Business Transformation, BSR

Managing Director, Business Transformation, BSR

New York

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

Having previously led BSR'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 BSR’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 ESG for emerging public companies and responsible investment policies for private equity firms.

Before joining BSR, David worked in strategy and management consulting at Bain & Company.

David holds a BA in History from Amherst College.

Recent Insights From David Korngold

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Richard Wingfield, Director, Responsible Tech, BSR

Director, Responsible Tech, BSR

London

Richard co-leads BSR's Responsible Technology, working with companies that develop and use technology to build human rights considerations and practices into their products, services, and policies. He brings a strong understanding of international human rights law and standards and how to translate the corporate responsibility to respect human rights into practice for companies of different sizes and sectors.

Richard is particularly experienced in supporting companies with their regulatory requirements where these touch upon human rights considerations, and has worked with many companies undertaking risk assessments required by the EU's Digital Services Act and UK's Online Safety Act.

Prior to joining BSR, Richard led the legal and policy team at Global Partners Digital, an international human rights organization focused on the impacts of digital technologies on human rights.

Richard holds a LLB in Law and European Law from the University of Nottingham and is a qualified lawyer in England and Wales.