BSR Members Only
Date and Time
February 26, 2025
11:00 am-12:00 pm
EST
Location
Webinar
This event is for BSR members only. Members, please log in to register.
The sustainability landscape is evolving rapidly, with high-profile shortfalls, growing regulatory pressures, and heightened scrutiny posing challenges for business leaders and sustainability professionals. Companies now face the critical task of balancing ambitious long-term visions with realistic, credible commitments in this shifting environment.
Join BSR’s Business Transformation team for an interactive webinar to explore pressing questions from leaders on sustainability goal-setting and to discuss practical approaches for setting goals in a changed context.
This event will be held under Chatham House Rule.
Scheduled Speakers
- Margot Brent, Associate Director, Transformation, BSR
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- Measuring Biodiversity: Is e-DNA Part of Your Data Collection Kit? / August 1, 2024 / Blog
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- Christine Diamente, Managing Director, Transformation, BSR
- A Conversation with Mario Abreu / February 6, 2025 / Audio
- Corporate Sustainability Governance Fitness Test: Three Actions for Leaders / January 23, 2025 / Blog
- Sustainability Goal Setting: A New Chapter / January 21, 2025 / Insights+
- A Conversation with Darsh Myronidis, Group Director of Sustainability, Virgin / January 8, 2025 / Audio
- The Silent G: Six Questions Every Leadership Team Should Ask About Sustainability Governance / November 12, 2024 / Blog
- Laura Gitman, Chief Impact Officer, BSR
- Sustainability Goal Setting: A New Chapter / January 21, 2025 / Insights+
- CSOs Are All Business: The Role of the CSO in a New Context / January 9, 2025 / Blog
- Racing Past the Crossroads: How Sustainability Leaders Can Reassert Ambition / October 31, 2024 / Blog
- Frankly Speaking #59, Laura Gitman: Which Future for Sustainability Leadership in the Company? / October 30, 2024 / News
- The CSO at a Crossroads: Three Paths Forward for Sustainability Leaders / October 17, 2024 / Reports

Margot Brent
Associate Director, Transformation, BSR
London
Margot supports companies in sustainability management and the use of strategic foresight as part of BSR’s Sustainable Futures Lab. She also works with BSR members within the consumer sectors practice.
Margot also advises companies on climate change and women’s empowerment. Her experience spans sustainability management, climate risk and resilience, gender equality, communications, employee engagement, innovation management, and learning and development.
Prior to joining BSR, she was an innovation manager within the fashion and retail sourcing industry, enabling supply chain innovation and sustainability through design thinking and rapid prototyping approaches. Margot previously worked on climate change adaptation projects using nature-based solutions to enhance the resilience of vulnerable communities. She has worked on women’s empowerment programs both professionally and as a volunteer strategic advisor for The Women’s Foundation.
She holds a B.A. in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics and a B.Phil in Sustainable Development, both from the University of Stellenbosch.
Recent Insights From Margot Brent

Christine Diamente
Managing Director, Transformation, BSR
London
Christine leads BSR’s Business Transformation team, helping companies to manage sustainability throughout their business and across their supply chains and to develop resilient business strategies that leverage insights from BSR’s Sustainable Futures Lab.
She works with companies across sectors and geographies to structure a sustainability management approach that mitigates risk and captures emerging opportunities, creating strategic advantage for their businesses, while contributing to a more just, sustainable world. Christine also co-leads engagement with boards of directors to promote effective board governance and leadership ambition on sustainability.
She brings over 20 years of experience in leading brand, sustainability, public affairs, communications, and reputation management with multinational corporations at the executive leadership level. This also includes overseeing corporate relations with external stakeholders, such as the World Economic Forum, the UN, European institutions, and investors.
Previously, Christine was Head of Brand Strategy at Nokia. She has also held major roles at Alcatel-Lucent and Alcatel, leading Brand and Corporate Sustainability and European Affairs. Christine has also served on various boards, including as a chair of the Telecoms Industry Dialogue on human rights, as an advisory board member of Reuters Events Sustainability, as a member of the Alcatel-Lucent Foundation, and on the European Internet Foundation.
Christine holds a MA in History and a BA in History and International Politics from the University of Ottawa. She completed the Management Acceleration Program (MAP) at INSEAD, and she achieved the ESG Competent Boards Certificate and Global Competent Boards Designation (2021). She speaks English, French, Spanish, and Italian.
Recent Insights From Christine Diamente

Laura Gitman
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 the Center for Business and Social Justice, and 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.