Business Transformation

Margot leads BSR’s strategy practice helping companies develop sustainable business strategies that drive innovation and build resilience leveraging insights from BSR’s Sustainable Futures Lab. She also works with BSR members within the consumer sectors practice.

Margot brings over 10 years’ experience in sustainability, futures thinking, design-thinking, innovation management and communications. Prior to BSR, Margot was an innovation and sustainability manager within the fashion and retail sourcing industry. She has also helped design and deliver climate resilience projects for UNEP and UNDP. She has extensive experience in sustainability topics ranging from climate justice, climate resilience, circularity, supply chain, women’s empowerment, nature-based solutions, community livelihoods and social impact. She has lived and worked across Africa, Asia Pacific and Europe.

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

• How Foresight Can Enhance Strategic Resilience in a Time of Turbulence / July 10, 2025 / Blog
• Material, but Not Always Strategic: Why the Difference Matters / June 26, 2025 / Blog
• Sustainability Goal Setting: A New Chapter / January 21, 2025 / Insights+
• Sustainability Strategy in the Age of Regulation: Don’t Lose the Plot / October 3, 2024 / Blog
• Between Two Worlds: Sustainable Business in the Turbulent Transition / September 19, 2024 / Reports

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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

• ESRS Revisions Mark a Turning Point Toward Principle-Based Reporting, With Open Questions / September 23, 2025 / Insights+
• Ten Lessons on Developing Effective Sustainability Strategies / August 5, 2025 / Blog
• Beyond the Business Case Debate: Reasserting the Strategic Value of Sustainability / July 30, 2025 / Insights+
• EU Omnibus: It’s Time to Shift Focus from Compliance to Impact / March 10, 2025 / Insights+
• Beyond International Women’s Day: Enduring Actions for Global Business in a Turbulent Time / March 5, 2025 / Blog

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Nina works with BSR member companies across industries, on climate topics such as climate scenarios, TCFD, and decarbonization and net zero transformation.

Nina also works with companies across industries on developing robust sustainability strategies and conducting materiality assessments, among other topics.

Prior to joining BSR, Nina worked with a mission-driven consumer products company that makes menstrual products for women. There, she helped to create a long-term strategy to establish its leadership in sustainability, social impact, and health. In her early career, Nina worked at an environmental health advocacy firm in Maine and collaborated with industry leaders to remove harmful chemicals from food products. She also worked at a landscape architecture firm, promoting climate resilience through parks in New York City. 

Nina holds a Master of Environmental Management from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, a Master of Public Health in Environmental Health Sciences from the Yale School of Public Health, and a B.A. in Environmental Policy from Colby College.

Recent Insights From Nina Hatch

• Decarbonization Lever Library: Mapped Sectoral Transition Pathways / November 4, 2025 / Reports
• Extreme Heat, Floods, and Supply Chain Shocks: How to Future-Proof Your Manufacturing Operations / June 11, 2025 / Blog
• 1.5°C Targets: The Business Case for a Climate Transition Plan / May 30, 2024 / Blog
• The Case for SEC-Mandated Climate and ESG Disclosure / June 17, 2021 / Blog
• Five Steps to Good Sustainability Reporting / November 18, 2020 / Reports

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Jacob leads BSR’s Sustainable Futures Lab, a new practice using strategic foresight techniques to help businesses engage with emerging issues that are reshaping the global landscape.

Before joining BSR, Jacob was the lead futurist in the New York office of Forum for the Future, where he used scenario planning and other futures techniques to develop sustainability strategy and drive innovation for leading businesses, foundations, and multistakeholder groups. Prior to that he worked at Adaptive Edge, a boutique strategic foresight consultancy, on collaborative scenario planning. Jacob began his career doing human rights research and advocacy at Human Rights First and the Center for Economic and Social Rights. He speaks English and French.

Jacob holds an M.B.A. in Sustainability from Presidio Graduate School and a B.A. in History from the University of Chicago. 

Recent Insights From Jacob Park

• How Foresight Can Enhance Strategic Resilience in a Time of Turbulence / July 10, 2025 / Blog
• Between Two Worlds: Sustainable Business in the Turbulent Transition / September 19, 2024 / Reports
• Navigating US Election Uncertainty: A Call to Action for Sustainable Business / July 16, 2024 / Insights+
• Applying a Future Lens to AI / June 4, 2024 / Audio
• Beyond 2025: Setting Credible Sustainability Goals for Long-Term Impact / April 16, 2024 / Blog

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Nine leads BSR’s double materiality practice, working closely with companies to translate regulatory requirements and stakeholder expectations into clear, decision-useful outcomes.

She supports organizations across sectors on sustainability strategy development, including goal-setting, governance, and integration into core business processes, with a particular focus on financial services. Her work helps companies prioritize the most significant sustainability risks and opportunities and connect strategy, reporting, and implementation in a practical and credible way.

Prior to joining BSR, Nine worked in PwC’s sustainability services practice, advising multinational companies on sustainability strategies and performance. Her experience includes supporting organizations in integrating the Sustainable Development Goals into business strategy, as well as auditing social and environmental data. Nine is a One Young World ambassador and brings a strong analytical and collaborative approach to advancing impactful and accountable sustainability practices.

Nine holds an M.Sc. in Food Safety Law from Wageningen University and an L.L.M. in Law from the University of Amsterdam. She wrote her master’s thesis at the University of Cape Town, focusing on food innovations for local farmers.

Recent Insights From Nine Weijenborg

• ESRS Revisions Mark a Turning Point Toward Principle-Based Reporting, With Open Questions / September 23, 2025 / Insights+
• Ten Lessons on Developing Effective Sustainability Strategies / August 5, 2025 / Blog
• How Foresight Can Enhance Strategic Resilience in a Time of Turbulence / July 10, 2025 / Blog
• Material, but Not Always Strategic: Why the Difference Matters / June 26, 2025 / Blog
• The Impact of Mandatory Sustainability Reporting on Corporate Functions / September 11, 2024 / Blog

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