From Pilots to Future-Fit Business Models

September 24, 2026

Authors

Julie Dugard

Associate Director, Climate and Nature, BSR
Julie Dugard

Associate Director, Climate and Nature, BSR

Paris

Julie serves as Manager of BSR’s Climate team, where she brings over 10 years of experience in corporate sustainability and climate action and supports BSR members with their climate strategies.

After joining BSR in 2021, Julie worked on multiple projects helping companies implementing TCFD recommendations, conducting climate scenario analysis (for the tech, financial and insurance industry), accelerating Net Zero transition, implementing just transition approaches (extractive industry) and scope 3 strategies (consumer goods sector). Since 2023, Julie manages BSR grant-funded work dedicated to Climate Transition Plans.

Julie is also co-developing BSR’s work on alternative business models addressing the tension between business growth and sustainability targets.

Prior to joining BSR, Julie worked in Mazars’s sustainability services and risk practice, where she audited and advised companies on their ESG data and internal audit, control and risk approaches. During her time within Mazars, Julie also spent six months at the Mexico City office.

Julie holds a master’s degree in business from Kedge Business School and spent one semester at the University of Nottingham and another one at the University of Technology of Sydney. She speaks French, English, and Spanish.

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Giulio Berruti

Managing Director, Climate and Nature, BSR
Giulio Berruti

Managing Director, Climate and Nature, BSR

Copenhagen

Giulio brings over 15 years of expertise in advancing corporate climate and nature work. A member of BSR’s leadership team, he leads the Climate & Nature team strategy and works with BSR members across advisory services, collaborative initiatives, and grants implementation.

Giulio oversees BSR’s work on the future of climate action in an evolving landscape, the application of Futures and Foresight work to Climate & Nature topics, and new business models that create business value while advancing people and planet goals. Since joining BSR in 2018, he has focused on targets, strategies, and transition plans; climate risk and adaptation; value chains, including Scope 3 implementation through supplier engagement; business model transformation; and nature-based solutions strategies with social integrity.

He brings deep knowledge of the climate and nature ecosystem and landscape, having supported the development of the first SBTi Net Zero Standard as a member of the Expert Advisory Group. He also led and supported the development of widely used open-source guidance, such as the 1.5°C Supplier Engagement Guide, Transform to Net Zero, and Climate Fit.

Prior to joining BSR, Giulio spent seven years with EcoAct between France and Kenya, focusing on climate advisory work on GHG mitigation, target setting and climate strategies, climate risk assessments, and carbon offset project development.

Giulio holds an MS in Sustainability from HEC Paris School of Management. He also holds a double degree MS in Management and Industrial Engineering and a double degree BS in Technology and International Business from Politecnico di Torino and UIC Barcelona.

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Lauren Meadow

Future Fit Business Lead, US, Forum for the Future
Lauren Meadow

Future Fit Business Lead, US, Forum for the Future

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Evgenia Kyanova

Sustainability Strategist, Forum for the Future
Evgenia Kyanova

Sustainability Strategist, Forum for the Future

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Businesses increasingly recognize that "sustainability as usual" is no longer enough. Climate change, nature loss, resource constraints, economic volatility, and shifting customer expectations are exposing the limitations of traditional business models. Yet, many promising sustainability innovations remain trapped in pilot phase, unable to influence core strategy or achieve meaningful scale.

BSR and Forum for the Future's new report, From Pilots to Future-Fit Business Models, explores what it takes to move beyond experimentation and scale business models that create commercial value while supporting people and planet. Drawing on interviews with leading businesses across diverse sectors, the report identifies ten practical responses that can help organizations build resilience, unlock innovation, and create long-term value, and provides real-life examples of companies already testing and implementing future-fit approaches.

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