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Jeremy Schwartz    

Founder & CEO at Maxius Advisory ESG; Former CEO of The Body Shop & Former Marketing Director of Coca Cola

Jeremy Schwartz is a former CEO and MD of some of the world's most iconic brands, including The Body Shop, Pandora, and L’Oréal UK, as well as serving as Marketing Director for Coca-Cola Europe and Sainsbury's Supermarkets. He started his career at The Boston Consulting Group.

Known for his leadership roles at Coca-Cola, where he contributed to the invention of Coke Zero generating substantial revenue, Schwartz's notable career achievements include spearheading successful turnarounds at Pandora and The Body Shop, collectively enhancing shareholder value by over $20 billion. Since 2002, he has integrated sustainability initiatives into business models to drive profitability and positive societal and environmental impacts. His leadership expanded during his tenure as CEO of The Body Shop and continues in his current role as Chairman of Kantar's Sustainability practice. Under his guidance, Kantar has been recognized by Forbes as one of the world's leading sustainability consultancies, growing from a startup to $150 million in two years with clients like Google, Unilever, and Diageo.

In addition to his sustainability work, Schwartz leads Maxius Advisory ESG, a consultancy aiding CEOs and leadership teams in the property, construction, and manufacturing sectors in Europe and the US to implement sustainable solutions through AI-led innovation. He also delivers keynotes on a range of topics including leadership, digital and AI transformation, and consumer engagement. Known for his dynamic speaking style, Schwartz has been impactful at various international forums, including the No Bullsh*t! event focused on corporate responsibility. He is also an avid mountaineer, which complements his professional expertise in leadership and team motivation.

Speech Topics

Make your Purpose Count

Employees, consumers and investors want to engage companies with an inspiring, authentic purpose that guides their actions.

Are you struggling to create a memorable purpose and see it align, inspire and mobilise your employees into action every day?

Become a celebrated company who makes every word of their purpose count every day.

Profit from Sustainability

A tipping point has been met with Investors, Governments and Innovators, led by Tesla, putting a value and urgency on sustainable business actions being placed at the top of the agenda.

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?

Find out how to innovate and then migrate your business models from existing to the new.

Innovate to Inspire Consumers

The empowered and fickle consumer has made growing market share a tougher battle than ever before.

Do your teams need to spend less time on internal meetings and more outward focussed on the consumer?

Be inspired to reach out, listen and act on the needs of potential consumers to ignite faster growth.

Mindset Makes Culture

Every business leader wants to nourish and change their company culture, but that's more than tough as it is an ethereal thing.

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.

Everyone's a Leader Now

A command and control hierarchy that is always right is not viable leadership model in Gen X, nimble tech & fast-moving environment.

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