Arnaud Blandin
Arnaud Blandin helps leaders navigate sustainability, technology, and impact strategy to build resilient and future-ready organizations.
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- A global strategist guiding organizations through sustainable innovation, impact measurement, and technology-driven transformation.
- Advises corporations, investors, and startups on ESG shifts, CSRD readiness, and emerging sustainability regulations.
- Bridges AI, circular economy, and impact finance to help leaders create meaningful, scalable, and measurable change.
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Strategic thinker shaping sustainable innovation, AI-driven impact, and global business transformation.
Arnaud Blandin is a strategist who connects sustainability, technology, and business growth. With two decades of global experience, he supports boards, investors, and founders in navigating ESG demands, CSRD compliance, impact measurement, and AI-driven innovation. As founder of Beyond Institute and faculty at leading executive institutions, he equips leaders with practical tools to scale sustainable transformation. His work empowers organizations to act with purpose and deliver measurable results.
A Leader in Sustainable Strategy
Arnaud Blandin has built his career around bringing sustainability and technology into the heart of business strategy. As the founder of Beyond Institute, he works with corporations, private equity firms, and high-growth startups to design actionable pathways that balance profitability with environmental and social progress. His focus is always on execution, using data, technology, and clear decision-making frameworks to help organizations act with purpose and deliver results that matter.
With more than 20 years of international experience, Arnaud has developed a reputation as one of the most prominent voices in sustainable innovation and impact strategy. His expertise spans circular economy, energy transition, ESG integration, impact finance, and AI-enabled sustainability solutions. He regularly supports Fortune 500 companies, investment funds, and innovation hubs as they respond to fast-evolving regulatory expectations and rising stakeholder demands for transparency and accountability.
Trusted Advisor to Global Companies and Investors
Across Europe, North America, and Asia, Arnaud has partnered with leading companies including ENGIE, Michelin, Johnson & Johnson, Eurofins, Oracle, Tikehau Capital, and Temasek. His work helps executive teams navigate changes in ESG standards, prepare for CSRD compliance, and build the capabilities needed to transform their organizations.
He applies a hands-on approach grounded in real-world business understanding, making complex sustainability topics accessible and actionable. Whether working with a startup designing a new circular model or advising a global board on impact measurement, he aligns sustainability with growth, resilience, and long-term value creation.
From Engineering to Global Impact
Arnaud’s journey began with engineering and computer science. Early in his career, he contributed to NASA’s Mars rover mission, an experience that sharpened his technical rigor and systems-thinking mindset. This foundation later shaped his transition into business strategy, growth management, and sustainability leadership.
His path includes founding and exiting multiple ventures in technology and consulting, giving him firsthand insight into entrepreneurship and innovation. This experience now strengthens his work with founders, investment funds, and executive teams, allowing him to bridge strategic thinking with practical execution.
Educator Shaping the Next Generation of Leaders
A highly sought-after educator, Arnaud trains and mentors more than 500 executives every year. He teaches at some of the world’s most respected business institutions, including INSEAD, HEC Paris, CEDEP, Singapore Management University, and SKEMA.
He currently serves as Lead Faculty on Sustainability at CEDEP and as Entrepreneur in Residence at INSEAD. His teaching style is grounded, action-oriented, and focused on helping leaders understand how technology, markets, and sustainability forces intersect.
His work extends into global innovation communities as a mentor for programs such as Creative Destruction Lab, the Lee Kuan Yew Global Business Plan Competition, and the Monaco Ocean Protection Challenge.
Driving the Future of AI-Enabled Sustainability
In 2024 and beyond, Arnaud is focused on scaling impact-driven initiatives through AI, digital ecosystems, and emerging technologies. He advises leaders on how intelligent tools can increase transparency, strengthen sustainability reporting, and support decision-making rooted in measurable impact.
He is a frequent keynote speaker on the future of sustainable business, regenerative economy models, and the convergence of technology and environmental stewardship. His recent contribution to The AI Revolution: Thriving Within Civilization’s Next Big Disruption, co-authored with experts across industries, has already reached bestseller status in several countries.
Guiding Principles and Leadership Mindset
Arnaud’s work is shaped by clear guiding principles: stay real, focus on what matters, act with purpose, and create meaningful impact. Whether advising a board, supporting a startup, or teaching executive cohorts, he encourages leaders to think systemically and make decisions based on facts, data, and long-term responsibility.
With a Master of Science in Mathematics and Computer Science from ENSEEIHT and the TGM Executive Program from INSEAD, he brings together analytical precision, strategic insight, and a global perspective. His mission is to empower organizations to use technology, data, and responsible leadership to shape a more resilient and regenerative future.
Keynotes
Keynote by Arnaud Blandin:
The Exponential Gap: Why Climate Leadership Must Move at the Speed of Technology
Technology is evolving exponentially, our climate response is not. In this powerful keynote, Arnaud Blandin contrasts decades of exponential technological progress with our dangerously linear progress on climate action. He reveals how leaders can close that gap by applying systems thinking, AI, and bold governance to redesign business models for resilience and regeneration. Drawing from 25 years of experience bridging Silicon Valley innovation with sustainability leadership, Arnaud shows how to turn complexity into competitive advantage.
Keynote by Arnaud Blandin:
The Sustainability Compass: A Framework for Regenerative Strategy
How can organizations translate sustainability from a narrative into a strategic operating system? Arnaud introduces The Sustainability Compass, a framework developed through his work with Fortune 500s, investors, and policymakers worldwide. Participants learn how to identify material issues, embed circular design, and align with CSRD and evolving global standards, while capturing real business value. Inspiring, practical, and data-driven, this keynote helps leaders move from compliance to conviction.
Keynote by Arnaud Blandin:
AI for Good: How Artificial Intelligence Can Power the Sustainability Transition
Artificial intelligence can either accelerate planetary breakdown or regeneration. In this keynote, Arnaud unpacks how AI can map complexity, enhance accountability, and measure impact across value chains. Through case studies from energy, finance, and aquaculture, he illustrates how responsible AI enables smarter decisions, deeper transparency, and scalable climate solutions. A must-attend for leaders seeking to fuse digital transformation with ESG leadership.
Keynote by Arnaud Blandin:
Purpose Is the New Strategy: Building Companies That Matter
In a post-COP28 world, purpose is no longer a moral luxury, it’s the new architecture of performance. Drawing from the Beyond Institute’s research and implementation work with global firms, Arnaud reveals how to define, operationalize, and measure raison d’être at every level of the organization. He ocers a roadmap for integrating purpose into governance, innovation, and culture, proving that the most profitable companies of tomorrow will be those that are profoundly purposeful today.
Keynote by Arnaud Blandin:
The Human Cost of Climate: Leading for Regeneration, Not Resignation
Beyond rising temperatures lies a silent crisis, burnout, anxiety, and loss of meaning. In this deeply human talk, Arnaud explores the psychological and societal impacts of climate disruption and what they reveal about leadership in the 21st century. Blending science, data, and personal experience, he calls for a new model of regenerative leadership, one that reconnects business with nature and wellbeing with performance. A keynote that inspires both reflection and renewal.
Keynote by Arnaud Blandin:
Navigating Complexity: Decision-Making and Cognitive Bias in Sustainability
Why do smart leaders make poor sustainability decisions? This session explores the cognitive traps, status quo bias, optimism bias, confirmation bias, that undermine strategic sustainability choices. Arnaud combines behavioral science with board-level experience to ocer practical tools for navigating uncertainty and aligning teams around complex, long-term goals. Insightful and interactive, this talk equips decision-makers to think clearly in an age of volatility.
Keynote by Arnaud Blandin:
From Shareholder to System Value: The Future of Capitalism
Capitalism is evolving, from shareholder primacy to system value creation. Drawing on Beyond Institute’s proprietary database of 400 sustainability frameworks and 1,000+ innovative solutions, Arnaud maps the shift toward impact-driven capitalism. He illustrates how investors, boards, and entrepreneurs can quantify non-financial value and unlock new growth through regenerative finance. This keynote reframes economics for a new era, one where doing good is not an expense, but a source of enduring value.
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