Zoë Arden | Sustainability & Leadership Keynote Speaker

Looking for a speaker who turns sustainability into clear business strategy? Book Zoë Arden. She blends boardroom experience with crisp storytelling so senior teams leave with practical next steps and usable insights.

Speaker Topics

Key Topics:

  • Leadership storytelling: communicating for influence and impact
  • Catalysing personal leadership in action
  • Thriving in complexity and leading change
  • Cultivating a growth mindset for you and your team
  • Leadership mindsets, mindtraps and narrative for change

What people say about Zoë Arden as a speaker?

Biography

Why Event Hosts Book Zoë

Zoë helps leaders use story as a tool for influence. She’s supported thousands of executives and emerging thought leaders to build capability, confidence, courage and commitment around sustainability, leadership and change. Audiences say her sessions are practical, energising and easy to apply on Monday morning.

On stage she connects strategy with action. Whether you’re shaping a corporate roadmap or a public-sector plan, Zoë shows how to embed ideas so they stick. She stays for Q&A, is happy to coach attendees one-to-one, and keeps the tone professional yet warm.

Authority You Can Trust

Zoë is a Fellow at the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership at the University of Cambridge, where she designs and teaches online programmes that leaders rate highly, and co-authored CISL’s leadership capabilities framework for a sustainable future. Her background includes serving as Director of Communications & Sustainability at BT Retail (leading a 50+ team), Director at ERM, and senior roles at Publicis/MSL. She has also held European Managing Director roles at Weber Shandwick and Golin, and was VP at Access Communications working with Apple.

Popular Formats and Topics

  • Leadership storytelling for influence and impact
  • Sustainability that supports business strategy and customer value
  • Leading change in complex systems, with a focus on resilience and security in supply chains
  • Personal leadership in action, with tools your CEO and C-suite can use immediately
  • Board briefings ahead of a keynote or digital event, plus follow-up clinics

Sessions can run as a keynote, an interactive workshop, a tailored board briefing or a short course-style masterclass. Content is adapted for sector, maturity and audience size.

Career Highlights

Zoë led communications and sustainability at BT Retail, represented the CEO on BT’s pan-company Energy & Environment Taskforce, and later headed a sustainability unit at MSLGroup. She has advised global brands…

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