Translating Sustainability: How to Speak Your CFO’s Language

How sustainability leaders can build credibility, speak the language of finance and shift the conversation from compliance to strategic value. 

Many new sustainability leaders are compelled to frame their role around compliance—yet this risks limiting strategic impact and enterprise-wide transformation. Success demands fluency in the language of risk, value, and financial performance. Learn how to shift the conversation from reporting obligations to business opportunity by aligning sustainability with enterprise risk management and financial materiality. Corporate leaders and finance-savvy CSOs will share how to build credibility with P&L owners, engage finance teams as sustainability allies, and make a compelling case for long-term investment in climate and ESG initiatives.