Beate van Loo-Born – the “5 Premium Speakers Questions”
Beate van Loo-Born is an expert in financial services leadership, sustainability and data, with over 20 years of international experience in Europe, Asia and the USA.
She has held management positions at renowned companies such as UBS and the Swiss Stock Exchange (SIX). She is currently COO of Climate Arc, a non-profit organisation that aims to mobilise private capital to achieve global climate goals. Her expertise lies in the areas of ESG (environmental, social and governance), climate finance and data management.
With a Masters in Sustainability Leadership from Cambridge University and an MBA from the Sorbonne, she is actively driving the implementation of climate transitions and sustainability strategies in the financial world. Beate van Loo-Born is also involved in the promotion of women and professionals in the field of ESG data and leads corresponding networks. In addition to her professional activities, she is also an active triathlete and applies her passion for teamwork and resilience to her management work.
Interview with Beate van Loo-Born:
1. What are the core subjects of your keynote speeches?
Demystifying Sustainability
Companies and individuals are unsure how to satisfy sustainability demands, how to create impact and how to deal with trade-offs. Understanding the various systems of impact helps to identify the most relevant levers for change and brings clarity and purpose.
There are no individual wins
Sports teach us humility, resilience, teamwork and how to deal with failure. Lessons that can elevate any business leader and help teams reach their goals together by understanding what makes real teamwork. Behind every athlete stands a successful collaborative team.
Leaning into the future together
Doomsday scenarios are ever present fuelling collective anxiety and pessimism. Once we understand that leaning into AI, tech and the fourth industrial revolution we will not only elevate our careers but will also find solutions to the world’s wicked problems like climate change and social inequality.
Finance & Data: Capitalistic Evil or the greatest untapped Potential?
Financial markets have caused us agony throughout history, but they have also changed for the better in recent years. Can we utilize financial services to our advantage?
2. Which audiance or which branch do you reach with your speech?
- Leadership teams and managers
- Corporations
- like minded professionals of all generations
- Women and young professionals
- NGOs
- Universities
- Banken
- Financial Services
- Tech firms
- Climate specialisists
- Managers & Leaders
- groups interested in Triathlon and the athlete’s mindset
3. Are you a PREMIUM SPEAKER? Where do you get your insights from?
My insatiable drive to create a positive impact for people, organizations and the planet paired with my desire to understand complex topics and simplify them, has put me in a unique positionto be able to share my thougths with an audience.
I have a deep undesrtanding of management, sustainability, operational excellence, transformation , finance and athletic performance through professional experience (C-level executive in finance, daata and climate finance) in large (UBS), medium (Swiss Stock Exchange) and small (Climate Arc) organizations.
Additionally I have studied most topics academically at top tier universities like Cambridge and the Sorbonne (I hold 4 master’s degrees, and am half way though a PhD).
20 years of competitive endurance sports (5 time Ironman World Championship qualifier) have given me a deep insight in the importance of mindset and mental stability, resiliance and physical health, teamwork and perseverence that have carried over into my professional life.
I have been told that I “have a way with words” that makes abstract concepts tangible and understandable for others – many will remember my unusual analogies. I like to inspire, give impulses for discussion and food for thought.
4. What will be in the future? Does «time» play an important role in your work?
One of my signature key notes circles around “what does the future bring”. I talk about AI, the fourth industrial revolution, climate change and how we will need to embrace the future with agiliity with optimism.
My work focuses on channeling private captial towards climate finance solutions which by definition is the attempt to build a better future, to change things today that will have an impact tomorrow.
As an aging high performance triathlete, the future will bring mental toughness and physical decline – something to manage.
So, absolutely, the future is always a topic, even if we cannot control it entirely.
5. Tell us your life motto? What do you want to give your listeners to take with them?
“Be the change you want to see in the world.”
“When you find your lever (strength) you will be unstoppable.”
My values: Integrity, Kindness, Perseverence, Resilience, Positivity, Humility