#55 - Responsible Leadership: A lever for business resilience and performance

Chloë Touati
CEO of Authentic Talent

In this episode, Chloë and Philippe discuss a key subject of Authentic Talent's beliefs: responsible leadership.

Chloë shares her team's reflections and in-depth studies, conducted over more than 12 months, to understand why responsible leadership is a profitable necessity for businesses.

Together, they address in particular:

👉 The definition a responsible leader, a person who “acts with lucidity, ethics and courage in the service of sustainable progress both for the company and for society”

👉 The Inner Development Goals (IDG) framework, structured around five key pillars that underpin this leadership model

👉 THEconcrete and numerical impact of these pillars on financial performance, the success of sustainable transformations, the commitment of employees, social innovation, the growth and resilience of organizations

👉 The importance ofassess and support the development of responsible leadership, especially during selection and promotion decisions, by using objective tools and by developing personalized action plans

👉 The transversality the concept of responsible leader, applicable to all businesses and functions of the company, and not only to environmental or CSR issues, offering a common base and a shared language to all employees

The sources:

🌍 Governance, stakeholder capitalism and ESG strategy

  • Klaus Schwab. Stakeholder Capitalism, quoted by WEF (2021).

📈 Financial and ESG performance

  • Cheema-Fox et al. (2020). ESG outperformance during the COVID crisis.

🧑 ‍ 🤝 ‍ 🧑 Leadership, corporate culture and employee expectations

  • Great Place to Work (2021). Companies with strong CSR: 15.6x more positive employees.
  • Deloitte Millennial Survey (2024). > 50% of young people choose according to environmental criteria.

🏢 Case studies of sustainable businesses

  • Danone :
  • Sector ESG score (Sustainalytics 2022)
  • 99.42% of the “company with a mission” status adopted (LSA/Novethic, 2020)
  • Dividend +8% in 2020 despite the COVID crisis
  • Patagonia :

🌱 Sustainable societies and territorial resilience

🧠 Additional indicators

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