Saskia Juretzek

Dr Saskia Juretzek is a senior sustainability expert with more than fifteen years of experience helping organisations turn ambition into action. She combines academic depth with hands-on leadership, having worked across consulting, corporates, education and advisory roles. Her career spans global organisations, family-owned businesses and NGOs, giving her a grounded understanding of how sustainability decisions are made in real operating environments. Alongside her professional work, she is an author, lecturer and trusted advisor on sustainability management and strategy.

Saskia began her career with early exposure to international strategy and policy, including roles at the United Nations, Daimler AG and Accenture. During her five years as a Management Consultant at Accenture, she specialised in marketing, sales and sustainability, delivering projects across multiple countries and industries. In 2011, she joined Telefónica Germany as Corporate Responsibility Manager, where she developed a new sustainability strategy and built expertise in reporting and communication. These roles laid the foundation for her focus on implementation, governance and measurable impact.

From 2015 to 2022, Saskia held senior leadership roles at Allianz SE, including Senior Manager of Sustainability. She oversaw group-wide non-financial reporting and auditing, supported sustainability strategy development at global and local levels, and led the organisation’s SDG impact analysis. Alongside this, she lectured in corporate sustainability and sustainability management at institutions including TU Munich, hd_a Darmstadt and AMD Akademie für Mode und Design. In 2022, she became Head of Sustainability at Tengelmann Twenty-One KG, leading group-wide sustainability transformation, reporting and strategy for a portfolio that includes OBI, KiK and TREI.

Saskia is hired as a sustainability keynote speaker because she brings clarity, credibility and practical insight to complex topics. Her talks draw on empirical PhD research into what makes sustainability strategies succeed, paired with senior-level experience inside major organisations. She speaks with authority on governance, reporting, leadership competencies and transformation, while keeping the focus on real decisions leaders face. As co-founder and Managing Director of Futurewoman, and an advisory board and council member across social and sustainability initiatives, she also brings a strong perspective on inclusive leadership. A typical keynote might explore how boards can move from compliance to impact, using examples from global insurers and retail groups to show what works in practice.