Isabelle Grosmaitre

Enthusiastic Leader, Isabelle founded Goodness & Co, a new kind of management consultancy platform to make goodness in business happen. She serves organizations on a mission, reinventing their model for better futures. She helps CEOs and leaders in their vision, actions and governance to create value and impact at scale. Embracing sustainability as an engine of competitiveness. More than ever, companies will need to demonstrate their contribution to society. Companies with a positive impact on society will thrive, chosen by employees, consumers and investors. The time is now for business to be purposeful.

Isabelle serves organizations in their transformation for positive impact, from purpose to practice: defining a purpose, ESG from strategy to implementation, becoming a B Corp or a Purpose-led Company. In everything she does, she empowers leadership teams and engages all stakeholders with heads and hearts.

Isabelle co-founded Generation Glasgow, a collective of 30+ leaders who are bravely answering the urgent call to unlock the barriers to transformation. It is a space for courageous leaders to step up and reduce the gap between commitments and actions.

Isabelle dedicated her career to transforming business as a force for good – in pharma, health insurance and food industries, with P&L operational responsibilities and CEOs’ strategic support for better futures.

Former Catalyst at DANONE, Isabelle served the strategic transformation of the company towards ONE Planet ONE Health. She lead Danone’s Growth Acceleration Platform with partners and employees to achieve genuine transformation. Isabelle also designs the next generation of funds by creating new financial mechanisms. Isabelle joined Danone in 2012 to support the strategic transformation of the company on Health & Food, launched the journey that led to the Danone 2030 Company Goals, paved the way for advocacy and set the Research & Innovation 2020 Strategy.

Former Consumer Goods Forum Co-Chair, Isabelle was a leader of a wider change across our industry and set up Collaboration for Healthier Lives, a unique movement of 160 organizations. Working alongside CEO Co-Chairs & MD, Isabelle has been also instrumental in shifting the model towards coalitions of action.
Isabelle focused her career in businesses contributing to better futures. Isabelle started in family-owned businesses with BOIRON, where she holds Marketing & healthcare positions globally and in US. Isabelle was later appointed Executive Director in APRIL/ EVOLEM Investment Fund, where she set up a worldwide network of entrepreneurs in health insurance and services, through creation and acquisition.

An advocate of the B Corp movement, and active leader in Entreprise à Mission Community, Isabelle is a generous leader, a courageous leader with empathy, able to bring their head and heart to build the path forward. She was nominated in 2019 to be one of “The Top 25 Doers & Shakers in purposeful retail thanks to her work as a social innovator to promote healthier lifestyles and demonstrating how the industry can become a purpose-driven actor.” Isabelle also acts as a Senior Advisor worldwide on Sustainability for Bain & Company. Engaged in promoting women in leadership, Isabelle is part of the first tribe of Future Women X from B Corp and Vice President of the International Women Forum (IWF AURA) to promote women in governance decision bodies.