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Aisling Connaughton
Sustainability speaker Aisling Connaughton helps businesses turn sustainability and B Corp principles into clear, practical action. Co-founder of certified B Corp Cyd Connects, Aisling is a TEDx speaker and former Global Head of PR at Liz Earle Beauty Co.
Aisling Connaughton is co-founder of Cyd Connects, a women-led sustainability consultancy that helps businesses become a force for good. She takes a subject many teams find dry or overwhelming and makes it simple, practical, and enjoyable.
Aisling's 20-year global career in PR spans sustainability, marketing, and communications. She held posts with Huawei Technologies in Shenzhen and San Francisco, worked for L'Oreal, Aveda, and Clarins, and was Global Head of PR at Liz Earle Beauty Co. She is a TEDx speaker and a guest lecturer at London Business School, Goldsmiths, and EADA Barcelona.
Cyd Connects is a certified B Corp that builds sustainability roadmaps to accelerate the UN Sustainable Development Goals. As a certified B Leader, Aisling shows organisations how the B Corp framework can act as a catalyst for better business. Diagnosed with dyslexia and ADHD in 2018, she also speaks openly about how neurodivergent thinking has shaped her creativity, problem solving, and resilience, and how organisations can create environments where every kind of mind can thrive.
Her talks cover rewriting the sustainability playbook, the environmental cost of AI, communicating sustainability without greenwashing, and what neurodivergent thinking can teach businesses about innovation. Audiences leave knowing where to start and how to talk about their progress credibly.
She holds a Masters in Social Entrepreneurship from Goldsmiths, University of London, and won a scholarship to the Cambridge Judge Business School Rising Women Leaders Programme. For events on sustainability, B Corp, or neurodiversity, Aisling turns a complex agenda into clear next steps.
Topics, sessions and talks
Many businesses know sustainability matters but aren't sure where to start or what has changed. Aisling Connaughton sets out what business needs to do differently now, and how smart organisations are rewriting the sustainability playbook. Drawing on her work building sustainability roadmaps around the UN Sustainable Development Goals at B Corp consultancy Cyd Connects, she turns a subject that can feel dry and overwhelming into clear, practical steps. Teams come away knowing where to focus first.
Can artificial intelligence accelerate sustainability without costing the Earth? Aisling Connaughton looks at the tension between what AI promises and what it demands of the planet, and what that means for businesses adopting it. Drawing on her time at Huawei Technologies in Shenzhen and San Francisco and her work as co-founder of B Corp consultancy Cyd Connects, she gives leaders a grounded way to weigh the trade-offs and make technology choices that support their sustainability goals.
How do you communicate sustainability without losing trust? Aisling Connaughton brings 20 years in PR, including her role as Global Head of PR at Liz Earle Beauty Co., to the risks businesses face when their sustainability claims run ahead of their actions. She shows how to talk about progress honestly, using frameworks such as B Corp to back up what you say. Communications, marketing, and leadership teams come away with a clearer, more credible way to share their sustainability story.
What can neurodivergent thinking teach businesses about sustainability, innovation, and the future? Diagnosed with dyslexia and ADHD in 2018, Aisling Connaughton speaks openly about how her own neurodivergent thinking has shaped her creativity, problem solving, and resilience. She connects that experience to the challenge of building more sustainable, innovative businesses, and shows how organisations can create environments where every kind of mind can thrive. Leaders leave with practical ideas for drawing on the full range of thinking in their teams.
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