About
Sophie Chassat is a senior VP at Accuracy. Sophie has 15 years’ professional experience in strategic consulting and sits on several boards (LVMH Group, Le Coq Sportif), making her a seasoned expert in issues linked to purpose, impact and ESG challenges.
She has carried out numerous projects in this field, from the definition of corporate purpose to the strategic and operational translation of these visions. Her expertise enables her to master the technical issues linked to the most recent ESG regulations and to support the resulting evolution of strategies and business models.
Sophie speaks French and English.
Qualifications
- École Normale supérieure (1999)
- Agrégation in Philosophy (2002)
In-depth expertise
ESG regulations & transformation
Sophie assists organisations in understanding and leveraging the most recent and advanced sustainability-related standards, such as CSRD, IFRS S, and SFDR. She aids in applying these new regulations using an analytical, pragmatic, and proven methodology, turning these reporting obligations into strategic assets and fostering positive transformation. For this, the operational management of these projects is key, and Sophie helps implement it.
Sophie helps companies to adopt current sustainability standards, such as the CSRD, IFRS S, SFDR and others. She ensures that these reporting obligations are activated as strategic assets and the keys to overall performance, that is economic, environmental and social.
Purpose & strategy
Sophie offers advisory services to corporations in defining and deploying their purpose and purpose-driven strategies. These are not just cultural exercises; they are strategic ones, designed to be catalysts for multifaceted performance: economic, social, and environmental. In a context where ESG obligations are multiplying, having a purpose, raison d’être, or mission allows for maintaining a clear strategic direction, building differentiation strategies, and defining a specific impact territory.
Example of engagements
ESG regulations & transformation
- Collaborated with a France-based multinational luxury goods company in integrating CSRD standards and defining its environmental strategy, with a dual focus on climate and biodiversity.
- For a European startup accelerator ecosystem, create a specific ESG label for the e-health sector, to establish a common framework for all companies in the portfolio, enhance the ecosystem’s impact vision, and support startups in advancing their ESG dimensions.
- Assisted a leading French food group in optimizing a dual strategy to comply with CSRD and enhance its approach through the adoption of the B-Corp label.
- Guided an international player in the comparative adoption of ISSB (IFRS S1 and S2) and European (CSRD) sustainability-related standards.
- Conducted for a client in the pharmaceutical sector an objective Gap Analysis between the existing ESG policies and the expectations of new regulations (CSRD, CS3D, IFRS S).
- Assisted a client in the facilities sector in establishing its double materiality matrix: identification of the most strategic ESG topics, from both the Impact Materiality and the Financial Materiality perspectives.
- Implemented the PMO (Project Management Office) of the CSRD project of a French player.
Purpose & strategy
- Assisted a leading French cosmetics group in defining its purpose, overall purpose-driven strategy, and the implementation of this strategy across all brands in its portfolio.
- Assisted a French leader in transportation and logistics to define its sustainability strategy for 2030 consistently with its “raison d’être”.
- Assisted numerous companies on defining their “raison d’être” or adopting the French status of mission-driven company.
- Working alongside the Executive Committee of a French real estate group in implementing its purpose across all departments and functions.
- Guided an international French renewable energy player in establishing a new governance structure for its purpose.
- Assisted in defining the environmental communication strategy for a multinational player in the leisure industry.
- Assisted a leader in the sports sector on the strategy of their sustainability report, with a focus on integrating financial and non-financial information.
- Supported the CEO of a leading SME in their market in drafting a report on the topics of positive impact and sustainability, submitted to the French government.