Since taking the helm as CEO at Henkel in 2020, Carsten Knobel has been a driving force behind the company’s Purposeful Growth agenda. In this Interview with managing partner and co-founder of SparkOptimus, Alexandra Jankovich, he discusses the progress made over the last two years, the five key elements behind the agenda and what the future holds.

In this interview with managing partner and co-founder of SparkOptimus, Alexandra Jankovich, Henkel’s CEO Carsten Knobel discusses diversity, sustainability, digital transformation and the way Henkel uses digital to serve their consumers and customers better.

Nancy McKinstry, CEO of Wolters Kluwer propelled the company from the print age into the digital era while growing the share of digital revenue from ~30% to ~90%. In this interview summary, McKinstry explains the crucial steps of the transformation. She talks about the benefits of diverse teams, speaks about how she kept shareholders on board and shares what she would have done differently.

CEO of Nestlé, Mark Schneider believes the best of digital is yet to come. As he leads the transformation, he shares key digital insights with Alexandra Jankovich: how consumers now move seamlessly between opportunities, why businesses need to reconfigure fast, and how mindsets are shifting from forward-looking market research to real-time data experimentation.