Kateřina Bohuslavová | ESG & Business Resilience Consultant | SUSTAINOVA
Kateřina Bohuslavová
Silver
ESG & Business Resilience Consultant
Prague, Czechia
Czech, English
€100 - €200 / hour
About me
Kateřina is the Founder and CEO of Rational Sustainability Advisory, providing bespoke ESG services. She advises companies on sustainable strategy and reporting using data-driven approach to increase companies’ resilience, aligning ESG with company’s vision, mission, and values – not the other way around. Previously, she was the first Chief Sustainability Officer at CEZ, a large international utility, where her team built a public digital sustainability data library. This led to a massive increase in investor appeal, ESG ratings, and multiple awards, including the Reuters’ Global Award for Transparency, Environmental Finance’s Sustainability Leadership in EMEA Award, and ESG Officer of the Year Award by Women in Governance, Risk and Compliance. She also serves as an Executive Committee member for ESG reporting and rating at Business Leaders Forum, Czech Republic. Previously, she was the Vice-President of CBCSD, a national organization of WBCSD. ... Show more
ESG Leadership Certificate (Diligent Institute & Competent Boards)
Sustainable Management Academy for Business (Prague University of Economics and Business)
ESG certificates (Corporate Finance Institute)
Services offered
Key note speaking, Consultancy, Advisory
Expert Type
Individual
Professional experience
CEO & Founder
Rational Sustainability AdvisoryBusiness Consulting & ServicesConsultancyJun 2024 - Now
Through consultancy or fractional roles, I provide services increasing resilience, managing risks, leveraging opportunities, and protecting brand and reputation. This includes focus on strategy, governance, impacts, stakeholders, materiality, metrics, targets, standards, frameworks, goals, initiatives, certificates, and training.
Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO)
ČEZ GroupEnergyFull-TimeJul 2021 - Oct 2023
Summary: My tasks included building ESG Office and ESG team to implement and manage ESG strategy at Group level. Measurable KPIs focused on increase in ESG ratings, ESG strategy targets, and yearly sustainability reporting including data management. Duties included managing 60+ data officers, communication with multiple rating providers, and implementing evolving ESG standards and legislation in multiple legal frameworks. I also managed ESG initiatives across the Group, including Supply Chain, Climate Risks, Biodiversity, Stakeholder Engagement, Policy Matrix, and Automation of Data Collection
Measurable Results:
Improved ESG ratings
· MSCI – jump by two categories from BBB to AA
· Sustainalytics – reduced ESG risk score from High to Medium
· Moody’s – improvement to Robust category
· CDP – improvement from D to B in Climate Change and to B- in Water Security
· CSRHub aggregate rating – target 75th percentile, result 82th percentile
Reporting Standards Alignment
· GRI, WEF, SASB, and EU Taxonomy in 2023
· Alignment with ESRS in the top 15th percentile based on CSRD readiness assessment in 2023
· Preparing for ISSB
Other accomplishments
· SBTi: near term target, long term target and net-zero target validated (first in Czechia)
· TCFD: first official Czech supporter, TCFD Report published
· UN Initiatives: UN Global Compact, UN CEO Water Mandate, and SDGs (SDGs report published)
Lecturer and consultant
FreelanceBusiness Consulting & ServicesConsultancySep 2011 - Jun 2021
Researcher
Academy of Sciences of the Czech RepublicResearch and Development (R&D)Full-TimeSep 2007 - Aug 2011