Capabilities:
SustainabilityKensey Biggs
Biography
Kensey Biggs is a Senior Managing Director & Head of U.S. Corporate ESG with Teneo’s Strategy and Communications business. Kensey has over 20 years of experience as a trusted advisor, including over a decade counseling companies on ESG and investor relations. At Teneo, she advises companies on ESG strategy, oversight, integration and reporting. With her deep experience in investor relations, Kensey brings an investor’s perspective to ESG, favoring a data-driven approach focused on the link between material sustainability factors and a company’s financial performance.
Before Teneo, Kensey was a Senior Vice President covering ESG at Truist, a top U.S. bank formed from SunTrust and BB&T’s merger. She helped build the new bank’s ESG practice from the ground up. Before Truist, she was a Senior Counselor at Abernathy MacGregor, where she built the firm’s first ESG client offering in 2017 and was a founding Co-Chair of the company’s Global ESG Taskforce. Prior to Abernathy, Kensey founded her own consulting firm Dalloway Advisory Group. Earlier in her career, she spent four years at Teneo, joining as the firm’s 13th employee in 2011. She started her career in finance at Goldman Sachs in New York.
Kensey was named one of the Top 25 Sustainability Leaders in Consulting in 2022 and 2023, as well as one of the Top 50 Most Powerful Women in Business by the National Diversity Council. She serves on JUST Capital’s JUST Gen Committee and lives in Nashville with her husband and son.
Area of Expertise
Investor relations, Material sustainability.
Group Overview
ESG Advisory Offering
Teneo possesses a holistic view of the ESG landscape. Based on need, Teneo is equipped to assist companies with either a specific aspect of their ESG program or can also work with companies to build and develop a comprehensive and bespoke ESG strategy and implementation plan that is right for their business and industry.
Teneo’s Integrated ESG Offering
Teneo’s cross-functional team of experts brings a uniquely broad range of expertise that helps clients build and implement comprehensive, bespoke ESG programs that make the most sense for their business and industry.
Business Strategy & Transformation
Campaigning & Digital Strategy
Crisis Management & Preparedness
Diversity & Inclusion
Security & Physical Risk
Stakeholder Research & Analytics
Public & Government Affairs
Political Risk
Investor Relations
Board & Corporate Governance
Shareholder Engagement
Firm Overview
Teneo is the global CEO advisory firm.
Every leader needs a trusted team of advisors as they navigate a rapidly changing world.
Companies are now judged on the total value they provide to individuals and society, rather than on financial returns alone.
Teneo’s Purpose
Partnering with their clients globally to do great things for a better future to change the world.
Teneo provides what their clients need, when they need it.
What Teneo Does
Teneo built a firm that is singularly focused on their clients’ needs, breaking down traditional boundaries to fully leverage their global expertise and unchallenged breadth of services to solve their clients’ most complex issues.
How Teneo Does It
Teneo’s teams are supported by a global organization and an expansive network of advisors that thrives on collaboration to help solve complex issues. Teneo acts as a true extension of their clients’ organizations, challenging them to see the bigger picture and new ways of thinking.
Teneo partners with their clients globally to do great things for a better future.
Drawing upon Teneo’s global team and expansive network of senior advisors, they provide advisory services across our five business segments on a stand-alone or fully integrated basis to help their clients solve complex business challenges. Teneo’s clients include a significant number of the Fortune 100 and FTSE 100, as well as other corporations, financial institutions and organizations.
Teneo’s full range of advisory services includes strategic communications, investor relations, financial transactions and restructuring, management consulting, physical and cyber risk, organizational design, board and executive search, geopolitics and government affairs, corporate governance, ESG and DE&I.
The firm has more than 1,500 employees located in 40 offices around the world.