The Breakfast Mastermind is a small-scale, high-impact series for members to exchange with one of The Nine’s advisory board members.

Over coffee and breakfast (because authenticity tastes better with a pastry), the discussion is shaped by the room: your questions, your challenges, your current realities. Expect sharp perspectives, concrete examples, hard-earned lessons, and space for honest dialogue.

Each session is intentionally limited in size to keep the exchange dynamic, personal, and genuinely useful. You’ll leave with new ways of thinking, a sense of emulation, and a stronger connection to the women steering The Nine.

Light breakfast is included. If you have any food or dietary restrictions, please let us know at events@thenine.be at least 7 days prior to the event.

This month, meet Dr. Audrey-Flore Ngomsik

Dr Audrey-Flore Ngomsik 

CEO & Co-founder of Trianon Scientific Communication Board Director (Advisory, Executive, Non-Executive, Independent) Vice-President, Brussels Climate Experts Committee 

International (TEDx) Speaker 

Black women hold roughly 2% of board seats globally. 

Dr. Audrey-Flore Ngomsik is one of them, and she's using that seat to ask questions most boardrooms would rather avoid. 

With a PhD in Physical and Analytical Chemistry from Sorbonne University (Paris, France) and 20 years navigating the intersection most people claim doesn't exist: rigorous science, profit optimization, and policy architecture. Dr Ngomsik is CEO & co-founder of Trianon Scientific Communication and serves across advisory, executive, non-executive, and independent board roles including Governing Board Member of the European Policy Center. 

As Vice-Chair of the Brussels Climate Committee, she focuses on helping companies navigate the green economic transition with actual data instead of buzzwords, fostering innovation that moves beyond pilot projects into scaled deployment, and ensuring that "just transition" means something measurable for the communities bearing the costs of change. 

She advises businesses and governments across Europe, Asia, and Africa on a simple premise: your sustainability problem is actually a business model problem. 

Her approach challenges conventional ESG frameworks by reframing the conversation: What if environmental, social, and economic performance aren't competing priorities but the same conversation badly managed? Working with carbon-intensive sectors, she's helped clients increase profits up to 80%, not through moral rhetoric, but through economic logic. Because climate action that ignores viability fails. Economic transitions that disregard social impact face backlash. And innovation without deployment? Just expensive R&D show. 

An international (TEDx) speaker known for making complex climate science accessible (and occasionally funny: "serious about science, ruthless on strategy, funny by necessity"), she brings the same principle to every boardroom: if the solution doesn't work economically, it's not a solution. If it works economically but destroys everything else, it's not business, it's liquidation with a longer timeline. 

Her signature line: "Let's make sustainability profitable." 

www.science-by-trianon.com