Sustainability 2.0: How Growth Investors Unlock Hidden ROI from ESG Metrics

Episode notes

My guest is Nidhi Chadda, founder and CEO of Enzo Advisors - a female- and minority-led sustainability and climate advisory firm that helps companies and investors integrate ESG factors into strategy and performance. She’s a former Wall Street portfolio manager who believes ESG isn’t about politics - it’s about disciplined risk management and long-term value creation grounded in data. Before launching Enzo, Nidhi built a career that spanned investment banking, consulting, and asset management - always driven by a desire to understand what truly creates value in business. It all came together years later at RBC, when she encountered ESG research that reframed sustainability as a core driver of financial performance. That’s when it clicked - ESG wasn’t just about mitigating risk; it could actually drive value creation. She immediately signed up to help bring that approach into U.S. investment strategies. Her team built a scorecard of over 20 ESG factors - human capital, environmental exposure, governance - and tied them directly to outcomes like revenue growth and cost savings. It was a data-first approach that opened a new chapter.

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