Our impact & commitments

Together with clients and partners, we're applying our shared expertise, passion, and networks to shape a more sustainable and inclusive future.

Collaborating with diverse partners, we share complementary data and capabilities to co-create business models, products, and digital solutions that deliver positive change – for business, society, and the planet.

As a Gartner-recognised vendor for sustainable business, we’re also helping clients to accelerate their sustainability transformation. We view this transformation as an opportunity to do business better.

And we care about the direct impacts of our operations. Reaching net zero carbon emissions and providing a healthy and inclusive workplace are just some of our goals as a responsible business and a participant of the UN Global Compact.

Zühlke's impact pathways

We aspire to have positive impact by:

Our Impact Pathways: empowering people, building communities, transforming business, protecting the planet

  • Transforming business

    We help our clients innovate and transform to deliver positive change.

    Sustainability is an opportunity to deliver positive change that can benefit everyone: business, society, and the finite world around us. Fostering collaboration, we empower businesses across various industries to accelerate their sustainability transformation. 

    Our multidisciplinary teams deliver tangible and ongoing value from strategy to implementation. Focusing on data-driven sustainability and design for sustainability, our approach is value-led and outcome driven. Together, we pave the way for a sustainable future with a robust ecosystem of clients and partners.

    Our transformation approach

  • Protecting the planet

    Together with clients and partners, we strive to make the world a better place. 

    Improving the sustainability of our own operations is a key focus in our corporate responsibility strategy. Our business endorses climate science and the goals of the Paris Agreement. We do this through measuring our carbon emissions and setting a comprehensive carbon reduction plan to achieve our validated science-based net zero targets.

    Our sustainability journey

  • Empowering our people

    We foster diverse thinking and belonging, enabling all colleagues to grow and thrive. 

    For Zühlke, being an equitable and inclusive employer and organisation is imperative. We want to ensure we provide belonging and equal opportunities to all, regardless of their personal characteristics or backgrounds. Diversity, equity & inclusion (DE&I) is in our DNA and part of who we are. As such, we believe everyone needs to own and drive DE&I.

    Our DE&I approach

  • Building communities

    We invest in communities and help them flourish, guided by our shared values. 

    Creating social value is important to us. Across the group our people volunteer for a huge variety of local initiatives.

    We also founded the Sustainability Circle in the DACH region, a leading sustainability network with 50+ members for manufacturers and their partners on the road to sustainability.

    Find out more about the Sustainability Circle (page & event only available in German).

    Strong communities need to be based on shared values. We have defined a Code of Conduct to ensure principled and ethical behaviour as we engage with clients, colleagues, suppliers, and partners.

    Our Code of Conduct
Philipp Sutter
' The urgent issues of our time are beyond the scope of a single organisation or industry, so collective business action is essential. '
Philipp Sutter
Chairman, Zühlke Group

Curious about our progress?

Dive into our 2023 Impact Report to explore our ongoing sustainability journey. Discover how we:

  • Adopted science-based targets to drive our ambitious net zero roadmap.
  • Established a methodical framework to assess and improve the environmental and societal impact of our projects.
  • Partnered with exciting players across healthcare, energy, and beyond to develop innovative solutions.
Get the 2023 Impact Report
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Our memberships & commitments

Our sustainability memberships and commitments

Our values

We're curious, because we want to break new ground. Our people challenge the status quo, because change is critical for real progress. We're not afraid of making mistakes, because they make us stronger.

We honour promises, because trust is what partnership is all about. Our teams take responsibility for client success, and we value long-term client relationships. We believe in open communication, because we're all in it together.

We listen and empathise with our clients and their customers. Our teams empower organisations to realise their opportunities and become better businesses. Because their success is our success too.

We exceed expectations, because our aim is to excel in everything we do. We work as one team, because diversity and collaboration is strength. We invest in our staff, because our employees shape our future.