People & Planet
We make people grow
Our mission, "we make people grow," is our core contribution to a more sustainable future. We are dedicated to promoting fairness and inclusion, ensuring people from all backgrounds have the same opportunity to find meaningful work and build a career. This commitment is the foundation of our daily work as a leading career partner for young professionals.
Our impact extends to our communities as well. We focus on making a difference through bigger things, such as our pro bono work, volunteering, and our long-standing engagement in Zambia.
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We want to be successful in business but also do good and have a positive impact on both people and the planet. We have high ambitions regarding sustainability and are strongly committed to be a role model within the area.
Johan Skarborg
Academic Work founder & CEO of Akind Group
Commitment in action
To achieve ambitious sustainability goals means not only meeting all environmental laws and standards, but actively exceeding them. We are proud to be ISO 14001 certified, a framework that helps us to continuously evaluate our goals and improve our environmental performance. Our philosophy is visible in the choices we make every day:
- Energy: We power our offices with electricity from renewable sources and use motion sensors to reduce consumption.
- Travel: We prioritise sustainable travel by choosing trains over flights for business trips and encouraging public transport.
- Resources: We actively reduce waste by minimising paper use through digital invoicing and separating our waste.
- Commuting: We encourage green commuting by providing loaner bikes at our offices and offering a free annual bike repair for our employees.
- Suppliers: We hold our partners to high environmental standards, ensuring our suppliers share our commitment.
- Training: We provide mandatory annual environmental training for all employees, making sustainability a shared responsibility.

Our engagement in Zambia
Since 2004, we have donated one percent of our profit to school projects in Zambia, something we call The One Percent Movement. Over time, this contribution has helped build more than 50 schools and provided education for tens of thousands of children in southern Zambia.
Together with the charity organization Response Network, we support local communities in the villages around Livingstone by providing materials such as bricks, mortar, and window glass. In turn, the villagers themselves lead the projects and build their own schools, creating a model of self-sustaining aid.