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
Our goal: To become a net-zero company
By integrating sustainability as a key focus in our business, we take responsibility and help protect our planet by reducing our emissions - and additionally compensating for the emissions we cannot eliminate.
As part of our sustainability strategy, we have joined the Science Based Targets initiative. By joining the initiative, we look forward to contributing to the transition toward a more sustainable society. We are taking practical steps towards our targets by educating our employees on sustainability and raising awareness in this area, influencing and challenging behaviors and norms, and creating more sustainable policies.
Additionally, we offset our known emissions each year by investing in projects that, for example, work to reduce the demand for firewood, preserve forests and other ecosystems, and restore degraded forest areas. All the projects we support also have positive impacts on people and local communities. You can read more about current projects in our sustainability report.
There is always more we can do to protect our planet, and we are determined to contribute wherever we can.
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.