Sustainability Report 2025

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Creating impact together

In 2025, we focused on turning sustainability ambition into real-world impact. By combining technological innovation, data-driven insights, and human expertise, we accelerated transformative change across our firm and our client work, creating measurable value for people, clients, communities, and the planet.

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Statement from our Managing Partner
2025 marks a moment of transition for BearingPoint. Building on the progress of recent years, sustainability is increasingly shaping how we transform as a firm and how we prepare for the decade ahead. Looking toward 2030, our focus is on creating the foundation for lasting, ambitious change – grounded in responsibility, transparency, and long-term value creation.
This transformation is closely linked to technological progress. Advances in data, digitalization, and artificial intelligence are changing how organizations operate and make decisions. At BearingPoint, we see these technologies as powerful enablers of sustainable impact – when guided by clear values, strong governance, and human judgment.
Ultimately, transformation is driven by people. The commitment, integrity, and collaboration of our teams remain the foundation of our sustainability journey. As we move forward, we are focused on aligning innovation with responsibility and ambition with accountability – shaping a firm that is ready to meet today’s challenges while building a sustainable future.

Matthias Loebich

Managing Partner

Measuring our performance

Key facts and figures

Together with our people, clients, and partners, we continue to translate our sustainability commitments into tangible, measurable impact.

Year-on-year reduction in global business travel emissions

28 %
Projects in Sustainable Ways of Working program

600 +
Sustainability assignments delivered across 11 countries

450 +

(for 200+ clients)
Consultants with sustainability certification

500 +
Female representation in leadership

27 %

Measuring progress

Our sustainability pillars

We have set ambitious sustainability goals and made strong progress across all of them last year.

Diversity

Diversity is a strategic priority for BearingPoint. We are committed to advancing gender representation, with targets of 30% female representation in senior management and above and 40% in management and above by 2030. Building on our Female Leadership program, aligned with the UN Women’s Empowerment Principles and our B Corp commitments, we are expanding our focus to additional diversity dimensions. Supported by strengthened governance, allyship initiatives, and firmwide unconscious bias training, our commitment to inclusion remains strong.
Environment

2025 was a transitional year for our Environmental pillar, focused on strengthening governance and embedding environmental responsibility across the firm. Through our global environmental management system, certified to ISO 14001 and complemented by B Corp certification, we ensure accountability, compliance, and continuous improvement. Reducing Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions remains our most material priority. In 2025, we achieved a 28% year on year reduction in global business travel emissions.
SWOW

Creating impact with our clients is central to our sustainability strategy. Through Sustainable Ways of Working (SWOW), we integrate concrete, measurable sustainability actions directly into our client engagements. In 2025, more than 600 projects were delivered sustainably by design through our SWOW program, combining commercial value with positive environmental and social outcomes. By embedding sustainability into how we sell, deliver, and collaborate with clients, we strengthen impact at scale and lead by example in everyday client work.
Inclusion and Education

Through our Inclusion and Education program, we create impact by empowering younger generations through education. Together with School 42, we delivered purpose-driven educational programs in Paris, Berlin and London in 2025, combining our expertise with hands-on formats such as mentoring, hackathons, and practical training. With a strong focus on AI and digital technologies, these initiatives help young people build future ready skills while fostering inclusion and equal opportunity. By connecting education, technology, and social impact, we contribute to a more inclusive and resilient society.

Axelle Paquer

Statement from our Global Sponsor for CSR in our Management Committee
As a B Corp, we understand our responsibility to the world and our ability to create meaningful impact. Over the past year, this impact has been driven not only by our commitments but by how we work with our clients. Our most significant contribution lies in client engagements - through our sustainability portfolio and through the way we sell, deliver, and connect with our people and clients every day. Building on 2024, where we strengthened our sustainability ambitions and culture of responsibility, we continued to evolve as a firm with our people at the heart of this journey.
In 2025, the momentum of change accelerated. AI is increasingly integrated into business operations, and its development and deployment have an environmental impact. In this context, we apply responsible AI, improve data transparency, and use advanced digital tools to support clients on their transformation paths and reduce our own footprint with greater accuracy and accountability. And this requires human intelligence.
As we look ahead, our commitment to sustainability remains unwavering, and we will continue to use innovation to create value for people, clients, the planet, and society.

Axelle Paquer

Global Sponsor for CSR in our Management Committee
Damien Palacci

Statement from our Chief People & Transformation Officer
Our sustainability journey is deeply connected to our people. It influences how we work together, how we support our clients, and how we grow as a firm. As Chief People & Transformation Officer, I see every day how our culture, our leadership, and our commitment to responsibility shape the impact we create.
In 2025, we continued strengthening this foundation by enhancing transparency, improving how we collaborate, and reinforcing the values that guide our actions. While technology like AI is becoming an important enabler, it is ultimately our people who bring purpose and progress to life.
Looking ahead, our focus remains on enabling our people to thrive in an environment where innovation and responsibility go hand in hand. By empowering our teams with the right mindset and capabilities, we turn ambition into meaningful action and continue building a firm that is ready for the future.

Damien Palacci

Chief People & Transformation Officer

Success stories

Creating impact together with our clients

Sustainable impact is created through collaboration. In 2025, BearingPoint teams worked closely with clients and partners to turn sustainability ambitions into concrete, measurable outcomes.

Body Voices

Body Voices - An enhanced business strategy and brand visibility

Body Voices - An enhanced business strategy and brand visibility
In 2025, BearingPoint had the opportunity to support Body Voices gGmbH with its corporate strategy and brand visibility. Together, we developed different approaches to sustainable financing and established contacts to increase awareness of the situation of women affected by sexual violence and to promote recognition of this issue within society.
Nathalie and Alexander from BearingPoint helped us to sort out our ideas for the sustainable financing of Body Voices. Based on their work, we were able to check the ideas for their suitability and then prioritize them. Together with the BearingPoint team, we then agreed on three candidates that we worked on further: specifically, how could the idea be implemented, what would it take and what should happen next in detail. The collaboration was uncomplicated, professional and helped us enormously to find the right path.
Eva Michielin, Founder of Body Voices gGmbH
Hirschmann Automotive

Hirschmann Automotive - Advancing sustainability through automated carbon footprint management

Hirschmann Automotive - Advancing sustainability through automated carbon footprint management
To strengthen its sustainability strategy and keep pace with evolving regulatory expectations, Hirschmann Automotive sought a scalable way to calculate product carbon footprints across its large and complex portfolio. BearingPoint supported the company’s effort by implementing its co‑development solution, SAP Sustainability Footprint Management (SFM), thus enabling both product‑level and corporate carbon footprint calculations. As a result, Hirschmann Automotive now has end‑to‑end transparency across all emissions, empowering strategic carbon‑footprint management and data‑driven decisions for future decarbonization efforts.
Our close and constructive collaboration with BearingPoint enables us to successfully integrate SAP Sustainability Footprint Management into our global system landscape and build a transparent, scalable carbon footprint management solution. By combining specialist expertise and implementation experience, we were able to drive our sustainability goals forward significantly and strengthen our carbon footprint data for future requirements.
Elina Kessler, Sustainability Manager at Hirschmann Automotive
Perfetti Van Melle

Perfetti Van Melle - Reduced waste and sustainable growth through smarter financial planning

Perfetti Van Melle - Reduced waste and sustainable growth through smarter financial planning
By rethinking its financial planning approach, Perfetti Van Melle Italy significantly improved the accuracy, speed, and strategic value of its decision-making processes. The company achieved an important reduction in waste and inefficiencies while strengthening long-term sustainability. Over the past three years, forecast errors dropped from 3.6% to 0.3%, cutting write-offs by 63.5%. In practical terms, this means fewer products sitting idle in warehouses, lower excess inventory, and a more efficient use of financial resources, with a positive impact on sustainability as well, thanks to reduced waste across the entire value chain.
With BearingPoint, we have built much more than a solution, developing over time a truly strategic and evolutionary partnership based on continuity, proactiveness, and constant innovation, in synergy with the Anaplan platform. The availability and continuity of the BearingPoint team, strengthened by their growing understanding of our business, enable us to find fast and timely solutions to every issue, ensuring long-term reliability and compliance with our standards. The team has grown together with us, and alongside this growth the Anaplan solution has also improved. Our intention is to continue together along this path of growth and continuous improvement.
Daniela Loperfido, Head of Commercial Controlling at Perfetti Van Melle
Teach First Deutschland

Teach First Deutschland - Data-driven decision-making for greater educational impact

Teach First Deutschland - Data-driven decision-making for greater educational impact
In our joint pro bono project, BearingPoint supported Teach First Deutschland (TFD) in further developing its controlling infrastructure and evaluating suitable technologies. Together, we examined the organization’s system architecture, KPIs, processes, and culture – not only to tackle current challenges directly but also to develop a long-term solution design that can be sustainably embedded within TFD’s organization.
BearingPoint provided us with support in revising our controlling infrastructure to meet our needs. The aim of the project was to conduct a pre-study on the development of a future-proof KPI-controlling infrastructure and to support our organization in building up internal expertise in selected areas. We have thus taken a major step toward efficient data integration, which enables us to make our data actionable and deploy our resources in such a way that we can achieve the best possible impact with our program.
Lisa Siemund, Data Management & Lead Salesforce Administration at Teach First Deutschland
VYV 3

VYV 3 - Building a group-level climate strategy for more sustainable impact

VYV 3 - Building a group-level climate strategy for more sustainable impact
As a major player in the health and care sector, VYV 3 sought to strengthen and structure its low‑carbon strategy across its activities. This required moving from scattered initiatives to a unified low‑carbon approach at the group level, based on lasting governance and careful strategic planning. The low‑carbon strategy was developed using ADEME’s ACT Step‑by‑Step methodology, ensuring a robust, forward‑looking framework.
In partnership with I Care by BearingPoint, VYV 3 developed and implemented operational climate strategies focused on eco‑design, sustainable mobility, energy efficiency, responsible purchasing, and employee awareness programs. As a result, climate responsibility is now fully integrated into VYV 3’s management, fostering alignment and long‑term engagement within the organization.
It’s been very helpful for us to benefit from the expertise of the I Care team throughout this challenging climate strategy design. I Care’s team, always attentive, was able to adapt the ACT method to the wide diversity of our activities and entities.
Laure Marine Jeannel, Director of CSR and Quality at VYV 3