Kreston Global’s Impact Plan
During 2025, we brought that purpose alive with our ecosystem of interconnected groups of people from operational interests through to client-facing activities at the regional and global level.
These groups strengthened how we connect our network: through shared learning, leadership programmes, taskforces and conferences bring people together across regions. We also deepened our understanding of where progress is being made — and where further focus is required.
As we look to our commitments for 2026, our priority is making an impact where it really counts: supporting our member firms to make informed decisions, access specialist knowledge, and helping their clients do the same.
Liza Robbins
Chief Executive, Kreston Global
Read our 2025 Impact Plan report
Purpose
Kreston Global connects ambitious and enlightened people from the entrepreneurial business community to promote positive impact around the world.
We have chosen to align with 7 key UN Sustainable Development Goals that are specifically relevant to our network, and we have laid out our plan across 4 main areas: Planet, People, Prosperity, and Partnerships. The goals we align with are:
3 – Good health & well-being
4 – Quality education
5 – Gender equality
8 – Decent work & economic growth
10 – Reduce inequalities
12 – Responsible consumption & production
17 – Partnerships for the goals
The People aspect of our Impact plan
We will ensure all Kreston Global HQ staff policies help staff to achieve a state of health and wellbeing, enabling them to partake in healthy activities whilst at work, promote the ability to give back to their communities or special charitable interests, and ensure they have the best equipment to enable efficient remote working.
We undertake to ensure staff policies and well-being activities are encouraged across our member firms through communication and education. We are asking our HR group to review and share good staff policies and procedures across the network, including health and wellbeing, fairness at work and encouraging balanced and diverse workforces.
We believe in providing our member firms with access to education to enable growth and development to ensure firms are sustainable and resilient.
In order to improve access to our educational activities, we have also contracted a preferential English language for Business online training course provided by the British Council.
Through our many global communities and networks we work towards gender equality on our Board and Groups to role model what we seek in our firms, share knowledge to assist firms to grow and to promote collaboration across all our firms to help them, their people, their clients and other stakeholders to thrive. We want to ensure there are ways for all parts of our network to get involved, develop their own networks and influence our future plans.
Our 2026 commitments:
– Facilitate the Sustainability Taskforce as it delivers a defined project to support member firms across all elements of ESG.
– Continue to support our international connectivity by providing access to leadership development and training on a multi-lingual basis to support equitable professional growth across regions.
– Promote inclusive leadership pathways and regional representation.
– Increase participation in our early careers and mentorship initiatives.
The Prosperity aspect of our Impact plan
Ensuring our stakeholders – our member firms – share in the benefits of membership and all have the opportunity to build their practices through collective goals, collaborative working and mentoring support.
We have established a Sustainability Taskforce, to bring together experts across our network who can guide our firms to becoming prepared and knowledgeable in terms of sustainability strategies, solutions and up-to-date regulatory advice. They will be helping member firms to develop their own client solutions for local clients to help them become sustainable, resilient businesses that are a force for good.
We provide as much free technical and development training as possible to ensure cost is not a boundary to self-development.
Our 2026 commitments:
– Provide coaching and signposting to support technical capability development.
The Planet aspect of our Impact plan
We believe it is our role to promote sustainable and responsible business practices.
We are committed to reducing the carbon footprint of our worldwide events and where possible holding them online, or in central locations where aviation travel can be minimised. We find hotels and venues with climate-friendly policies and approaches, and seek to ensure all aspects of our event delivery are as sustainable as possible.
We seek to benchmark these events and ensure each one does not exceed a certain carbon footprint baseline.
We advise our people to travel in an eco-friendly way, taking trains, travelling in more efficient ways and with carriers who are committed to carbon reduction.
We encourage our firms to appoint sustainability leads who can guide their firms.
Our 2026 commitments:
– Apply sustainable event principles when organising conferences, including selecting vendors based
on environmental credentials and implementing a sustainable events policy for vendors and delegates.
– Consider ease of access and travel efficiency when selecting conference locations.
– Assess the wider supplier base and collect environmental credentials to better understand the full operational impact of Kreston Global.
– Through the Sustainability Taskforce, adopt a holistic view of sustainability encompassing succession planning, leadership and growth support, people and recruitment strategies, ESG considerations, and selected UN SDGs.
– Develop a “Sustainable Firm” roadmap to advance environmental, social, and governance performance across the network. This includes guidance on reducing environmental impacts related to travel, supply chains, waste, commuting, and IT; promoting healthy and inclusive working practices; supporting community and social value initiatives; fostering ESG-related services; and keeping firms informed on evolving ESG regulations and reporting standards.
– Continue implementing our internal emissions reduction strategy, with a focus on business travel and supplier engagement.
– Share our GHG reporting model with interested member firms to support consistent Scope 3 tracking across the network.
The Partnerships aspect of our Impact plan
We cannot achieve this Impact plan alone: we need to work with partners who will help deliver our ambitions in the People, Prosperity and Planet areas.
We work with Ecologi to measure our Kreston Global HQ carbon footprint.
We work with our professional partners, the ACCA and AICPA, to access leading thinking for the future of our network to ensure we future-proof and build a sustainable network.
We are working with the British Council to ensure every firm can access Business English language training.
We work with high-quality trainers to provide our firms with ongoing leading coaching and training opportunities. Where possible these are free for members to use.
Finally, we work in partnership with our member firms – through member surveys and constant listening we aim to always be providing them with growth advice and ways to be sustainable businesses that contribute positively to the world.
Our 2026 commitments:
– Extend partnerships that improve access to training, tools, and international insight.
– Support firms in communicating their own impact stories and raising client awareness.
– Continue working with Ecologi to improve data quality and expand reporting coverage across operations.
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