Centre for Sustainable Leadership - ZNU (Zentrum für Nachhaltige Unternehmensführung)

ZNU – Centre for Sustainable Leadership (Zentrum für Nachhaltige Unternehmensführung) is a non-profit, application-oriented research institute at Witten/Herdecke University in Germany focused on sustainable corporate management. It brings together research, teaching, professional education and partnership networks to make sustainability practical and measurable in business and along value chains, blending environmental, economic and social dimensions. The centre develops methods such as the ZNU-Standard Driving Sustainable Change—a holistic, certifiable standard for embedding sustainability into corporate governance. It also offers training programmes and tools to help managers and organisations implement sustainability as a long-term leadership practice.