Author: Torsten Spill

From 2025, all so-called “large companies” (according to directive 2013/34/EU) will be obliged to prepare, have audited and certified and publish a sustainability report. In Germany alone, over 15,000 companies are affected, which often must document their internal work and their business relationships along the supply chain with completely new disclosure demands. This is more… Continue reading Performance chaos as of 2025 in your company? Better prepare now for ESG reporting requirements

Especially if you have business relationships with larger companies or you belong to the category of large companies yourself, now is the time to prepare for sustainable business and introduce a sustainability management system (“SMS”) step by step, but systematically. Why is this so? A demonstrably sustainable way of doing business is (still) a unique… Continue reading Introducing a consistent sustainability management system: Why is it worthwhile right now?

In many conversations with entrepreneurs and executives, I heard again and again what “kind of madness” politics and society demand of the companies with regard to ESG obligations (environmental, social, governance). Occasionally I even heard voices that spoke of stopping, giving up or relocating abroad due to the disclosure, reporting and implementation obligations for sustainable… Continue reading Tips to make it easier to cope

My next newsletter is in preparation and will be published soon. Find out about my solutions and projects for introducing a sustainability management system. As a certified ZNU sustainability manager and, most recently, also an auditor for the ZNU standard, I show medium-sized and small companies in the agricultural and food industry the way to… Continue reading Perspectives on sustainable management: Your newsletter is coming soon

Some of my clients are confused! During the annual financial statement process, the auditors warned of the coming sustainability reporting obligation for many larger companies and asked management to prepare for it. In fact, many large companies are required to prepare a sustainability report in accordance with the EU Corporate Sustainability Directive (CSRD) for the… Continue reading What are your auditors demanding regarding to your future sustainability reporting requirements?

The EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) is an unstoppable change that will have a lasting impact on the corporate landscape. This directive is ground-breaking because it calls on companies to take responsibility and firmly integrate sustainability into their business practices. Despite the concerns and the effort involved, it also opens immense opportunities for your… Continue reading Don’t wait, start acting now

It strikes me that many medium-sized and family businesses in the agri-business hardly report at all about their commitment to sustainability. That should change because: On the one hand, the legal framework for sustainable management is continuously tightening for more and more companies. On the other hand, more and more people in the company and… Continue reading Do the sustainability check

A special characteristic of sustainable management is when companies manage to retain the required specialists or recruit new ones. The scientific work of Anna Wangerow. “Employer competition in the food industry” (2021, University of Göttingen) documents precisely that, compared to the economy as a whole, medium-sized companies in the food industry are finding it more… Continue reading Retaining and attracting talents and specialists: One of the greatest challenges for medium-sized companies in the agricultural and food industry

One of the approaches in working with my corporate clients is coaching. When dealing with challenges such as growth projects, mergers, changes in culture to increase attractiveness for specialists or towards more sustainable management, I like to use individual coaching to support the people involved. Most of the time, this coaching is embedded in implementation… Continue reading Coaching as a sustainable approach to better cope with challenges in work and private life: Kuestenlichter-Coaches (Coast Lights) help

Now back again: After a longer break, my new newsletter in German will be published soon. If you want to know how medium-sized companies in the agricultural and food industry can do business more sustainably without overloading their own management capacities, then you should subscribe to the newsletter. If you want to know how small… Continue reading Perspectives on sustainable management: Your newsletter is coming soon