SDG-ESG benchmarking for companies
GreenMLA®
Green Management & Leadership Award
2025/26
Learning from the best “green companies”
Learning from the best “green companies”
How can entrepreneurs comprehensively reflect on the sustainability of their company and better position their business in the market? With the help of scientific comparative SDG-ESG benchmarking!
The “GreenMLA® Green Management & Leadership Award” benchmarking is aimed at companies that want to evaluate the sustainability of their products, services, and processes in an anonymous comparison.
Your benefits
Vorteile für Unternehmen und Organisationen bei einer Teilnahme am GreenMLA®
Green Management & Leadership Award sind:
The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and ESG criteria for environmental factors, social aspects, and corporate governance show how sustainable a company is. Our questionnaire covers all SDG-ESG aspects you need to consider. The questionnaire is available in English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Finnish, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Hungarian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Serbian, Slovenian, Ukrainian, and Russian.
The Green Management & Leadership Award supports companies in positioning themselves as green companies in corporate rankings.
Customers are increasingly making their purchasing decisions based on SDG and ESG factors. They want to know what kind of company they are doing business with.
The SDGs and ESG criteria are increasingly important decision-making factors for investors when assessing companies in terms of sustainability-related opportunities and risks.
The award ceremony will take place at DigiSustain in Frankfurt, attended by over 100 economic and political decision-makers.
Future-proof companies are sustainable companies. Participating in the Green Management & Leadership Award 2025 shows the way to your sustainable future!
Initiated by
In a nutshell
The basis is a questionnaire that contains key performance indicators for SDG and ESG criteria according to the IMLead® concept of integrated management and leadership.
ESG criteria refer to environmental factors, social aspects, and good corporate governance, which reflect standards for sustainable business practices. The Green Management & Leadership
Award integrates these sustainability aspects into a holistic management concept for sustainable corporate governance and highlights individual performance in comparison to other organizations. This reveals potential for improvement for the further development of the company.
All companies headquartered in Germany, Austria, or Switzerland are eligible to participate. The winners are entitled to use the title “Green Management & Leadership Award” for publicity purposes. In addition, these companies will be featured in detail on our media channel. In particular, the reasons for the award will be explained.
We do not charge a processing fee for participation in the GreenMLA® Green Management & Leadership Award. Each participating company receives a certificate of participation with a seal and a customized evaluation report that shows the current implementation status and highlights potential for further development.
You can call our service line at
07071 / 54 999 20.
The questionnaire can be requested using the contact form or directly from
Export Academy Baden-Württemberg
Konrad-Adenauer-Straße 13
72072 Tübingen
+49 07071 / 54 999 20
greenmla(at)eabw.org
Modern data visualization and questionnaire analysis
Benchmarking has proven to be one of the most powerful tools companies can use to change their practices, improve their results, and demonstrate sustainability.
How it works
Complete benchmark service
Data is obtained through the analysis, evaluation and implementation of measures based on examples of good practice, enabling our customers to achieve more efficient processes and ultimately higher levels of performance. Practical benchmarking can lead to realistic target-setting processes across a wide range of performance indicators, promoting a more efficient environment.
Initiators and Developers
Export-Akademie Baden-Württemberg has launched Global Alliance for Sustainable Technology Transfer to support companies around the world through the exchange of ideas, research and best practices. The GreenMLA Benchmark provides companies and enterprises with regional and international benchmarks for strategic planning and development.
The service includes benchmark guide research for companies and businesses, along with full analysis and unlimited research reports.
Experience reports
What people say about us
We take this award as a base for jumping the next step, we want to be better.
We found it very exciting to see what sustainability means for a company and what impact it can have in a wide range of disciplines. That was the reason why we took part, to see where we stand and to have the report, what comes out as a result. Where is there potential on our side, where do we have to become active.
We applied for the award to prove to the employees that we are on the right way.
Meet some of the most sustainable companies from our recent benchmarkings!
#1 Rational AG
Rational AG, headquartered in Landsberg am Lech, Germany, is a manufacturer and service provider of cooking systems for thermal food preparation.
#1 SchwörerHaus KG
SchwörerHaus KG is a prefabricated house manufacturer from Hohenstein-Oberstetten, Germany.
#3 Quimron GmbH
Quimron GmbH is a software company based in Stuttgart, Germany, with a focus on digital platform realization, customer-centric app development, AI, augmented reality, cloud services, big data and blockchain.
Initiator and Developer
The Export-Akademie Baden-Württemberg provides specific international management training, the organisations have more than thirty years experience in the field of academic training.
For more than 35 years, Export-Akademie Baden-Württemberg has been supporting companies and organizations in raising their innovation potential and successfully positioning themselves in the market. The IMLead® concept of Integrated Management & Leadership management developed by the Export-Akademie forms the framework for the consulting and training programs. This concept brings together the different perspectives of technology, digitization processes, competence development and sustainable management & leadership.
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Contact us
+49 7071 54 999 20
Konrad-Adenauer-Strasse 13 72072 Tübingen, Germany
greenmla@eabw.org