2025 Impact Report

Growth and impact aren’t competing priorities. They never were.

The companies that create the strongest results find new ways to connect technology, creativity, and data, not only to move faster, but to build businesses that are more resilient, more responsible, and more valuable over time.

In 2025, we sharpened our focus on Growth Invention and made it clear that our impact goals can’t just sit beside our ambition to help clients grow, but power it.

When we help clients build accessible platforms, deploy ethical AI, redesign supply chains, or accelerate sustainable commerce, we are building smarter systems, which create bigger outcomes and lead to stronger impact.

Impact that grows

In 2026, our focus is simple: help clients grow in durable ways, lead responsibly in how we apply AI, continue reducing our environmental footprint, and keep building a company our people are proud to be part of.

The 2025 DEPT® Impact Report offers an inside perspective into our biggest achievements as well as our learning moments. It demonstrates that, while the fundamentals of our impact strategy haven’t changed, the way we execute that strategy continues to grow and evolve as we do.

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Impact built into the work itself.

This is where Growth Invention matters most: helping clients harness technology’s capabilities in ways that drive business growth while also helping them operate more responsibly, reach more people, reduce friction and waste, and address meaningful societal and environmental challenges.

Here’s a look at some of our favorite examples of impactful work from 2025:

Nyiyaparli Living Language Project: At 41,000 years old and with only 8 fluent speakers remaining, Nyiyaparli is among the oldest and most at-risk languages in the world. We partnered with the NLLP to create an adventure game designed to engage young people in learning their ancestral tongue and help keep Nyiyaparli alive forever.
UNICEF Netherlands: Together, we built and launched a new donation platform. The result is a seamless, end-to-end digital experience designed to deepen engagement by inspiring hope and empowering individuals to make a tangible difference.
Government of Barbados: We helped the Barbadian government develop the brand identity and digital platform behind the R.O.A.D. (Reclaiming Our Atlantic Destiny) Programme, a wide-ranging cultural initiative designed to preserve historical records and educate people on the lasting impact of colonialism and the transatlantic slave trade.

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From ambition to action on diversity, equity, and inclusion.

In 2025, we moved from defining our DE&I priorities to actually embedding them. That meant more structured programmes, clearer accountability, and better data to understand where we’re making progress and where there’s still more work to do. As a result, we’re now in a more mature phase of this work and building the foundation to create sustainable, lasting change.

Our internal diversity driver scores, which measure how Depsters feel about inclusion, improved across every demographic group we track. And DEPT®/WOMEN, DEPT®/PRIDE, and DEPT®/MOSAIC (our Employee Resource Groups) continued to grow in scale and depth as they expanded their mentorship programmes, advocacy work, and cultural initiatives across the globe.

41.0% women in leadership
49.5% women managers globally
19.9% women in tech

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Science-based targets. Measurable progress.

In 2025, our climate targets were officially approved by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), independently validating that our commitments are aligned with limiting warming to 1.5°C, not just well-intentioned.

Having credible targets is the starting point. The harder work (and where most of 2025’s energy went) is building the operational infrastructure to actually achieve them. To that end, we formalized our Climate Action Plan, a structured roadmap that defines how we intend to get from where we are to where our SBTi commitments require us to be by 2030 and beyond.

As part of the plan, we also created dedicated teams responsible for developing short, medium, and long-term action plans to achieve our SBTI targets across key areas, including business travel, housing, and IT.

Meanwhile, we’re proud to report that our total carbon footprint fell from 11,388 t/CO₂ to 10,293 t/CO₂, and our renewable electricity consumption reached new heights as three of our offices transitioned to renewable energy sources during the year.

10.85% reduction in total carbon footprint
61% of our electricity comes from renewable sources
SBTi-verified targets aligned to 1.5°C
5th consecutive year with Climate Label Certification

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Community

What better way to celebrate an annual tradition as beloved as DEPT® Cares than to make it part of an even bigger celebration? In 2025, we combined DEPT® Cares with NEXT10, our global 10th anniversary gathering, and the response was extraordinary.

More than 1,700 Depsters showed up across 23 locations in 16 countries, contributing over 4,800 hours of volunteering in a single day. Activities spanned everything from reforesting wildfire-stricken areas to spending meaningful time with senior citizens, and from packing care kits for families in need to hosting awareness conversations at a transgender shelter.

In total, we hit a 48% company-wide participation rate, nearly double our 25% target and the highest in our history.