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Specialist ESG and Responsible Business Services for Vietnam and Southeast Asia.

Every service we offer addresses a specific challenge that exporters, manufacturers, and producers in this region face as international ESG expectations evolve. We deliver specialist advisory grounded in deep, hands-on experience — not generic frameworks.

Our services are organized across five practice areas. Most clients begin with ESG & Compliance Advisory. As your program develops, Capacity Building & Training and Business Mentorship deepen your internal capability.

ESG & Compliance Advisory

Global buyers, investors, and regulators expect businesses in Vietnam and Southeast Asia to prove responsible, transparent supply chains aligned with ESG standards. We deliver credible, practical, and sustainable ESG advisory, built on real experience inside global manufacturing and sourcing teams.

Human Rights Due Diligence & Supply Chain Transparency

Supply chain transparency and human rights due diligence are now baseline expectations in global trade. Emerging regulations require companies to map supply chains, assess risks, and take corrective action. So we help you build robust systems and evidence to meet these requirements with confidence.

ESG Reporting & Disclosure Readiness

As ESG frameworks evolve, businesses serving global buyers must provide structured data on environmental, social, and governance performance. We help you understand requirements, build reliable data systems, and deliver credible, future-ready ESG disclosures as expectations continue to grow.

Social Standards & Responsible Business Practices

Major global buyers expect suppliers to meet strong social standards across labor practices, worker rights, health & safety, working hours, & management systems. We help you build consistent internal processes that ensure compliance & performance beyond one-time assessments or audits.

Workplace Safety & Environmental Performance

Workplace health, safety, & environmental performance are critical to responsible business & often key gaps in global assessments. & provide accredited OHS advisory & training, alongside environmental reviews, to help you close gaps, strengthen systems, & demonstrate ongoing, measurable improvement.

Emerging ESG Regulation Advisory

The ESG regulatory landscape is rapidly evolving. Businesses that act early on new requirements are better positioned to maintain buyer relationships, secure market access, and avoid costly reactive compliance. We track ESG regulations and help you prepare proactively ahead of enforcement and future changes. ensuring ongoing compliance readiness

Capacity Building & Training

ESG frameworks and responsible business systems only deliver value when the people inside your organization understand and actively own them. This service builds genuine capability — through practical, accredited training programs designed for manufacturing and production environments.Our training programs are delivered by formally accredited practitioners with extensive experience facilitating compliance and sustainability capacity-building in multilingual manufacturing environments across Asia. All programs are designed for practical application — not classroom theory.

Business Mentorship

Guidance that grows with you.

Many business leaders across Southeast Asia face growing ESG expectations from international buyers and investors — without a dedicated sustainability team, a clear compliance roadmap, or a safe space to ask the questions they don't yet know how to frame. Business Mentorship is structured, practical guidance tailored to your specific situation. Whether you are responding to your first ESG requirement, building responsible practices into a growing business, or simply trying to make sense of what your buyers are asking — we work with you directly, at your pace, to turn uncertainty into a clear and manageable plan.

Trading & Partnership

Connecting businesses with opportunities — responsibly and commercially.

Our Trading & Partnership service operates across two distinct lenses: responsible sourcing support for buyers seeking ethical supply chain partners, and hands-on export facilitation for businesses looking to access international markets. Both are grounded in deep knowledge of the Vietnam and Southeast Asia commercial landscape.

Embedded & Bespoke Advisory

Need-based and customized ESG and responsible business advisory — for challenges that require a tailored approach.

We understand that every organization is different — with its own ESG maturity, buyer relationships, workforce profile, and timeline pressures. Not every challenge fits neatly into a standard service package. Embedded & Bespoke Advisory is an open engagement for business owners, investors, and industry partners with a specific, complex, or time-sensitive need. We offer an initial diagnostic conversation at no charge. We listen, ask the right questions, and propose an engagement designed specifically for your situation. If we are not the right partner for your needs, we will tell you honestly — and point you toward someone who is.

WHY CHOOSE US

We are specialists. Not generalists.

The ESG landscape in Vietnam and Southeast Asia is evolving rapidly — and the gap between what international buyers, investors, and regulators expect and what local businesses can access in terms of credible, specialist support is where Progressive Partners operates.

Inside knowledge: We have shaped the ESG frameworks and social standards programs that international buyers apply to their supply chains. We know what they look for — and where gaps most commonly appear.
Specialist, not generalist: ESG, supply chain sustainability, and responsible business is all we do. No dilution. No generic advice.
Regulatory foresight: We track the full horizon of ESG regulation — active and emerging. When requirements shift, you will be ready before your buyers ask.
On-the-ground in Vietnam: Based in Ho Chi Minh City. We understand the operating reality of manufacturing and trade here — not just the standards written elsewhere.
Practical, not theoretical: Every recommendation we make is implementable. We build systems your team can manage and sustain independently.
Multi-industry scope: Apparel, footwear, seafood, agriculture, electronics, furniture, construction — any export-oriented business where responsible business performance matters.