KERAMIDA is a GRI Certified Training Partner in the U.S.
GRI Reporting Training: We are one of only a select few certified companies in the U.S. to bring you training on how to effectively report on sustainability using the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) framework.
GRI Certified Standards Training Course
Our time-saving, 4-in-1 GRI Certified Sustainability Professional Course covers all the modules required for the GRI Certified Professional Exam:
Reporting with GRI Standards
Reporting on Human Rights with the GRI Standards
Navigating the GRI Sector Standards
Transparency for Tomorrow: Decoding the Sustainability Reporting Landscape (2025)
What is included?
In addition to the 4 GRI training modules above, you also get access to the KERAMIDA team for months afterward!
All participants receive: on-call support, study guides, exercises, and knowledge checks
25% discount toward the GRI Certification Exam
2026 Training Dates
Q1 session: March 30 – April 3
Q2 session: June 15–20
Q3 session: August 10–14
Q4 session: October 19–23
To schedule a private training date for your team of 4+ people, request a training date.
Course Details
Build the knowledge and skills you need to create a report using the latest 2021 GRI Standards and learn ways to improve the quality of your sustainability reporting. Our experts have created an engaging, effective, and time-saving 4-in-1 GRI-Certified Sustainability Professional Course, taught by GRI-Certified trainers, that can be completed in just five 4-hour online sessions.
KERAMIDA’s GRI Certified Sustainability Professional Course covers all modules required for the GRI Certified Professional Exam:
Reporting with GRI Standards
Reporting on Human Rights with the GRI Standards
Navigating the GRI Sector Standards
Transparency for Tomorrow: Decoding the Sustainability Reporting Landscape (2025)
Suggested 5-Day Online Training Schedule
Day 1: 12pm – 4pm EST
Day 2: 12pm – 4pm EST
Day 3: 12pm – 4pm EST
Day 4: 12pm – 4pm EST
Day 5: 12pm – 4pm EST
Who is this course for?
This course is aimed at a wide range of participants, including sustainability managers, ESG specialists, reporters, C-suite executives, and students in sustainability. There are no specific knowledge prerequisites for the course!
Meet Your GRI-Certified Trainer
Anastasia Kyrmanidou, Ph.D.
Senior Manager, Sustainability Strategy & Reporting
KERAMIDA Inc.
Certifications:
GRI Certified Sustainability Professional
TCFD Knowledge Hub
Dr. Kyrmanidou joined KERAMIDA in January 2019 to support the company’s sustainability and climate services. Dr. Kyrmanidou has extensive experience in ESG strategic planning and reporting projects, benchmarking and gap analysis, materiality assessments, sustainability report writing, and assurance. She has been trained in various sustainability reporting frameworks (including GRI, TCFD, TNFD, CDP, SASB, CSRD) and has supported many companies in preparing their GRI-aligned sustainability reports. Dr. Kyrmanidou received her doctorate in Geosciences (2018) from Southern Illinois University, specializing in the use of paleoenvironmental proxies to study climate change in the Antarctic Peninsula. She holds a Master of Science in Environmental Policy and Management and a Bachelor of Science in Marine Science from the University of the Aegean in Greece.
GRI Professional Certification Program
Online Synchronous Training: KERAMIDA’s 20-hour, 4-in-1 full GRI Certified Sustainability Professional Course includes the following four modules taught over five daily 4-hour sessions:
Reporting with GRI Standards
Reporting on Human Rights with the GRI Standards
Navigating the GRI Sector Standards
Transparency for Tomorrow: Decoding the Sustainability Reporting Landscape (2025)
Course materials are copyright-protected by Stitching Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and KERAMIDA Inc.
GRI Training Certificate
By completing the full course, participants will be prompted to take a post-training survey. Once this is submitted, participants will receive a certificate of completion for the Reporting with GRI Standards course, the Reporting on Human Rights with the GRI Standards course, the Navigating the GRI Sector Standards course, and the Transparency for Tomorrow course.
GRI Professional Certification Exam
Completing this course will also prepare students to take the GRI Certification Exam to qualify to become a GRI Certified Sustainability Professional. If any participants wish to take the exam, they can purchase it through the GRI Academy and receive a 25% discount on the cost of the exam.
GRI-Approved Trainers
KERAMIDA is a GRI Certified Training Partner. Our GRI Training Course is taught through live virtual sessions by our GRI Certified Sustainability Professionals. Our experts have sustainability reporting expertise in a wide range of industries and can answer your sector-specific and company-specific questions, and provide training that fits the needs of learners with any level of sustainability reporting experience.
Participant Feedback
“I really enjoyed the benchmarking activities (putting what we were learning to practice) and the knowledge checks.
I think you did a great job at presenting the materials and answering all of the questions that we had.”
“I love your approach for the GRI Training. Great customer service, thank you for seeking out and prioritizing my needs for the training.”
“Encourage people to take this course as a starting point to preparing their first GRI report. It would have saved me a lot of time and confusion had I started with this course. The course was so helpful!”
“The class was very useful and informational. I’m happy that I attended and I think it will help me and my team as we assess our next level sustainability reporting. ”
“I learned so much in the training and have raved about it to everyone, from my boss, to my co-workers to my family.”
“Course was extremely well taught. Nice overview of the GRI framework, great focus on the salient issues, and very thoughtful/interactive exercises to help apply what we learned.”
“The course instructor has a strong command of the subject matter and was great at facilitating feedback from participants in a friendly and supportive manner.”
“Great instructor, left feeling much more prepared to develop my first GRI report.”
“The feedback on training has been wonderful – everyone learned so much and feels more confident counseling our clients.”
“The training was very engaging and educational. I go to a lot of training and most of them could be very dry. The interaction kept everything fresh and dynamic.”
“Very informative and helpful. You have a wonderful team.”
“Overall, really, really, really loved the course... I have already recommended it to some peers!”
“The training was excellent. The trainer is friendly, knowledgeable, and professional.”
