Impact Institute helps organisations turn impact into strategy
Impact Institute helps organisations understand, value and act on their impact, across products, value chains and investments. Our solutions translate over a decade of impact knowledge into a practical impact strategy that informs decision-making across your organisation.
Resilience
Disruptions in the value chain are hard to predict, but with the right approach, anyone can navigate them. The organisations that successfully manage and respond to interruption are the ones that have identified which parts of their value chain are critical, where exposure is highest, and what it would take to keep operating effectively when conditions change.
Most resilience programmes focus on known and visible risks, leaving systemic exposures that run through supply chains and stakeholder relationships largely under-analysed. We conduct a structured analysis of your value chain to produce an in-depth map of where environmental dependencies, social risks, and financial exposures intersect. Which is then translated into a concrete resilience strategy built on our five-step Resilience Compass framework.
True Returns
Where True Profit accounts for what a company has generated across financial, social, and environmental factors. True Returns apply that same logic by integrating impact directly into investment models such as net present value and discounted cash flow. True Return is therefore a practical tool to understand the impact of your investments, showing long-term performance and where capital can be deployed most effectively.
For investors, this means capital allocation decisions grounded in a complete picture: what an organisation generates and what it costs external stakeholders. While for businesses, it reveals where value is being created and where it is being displaced, providing the evidence base for strategic decisions that compound in their favour in the long run.
True Pricing
The true price of a product is its market price plus the hidden social and environmental costs incurred throughout its value chain. These costs are not always visible but are often caused by people and the planet. Environmental costs include CO₂ emissions, land use, biodiversity loss, water consumption, and pollution. Social costs include underpayment, unsafe working conditions, inequality, and violations of fair labour practices.
Quantifying these costs in monetary terms allows organisations to identify where the most harm occurs across their value chain and take targeted steps to reduce it. To make products more sustainable, giving every stakeholder the information needed to act effectively. When producers, retailers, and consumers can see the True Price of what they produce and consume, infringements on human and natural rights can be restored, compensated, and, over time, prevented.
True Profit
Financial profit measures what a company earns, while True Profit measures what a company earns after fully accounting for its key external costs and benefits to society. The concept addresses the profitability gap between what the market currently rewards and what sustainable performance requires. As the business models that generate substantial societal value rarely get rewarded by the financial system, restricting their capacity to grow and scale.
True Profits provides a new economic compass for businesses, investors and policymakers, enabling the closure of the profitability gap and the creation of markets where impact and competitiveness reinforce each other. The result is a clear plan for closing the gap, constraining many impact‑driven organisations.