We don’t want to be in the problem-solving business—we want to be on a journey to visualizing and fulfilling on potential for and with our clients. To do that we value intentionality, flexibility, openness, constructiveness, partnership, cooperation, and honesty. We do not let perfection become the enemy of the good. We acknowledge complexity and navigate our way through it. We embrace innovation and change. We meet clients where they are at and help them to understand their roles and how they can use their resources, assets, and capabilities most effectively to do good and to activate, engage and partner with others.
We believe in a world where everyone has opportunity to learn, to work, to grow, to put food on the table. We believe in a world where we are not extractive—we are additive: we live in harmony with living systems and nurture our environment. We believe in change—nothing is set in stone—individuals, organizations and movements need to do things differently to right the wrongs of the past, empower those who have been marginalized or left behind and ensure social protection. We need to move the needle on new opportunities, work towards cohesion, inclusion, and opportunity, and to go further and faster to protect our planet and empower women and girls.
We value participation. We value listening. We value gathering and the collective power of groups. We rely on research and looking to the past and present to chart a better path forward. We know that people like numbers and measurements, but we also believe strongly in stories, experiences, and qualitative insights that help us design better and evidence change.
We know this is hard work. We know that this takes time, creativity, ingenuity, and patience. But if we believe in change, we need to do the hard work. We want to do it together with clients that want to see and fulfill on their potential to deliver impact.
We are enablers. We are not the front-line doers: we build the capacity, confidence, strategies, and tools for our partners and others to deliver on social, economic, and environmental outcomes.
We believe in the power of business solutions and that business and finance can be forces for good. We work with businesses big and small, those in the business development support system, impact investors, NGOs, innovators and multistakeholder organizations that see the power of business to change things for the better.
We work to learn and to enable outcomes.