Frequently Asked Questions and Answers (FAQs)
Basics of IMPCT for Change
Question: What exactly does IMPCT for Change do?
Answer: IMPCT for Change develops strategies and processes with which companies, foundations, and social entrepreneurs achieve economic, ecological, and socio-cultural goals. The focus is on systemic levers, measurable impact, and resilience. Instead of optimizing individual measures, structures, business models, and cooperations are aligned in such a way that sustainable change is anchored in the core business.
Question: What does "Impact" mean to you?
Answer: Impact means more to us than good intentions or any result. It is about verifiable changes in structures and behaviors – along the entire value chain and in relevant systems. We work with impact logics, KPIs, and monitoring to make cause-effect relationships visible and ensure that activities actually contribute to achieving sustainability goals.
Question: Why do you place so much emphasis on resilience?
Answer: Resilience is the ability of organizations to remain capable of acting in crises and to actively continue developing. Climate crisis, regulation, social tensions, and market pressure make short-term solutions risky. With future-proof business models, clear priorities, and robust cooperations, we help reduce risks, seize opportunities, and connect stability with transformation capability – economically, ecologically, and socially.
Working Methods and Approach
Question: How does IMPCT for Change work in projects?
Answer: We usually start with analysis and co-creation phases: market and materiality analyses, stakeholder consideration, impact logics, and lever identification. From this, strategies and measures emerge – from governance to communication. Close collaboration with on-site teams is important. We accompany long-term but can also take on specific phases such as strategy development, reporting, or monitoring.
Question: What distinguishes you from classic management consulting?
Answer: We work systemically, cross-sectorally, and consistently impact-oriented. Instead of just optimizing efficiency or image, we link business models, sustainability, culture, and partnerships. Our team brings experience from business, science, foundation work, politics, and social entrepreneurship. In addition, we utilize a network of experts that connects project-specifically. This creates solutions that are strategically viable and practically implementable.
Question: How do you involve different stakeholders?
Answer: Sustainable transformation only succeeds if relevant actors are involved. We identify key stakeholders from business, politics, civil society, and science – internal and external. In moderated processes, we create spaces for dialogue, co-creation, and shared target images. This leads to viable cooperations, clear roles, and a common understanding of responsibility, impact, and priorities along the key topics.
Services for Companies
Question: Which companies does IMPCT for Change support?
Answer: We work with companies of various sizes and industries that want to strategically anchor sustainability – from Bundesliga clubs to tourism organizations. Decisive is that they are willing to further develop business models, structures, and culture. Whether entry, regulatory preparation, or deepening: We adapt the depth and scope of collaboration to maturity level, resources, and ambitions.
Question: How do you help companies with ESG, CSRD, and reporting?
Answer: We connect regulatory requirements with strategic added value. This includes materiality analyses, impact logics, KPIs, data systems, and the conception of sustainability reports as a management tool. Instead of just fulfilling reporting obligations, we use reporting to make risks, opportunities, and priorities visible. This turns the report into a navigation system for decisions, investments, and the further development of business models.
Question: What typical services does IMPCT for Change offer for companies and organizations?
Answer: Examples include: Development of sustainability and transformation strategies, analysis of sustainability topics along the value chain, development of impact logics and monitoring, moderation of co-creation and stakeholder processes, development of corporate citizenship approaches, positioning and communication concepts, as well as support in integrating ESG criteria into financing, investments, and steering logics.
Foundations and Social Entrepreneurship
Question: How do you specifically support foundations?
Answer: We accompany foundations in strategy, governance, and impact: from founding consulting and statute design to funding logics, impact chains, and monitoring, up to impact reports and communication. The goal is to set up engagement effectively, transparently, and future-proof. This also includes organizational development, cooperations with partners, and the use of data and analyses to bundle resources where they have the greatest leverage.
Question: What do you offer social entrepreneurs?
Answer: We support along the entire life cycle: founding, legal form and business model development, impact concept, financing, and scaling. Together, we define impact goals, KPIs, and measurement logics, build structures for monitoring and reporting, and strengthen teams in strategy, governance, and communication. The goal is to connect economic viability with social and ecological added value – and to purposefully leverage the lever for the SDGs.
Impact, SDGs, and Model
Question: How does IMPCT for Change understand "impact"?
Answer: Impact means verifiable change of conditions for us, not just the implementation of activities. We look at output, outcome, and impact: from measures to behavior and structure changes to long-term effects on environment and society. Through systemic analyses, impact logics, KPIs, and feedback loops, we make visible how interventions work in complex systems and where adjustments are needed.
Question: What role do the 17 SDGs play in your work?
Answer: The SDGs are a global framework and common reference system for us. We help organizations translate the 17 goals and 169 sub-goals to concrete business activities, prioritize them, and link them to strategic levers. This creates clear focal points, measurable contributions, and greater resilience to crises. The SDGs serve not only communication but also strategic control and alignment of investments.
Question: What is the IMPCT model?
Answer: The IMPCT model is our approach to design transformative impact as a continuous improvement process. It connects analysis, strategy, implementation, and learning in a cycle. Organizations recognize systemic interrelationships, identify levers, implement prioritized measures, and review their effects. This creates a structured, data-based path to gradually develop business models, structures, and cooperations toward sustainable future viability. (Image integration optional, not included here.)
Collaboration and Getting Started
Question: Who is collaboration with you suitable for?
Answer: For organizations that want to understand sustainability not as a side project but as a strategic task – whether companies, foundations, or social entrepreneurs. Collaboration is particularly worthwhile if business models, governance, culture, or partnerships are facing upheaval. Those ready to take responsibility, set priorities, and unfold long-term impact find an equal partner in us.
Question: How does a typical project with IMPCT for Change start?
Answer: It usually begins with a get-to-know and clarification process: goals, challenges, status quo, internal resources, and time horizons. Based on this, we propose a suitable approach – such as analysis phase, workshop series, pilot project, or comprehensive strategy process. It is important to involve relevant stakeholders early and define clear expectations, roles, and milestones so that impact and learning processes align from the start. We excel especially in assignments where there is only a "blank sheet of paper" and things must be shaped together from scratch.