The Impact Collective

Megan Hunter

Expertise: Driving Social Impact and Building Purposeful Strategies With over 8 years’ experience, Megan has worked across financial and professional services to design and deliver impactful strategies that prioritize customers and communities. She specialises in digital and financial inclusion, sustainability communication, and measuring social impact. Recent projects include developing business-wide strategies to embed purpose into […]

Liv Comberti

Liv is a design researcher and facilitator with over 12 years’ experience leading participatory research and social impact projects. She specialises in bringing together diverse stakeholders to solve complex, systemic challenges. Her work is rooted in an inclusive, trauma-informed approach, with a deep focus on understanding and shifting power dynamics. She has worked with charities, […]

Oli Whittington

Oli is a participatory and strategic designer with over 10 years of experience in interdisciplinary change-making, from the design of our cities to how we fund social change. His work combines design, participatory and deliberative practices to tackle systemic challenges through community-led design and governance.  Oli’s experience has centred on shifting power and agency over […]

Training for UK university social ventures

Our client: London School of Economics (LSE) / Impact U Duration: 90 min online trainings Final beneficiaries: UK universities and their students and academics developing social ventures The situation: Impact U brings together UK universities led by LSE to provide training and funding to support pre-seed social ventures founded by academics and students in their communities.    […]

Exploring the support needs of UK university social ventures

Our client: London School of Economics (LSE) / Impact U Duration: 2 months Final beneficiaries: UK universities and their students and academics developing social ventures   The situation: Impact U brings together UK universities led by LSE to provide training and funding to support pre-seed social ventures founded by academics and students. As they prepared to launch their […]

Emily Dunne

Expertise: Making sense of complex problems, building consensus around solving them, and designing and leading change. Emily has 14+ years experience in research and consulting. With a background in management and innovation consulting, she has conducted research and recommended strategies supporting major global corporations, non-profits, universities, accelerators and social enterprise start-ups to understand and respond […]

Candice Hampson

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Expertise: Strategy, Impact Management, Investment Candice Hampson is a dynamic leader and impact catalyst with a fervent commitment to social justice, equality, and health. With over a decade of dedicated service, she has left an indelible mark on both social investment and health innovation landscapes. During her seven years as an Investment Director at Big […]

Gregor Bräunig

Expertise: With 6+ years of experience in Product & UX in different digital companies, Gregor knows how to implement new ideas. Besides being well-structured & detail-oriented, he is always seeking the “Why” and eager to solve real-world problems. His high level of empathy allows him to execute profound user research, but also create great team […]

Aurelie Faugier

Expertise: bringing teams and partners together to identify problems and create solutions and increase the effectiveness of projects and teams. Aurelie is passionate about unlocking organisations’ potential and increasing opportunities for individuals, especially women and girls. Aurélie spent 3 years in India, and 2 years in Uganda, leading a local social business using passion fruit […]

Rakesh Sheth

Expertise: Developing organisations and incubating projects to deliver impact With 20 years’ experience, Rakesh has supported over 50 organisations to grow their impact. He brings experience across social investment, organisation development, programme design and direct delivery. Recent projects include process improvements to enable growth by a factor of two, delivering a capacity building programme to […]