Measuring Impact for Sustainability II 2

MEASURING IMPACT FOR SUSTAINABILITY

MASTERCLASS

Key Benefits

Length : 5 Weeks

Program Date :June 7 – July 12

Live Sessions :

June 15th
June 18th
June 29th

Structure :

Self-guided course
Live Sessions
Add-on Workshop
Digital credential

Group rates available. Contact : iixinstitute@iixglobal.com for more info.

Overview

Take part in a virtual masterclass designed to equip you with the skills to transform finance and catalyze impact.

Despite breakthroughs in innovation, our generation is faced with serious challenges when it comes to addressing the reality of climate change, reducing economic and gender inequality, and tackling poverty around the world. In finance, the transition to sustainable investments is not yet happening at the pace and scale needed to meet the SDGs.

Yet these challenges can be met only if we can measure the effectiveness of our response.

In this Masterclass, learn how to measure impact and sustainability from our CEO, Professor Durreen Shahnaz along with guest speakers who are industry pioneers. By the end of the course, you’ll gain:

A global understanding of the impact measurement ecosystem
Knowledge of how to refine your impact measurement strategy to improve your investment portfolio
Mastery of IIX’s widely-accepted impact assessment approach, valued by investors, donors, and enterprises

Gain professional certification

This masterclass is part of the Virtual Executive Program – a unique blended learning experience that equips you with the full spectrum of key knowledge and skills needed to propel the sustainable development movement forward.

COURSE OUTLINE

This masterclass is designed to be bite-sized and digestible for working professionals through modules of self-guided on-demand course videos, readings, live sessions with guest speakers, and an add-on workshop. At the end of this masterclass, you will emerge with an advanced understanding of best practices and current perspectives of the impact measurement and ESG process, and be able to identify key success factors to creating real change. You will receive a digital credential from the IIX Institute upon completing the masterclass and passing the certificate exam.

Week 1: Pre-masterclass preparation

Week 2: Fundamentals of Impact

Learn about impact and understand the importance of measuring impact
Identify the SDG funding gap and the role of (gender-lens) impact investing in achieving the SDGs
Gain industry insights about best practices and new perspectives in impact measurement – including ESG practices

Week 3: Key Elements of the Impact Measurement Process

Dive deeper into understanding how an organization creates impact by exploring its outcomes, stakeholders, and SROI
Discuss critical success factors that create change within an organization
Learn about how impact can be scaled throughout the investment process

Week 4: A Global View of Impact Assessments

Examine the impact assessment in practice
Understand how to measure impact using IIX’s proprietary assessment methodology

Week 5: Add-On Workshop

Week 6: Review and Certificate Exam

Key Benefits

Instructors

Professor Durreen Shahnaz

CEO and Founder, Impact Investment Exchange (IIX)

Durreen Shahnaz is a global leader of social impact and impact investing. Born in Bangladesh, Durreen has built an international track record as a social entrepreneur, banker, media executive and academic at institutions, including Morgan Stanley (New York), Grameen Bank (Bangladesh), Hearst Magazines International (New York) and the National University of Singapore.

She is the recipient of 2017 Oslo Business for Peace Award, often referred to as the ‘Nobel Prize for Business’, amongst numerous other awards.

Guest Speakers

Jeremy Nicholls

Former CEO, Social Value International

Live session on June 15th

Jeremy is the founder of Social Value UK and Social Value International. He is also a director of the FRC Group (a social business based in Liverpool), a non-executive director of Social Investment Business, and a Fellow of Practice of the Government Outcomes Lab at the Blavatnik School of Government. Jeremy also chairs the British Standards Institute’s social value subcommittee and is a member of the IRIS advisory committee, the Social Value Taskforce, and the Social Stock Exchange admissions panel. He has lectured at several Universities including the Said Business School at Oxford University, Hult International Business School, and the University of Western Australia.

He has written’ There is no business like Social Business’ with Liam Black, and worked with others to write a number of SROI guides including, the ‘Guide to SROI’ and regularly blogs on social value

Prof. David Musto

Ronald O. Perelman Professor in Finance, The Wharton School

Live session on June 18th

David K. Musto is the Ronald O. Perelman Professor in Finance at the Wharton School, where he has been on the faculty since 1995. He also served as Senior Financial Economist at the Securities Exchange Commission from 2005 to 2007 and is on the advisory board of Human Interest. He has a B.A. from Yale University and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, and between college and graduate school, he worked for Roll and Ross Asset Management in Culver City, CA. Most of his work, both theoretical and empirical, is in the area of consumer financial services, mutual funds, and consumer credit in particular. He has also published work on corporate and political voting, option pricing, short selling, and cross-border taxation.

Sara Olsen

CEO & Founder, SVT Group

Live session on June 29th

Sara Olsen is the founder of SVT Group, an impact management firm that provides investors, companies and social enterprises support to measure, manage and communicate their social and environmental impact (e.g. theory of change, impact metrics, impact IT systems onboarding and support, retrospective impact analyses and more). A pioneer in the social capital markets, Olsen and SVT’s team of subject-matter experts have measured the social and environmental value of approximately $9.08 Bn in private equity, debt, and grants in dozens of countries and issue areas. Recent clients include Yo Yo Ma, Restore the Earth Foundation, Fair Trade USA, Global Fund for Women, Beneficial State Bank, and CalPERS’ Environmental Investment Advisor.

She is founding board member of Social Value United States and co-chair of the methodology subcommittee of Social Value International; has taught at Stanford Graduate School of Business, Middlebury Institute of International Studies, and others; and is the author of several publications on impact management. Sara earned her MBA from UC Berkeley and MSW from the University of Chicago.

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