Should organisations shift their preference for valuing their worth financially to valuing their social impact as a priority? 

If so, who is responsible for driving the change? The CEO? Chief Financial Officer? The Board? 

Should it be a top-down change or a bottom-up push from the people doing the social impact measurement?

Not frightened to challenge the status quo, our panellists will be calling for a change in how organisations value their worth!  

PANELLISTS

Speaking at this event are: 

1. Ben Carpenter

Chief Executive of Social Value UK and Social Value International 

Ben leads a global network of practitioners to develop principles and standards for social value accounting. He is part of the British National Social Value Taskforce and the British Standards Industry Committee for Social Value.

Prior to becoming CEO, Ben was Social Value UK’s Operations Manager developing international membership, assurance and accreditation services and led on projects with the OECD, World Economic Forum, Impact Management Project and World Business Council for Sustainable Development.

A background in homelessness, social housing and the built environment, affords him experience that spans an in-depth knowledge of Social Value accounting.

Ben will join us via video link. 

2. Awerangi Tamihere

Chief Operating Officer Commissioning For Outcomes Whānau Ora Agency & Te Whānau o Waipareira Trust Auckland, New Zealand

Awerangi has recently taken on the role of Chief Operating Officer for the New Zealand Whānau Ora Commissioning Agency.

She has been with the Commissioning Agency since its inception supporting the establishment and rollout of a commissioning for outcomes model that commissions within vulnerable indigenous communities; a wellbeing model based on priorities identified by families.

She is also the COO for Urban Māori Organisation – Te Whānau O Waipareira Trust, a community based institution that advocates for family wellbeing, undertakes delivery of integrated models of services and measures the impact of its delivery to the community.

Awerangi has spent the last three decades working to support development of policy, blueprinting gamechangers together with operationalising systemic change that contributes to the success and wellbeing of Māori.

Her career has spanned central government, regional crown entities, the private sector and working within her own tribal communities.    

More recently her work has focused on social innovation and evidencing social impact in the Whānau Ora space. A New Zealand Woman of Influence Finalist and also a Board member of Māori Economic Development Advisory Board (MEDAB) of which it’s Maori Economic development goals are also underpinned by outcomes progressing the wellbeing of Māori.

Awerangi will join us via video link. 

3. Simon Faivel

Chair, Social Impact Measurement Network of Australia Ltd (SIMNA) 

SIMNA is Australia’s national not-for-profit knowledge sharing network for social impact measurement.

Simon is the founding Chair of SIMNA Ltd; he is co-chair of Social Value International and a Director in the Consulting team at Social Ventures Australia (SVA).

An accredited Social Value and Social Return on Investment (SROI) trainer and practitioner, Simon's work at SVA has cut across the social, government and corporate sectors.

He has led large-scale evaluation projects for the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet and has designed outcomes frameworks for large and complex not-for-profit organisations.

4. Ross Kyrwood

Chief Executive Officer YMCA WA and National Advocate for Young People and Social Impact

Ross is responsible for leading a change to social impact measurement with the 18 YMCA Member Associations.