We empower organizations to embed future-proof netsocietal™ impact with best-in-class data analytics, science, and strategy.
Be netsocietal™
Make everyone better off
Being netsocietal™ means making everyone affected better off—today and in the future.
For organizations, this means going beyond reducing harm, shifting harm, and offsetting the negative consequences. Being netsocietal™ means actively creating a positive impact on society, the environment, and the economy that would not exist without the organization.
With data towards netsocietal™ impact
Our principles
Impact that is measurable and noticeable
Our mission
Our mission is to help organizations create a truly positive impact on society, the environment, and the economy—while, at the same time, increasing organizational success.
Our clients
What we work for
Our ambition is to help our clients make the world a better place, focusing in particular on four areas where we believe our skills can make the biggest difference.
Focus areas
- Circular built environment
- Healthy and livable cities
- Nature-based solutions
- Philanthropy and impact investment
The netsocietal™ impact approach
What we do
We provide data analytics, scientific, and strategic tools to help organizations navigate complexities and uncertainties, identify unique challenges as well as bold new opportunities and scalable solutions to maximize their netsocietal™ impact.
We offer a six-package approach to help organizations move beyond mere posturing to make the bold changes needed to deliver netsocietal™ impact.
Start your impact journey.
We help you assess your situation today and plan your impact journey. We do this by identifying the societal impact issues central to your organization and linking them to tangible implications for your future performance.
Understand regulatory demands and societal impact expectations.
We help you identify the critical regulatory and societal impact demands including less obvious ones coming from your clients, users, and stakeholders.
Navigate today’s complexities and future uncertainties.
We help you conduct cross-societal international trend mapping and scenario building to navigate uncertain times and identify new bold opportunities and solutions.
Quantify and communicate your impact data.
We help you collect, analyze, and report impact data based on our great knowledge of solid and valid methods and solutions for automation of impact measurement and reporting.
Engage and partner to strengthen your impact case.
We help you identify collaboration partners and to engage effectively with users, investors, and stakeholders, and build partnerships to increase your netsocietal™ impact.
Redesign your organization, embed netsocietal™ impact.
We help redesign organizational roles, strategy, and business models to execute your netsocietal™ impact strategy and realize value from being netsocietal™.
Most value lies in realizing how things are connected
Some of our work at netsocietal™
Projects
Our work blends quantitative and qualitative data analytics with scientific insights and strategy. The questions we address range from “How to create impact?” and “How to measure impact?” to “How to align impact strategy and business model to make profit while solving the world’s problems?”. Below are some of our projects.
Landsbyggefonden
Case studies of health initiatives in the public housing sector
- describe the initiatives, including partners, and stakeholders
- understand how the initiatives affect inhabitants
- link initiatives to relevant data to show the scope of the effects
- communicate the initiatives in the form of a one-pager to decision-makers
Analyses: Interviews, document analysis
Novo Nordisk Foundation
Developments in Impact Reporting
Analysis of impact reporting among 23 leading philanthropic and public foundations invited to the study.
The study provides insights into the development of impact reporting, including challenges, methods, systems, organizational setup, and the application and value of impact reporting and impact data.
Analysis types: Interviews, qualitative and quantitative analysis
Realdania By og Byg
Screening model for life in city centers
Development of a 4-stage screening method to evaluate life in city centers and retail businesses to derive recommendations on what should be initiated, kept, and supported.
- Stage 1: A quantitative screening tool
- Stage 2: Qualitative frameworks to assess individual cities that provide quantifiable observational data
- Stage 3: In-depth data analysis, resulting in screening indicators
- Stage 4: Geographic mapping of key data
Analyses: quantitative analysis, urban analysis, document analysis
CONCITO
Stakeholder analysis
Qualitative analysis among the most important stakeholders in Denmark and internationally to understand the positioning within Denmark and globally. The analysis identifies and evaluates impact areas, validates the DNA, and identifies driving factors, as well as opportunities and risks.
Analysis types: Stakeholder analysis, interviews
LEO Foundation
Identification and mapping of the biggest investors in specific fields of research worldwide
Cancerfonden
Measuring and evaluating impact of strategic grants and reserach funding
Evaluation of strategic grants to fellowships and complementary initiatives, conferences, and planning groups to support the research in underdeveloped and underfunded areas within cancer research.
The evaluation provides insights into the goal fulfillment and delivers proposals for the adaptation and amendment for further development of the Swedish Cancer Society’s strategic grant-making.
BørneBasket Fonden
Impact storylines
Analysis types: impact chain analysis
Who we work for
Our clients
Behind netsocietal™
Who we are
Netsocietal™ is founded by Agnes Günther and Torben Bundgaard Vad to help organizations go beyond merely reducing or transferring harm to create a truly positive impact on society, the environment, and the economy that would not exist without the organization. We aim to build an inclusive and collaboration-minded consultancy based on curiosity, interdisciplinarity, and holistic problem-solving.
Torben Bundgaard Vad
Torben is an experienced business leader with a passion for helping clients measure, show, and maximize their societal impact and sustainability. He builds on his experience and competencies from founding and leading Damvad Analytics from 2007 to 2023 when the company was acquired…
Agnes Günther
Agnes is an innovator and a thought-leading strategist with a passion for helping organizations in the private and public sectors improve their economic, societal, and environmental impact by redefining their strategy, processes, and approach. Before starting netsocietal™, she worked…
as a research scholar in the United States, founded a tech-startup, was part of an accelerator, and mentored several other startups. Agnes has more than a decade of experience working with different firms across industries to identify and implement strategic opportunities along value chains. Agnes holds an MSc from TU Delft in Strategic Product Design and a PhD in Strategy from Copenhagen Business School. Both her contributions to practice and theory have been internationally recognized. She won several international innovation awards and research grants. In 2021, the Academy of Management nominated her dissertation as the best dissertation in the field of Strategy.