Build value for all.
Build value that lasts.
SVT Group is the impact measurement, management and strategy firm that will help you raise the bar for your industry.
Our world is grappling with the transformation away from a system designed to create profit at any cost, toward one that enables everyone to thrive. Humanity has the tools and the know-how, now it’s about creating the trust, clarity, and momentum to break through.
Since 2001 SVT has partnered with leaders to understand the systems they act upon, discover who is significantly affected by their work, value the social and environmental change they create, hone their strategy for impact, and drive results. We listen thoughtfully and meet you where you are.
We equip system-changing leaders with the capabilities to realize a more prosperous future for all.
Who We Are
SVT is a pioneering force in defining and managing impact, broadening the very definition of value.
The economy is evolving, on the brink of a new era fraught with risk and exploding with opportunity. Innovators have unprecedented power, opportunity, and responsibility to co-create the communities, systems, and life-sustaining assets we will need for ourselves, our communities, and future generations.
Bringing forward a world where it pays to do good for everyone requires attunement to first principles, creativity, discipline, and insight from those who’ve already tried things and learned the hard way.
Our diverse team works to create tailored solutions that align with your unique context. We use a human-centered, systems-smart approach that is both informed by and contributes to the latest developments in impact management standards, ensuring that our efforts yield results that are meaningful, practical and influential.
What We Do
We partner with our clients to define their purpose, prove and improve their impact, strategically reposition with confidence, and unleash their potential to shape a more influential and prosperous future.
We help answer questions like:
What is the best use of the next dollar?
How do we get decision-makers aligned with our values to invest in our work?
How do we demonstrate and grow our full value, including what’s invisible by conventional metrics?
What risks do we face related to social and environmental issues?
How do we improve the way our industry does business so that the way we profit is creates better results for all?
Our tailored approach is rooted in first-principles thinking and informed by emerging and established standards.
Who We Work With
Our clients are working to have meaningful, positive impact. Their solutions are often better than the norm, or have the potential to become so. Once they are honed and proven, they could become standard practice across their industry, benefiting many. We help these clients gain leverage on the systems they seek to influence.
Whether you are a founder, an executive or managing director, you lead a team, or you are an individual looking to leave a lasting legacy of a better world, we understand that true impact is both personal and collective. We can build your personal and organizational capability to bring a brighter future into reality.
Current & Previous Clients
Current & Previous Clients
Build the Muscle
Elite Workforce Development Accelerator implemented a dual-purpose impact system combining management training for startup founders with comprehensive impact assessment for program leadership. The integrated approach provided founders with practical impact measurement skills while giving the accelerator systematic data collection processes to track accelerator program outcomes across social and economic dimensions. Founders graduated with embedded impact management capabilities, while the accelerator gained quantified evidence of their program's broader effects beyond traditional business metrics.
The enhanced value proposition has helped five cohorts of founders attract more aligned investors and speed time to decision, while the program honed its support to impact-focused startups, helped them build their impact management ‘muscle,’ and reinforced the program team's engagement of impact-oriented partners for a second fund.
Build the Plumbing
Publicly-traded Tech Company received a comprehensive SROI analysis of their internal diversity, equity and inclusion program. The analysis estimated $2.46 of social value and $5.33 of business value created per dollar invested, with a total investment of $1.2 million generating $13.5 million in social value and $7.5 million in business ROI. The analysis enabled the program to account for its many positive outcomes, including a 40% reduction of time wasted on preventable claims by the legal team, decreased accessibility-related claims and payouts, and increased customer confidence in the company's inclusion practices.
The compelling financial data reinforced the company’s efforts to maintain DEI program funding and executive support even during organizational restructuring, with leadership successfully defending the program's value proposition. The client has shared the model and how it was built with peer DEI directors at a number of Fortune 100 corporations.
Grow Impact
Rethink Ireland is a national organization that supports innovative charities, social enterprises, and community organizations with cash grants and business assistance. They have built a €109 million social innovation fund and have reached over one million people across Ireland since 2016. SVT is a preferred contractor for providing impact measurement and management support to its awardees. We have provided a mix of group and one-to-one impact measurement and management support to 18 different social enterprises and charities across three portfolios. The support has helped social enterprises identify and fill gaps in the impact measurement frameworks based on their theory of change.
This work “ensures we provide value for money for donors/Government and most importantly, helps us to identify what are the best outcomes for beneficiaries/stakeholders.” It has led to Rethink engaging SVT to contemplate the way its whole organization manages for impact.
Build Partnerships
Restore the Earth Foundation commissioned SVT to build an SROI model aligned with Social Value International’s standards to quantify the net market, ecological, and societal value of their Mississippi River watershed reforestation projects. The Foundation has a "revolving restoration fund" approach: they buy sizeable tracts of underperforming agricultural land, reforest it, and resell it to public and private partners who commit to stewarding it. SVT quantified the environmental and social co-benefits and created an assured quantitative model that could be applied to existing and future projects. The validated analysis provided concrete ROI data showing value creation through each land acquisition-reforestation-resale cycle, enabling systematic scaling of their restoration efforts.
The model strengthened government partnerships and provided credible impact data that helped REF attract additional private funding for expanded land acquisition programs, working with companies like Chevron, ClimeCo, and John Swire & Sons Limited. REF valued the model so much they made it a cornerstone of their approach, and spun off a business called Ecometrics LLC to provide the benefits of the model as a service.
Rural Innovation Done Right: Systemic Solutions for Rural Prosperity
After decades of striving for a systematic shift that will enable those living in poverty in America to be free of it, it’s time to take stock of the progress made and the barriers that remain. To do this SVT co-founded RIDER– Rural Innovation Driving Equitable Resilience (or Done Right)– a network of innovators who work to address the root causes of poverty in communities across America. These leaders hold invaluable, nuanced insights into what works and what stands in the way. Many have spent decades tirelessly dismantling poverty’s vicious cycles, both within their local communities and at the systems level. Their skill, relationships and knowledge are critical to shifting the systems that perpetuate rural poverty—but radically undervalued. RIDER is working to change that.
The New York Federal Reserve Bank invited RIDER to become a design team in its Making the Missing Markets initiative.
Click the video to learn more about RIDER!
Unlocking Value
We sat down with Catherine Goetz, Director of Global Employee Engagement + Experience at Live Person, to discuss the benefits of completing a Social Return on Investment of their DEIA initiatives.
SVT worked with Live Person to calculate both the SROI and business value of Live Person’s DEIA programs. This approach makes the value created or lost to all the affected parties tangible. It enables a measured, broader discussion than “the usual” about both business benefits and costs to the business in the short and long term, and the potential benefits or costs for employees in various seats, customers and community members. The analysis enables internal champions like Catherine to demonstrate the blended value of these programs to the business and build the case to meaningfully incorporate diversity into core company strategy and operations.
We caught up with her in Q1 2025 and she noted that this quantification enables different roles in the company to “see themselves” in the numbers. Everyone can understand the logic of the calculation, she said. “The numbers don’t lie.”
If you would like to learn more about translating the impact of your corporate programs into language that not only your board speaks, but that your team and customers can relate to - get in touch with us.