netsocietal – Netsocietal Impact Agency

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

We work on netsocietal™ impact solutions for and with companies in both the private and public sectors, investors, foundations, interest organizations, cities, and universities across industries and areas.
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

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

We are experts in our fields. This does not mean that we are blind to other areas. In fact, we believe that the greatest value lies in understanding and leveraging linkages and connections between disciplines, problems, and approaches.

This is why we work together, analyze issues from different perspectives, use different data points and approaches, and bridge different disciplines. Doing this allows us to create holistic solutions that offer a systematic and meaningful contribution to society and businesses.

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.

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

Quantitative analysis of the global founding landscape of independent dermatology and skin care research to gain an understanding of the relative positioning within the market over time, identify funding areas, and identify other big grant givers, trends, and opportunities.

Analyses: publication analysis, web research, review of financial statements and annual reports

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.

Analysis types: publication analysis, interviews, document review, stakeholder analysis

BørneBasket Fonden

Impact storylines

Identification and mapping of impact areas, the effect created within these areas, and critical activities for creating the impact.

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…

by a Dutch Venture Fund. Torben has twenty years of experience in encouraging employees, analyzing markets and industry-society trends, and reviewing financial performance. He is an experienced strategic advisor to leaders across private, public, and not-for-profit sectors with a demonstrated ability to develop and execute effective strategies regarding data-driven organizations, measurement, evaluation and learning, and sustainability and R&D. He has founded and grown consultancies in both Stockholm and Oslo and has adviced clients across the European market. Torben holds a Ph.D. from the University of Copenhagen and Copenhagen Business School.

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 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.