About Netsocietal

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.
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 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

What we do

Our services

Strategy

We help organizations develop forward-thinking strategies that align with societal trends, sustainability goals, and sector-specific challenges, ensuring long-term impact, adaptivity, relevance, and resilience.

Analyses & Evaluations

Using data-driven insights, we conduct in-depth analyses and evaluations to identify opportunities and barriers, measure effectiveness, and support evidence-based decision-making.

Communication & Partnerships

We craft compelling narratives and foster strategic collaborations that amplify impact, strengthen stakeholder engagement, and bridge gaps between sectors and disciplines.

Impact frameworks

We design transparent and actionable impact frameworks that help organizations define, measure, amplify, and communicate their societal contributions with credibility and clarity.

What we do

The netsocietal impact ™approach​

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™.

Get in touch

We are always open to talk about your business, new projects, creative opportunities and how we can help you.

With data towards netsocietal impact™

Our principles

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.
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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.

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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 Delft University of Technology 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.