Business innovation and impact consulting
our offers
As a group of creative practitioners, entrepreneurs and innovators, we are driven by a deep belief in the power of business to achieve change. We bring diverse voices together to generate and support new actions towards a better future.
Build Business Capability
We work alongside social entrepreneurs and Not for Profits to turn ideas into financially sustainable, impact driven business models.
TDi Business Accelerators
Our Accelerator programs are designed to help businesses at all stages of growth to set themselves up for long-term sustainability and social or environmental impact. We make sure you have a solid business and impact model so that all parts of the business work together for success.
Business Modelling
We are experts in impact driven, strategic business modelling and organisational leadership. We provide clarity on the gaps that exist in the business and financial models, as well as outlining next steps to begin addressing the gaps.
Coaching
Being an entrepreneur can often be isolating and hard, especially when you combine business and social impact. TDi is one of the pioneering organisations in the field of blended-value (both profit and purpose) enterprises and brings practical wisdom and support.
Investment Readiness
Ready for investment? We will work with you to stress test your growth plans, build an investment case and find the right kind of investors.
“Because of the Two Feet program, we think better about business and the tools we picked up help us do better business.”
– Joel Hanna, Big Little Brush
Enterprise Design & Strategy
We provide strategic and practical guidance to map out plans to implement your ideas and create real impact and business outcomes.
Design & Strategy
TDi helps to assess opportunities, ask powerful questions to unearth what’s really going on and blocking the way. We design pilots to test and validate new models and product offers.
Business Modelling
We work with social entrepreneurs and Not For Profits to help them to assess and strengthen their business model and their own capability gaps. We work together to identify and map a way forward while coaching leaders in the process.
Design & Strategy
TDi helps to assess opportunities, ask powerful questions to unearth what’s really going on and blocking the way. We design pilots to test and validate new models and product offers.
Business Modelling
We work with social entrepreneurs and Not For Profits to help them to assess and strengthen their business model and their own capability gaps. We work together to identify and map a way forward while coaching leaders in the process.
Over the past couple of months, Anna has been with us consistently. She’s helped us with cashflow, contingency, coming up with ideas of what might be possible. When you’re going through these journeys, they are often very lonely. It’s extremely helpful and calming to know that there are at least a few people who are looking out for you. It might not be about funding straightaway, but knowing that someone is there asking, ‘are you okay?’ ‘or did you try this, or try that’, it’s extremely valuable. TDi has been really helpful over these couple of months. To think we started our journey with TDi and three years in their role isn’t over yet.
– Geert, Farm Wall
Innovation Partners
We seek out new ways to demonstrate a market-based approach to poverty alleviation.
We work alongside leaders to create shared value strategy, business model design and impact measurement frameworks.
Impact Investment
TDi has been attracting investment for social enterprises since we first started in 2010. We believe that finance, like business, can be a powerful tool for achieving inclusive growth and ecological sustainability.
Shared Value Opportunities
We help to identify and critically assess business opportunities that address the social and environmental issues that align with business priorities.
Design & Strategy
We work alongside to design, pilot and measure innovations that address social and environmental issues whilst driving better business outcomes.
Business Accelerator Partnerships
We design and deliver business accelerators that can be tailored to suit the specific needs of your Shared Value or CSR project, whether strengthening supply chains or in support of inclusive economic growth. Our accelerators range from early stage to growth and address the needs of, grassroots entrepreneurs, including Australian Indigenous and Pacific islander entrepreneurs.
Connection to Indigenous & Pacific Entrepreneurs
We have worked with hundreds of Indigenous and Pacific entrepreneurs, to create sustainable business models for inclusive economic growth. We can connect you with our network.
Impact Investment
TDi has been attracting investment for social enterprises since we first started in 2010. We believe that finance, like business, can be a powerful tool for achieving inclusive growth and ecological sustainability.
Design & Strategy
We work alongside to design, pilot and measure innovations that address social and environmental issues whilst driving better business outcomes.
Shared Value Opportunities
We help to identify and critically assess business opportunities that address the social and environmental issues that align with business priorities.
Connection to Indigenous & Pacific Entrepreneurs
We have worked with hundreds of Indigenous and Pacific entrepreneurs, to create sustainable business models for inclusive economic growth. We can connect you with our network.
Business Accelerator Partnerships
We design and deliver business accelerators that can be tailored to suit the specific needs of your Shared Value or CSR project, whether strengthening supply chains or in support of inclusive economic growth. Our accelerators range from early stage to growth and address the needs of, grassroots entrepreneurs, including Australian Indigenous and Pacific islander entrepreneurs.
“We have this fabulous project in which TDI has been
absolutely instrumental in, without their skill and expertise, and their
style/approach it wouldn’t have happened.”
– Sandy Olsen, Carnival Australia
Advisors to Social Enterprise Grant Funders
We partner with philanthropy to demonstrate new ways of assessing and strategically structuring grants to social enterprise.
Assessment
We help funders to realistically assess social business models for the level of risk and their genuine potential for sustainability. We validate their mission, model and management and advise on likely pathways to sustainability, helpful incentives and the structure of the grant.
Building Capacity
Once assessment is done, we can work with the enterprises you chose to build capacity & capability. This de-risks the grant and has the opportunity to accelerate growth.
We have worked with over 500 grassroots entrepreneurs across Australia and the Pacific to create sustainable business models for inclusive economic growth.
Business Accelerator Partnerships
Your Foundation may wish to grant to a range of social enterprises and offer them development and growth. A bespoke accelerator is a cost-effective way to do this. We design and deliver business accelerators to strengthen business sustainability and impact. Since our inception we have refined our accelerator programs and customised them to particular market segments.
Assessment
We help funders to realistically assess social business models for the level of risk and their genuine potential for sustainability. We validate their mission, model and management and advise on likely pathways to sustainability, helpful incentives and the structure of the grant.
Building Capacity
Once assessment is done, we can work with the enterprises you chose to build capacity & capability. This de-risks the grant and has the opportunity to accelerate growth.
We have worked with over 500 grassroots entrepreneurs across Australia and the Pacific to create sustainable business models for inclusive economic growth.
Business Accelerator Partnerships
Your Foundation may wish to grant to a range of social enterprises and offer them development and growth. A bespoke accelerator is a cost-effective way to do this. We design and deliver business accelerators to strengthen business sustainability and impact. Since our inception we have refined our accelerator programs and customised them to particular market segments.
Who we work with
Social Enterprises
Not For Profit
Corporate
Create Shared Value models that are good for business and genuinely addresses a social issue
Government
Implement market based approaches to poverty reduction, job creation and inclusion
Philanthropy
Find new ways of assessing and strategically structuring grants to social enterprise
learn more about our work
Our work demonstrates that it is not just possible to do good and make money, but that it makes good business sense.
