Net-Zero Solutions for SMEs
Our Mission
Impactwave was founded to help SMEs find practicable net-zero solutions to transform their organizations towards more sustainable growth.
We can help you improve your organization’s environmental sustainability and reduce your emissions footprint. We support you to define the impact that you want as a part of your mission and to implement the transformation across your value chain, choosing the metrics and developing the support systems for your team.
We have considerable experience in embedding sustainable, social and environmental agendas at the core of business ventures. We add value by working directly with founders and senior executives to design the sustainability strategy and develop their implementation plan.
How do you set the priorities to achieve a sustainable transformation of your organization?
OUR SERVICES
Drawing on the experience of strategic management consultants and industry-specific sustainability experts, we are able to offer a broad range of services in the sustainability consulting landscape.
A project usually starts with a scan of the status-quo across the complete value chain. We analyse the relevant processes from materials and energy sourcing to distribution, recycling processes and waste management. During the project, we will typically help you define the appropriate metrics for the key aspects of sustainability using established KPIs. We often build an index of sustainability that is specific to your business but can still be benchmarked against industry standards such as ESG. We review or set-up the data collection and analysis that will allow you to monitor progress. Next, we help you understand the biggest triggers in your business and your ecosystem and develop solutions together to reduce the organisation's environmental footprint, prioritising the options for maximum impact.
We add value both through the considerable hands-on experience we bring in carrying out the scanning, measuring and benchmarking processes and through the strategic lens and frameworks that allow us to challenge existing assumptions and validate new ideas.
CLIENT PROJECT EXAMPLES
FROM RECENT WORK
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industrial manufacturing process; waste reduction
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small manufacturing plant; reduce energy-related costs (switching suppliers, taking advantage of tax incentives)
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software company; reduce hardware delivered to end customers (electronic waste) and develop a coherent recycling system; strategically recentre the company’s offering on the software value
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textile/fashion manufacturer; ecosystem assessment
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organic food farming; marketing strategy with focus on the packaging, distribution to retail and recycling concept
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logistics and transportation provider; building risk assessment metrics in the strategic planning process, quantifying risks associated with the ecosystem such as climate change, energy crisis and regulatory compliance
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business plan for a potential US market entry 2022; competitive strategies of the main providers of a renewable energy source
our FOCUS
OUR FOCUS
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We work primarily with C-level management, VC/PE owners and company boards
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Our projects tend to be of a strategic nature, engaging with top management and covering functions from operations to marketing and distribution
ABOUT US
NETWORK & EXPERIENCE
Impactwave draws on a wide network of individuals and partner companies with specific subject matter expertise. If we don’t have the knowledge in-house, we will identify and hire the experts that do. Our experience comes from decades of advising Europeans SMEs on strategic and sustainability issues, investing in green economy start-ups as well as holding board positions with a particular focus on regulatory compliance.
About the founder
Fabienne Serfaty
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Fabienne founded impactwave.org in 2020 to address the pressing need of the SMEs in her ecosystem to find practicable solutions for the transformation of their organization towards net-zero goals.
She is an experienced business entrepreneur and angel investor committed to environmental sustainability, decarbonisation, and social inclusion. She is passionate about fostering systemic solutions to social and environmental challenges and taking them to scale. Having engaged at the intersection of social, environmental and business issues for decades, she has an in-depth understanding of how environmental and social transformation, circularity and systems thinking come together to produce break-through solutions.
Fabienne draws on thirty years of experience in strategy consulting, including a career with McKinsey, twenty years of investing in mid-sized industrial companies across Europe and twenty years as an impact investor, angel investor and business advisor to socially committed ventures. She has also worked with several of the cutting-edge institutions in the field of impact investing, social entrepreneurship, financial inclusion, and social justice; advised large European corporations seeking to develop a meaningful ESG agenda ; and supported generations of social entrepreneurs to develop a business plan and a scaling strategy.
She currently serves on the board of Xlinks, a large renewable energy project connecting solar & wind generation in Morocco with the UK Grid. She has served as a Trustee and Director on the boards of Ashoka Social Entrepreneurs, Clientearth Environmental Lawyers, the Fredericks Foundation as well as several publicly listed industrial companies. She is a frequent lecturer and speaker on the topics of social and environmental impact (ESG), entrepreneurship, and diversity. An economist by background, she holds an MA in Econometrics and an MBA in Finance.
