Elevating Business to Exceptional Impact

Ithaca Impact is a specialist advisory and training firm.

We support businesses on their responsible business conduct and sustainability pathway, to mitigate risk, optimize return & deliver positive impact.

Creating more sustainable, more responsible businesses

Today’s highest-performing businesses understand that their customers, employees, investors and other stakeholders demand more than just profit. Ithaca Impact supports businesses on their sustainability and responsible business journey. We help businesses meet ESG requirements and align their profitability with their sustainability and responsibility objectives.

We help you build social capital, reduce risk, increase demand, retain market share, and secure employee loyalty.

Why? Because stakeholder expectations, responsible business standards, and customer perception have changed. Risk is rising as ESG ratings and approaches are questioned and regulators take action against ‘greenwashing’.

Investment in purpose beyond profit brings tangible returns across capital classes.

“Businesses that optimize risk, return and impact are going to be the leading businesses of tomorrow... Entrepreneurs or venture capitalists won’t just see the value of $1 billion, but (the value of) improving the lives of 1 billion people.”

  • Sir Roger Cohen

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Sustainable and responsible business is central to risk and profitability. Businesses increasingly want to make a positive difference but need access to the impact skill set alongside diagnostic and measurement tools. 

We can help. Ithaca impact is your critical but supportive partner, working with your Board and senior executives on your sustainability and responsible business journey.

We reduce your risk, seize opportunities, and create value. We design an appropriate cost-effective strategy that is aligned with your business objectives and set out a course that makes sense to your business and communities. Curious to see how we do this?

Our unique approach,
for the best results

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Businesses know they need external knowledge and skills to identify their corporate purpose and deliver genuine impact. We guide business leaders, boards, and industry groups seeking more ethical, sustainable, and exceptional social and environmental impact.

Dr. Elizabeth Armstrong and the Ithaca Impact team offer a global network of cross-industry impact specialists with deep technical expertise in delivering innovative solutions to social and environmental risks and opportunities. Applying the Ithaca Impact model to analysis, design, adaptive delivery, and advice, our specialists help you to translate current global best practices into contextualized pragmatic action.

We show you the ‘how’ of genuine impact.

Global expertise, genuine impact

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Is your business keeping up with sustainability and responsible business expectations?

Ithaca Impact’s Sustainability Maturity Profile Assessment compares your business performance with sustainable and responsible business best-practice, including those relevant to social impact and human rights.

The Sustainability Maturity Profile maps your company’s progress to our bespoke scale, characterises your current approach with key Sustainability Identifiers, and proposes practical steps to improve. Your company’s Profile is grounded in emerging global sustainability standards, frameworks, regulations and guidance to keep pace with stakeholder expectations.

Need to understand where your business stands? Take the assessment now!

Sustainability Maturity Profile Asessment

  • 75 % of Millennials would take a pay cut to work for a socially responsible company - they are looking for purpose.

  • 98% of investors now evaluate non-financial disclosures, & rising European standards are driving global consistency & rigour.

  • Over 90% of CEOs say corporate purpose is shaping risk management, capital expenditure & financial performance.

Some of our Partners

  • Text reads: INVESTING IN WOMEN, SMART ECONOMICS, AN INITIATIVE OF THE AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT.
  • ICC logo with stylized blue letter C and vertical line
  • Bendigo Bank logo with stylized "B" and text
  • Queensland Government logo featuring a coat of arms with a deer and an emu on either side.
  • StandbyU Foundation logo with stylized figures
  • ALPMA logo with abstract circular design
  • Logo of Global Roundtable for Sustainable Beef with a stylized cow head icon.
  • Toustone logo with tagline "Better data, smarter decisions" in blue text.
  • Respond Global logo with a yellow cross and text 'Medical Emergency Logistics'
  • Descycle logo with the tagline 'metals made new' and triangle design above.
  • COTA Queensland logo with abstract circular design in orange and green
  • Fortescue logo with green circle and company name
  • Pilbara Minerals logo featuring a green and blue gradient globe with intersecting lines.

  • “Your report is gold. It is already serving as a roadmap towards our global implementation of responsible business standards.”

    Publicly listed global extractives sector client

  • “Everyone is impressed. You have delivered a practical, incredibly high quality product at the first draft - that never happens.”

    European corporate industry body

  • “We were very impressed by the way Elizabeth and her team of experts interacted with us and our stakeholders in developing our Sustainability Strategy. The end product was of very high quality and exactly what we were looking for as we embark on our next funding round.”

    UK based investor-backed company, Board Chair

  • “Brilliant presentation. I wasn’t expecting this session to be one of my favourites. Engaging, interesting with fantastic audience interaction and participation. Knew her topic so well.”

    Industry event attendee