Social Enterprise Auckland and Te Manawa Library is proud to bring you this event! Measuring social impact can be difficult, time-consuming, complicated and expensive. Hear from experts discuss how social impact needs to be a part of every business and how to measure it in a meaningful way. Thinking about how the service/ product changed & improved lives and/or the environment.

We will discuss how to capture data using voices, quotes, videos and not just bare data. Learning how to measure this information will help you gain a proper understanding of the value of what you are doing to improve your services.

Our panel consists of:

Paul Kerssens: Co-Founder of Impact Hub Waikato

Paul is Co-founder at Impact Hub Waikato and responsible for the entrepreneur support and impact measurement. Impact Hub is a global network which supports and accelerates Impact entrepreneurs. He is originally Dutch and has worked most of his career in the Dutch Impact and renewable energy sector.

Jo Nicholson: Director of Social Value Aotearoa

Jo brings 20 years’ experience in workforce development, tertiary teaching and management and implementing and embedding evaluative frameworks. She believes in leading by example and is passionate about preparing people to manage and react to change positively.

Rachael Trotman: Centre for Social Impact

Rachael Trotman is a human ecologist, social researcher and evaluator with 20 years experience. She is an Associate with the Centre for Social Impact (CSI), which is a network of people committed to supporting funders and change makers to achieve social impact. Rachael is a self-taught evaluator, who loves to demystify evaluation (we are all evaluators), and tends to specialize in developmental evaluation, which is useful when evaluating in complex, dynamic settings. With Manu Caddie and Community Research, Rachael developed the What Works website www.whatworks.org.nz, as a resource for people in Aotearoa around evaluation.

* Please get in touch if pricing is a barrier as we can waive fees if finance is an issue info@socialenterpriseauckland.org.nz