With a background in social innovation, I have always been driven to use design to create positive societal change. One of the biggest challenges to creating change is having the money and resource to do it. This is what drew me to social enterprise over 10 years ago. Social Enterprises are businesses that established to change the world for the better.  I became Director of a social enterprise hub, built the network and developed startup and accelerator programmes to grow the sector. Through this work I began to be approached by companies that weren’t social enterprises. Companies that wanted to make a difference but didn’t know how and I became aware of the huge untapped potential that businesses have to affect change. But what was stopping them? Working with and learning from these companies I found that although many wanted to make change, few knew where to start. Of those that did, they often found the process a challenge; struggling with competing priorities, a disjointed approach and a lack of understanding on how to create meaningful impact. I founded Make Impact to empower companies to use their business as a force for good and to make the process clear, cohesive, measurable and fun.