Build value that lasts.
SVT Group is the impact measurement, management and strategy firm that will help you set the standard for your industry and supercharge your impact.
Our world is grappling with the transformation away from a system designed to create profit at any cost, toward a fairer, more equitable system designed to enable everyone to thrive. We’ve got the tools and the know-how, now it’s about creating momentum to break through.
Since 2001 SVT has partnered with leaders to understand the system they act upon and who is affected by their work, account for the social and environmental value they create, hone their strategy for impact, and drive results. We listen thoughtfully and meet you where you are.
We equip system-changing leaders with the knowledge, tools, skills, and incentives to realize a more prosperous future for all.
Who We Are
SVT is a pioneering force in defining and managing impact, broadening the very definition of value.
The economy is evolving, on the brink of a new era when innovators have the power, opportunity, and responsibility to co-create the income-producing assets they will need for themselves, their communities, and future generations. Achieving this requires a combination of skill, discipline, heart, insight from those who’ve tried new things and learned the hard way, and creativity.
Our diverse team works to create tailored solutions that align with your unique context. We use a human-centered, systems-wise approach that is both informed by and contributes to the latest developments in impact management and disclosure standards, ensuring that our efforts yield results that are meaningful, practical and influential.
What We Do
We partner with our clients to define their purpose, strategically reposition with confidence, and unleash their potential for a more influential and prosperous future.
We help answer questions like:
What is the best use of the next dollar?
How do we get decision-makers aligned with our values to invest in our work?
What risks do we face related to social and environmental issues?
How do we demonstrate and grow our full value, including what’s invisible by conventional metrics?
How do we improve the way our industry does business so that the way we profit is creates better results for all?
Our tailored approach is rooted in first-principles thinking and informed by emerging and established standards.
Who We Work With
We work with clients looking for effective, efficient, and meaningful impact. Our clients are curious about the ways a system they understand well is driving either positive change or harm, and seek to develop solutions that, once proven, could become standard practice. We help these clients gain leverage on the systems they seek to improve.
Perhaps you are an individual looking to leave a lasting legacy that benefits the world, or work in a family office aiming to validate the family’s aspirations around social or environmental performance.
Perhaps you work in a corporation that needs to inform your strategy and reporting with evidence of the true economic, social and environmental value created; or in a nonprofit seeking allies in the sustained transformation you know you can deliver.
Whether you are an investor, philanthropist, company, or nonprofit, we have the experience to help you realize your goals.
What We’re Up To
Rural Innovation Done Right: Systemic Solutions for Rural Prosperity
After decades of striving for a systematic shift that will enable those living in poverty in America to be free of it, it’s time to take stock of the progress made and the barriers that remain. To do this SVT co-founded RIDER– Rural Innovation Driving Equitable Resilience (or Done Right)– a network of innovators who work to address the root causes of poverty in communities across America. These leaders hold invaluable, nuanced insights into what works and what stands in the way. Many have spent decades tirelessly dismantling poverty’s vicious cycles, both within their local communities and at the systems level. Their skill, relationships and knowledge are critical to shifting the systems that perpetuate rural poverty—but radically undervalued. RIDER is working to change that.
The New York Federal Reserve Bank has made RIDER a design team in its Making the Missing Markets initiative.
Click to learn more about RIDER!
Our Podcast: Unlocking Value
In the first episode of our podcast, Unlocking Value, we sat down with Catherine Goetz, now Director of Global Employee Engagement + Experience at Live Person, to discuss the benefits of completing a Social Return on Investment of their DEIA initiatives.
SVT worked with Live Person to calculate both the SROI and business value of Live Person’s DEIA programs. This approach makes the value created or lost to all the affected parties tangible. It enables a measured, broader discussion than “the usual” about both business benefits and costs to the business in the short and long term, and the potential benefits or costs for employees in various seats, customers and community members. The analysis enables internal champions like Catherine to demonstrate the blended value of these programs to the business and build the case to meaningfully incorporate diversity into core company strategy and operations.
We caught up with her in Q1 2025 and she noted that this quantification enables different roles in the company to “see themselves” in the numbers. Everyone can understand the logic of the calculation, she said. “The numbers don’t lie.”
If you would like to learn more about translating the impact of your corporate programs into language that not only your board speaks, but that your team and customers can relate to - get in touch with us.