Themes: Well-being
Impact Measurement Reclaimed: From Compliance to Agency, Technology, and System Change
18 Sep 2025, 11:00:00 - 12:30:00 (GMT+8:00)
Impact Lab 4 (Level 4 Suntec Convention Centre)
Impact Measurement Reclaimed: From Compliance to Agency, Technology, and System Change
18 Sep 2025, 11:00:00 - 12:30:00 (GMT+8:00)
Impact Lab 4 (Level 4 Suntec Convention Centre)
In a world dominated by dashboards and compliance, impact measurement risks becoming a hollow exercise—focused on accountability rather than transformation. While environmental metrics have advanced, social and human indicators remain fragmented and disempowering, often serving funders more than communities. Measurement tends to overlook what truly drives change: relationships, trust, and collaborative systems.
This session challenges the idea that more data equals more progress. Instead, it calls for a shift from activity tracking to agency-enabling, from siloed compliance to technology-powered, systemic learning and capital alignment. Drawing from grassroots innovations, financial rethinking, and digital intelligence, the session reimagines measurement as a living tool—not to control change, but to unlock it.
Participants will explore where current metrics may be muting their mission, and how rethinking what and how we measure can center equity, enable partnerships, and fuel systems change. Through provocations, case studies, and a hands-on Breakout Lab, this 90-minute session invites changemakers to reclaim measurement as a catalyst for meaningful, systemic transformation.
Impact Architects:
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Laura Bergh
Chief Enabler, The Greenlight Office
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Fredrik Galtung
Co-Chief Facilitator, Catalyst Now
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Eugene Ho
Global CSR Director, Future Skills, SAP
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Shiv Kumar
Co-founder, Catalyst Social Enterprise Platform
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David Bonbright
Leadership Group, Ashoka & Co-Founder, Deep Fathom
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Anuj Kapoor
Founder, greenpeople.earth (ilistu Limited UK)
Content Partner
From Bottom Line to Lifeline: Reimagining Business, Capital, and Philanthropy for a Well-being Economy
18 Sep 2025, 14:15:00 - 15:15:00 (GMT+8:00)
Impact Forum (Level 4 Suntec Convention Centre)
From Bottom Line to Lifeline: Reimagining Business, Capital, and Philanthropy for a Well-being Economy
18 Sep 2025, 14:15:00 - 15:15:00 (GMT+8:00)
Impact Forum (Level 4 Suntec Convention Centre)
This closing session of IMPACT WEEK is not a reflection on the past, but a declaration of what lies ahead. Over three days, we explored six pillars of transformation—education, capital, climate, nature, food, energy, and the human construct. We encountered bold ideas, personal shifts, and leadership grounded in purpose, impact, and care. Yet, vision without action is theatre, and ideas without courage do not change history.
This final conversation calls on us to act—not as observers, but as architects of a well-being economy already in motion. Transformative leaders are redefining capital as a force for healing, reshaping governance around care, and showing that business can thrive by serving life. Philanthropy is reframed—not as charity, but as a core expression of love and strategy in business.
When purpose and generosity move to the heart of commerce, we unlock a new economic logic—rooted in trust, stewardship, and regeneration. The world needs coherence, not perfection—urgent, courageous action from imperfect people. The future will not be inherited; it must be co-created. What will we commit to now, knowing everything depends on our next move?
Impact Architects:
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Chavalit Frederick Tsao
Chairman, TPC (Tsao Pao Chee)
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Kirsten Dunlop
Chief Executive Officer, Climate KIC
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Brian Wong
HKU-100 Assistant Professor in Philosophy, University of Hong Kong
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Mohamad Maliki Osman
Former Cabinet Minister and Consultant, Social Transformation Project, OCTAVE Institute
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Michael Smith
Co-founder & General Partner, Regeneration.VC
From Capital Stack to Impact Architecture: Rewiring the Capital Supply Chain and Blended Finance
17 Sep 2025, 09:30:00 - 10:30:00 (GMT+8:00)
Impact Forum (Level 4 Suntec Convention Centre)
From Capital Stack to Impact Architecture: Rewiring the Capital Supply Chain and Blended Finance
17 Sep 2025, 09:30:00 - 10:30:00 (GMT+8:00)
Impact Forum (Level 4 Suntec Convention Centre)
If finance is the bloodstream of society, why does it still flow in silos? Are we bold enough to architect a capital system that nourishes the entire body of the well-being economy?
In the well-being economy, finance is the first system we must rewire. Today’s fragmented capital flows—philanthropy, public grants, venture funding, and institutional investment—are ill-equipped to scale the integrated solutions our world demands. Innovations, such as climate-smart food systems, regenerative infrastructure, and equitable health access, cannot thrive on short-term, isolated injections of capital.
This plenary reframes blended finance as a cohesive capital supply chain—a system that moves with purpose and precision from seed to scale. Drawing from pioneers in family capital, catalytic philanthropy, institutional investment, and policy infrastructure, this panel explores how we can design public–private–philanthropic money ecosystems that fuel a flourishing future. Following participants will dive into a co-creation lab to prototype next-gen capital architectures, building toward actionable insights for GIIN’s global forum in Berlin.
Impact Architects:
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Deepali Khanna
Vice President, The Rockefeller Foundation
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李楠 Nan Li Collins
Director of the Division on Investment and Enterprise at UNCTAD and Chair of the UN Sustainable Stock Exchanges Initiative, UN Trade & Development, UN Sustainable Stock Exchanges Initiative
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Amit Bouri
Chief Executive Officer, The Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN)
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Onur Eren
Founder, Light Eagle
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Richard Azarnia
Co-Principal & Co-Founder, The Good Investors
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Shaun Seow
Chief Executive Officer, Philanthropy Asia Alliance
From Within to World: Healing the Planet Starts by Healing Ourselves
16 Sep 2025, 14:45:00 - 16:00:00 (GMT+8:00)
Impact Forum (Level 4 Suntec Convention Centre)
From Within to World: Healing the Planet Starts by Healing Ourselves
16 Sep 2025, 14:45:00 - 16:00:00 (GMT+8:00)
Impact Forum (Level 4 Suntec Convention Centre)
What must we unlearn to become truly regenerative? And what new form of leadership will it take to restore both the Earth and ourselves?
As our planet reels from rising temperatures, degraded ecosystems, and resource exploitation, it becomes clear that these crises are not just environmental—they are deeply human. We cannot renew Earth’s systems without first addressing the internal systems that drive our decisions: the values, mindsets, and blind pursuits that normalise separation, excess, and control. This plenary challenges us to see the climate crisis not only as a technical failure but as a failure of orientation. What if pollution begins not in the factories or forests, but in the stories we tell, the ambitions we chase, and the leadership we elevate? We will explore the profound link between how we lead and how we live—how the same disconnection that damages ecosystems also fragments our societies and diminishes our humanity.
Impact Architects:
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Rajeev Peshawaria
Chief Executive Officer, Stewardship Asia Centre
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Carlos Álvarez Pereira
Secretary General, The Club of Rome
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Poman Lo
Vice Chairman, Regal Hotels Group & Co-founder, One Earth Alliance
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Anthea Ong
Chairperson, WorkWell Leaders; Former Nominated Member of Parliament, Singapore
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Chavalit Frederick Tsao
Chairman, TPC (Tsao Pao Chee)
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Yung Pueblo
NYT Bestselling Author & Partner, Wisdom Ventures
Education as a Living System: Cultivating Consciousness for Systemic Change
16 Sep 2025, 13:30:00 - 14:45:00 (GMT+8:00)
Impact Forum (Level 4 Suntec Convention Centre)
Education as a Living System: Cultivating Consciousness for Systemic Change
16 Sep 2025, 13:30:00 - 14:45:00 (GMT+8:00)
Impact Forum (Level 4 Suntec Convention Centre)
If the world is in crisis because of how we’ve been taught to live, can education become our most powerful act of healing?
In a world marked by ecological collapse, social fragmentation, and spiritual depletion, the question is no longer just what we must change—but how we change ourselves to change the world. Education, therefore, cannot remain a siloed institution focused on academic achievement or employability alone. It must be redefined as the invisible infrastructure of societal transformation. This plenary repositions education as the most vital system to regenerate how we see, think, lead, and relate. It invites a bold reimagining of learning—not as curriculum delivery, but as the development of conscious stewards who hold the inner capacities to transform outer systems.
From ethical leadership and systems literacy to emotional resilience and spiritual grounding, what are the capabilities that must be cultivated for the next era? And how must learning environments—universities, communities, and cross-sector platforms—be redesigned to support this shift?
Impact Architects:
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Chavalit Frederick Tsao
Chairman, TPC (Tsao Pao Chee)
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Omid Aschari
Founder & CEO of ASG Strategy Group, ASG Strategy Group
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Peter Waring
Pro Vice Chancellor of Transnational Education, Murdoch University
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Lawrence Loh
Director, Centre for Governance and Sustainability at NUS Business School
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Sibrandes Poppema
President & Vice-Chancellor, Sunway University
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Alexis du Roy de Blicquy
Chief Executive Officer, The Family Business Network (FBN)
Converging Paths: Unlocking Systemic Change Across Sectors
16 Sep 2025, 10:45:00 - 12:00:00 (GMT+8:00)
Impact Forum (Level 4 Suntec Convention Centre)
Converging Paths: Unlocking Systemic Change Across Sectors
16 Sep 2025, 10:45:00 - 12:00:00 (GMT+8:00)
Impact Forum (Level 4 Suntec Convention Centre)
If we continue to solve problems in silos, we’ll continue to reproduce them at scale. Are we bold enough to redesign systems—not just strategies—for life to flourish?
In a world shaken by polycrisis—climate collapse, social fragmentation, rising inequality—it is increasingly clear that no single institution, sector, or actor can deliver the change we need. This opening plenary convenes a rare coalition of global leaders from the UN, WEF, education, business, philanthropy, and climate innovation to ask a bold question: How do we move from fragmented efforts to systemic transformation?
Guided by the Theory of Change from Impact Investing for Life Flourishing, our impact architects will explore how we must evolve from funding projects to shifting paradigms, from working in silos to weaving systems, and from focusing on performance metrics to embracing a shared purpose.
Impact Architects:
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Chavalit Frederick Tsao
Chairman, TPC (Tsao Pao Chee)
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Siddharth Chatterjee
United Nations Resident Coordinator in China
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Omid Aschari
Founder & CEO of ASG Strategy Group, ASG Strategy Group
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Kirsten Dunlop
Chief Executive Officer, Climate KIC
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Ng Boon Heong
Executive Director & Chief Executive Officer, Temasek Foundation
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Sebastian Buckup
Managing Director, World Economic Forum
