Impact Sourcing 2.0

“I’ve seen the shift,” says Maryana Iskander, CEO, Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator.  “Impact sourcing is a win, win, win for businesses, individuals and the industry. It’s an opportunity to showcase the industry as one that is helping countries grow. It’s taken a lot of advocacy and partnerships over many years for that to happen. Companies have started to see the real benefits that can’t be refuted.”

Iskander will share the tremendous success South Africa has achieved in driving mass adoption of impact sourcing as a panelist on a keynote presentation on Doing Well By Doing Good: The Future of Impact Sourcing moderated by Jon Browning, CEO, Global Mentorship Initiative.

Also sharing their personal stories of overcoming struggles and adversity to achieve great rewards using impact sourcing will be Mamadou Biteye, Vice President, Social Impact, EMEA, VISA and Stacy Herring, Vice President, Consumer Services Experience, Intuit.

Impact sourcing, according to Iskander, is a solution to one of the world’s most pressing issues: talent.

“There is no bigger issue facing every single country in the world than the challenge of how to think about the future of work in all of our societies and the role of young people who are exiting education systems,” she says.  “How do we start to build creative models around how businesses run their operations?”

Iskander is excited to share on the main stage how the African continent, which will soon have the largest workforce in the world, has used innovation and cutting-edge approaches to create thousands of impact sourcing jobs for youths while improving company’s bottom lines and building communities and societies.

Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator and Intuit are among the past winners of the Global Impact Sourcing Award (GISA), which will be presented for the third time at OWS2.0. The recognition by IAOP and the Rockefeller Foundation has proven to be significant in advancing impact sourcing.    

“The idea of providing recognition for people who are really trying to move the needle with impact sourcing matters so much,” she says. “Winning the GISA was recognition for Harambee of the work we are trying to do to bring others along and the ideas of building change for organizations to see the real benefits and opportunities of impact sourcing.”