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Measure what matters, a new approach to impact measurement.
You’ve probably heard the line before, “if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.” But in a world where inequality and the scarcity of resources are both increasing, perhaps a better statement is, “measure what matters”.
Georgina Camp is CEO and founder of Huber Social, a social impact consulting firm that wants to enable all organisations to measure their impact.
It’s something her background has certainly prepared her for… she started out in the army, then she studied law, before she shifted into humanitarian work with a masters in development studies.
The culmination of it all is Huber Social, and in my conversation today we dig into the organisation’s path towards growth, why impact measurement is more important than ever, for all organisations, and the pro’s and cons of using surveys to gather data.
Psych Health and Safety Podcast
9 Sep 2021
Gaining top management and Board support for workplace mental health has always been difficult. This is likely due to a disconnect between what HR and wellbeing leaders want and what the Board believes is their business. Countless ROI research reports have been published internationally by reputable business consultancies on the positive financial benefit of workplace mental health initiatives – but no matter how large this ROI figure is – it has not been able to create substantive changes in how companies care for the mental health of their employees.
Sustainability is a growing priority for companies and their boards wanting to improve reputation, increase investment and improve market valuations. It’s no longer good enough to be profitable, investors now expect companies they put their capital into to have business practices that are sustainable in relation to carbon footprints, labour policies, board makeup (also known as ESG). Social impact is the ‘S’ in this equation and is about how company practices affect employees, workers in the value chain, customers, and local communities. Is the growing importance of social impact on Board agendas the ‘golden ticket’ for those that have been advocating for improved workplace mental health?
Are the popular methods for workplace mental health enough to demonstrate social impact, or is there a need to move to more systematic, risk-based approaches to psychological health required? And how do we measure social impact anyway? Join us in this engaging live panel event with regular co-host Jason van Schie, GM EHS Fresh Country Farms Wade Needham, GM People Risk QBE Rob Kosova and Georgina Camp - CEO and Founder of Huber Social.
Brilliant Perth
Measuring the Wellbeing of the Planet.
In Episode #7 of 💎Brilliant Perth💎 I'm chatting with the brilliant Georgina Camp, CEO and Founder of Huber Social. Georgie has just moved back to Perth from Sydney and is doing some incredible work with Huber locally and globally. We chat about her career in management consulting, why she's so passionate about measuring success through human well-being and why she moved back home to our Brilliant City!
My 3 key takeaways:
💎#1 If you want to help people you should be accountable to their needs, so let's measure well-being when targeting impact!
💎#2 Community is thriving in Perth and is what lures our most brilliant people back!
💎#3 Quantifying our progress against The United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals is a tricky one, and should be driven by an overlying well-being measurement. Countries like Bhutan are moving away from GDP to well-being (and happiness) as a measure of progress.
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Good Will Hunters
Social Impact, Meaningful Participation and the Stock Exchange
Welcome to Episode 7 of Good Will Hunters! In todays episode I chat with Georgina Camp, the CEO of Huber Social, an innovator bringing a fresh approach to solving complex social challenges. Georgie was introduced to me by Caitlin Barrett, the CEO of Love Mercy Foundation who we had on the show a few weeks ago. Georgie and Caitlin worked together on assessing the impact of the Cents for Seeds Program in Uganda. Georgie’s passion for reinventing the way we measure social value and reconsidering what truly contributes to wellbeing is apparent from the moment she starts speaking! She’s a trail-blazing leader, innovator and thinker and I’m thrilled to introduce you to her today.
Georgie and I chat about the importance of measuring social value alongside financial value, and the method Huber Social uses to determine the contribution a product or service makes to an individuals wellbeing. We chat about Amartya Sen’s ‘Capabilities Approach’ and other methodologies for analysing wellbeing, and chat about what the future looks like for the world of impact measurement. It’s an inspiring, technical, thought-provoking discussion. Also, unfortunately we had some technical issues in this discussion which you may pick up on at times! We record via Skype so this is bound to happen occasionally.
1:40 - The origins of Huber Social
4:04 - Complex social problems
6:24 - Connecting wellbeing with wealth
9:03 - Measuring social value
14:08 - Huber Social’s work in Uganda
20:00 - Ensuring women participate meaningfully
22:30 - The New Economics
33:25 - Redefining value in the private sector
35:48 - Measuring development more effectively