ABOUT US · IMPACT
Business can be a force for well-being.
The Corporate Impact Lab equips senior leaders to turn workforce strategy into enterprise-level transformation, expanding opportunity and well-being for millions of workers and their families.
THE CHALLENGE
WORKFORCE DECISIONS ARE GETTING HARDER, AND LONELIER.
Only 4 in 10 workers hold a quality job ¹, half of full-time workers don't earn enough to meet their family's basic needs ², and just 31% of U.S. households are financially healthy ³. Business leaders are among the few people directly positioned to change that, and they're doing it while navigating record CEO turnover and the fastest shift in how work gets done in a generation, largely on their own. When they invest in workers, their families and entire communities benefit.
"I sort of feel like, if not me, then who? And ultimately, our people deserve it."
- '26 Executive Fellow
HOW CHANGE HAPPENS
OUR THEORY OF CHANGE.
CENTER
Worker well-being, particularly for those in the most unstable, lowest-paid, and least secure jobs; because when we design with and for them, we build solutions that work better for everyone.
EQUIP
Leaders, the most direct lever to reach workers, with frameworks, technical advice, peer networks, accountability mechanisms, and support that stays through implementation.
IMPROVE
Economic mobility and job quality (e.g. wages, benefits, caregiving, career pathways, AI-driven displacement safeguards, etc); advancements resourced by employers and tracked against evidence.
RIPPLE
Replicable models and field-wide norm shifts. Change that reaches beyond any single company.
"In less than a year, we evolved from a DEIB department into an established Culture & Belonging function that is embedding itself throughout the organization as an operational system — not a side initiative."
Samira Salem
VP, Culture & Belonging
“We built an AI Philosophy in our organization that we would not have built had I not been a part of this group.”
Jessica Kozak
Chief Human Resources Officer
WORKER GAINS
WHAT IT ADDS UP TO FOR WORKERS
The point of the strategy is the people it reaches.
Here is what member decisions have set in motion.
5M
workers represented by companies in the Impact Lab
1.9M+
currently benefiting from funded, in-market investments
193K
in safe and healthy workplaces
240K
earning wages that sustain families
“Financial security, for me, has changed how I think. And I think that definitely makes you feel good, because you are actually paying that forward and guiding our Crew Members, Managers, and even family.”
Eddy Ceballo
Field Leader, Chipotle · formerly Crew Member, Kitchen Manager, Service Manager, and General Manager
PROOF IT WORKS
BY THE NUMBERS.
92
Net Promoter Score with zero detractors, three years running
100%
report higher leadership capacity in workforce and AI strategy
75%
refined their enterprise workforce strategy
100%
feel confident framing workforce strategy as a driver of business performance
83%
already implementing in under six months
30+
companies, from Fortune 100 to notable brands and SMBs, have tapped the Impact Lab for workforce strategy
WHO WE WORK WITH
THE SAME MISSION, WHEREVER THE WORK IS CHANGING
Our mission doesn't shift by title or industry: workers need what they need to thrive, whether that's a store manager or a knowledge worker. Retail and distribution leaders come to us to build strategy for the tens of thousands of hourly workers who feel wage stagnation, unpredictable scheduling, and disappearing advancement directly. As AI reshapes how work gets done, professional services and tech leaders are bringing that same urgency to roles that used to be considered secure.
A Fortune 500 retailer's leadership team used the Impact Lab to build a workforce strategy for 9,500 store managers. The problems look different by industry; the need for a strategy that survives contact with the org chart doesn't.