AIAA is a life, health and wellbeing specialist with over 48 years of experience. They offer a range of products that protect the financial health and wellbeing of more than 3.8 million Australians.

Their vision is to champion Australia and New Zealand to be the healthiest and best protected nations in the world. They aim to achieve this by developing and delivering customer-led life, health and wellbeing propositions that help people live healthier, longer, better lives.

IAG is the parent company of a general insurance group with controlled operations in Australia and New Zealand. Its businesses underwrite more than $12 billion of premium per annum, selling insurance under leading brands, including: NRMA Insurance, CGU Insurance, SGIO, SGIC, and WFI in Australia and NZI, State, AMI and Lumley in New Zealand.

More than nine million Australians have been affected by a natural disaster or extreme weather event over the last 30 years. Through research, the Australian Business Roundtable for Disaster Resilience & Safer Communities has found that the total costs of natural disasters in Australia are forecast to more than double in real terms to $39 billion per year by 2050. IAG’s success is determined by how well it supports its customers to get back on their feet when disaster strikes. IAG sees that it has a responsibility to support the people and businesses it protects when they need them the most, and has the skills and experience to offer customers rapid support to help them recover. IAG also promotes disaster resilience and mitigation to help customers and communities be as prepared as possible for the risks they may face.

NAB is a major commercial bank with more 34,000 colleagues serving approximately nine million customers who rely on NAB to deliver secure, easy and reliable banking services with branches and offices in more than 850 locations in Australia, New Zealand, London and New York. As Australia’s leading business and agricultural bank NAB has a unique responsibility to support businesses and farmers by acting for the long-term to deliver sustainable outcomes.

Sustainable business is good business. NAB acknowledges its responsibility to make good long-term decisions and help support a strong Australian economy into the future. That is how NAB will continue to serve customers well and help communities prosper for years to come. It is why NAB is investing now for a more prosperous future.

The long-term approach means NAB is focused on sustainability and tackling some of society’s biggest challenges where it can have the most positive impact. This includes responding to natural disasters, taking action on climate change and building financial health and resilience.

Adopting a shared value approach at NAB over many years has meant completely rethinking parts of the business, through innovative design of products and services, creating business value in new ways, developing new markets and attracting new customers, all while building advocacy and living its organisational values to be ‘more than money’.

Nestlé recognises the need to deliver solutions that meet people’s needs, address society’s challenges and generate economic value has never been more important. That is why creating shared value drives everything that they do.

Optus is the second largest provider of telecommunications services in Australia in terms of revenue and employs more than 7,000 employees. As a fully integrated telecommunications provider to more than 10 million customers, Optus delivers a comprehensive range of telecommunications products and services including: mobile and fixed line telephony; broadband services; multimedia entertainment and technology services; satellite services; and converged business telecommunications applications and solutions.

Optus’ vision is to be Australia’s best loved everyday brand with lasting customer relationships and is committed to creating shared value in their business to drive innovation and address social and environmental challenges. Optus’ partnership with the Shared Value Project aims to advance their Future Makers to be more competitive and prosperous and support these social start-ups and enterprises to create value for business and the community.

Enel is a multinational power company and a leading integrated player in the global power and renewables markets. It is the largest European utility by ordinary EBITDA, and is present in over 30 countries worldwide, producing energy with around 89 GW of installed capacity.

The vision of Enel is to tackle some of the world’s biggest challenges as captured in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This is also reflected in Enel’s corporate purpose: “Open Power for a brighter future. We empower sustainable progress”. More specifically, Enel has directed its activities towards mitigating climate change (SDG 13) through decarbonising the production and consumption of energy, while simultaneously extending access to affordable and clean energy (SDG 7). The vision and mission of the Enel Group is outlined here.

Enel’s renewables arm Enel Green Power is the world’s largest renewable private player, with around 50 GW of wind, solar, geothermal, and hydropower plants installed in Europe, the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Oceania.

Enel’s strategy pursues shared value creation through its focus on decarbonising energy generation and electrifying energy consumption. Through this dual focus Enel aims to create shared value through mitigating climate change and expanding energy access.

Enel uses the Creating Shared Value (CSV) model in all global business lines to put its purpose of empowering sustainable progress into action and advancing the global energy transition. As part of its strategic commitment to combat climate change, Enel is investing heavily into expanding its renewable energy generation capacity. When developing new renewable energy projects, Enel applies the CSV model to ensure that these projects generate shared value. Enel’s approach to CSV and methodology best outlined in Enel Sustainability Report 2020 (page 126), here.

In Australia, Enel Green Power, operates the 275 MW Bungala Solar Farm in South Australia and the 34 MW Cohuna Solar Farm in Victoria. Enel Green Power has a pipeline of further wind and solar projects under development across Australia.

A pioneer of applying shared value thinking in Australia, Ellis Jones is a award-winning, multidisciplinary company with expertise in social and design research, business strategy, purpose definition and branding, behaviour change communication and impact framing and reporting. For over a decade, its consultants have been helping business, government and not-for profit organisations to identify and define shared value opportunities, developing strategic approaches to achieve and communicate impact.

Arup is the creative force at the heart of many of the world’s most prominent projects in the built environment and across industry. Working in more than 140 countries, the firm’s designers, engineers, architects, planners, consultants and technical specialists work with our clients on innovative projects of the highest quality and impact.

Arup is acutely aware of its responsibility in designing and positively influencing the built environment as it strives to find a better way, and shape a better world.

As one of Australia’s leading professional services firms, PwC works with more than 5,000 clients, and is part of a global network that spans across 158 countries.

PwC helps its clients to embed environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations into business strategies to realise new opportunities and sustainable growth. PwC helps future-proof businesses by helping them to put ESG at the core of their purpose and supports them on their transformation journey. And, PwC helps to establish and build marketplace trust and credibility through rigorous, transparent reporting and assurance programs.

PwC also has a specialist venture, called The Impact Assembly, which is designed to enable collaboration for social change. As a design and facilitation team, The Impact Assembly works with non-profit organisations, philanthropists, communities, and collectives of organisations across sectors to drive systemic change on big challenges and opportunities in our society.

Our commitment to clean money means we focus our lending and investments in areas that do good, not harm, for people and the planet. We support over 190,000 customers and we’re the custodians of more than $11 billion in assets.

Central to our mission is redefining the purpose and impact of engineering practice as a critical enabler of sustainable development. Our work in Education ensures that our future engineers develop the skills, knowledge and confidence to engineer sustainably. Our work in Engineering spans the Asia-Pacific region, with a focus on Cambodia, Timor-Leste, Vanuatu and First Nations communities in Australia. We develop technology solutions to address real world issues alongside the people who are most impacted by these issues. And we practice, track and measure to prove our methods and feed learning back into the sector. We work with our network in Australia and internationally, with industry, governments, the academic sector, other for-purpose organisations and our community of EWB chapters, alumni and volunteers to share learning, to influence, and to drive our belief that the practice of conscious engineering is possible.

Melbourne Innovation Centre’s business incubators are home to approximately 80 client businesses, ranging from horticulture, environmental technologies, and costume design to sculpture and agritech. Melbourne Innovation Centre works closely with the local government, economic development organisations, TAFEs and Universities to nurture and develop start-ups and small businesses. In turn, graduate businesses successfully enter the wider business community, supporting local economy and providing sustainable employment opportunities.

Melbourne Innovation Centre also oversees several high scale Government programs Australian Small Business Advisory Services, Bushfire Business Recovery Advisory Services and Partners in Wellbeing.

We work with industry and government to support and enable organisational capacity in the social procurement and diversity and inclusion space. We offer a range of advisory, brokerage and advocacy services, linking employers with service providers working with jobseekers experiencing disadvantage, and helping employers to create workplaces where all staff can thrive.

We also connect organisations with a range of targeted social impact suppliers to meet social procurement objectives, such as social enterprises, Aboriginal-owned businesses, disability services and employment providers, community organisations and for-purpose employment agencies.

Shared value will help our society learn to meet these cohorts where they are, encouraging employers to be flexible, and enabling them to create genuinely inclusive workplaces.

We work with community, government and corporate partners to solve issues around homelessness, family violence, mental health and disability, as well as supporting Indigenous communities, women, youth and families.

Our products and services are used by over 25,000 government and community services. We provide the right tools to improve efficiency and deliver greater impact – from nation-wide service coordination systems to IT advice for individual organisations.

And through our work in digital inclusion and social innovation we use technology to empower people experiencing disadvantage, driving social inclusion and creating stronger communities. We believe no-one should be left behind in today’s digital world.

We are committed to creating shared value through procurement frameworks to achieve better environmental and social outcomes. We aim to incorporate circular economy principles in every aspect of our business model. Currently, we supply B2B markets including charities, social housing, hospitality and healthcare organisations within Australia.

Our mission is to improve the health of millions of people worldwide, particularly those living in disadvantaged circumstances, by challenging the status quo and using innovative approaches to prevent and treat non-communicable diseases and injury.

Our collaborative group has space and spatial expertise including positioning and geodesy, data and infrastructures, spatial analytics, and space advisory. This expertise can assist any sector, from space to health and resources, to improve location-based information and increase data accessibility for improved decision support and service delivery.

We are a trusted advisor, facilitator and collaborator and have a depth of experience delivering multi-party, multi-disciplinary collaborative R&D projects both locally and internationally. Through our extensive partner network, we can access the right expertise to meet the needs of each individual project, holding us in a unique position within the market. We offer several services including Collaborative Applied Research, Complex Project Management, Collaborative Project Formulation, Independent Advisory Services, Technology Development, Data Science & Analytics, Industry Engagement and Outreach, Business Case Development, Innovation Program & Test Beds, and Workforce Development.

FrontierSI provides the connection point, research services, expertise, technology, and collaborative model for our partner network to access, develop and apply space and spatial research development and innovation project outcomes into impactful and innovative solutions. Together with our partners, we have transformed research outcomes into meaningful changes across several industries.

We are a national, for-purpose charity dedicated to helping people act for nature all over Australia. From ocean litter collection to bushfire recovery, citizen science activities, to building backyard Nature Blocks™ – a fun, vibrant experience where you can make a difference to restore our native habitat. We help everyday people connect and care for nature all over Australia.

Everything we do feeds into resilience, restoration, and climate mitigation and helps reduce biodiversity loss. We provide year-round opportunities for people to take action to help nature on land, oceans, coastal areas, and inland waters. Our partners grow our community by taking simple, fun, and measurable actions for nature across any or all our three “anchor” inspiration themes in the community happening across Australia 365 days of the year – Actions for Biodiversity, Actions for Climate, and Actions for Oceans and Waterways.

We are CSIRO’s sole NGO science partner for ending plastic waste, so what we do matters and influences government policy.​ We’re also a proud member of the UN Global Compact and we measure and report on all our actions and impacts against the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), annually.

Shared Value really matters to CVA. As a not-for-profit (NFP) trying to tackle one of the world’s most challenging problems – the environmental crisis – we need the intelligence and resources of all to help. We work with partners who share the same values as Conservation Volunteers Australia and have a common shared vision and purpose; together, we work on a set of goals that cannot be achieved alone.

Shared Value, to us, is a more than a financial model; it leverages a broader, deeper commitment with leaders who have real ‘skin in the game’ and a commitment with communities empowered to want to help solve the problem.

By 2026, we will have built a strong community of 1 million people, engaged through our ‘always on’ year-round opportunities across Australia to help restore and protect our land, oceans, wetlands, and waterways. Together with our partners, we empower every Australian to take simple yet powerful actions for nature, with a mission to improve people’s well-being and environmental health for stronger communities and more resilient ecosystems.

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TDi partners with business leaders and communities to create sustainable solutions for social issues where everyone can prosper. Through a basis of empathy, relationships and creativity TDi helps business leaders to create new models that are fundamentally good for business and genuinely addresses a social issue. Shared value is at the heart of TDi’s work.

Its mission is to mobilise effective responses to the most pressing issues facing the world. Dalberg works with senior decision-makers in corporations, governments, international public organisations and NGOs to help bring about change that contributes to lasting impact.

Dalberg’s network includes 30+ locations across Asia-Pacific, Africa, Europe, North America and the Middle East, serving 110+ countries, including Australia. The team combines a unique depth of social impact expertise, complementary capabilities such as human-centred design, and 20+ years of experience bringing global perspectives to local challenges.

He has worked with Mark Kramer and Professor Michael E Porter, creators of the ‘shared value’ concept at FSG in the US (Boston and San Francisco).  Advising companies on all aspects of sustainability, he also teaches shared value theory at the Australian Graduate School of Management at the University of New South Wales. Hugh sits on the Advisory Board of the Shared Value Project (Australia).