Impakt helps solve social problems.
Impakt was founded by in 2001 by leadership advisor, entrepreneur, author and journalist Paul Klein.
Paul has dedicated 25 yearto helping global brands become impact leaders and helping non-profit organizations to understand their social purpose and improve their impact.
In 2019, Paul founded the Impakt Foundation For Social Change, a charitable organization that helps refugees succeed in Canada.
In 2025, Paul founded the Impakt Forum, a global invitation-only network of corporate, academic, and civil society leaders with a mission of advancing progressive social change. The inaugural gathering of the Impakt Forum will take place this October in Toronto.
Paul also helps to solve social problems through impact journalism for publications including Forbes, Stanford Social Innovation Review, Impact Insider, The Guardian, and LSE Business Review.
His bestselling book, Change for Good: An Action-Oriented Approach for Businesses to Benefit from Solving the World's Most Urgent Social Problems (ECW Press, 2022), is used by business leaders worldwide to drive impact.
Paul is a sought-after keynote speaker represented by The Talent Bureau.
The Impakt Forum
A Global Community For Impact Leadership
The Impakt Forum is a space for business , civil society and academic leaders to make a difference at a time when global social and environmental progress is under threat. As momentum stalls and backlash grows, the Forum asks not how we can hold the line, but how we can move it forward.
Each year, an in-person gathering serves as a catalyst for collaboration. The forum also provides a space for year-round strategic discussions, thought leadership, and shared action.
The Impakt Forum is an ongoing commitment to: Co-create solutions through pilot projects; Sustain collaboration beyond the annual gathering; Illuminate new opportunities for progressive leadership: Leverage creativity and human connection to inspire change.
Sustainable Agriculture
Working in partnership with McCain Foods and their farmers, Impakt led an international collaboration with sustainability experts—including academics, tech innovators, agricultural specialists, and McCain leadership—to redefine the future of farming. Aligned with McCain’s commitment to implementing regenerative agriculture practices across 100% of their potato acreage by 2030, the Farms of the Future program continuously reimagines sustainable methods for potato cultivation. Currently, McCain owns and operates two Farms of the Future in Canada and South Africa.
Family Caregiving
Petro-Canada asked Impakt to develop a new community program that would strengthen its identity as an iconic Canadian brand.
Recognizing that over 8 million Canadians dedicate their lives to caregiving—an essential yet often unrecognized role — Impakt helped Petro-Canada establish the CareMakers Foundation. The Foundation has committed $10 million over five years to raise awareness and support informal family caregivers.
Ending Youth Homelessness
The Home Depot Canada Foundation sought to create a signature program that would address a critical social issue and establish itself as a national charity of choice. Youth homelessness, a pervasive problem undermining the health, education, and future of vulnerable young people in Canada, was chosen as the focus. Impakt engaged Home Depot executives, associates, communities, and homeless youth to assess the issue's impact. This collaborative effort, supported by advisory councils and a youth homelessness symposium, led to the creation of the Orange Door Project. Since 2014, the Home Depot Canada Foundation has invested over $50 million in preventing and ending youth homelessness and has committed $125 million by 2030.
Supporting Refugees
The Impakt Foundation believes in a Canada where immigrants are met with courage, determination, hope, and where their aspirations become our collective priority.
Established in 2019 as a charitable organization, the Impakt Foundation is committed to building bridges of belonging, not walls of isolation. It’s work is driven by a strong sense of community, fuelled by the experiences and voices of newcomers—for newcomers.
Through evidence-based solutions and personalised support, the Impakt Foundation create pathways for success, rooted in understanding the individual and powered by connection and networking.
The Tailor Project
How 2,500 Holocaust Survivors Found a New Life in Canada
The Tailor Project was a social innovation led by leaders of the Canadian apparel industry in 1948 that brought 2,500 Jewish Holocaust refugees to Canada to work as tailors and rebuild their lives.
Impakt was able to find many of the tailors and their families and collecte their stories. On May 1, 2019 we brought families together for the first time to honour their achievements.
Click to watch The Untold Stories of The Tailor Project.
Click to buy The Tailor Project: How 2,500 Holocaust Survivors Found a New Life in Canada.
In Change for Good, Paul Klein shows how companies must move beyond what he calls “corporate social responsibility light” and demonstrate how they can help solve social problems that have been defined as UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Change for Good is a new system for making social change through business that reflects Paul’s experience over the last 35 years. One of the core principles of Change for Good is including people with lived experience of social problems in identifying promising solutions and collaborating to bring these solutions to life. This methodology can create impactful and sustainable social change in society in ways that aren’t possible when executives make decisions in their boardrooms that are intended to impact the lives of vulnerable people.
Through personal experiences, case studies, and practical tools, Change for Good will inspire readers and their organizations to help solve the world’s most pressing social problems.
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