Investing for systems change
A global collective of investors, practitioners, and facilitators, who are actively deploying capital and/or enabling processes for positive systems change.
Nurturing and building our community
Contributing to more clarity, awareness and education
Catalysing deployment of capital for systems change
Building evidence of investing for systems change
Guiding principles
From inception, TWIST has been governed and managed as a collective; the collective devised a set of guiding principles:
Co-creativity
Stewardship mindset
Transcending paradigms
Global perspectives
Personal transformation
Emergence
Endeavouring to collectively define systems change investing
Sensing what desires to emerge by studying case studies and facilitating its acceleration.
Exercising no 'ownership' over systems change investing, recognising it as a diverse field to which we hope to contribute meaningfully.
Celebrating the existence of various paradigms for systems change investing, not confined to the paradigm guiding our worldview.
Ensuring this work is informed by perspectives from across the world, not dominated by any single country or region.
Aligning systems change investing (the 'outer work') with personal transformation (the 'inner work').
“Investing for systems change is investment capital that is being deployed - often coordinated with other types of resources and interventions - with the intention to contribute to positive systems change.”
Governance
TWIST is governed by members of our collective:
Tharald Nustad
Co-Initiator of TWIST and Founder of Katapult Group
Alison Fort
Managing Director of TWIST and Katapult Foundation
Charly Kleissner
Co-Initiator of TWIST and Co-Founder of Toniic and KL Felicitas Foundation
Alexandra Korijn
Managing Director of TWIST
Richard Azarnia
Founder of the Good Investors
Lisa Kleissner
Co-Founder of Toniic and KL Felicitas Foundation
Philipp Essl
Senior Social Impact Director at Big Society Capital
Molly Mayo
Senior Partner of Meridian Institute
Joe Hsueh
Founder of SIMFO Multi-Family Office
Julie Engelhorn
Founder of Pollex
Jason Jay
Director of MIT Sloan Sustainability Initiative
Nicolas Michaelsen
Founder of Materra Capital
Hanson Gong
Managing Partner of Oogway Capital
About
TWIST is a non-profit programme, incubated and currently hosted by the Katapult Foundation, and in the process of becoming an independent organisation. It is funded by the Katapult Foundation, KL Felicitas Foundation, and members of the collective.