Impact Studio
Impactful, Innovative Entrepreneurship
The Big Table Institute Impact Studio is designed to support mission-focused founders and their teams as they seek to build technology-enabled and data-driven enterprises to address societal challenges.
Our approach prioritizes networked models and is rooted in user-centered design, cross-sector collaboration, systems change, and shared value creation.
We seek to go beyond the traditional startup or small business playbook to enable mission-aligned professionals to design, test, and launch systemic solutions.
Symbiotic Networks
An ecosystem that facilitates and promotes co-evolution, turning competition into collaboration.
“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”
~ Helen Keller
Our Approach
Through our Impact Studio, we utilize a mix of traditional, linear entrepreneurial programming with an agile, adaptable, ecosystem-oriented approach to weave social impact, civic innovation, and entrepreneurship.
Program Structure
Our structure reflects a nonlinear and dynamic ecosystem of peers, partners, and stakeholders alongside cohort-based, step-by-step programs to support first time founders through the entrepreneurial journey.
Knowledge Transfer
Knowledge sharing is multidirectional and learning comes from founders, communities, mentors, researchers, policymakers, and lived-experience subject matter experts.
Relationships
The development of intentional relationships promotes long-term coalition building. Founders benefit from cross-sector networks across the public and private sectors, while interacting with program staff and a global network of advisors.
Begin Your Journey
Foundations of Impactful Entrepreneurship
Our Foundations of Impactful Entrepreneurship educational series is about big picture thinking, the entrepreneurial mindset, and building with purpose. Learn more about our current and recent Foundation of Impactful Entrepreneurship programs here: