Great companies of the future are socially & environmentally responsible, connect with their purpose and human values and striving for long term leadership and shared value creation for all.
Behold International aims to empower social & green entrepreneurship beyond borders for sustainable growth.
We are a boutique agency offering unique tailor-made and hands-on social and green innovation, venture creation and leadership support for our international corporate, (semi) government, non-profit partners, impact investment funds & accelerator programs as well as the cleantech champions and social ventures of the future.
Over the last decades our passionate social entrepreneurial teams based in Europe, Africa & South America have delivered hundreds of projects in over 50 countries on 4 continents impacting the lives of millions of people worldwide. Building on this unique track record we wake up every day with full energy, passion and determination to work hand in hand with our clients and partners to co-create long lasting positive impact in the world.
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“IT IS NOT THE STRONGEST SPECIES THAT SURVIVE BUT THE MOST ADAPTABLE.” – DARWIN
Being active in the field of CSR, Social & Green Entrepreneurship and Future Leadership since 1998 we have always been a frontrunner in the evolution, constantly challenging and developing ourselves in (setting) the latest trends. We see challenges as opportunities and always had the overarching belief in fighting poverty with profit as the key for independent and sustainable growth. As pioneers we are constantly challenging the status quo and thinking differently. Yes we are those crazy people who believe we can change the world for the better. Constantly exploring new waves to drive CSR to social partnerships, to social venture capital, to social entrepreneurship to future proof leadership, to impact optimization, to sustainable growth.
In 2005 we set up the first social venture house as the first incubator and co-working for social entrepreneurs, later we initiated the first private Impact Investment Fund in NL and we claimed the first “life changing” learning journeys in order to inspire and develop organizations on challenging assignments for NGOs. Currently we are in the front rows to drive impact management & measurement, meaningful business, social branding, employee engagement by talent & leadership development and still advocating for Trade instead of AID. With our office in Colombia we took the lead in empowering green entrepreneurship & cleantech ideation, acceleration and innovation to fix climate change one start up at a time. An initiative we are planning to roll out in Latin America and the Caribbean in the years to come.
As mentioned CSR, Sustainability, Social & Green Venture Creation & Innovation and Leadership Development is far from a one-size-fits-all and that is always challenging us to come up with innovative solutions and approaches. Allow us to share our story by highlighting some of our projects and clients. For more details on much more experience, projects, clients and partnerships of our social ventures in our group we refer to their websites: Rainbow Collection (Impact Agency, Amsterdam), Start-U-up (Cleantech Acceleration, Amsterdam) Behold SA (Social Venturing, Johannesburg), The Experience Factory (Talent & Leadership Development, Johannesburg), Embedding Impact (Impact Management, Cape Town) and ClimateLaunchpad Colombia & South Africa (green entrepreneurship, Bogota & Johannesburg).
