GROW

WHO WE ARE

Uncommon Impact Studio is a strategy advisory firm and impact investment firm purpose-built to accelerate growth in organizations. Founded on the truth that we are all given to grow, we leverage our deep expertise, lived experiences and extensive networks to offer a wide range of services and investment opportunities that meet visionaries and bold ideas where they are with what they most need. Collectively, we transform ideas into lasting value that scales and give rise to a society where all can thrive.

“Excellence is doing a common thing in an uncommon way”

Booker T. Washington

Our Mission

UIS is an impact accelerator designed to fuel the growth of ventures with proven traction and scalable potential. We partner with ambitious, technology-enabled, post-revenue entrepreneurs who are ready to expand, providing the crucial capital readiness, strategic partnerships, and operational expertise they need.

Our focus is on helping these ventures sharpen their operations and execution, attract and align capital, and ultimately build sustainable, profitable growth

Our Vision

A world where bold ideas meet the right partners, capital, and infrastructure to drive systems-level change.

WHAT WE DO.

At Uncommon Impact, we work in service of entrepreneurs and bold ideas—in any size organization—aligned with our matrixed theory of change.

TO CHANGE TOMORROW, WE HAVE TO FIX YESTERDAY

That’s why Uncommon Impact Studio is dedicated to dismantling four structural barriers to wealth equity. To do so, we work with clients and portfolio companies in five core areas.

WE KNOW MONEY ISN’T ENOUGH

No business, no matter how great its team or how innovative its product, has ever survived on funds alone, so we founded Uncommon Impact on the idea that there exist five forms of capital, each of which is essential.

We’re built to deliver on all five.

  • The family capital that grounds entrepreneurs with legacy, values, and the generational strength to weather challenges. It’s the reminder that behind every venture is a human story of resilience, belonging, and purpose.

  • The intellectual capital necessary to build a sophisticated organization and solve complex problems

  • The relational capital that connects you with the people and institutions on which your business will depend

  • The experiential capital it takes to anticipate the unexpected and overcome it intelligently

  • The social capital required to establish positive, constructive relationships with communities—both locally and globally

WE CALL THIS CAPITAL 5.0, AND IT IGNORES THE RULES

We’ve taken apart the traditional models and reassembled Uncommon Impact from the ground up to provide what is useful and substantial, ensuring we are able to jointly craft the right solution to bring a vision to life, not what a conventional consultant or investor thinks you need.

WE’VE BEEN THERE.

SO WE BUILT WHAT WE KNOW YOU NEED.

Each of us have experienced the obstacles that so often stand in the way for our clients & portfolio companies. We know what success takes, and where traditional models fail, so across all five forms of capital, we’ve developed a range of offerings designed with care to address the common barriers emerging visionaries face.

HOW WE DO IT.

STRUCTURAL PROBLEMS

CAN’T BE FIXED

ON THE SURFACE 

TO CREATE WEALTH EQUITY

WE MUST FIRST UNEARTH 

THE ROOTS

UNCOMMON IMPACT STARTS WITH

UNCOMMON CURIOSITY

While our lived experiences and combined successes are extensive, we approach each project with uncommon curiosity. In other words, we don’t rely on playbooks and frameworks just because they may have worked in the past, but rather interrogate the status quo, seek out root causes, and craft new ideas before our collective work begins.

WE’RE BUILT

DIFFERENTLY.

 Highly Networked.

WE’VE BEEN AROUND THE BLOCK.

OUR NETWORKS SHOW IT.

To deliver on this idea, we are both deliberately small and highly networked, tapping into deep pools of motivated talent reflecting a full range of diverse experiences, a wide range of subject matter expertise, and authentic, contextual input from which we create catalytic ecosytems built from the voices that matter.

AND THIS ALLOWS US

TO BLUR THE LINES

We easily flex between strategic advisor, execution team, incubator and an investment firm, with extensive resources, support, and an ongoing relationship with every client and company.

FLEXIBLE AND EXTENSIBLE

DESIGNED AND BUILT FOR YOU

OUR FOUR STEP PROCESS—WHETHER SEQUENTIAL OR A LA CARTE—UNCOVERS ROOT CAUSES & CREATES NOVEL SOLUTIONS

  • Ideate

    novel ideas for both tactical and strategic opportunities and challenges

  • Situate

    solutions in the societal landscape with Restorative AI innovations

  • Create

    catalytic coalitions to enable and enact transformative execution

  • Elevate

    stories that showcase the impact of values-driven solutions and accelerate change for all

In other words, we don’t sit on the sidelines, offer tired advice, or keep to a transactional relationship, but rather work in radical partnership to collectively nurture a vision into reality.

RADICAL PARTNERSHIP

OUR MODEL IS DESIGNED TO SUPPORT YOU IN EVERY SENSE

We tirelessly take on present, tactical, and strategic business problems for which we unlock new approaches, craft solutions & programs, and build execution plans with trust, authenticity, and agility by design.

Whether we’re co-creating with you or helping you to maximize an opportunity, we’re collectively bringing transformative solutions to life.

COLLECTIVELY NURTURES

WE DON’T JUST STRATEGIZE FOR YOU, WE CREATE

THE CONDITIONS FOR TRANSFORMATION WITH YOU

The unique combination of our deliberately small, highly networked structure, our lived experiences and myriad areas of expertise, and the range of offerings we’ve developed allow us to meet you where you are with what you most need. Adding the most important ingredient—YOU—is how we collectively kindle uncommon impact.

VISIONS INTO REALITY

LIQUIDITY EVENTS & FLASHY PR ALONE DON’T IMPRESS US

WE’RE IN IT FOR THE UNCOMMON IMPACT

We live by our values, choosing clients & investments with shared goals, and with as much deliberate care as you choose us. And because we work exclusively with visionaries we’re confident you have what it takes, so we’re with you for the long haul, building companies and creating programs that yield lasting, adaptable, and—yes—profitable value. For all.

WHY WE DO IT.

THE UNCOMMON FUTURE IS NOW

WE’RE PASSIONATE ABOUT ENSURING IT WORKS FOR ALL OF US

We know there’s no pipeline problem—every community has its share of geniuses, builders, and problem solvers. Visionaries in every sense of the term.

SO WE’RE BUILDING A FUNNEL

WITH THE WIDEST POSSIBLE OPENING

The best companies expand industries, and sometimes create entirely new ones.

They inspire generations of students to learn emerging skills, with the sudden explosion of fields like data science, artificial intelligence, and machine learning in recent years serving as especially inspiring examples. And any successful business has its own ripple effects: stronger community living standards, new ecosystems of partners and vendors, new supply chains, and so on.

But today’s models of enabling & investing in ideas that could reach these heights are notoriously homogeneous and transactional.

The popular rationalization referred to as the “pipeline problem”–far too often relies on a shotgun approach in which the one-in-a-thousand unicorn subsidizes 999 misfires. This isn’t simply regressive; it's tragically inefficient.

We all want to live in a society where all can

thrive.

This is within our power to create.

CREATE IT WITH US

Whether you are seeking Responsible AI assessments, strategic advisors, an execution team, an incubator, entrepreneurship studio, investment firm, or all of the above within our matrixed theory of change, together we can create the future we all deserve.

BECAUSE WE ARE ALL

GIVEN TO GROW 

info@uncommonimpactstudio.com