UPLIFTING HUMANITY THROUGH BUSINESS
Embedding impact at the heart of business, enabling organisations to grow while humanity thrives.
Ways we can work together
We believe business can be a powerful force for human dignity and flourishing. Lasting change begins with listening, understanding lived experience and working alongside communities to shape solutions that matter.
At Impact Led, we partner with social enterprises, purpose-led businesses and organisations seeking to create positive change. Together, we design approaches that are commercially sustainable, community-centred and built to endure.
STRATEGIC IMPACT ADVISORY
Strategic guidance for organisations seeking to create lasting impact.
As a trusted advisor and thought partner, Impact Led works alongside leaders to strengthen impact, navigate complexity and align strategy, operations and decision making with long term purpose.
How We Can Help
• Ongoing strategic impact and ESG advisory
• Organisational strategy and decision support
• Partnership and stakeholder engagement
• Impact governance and accountability
• Leadership mentoring and thought partnership
Available as ongoing advisory support, project-based engagement or embedded strategic partnership.
Outcome
A stronger, more resilient organisation equipped to lead with purpose and create genuine change over the long term.
IMPACT DESIGN & INTEGRATION
Design impact with the people it is meant to serve.
Through community engagement, co-design and Theory of Change development, we help organisations turn purpose into practical strategies that create genuine and measurable impact.
How We Can Help
• Theory of Change development
• Community engagement and co-design
• Impact strategy and planning
• Measurement and evaluation frameworks
• Participatory research and stakeholder engagement
Support can be tailored across the full impact journey, from research and design through to implementation, measurement and continuous improvement.
Outcome
A clear, credible blueprint for impact, grounded in evidence, community insight and organisational purpose.
IMPACT & INTEGRITY PATHWAY
Strengthening ethics, accountability and responsible business practice.
We support organisations to strengthen ethics, accountability and responsible business practice across governance, operations and supply chains, creating stronger foundations for positive impact.
How We Can Help
• Ethical business and sustainability reviews
• Responsible sourcing and supply chain due diligence
• Governance and accountability frameworks
• Human rights and modern slavery approaches
• Impact and sustainability integration
This work is designed to move beyond compliance, helping organisations embed practices that create genuine value for people, communities & the environment.
Outcome
A practical roadmap that strengthens organisational integrity, reduces risk and positions your organisation to create lasting value for both people and planet.
Impact in practice
Behind every engagement is a belief that business can be a catalyst for opportunity, dignity and flourishing. These examples represent a small selection of the initiatives, partnerships and systems that have shaped the Impact Led approach.
OUTLAND DENIM
Creating pathways to dignity, opportunity and flourishing
Pioneered the design and evolution of a holistic employment model for women vulnerable to exploitation, integrating living wages, healthcare, education, financial literacy and long-term development opportunities alongside meaningful employment.
Focus Areas
• Holistic employment model design and implementation
• Living wages and worker wellbeing initiatives
• Health, education and literacy programs
• Impact measurement and continuous improvement
SAÄž SALIM (SAFE AND SOUND)
Strengthening worker voice across global supply chains
Co-developed an industry collaboration supporting vulnerable cotton farming communities through worker engagement, information sharing, anonymous reporting channels and proactive due diligence approaches, helping reach millions of people while strengthening awareness, transparency and worker voice at the earliest stages of the supply chain.
Focus Areas
• Worker voice and anonymous reporting mechanisms
• Human rights and modern slavery risk identification
• Cross-industry collaboration across brands and suppliers
• World Justice Challenge Awards finalist
MAEKA STANDARD
A new standard in fashion, generating positive impact for people and planet
Collaborated on the development of responsible sourcing, human rights and supply chain accountability approaches that sought not only to identify and address exploitation risks, but to create greater opportunity, dignity and wellbeing for workers and communities.
This included developing an impact and integrity framework designed to help organisations assess, strengthen and advance their responsible business practices over time.
Focus Areas
• Responsible sourcing and due diligence frameworks
• Supply chain transparency and traceability
• Human rights and counter-modern slavery approaches
• Impact and integrity maturity framework
About
Leisl Ohai founded Impact Led after more than a decade working at the intersection of impact-led business, human rights and social impact.
Her experience spans both community-centred impact design and organisational systems change. This has included developing holistic employment models within vulnerable communities, designing impact measurement and learning frameworks, and advancing modern slavery due diligence approaches across complex global supply chains.
A defining chapter of her journey was her time at Outland Denim, an ethical fashion brand creating employment pathways for survivors of human trafficking. Working alongside suppliers, brands, NGOs and vulnerable communities, she witnessed both the potential and complexity of using business as a catalyst for opportunity, dignity and flourishing. These experiences reinforced her belief that impact cannot sit at the margins of an organisation. It must be intentionally designed, embedded in decision-making, and informed by the voices of the people it seeks to serve.
Today, through Impact Led, Leisl partners with social enterprises, purpose-led businesses and organisations seeking to create positive change through thoughtful strategy, ethical practice and community-centred design.
Combining practical experience with a Master of Leadership for Development, she brings a collaborative approach grounded in lived realities, systems thinking and long-term impact.
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Is there potential to work together?
I'd love to hear about your organisation, its challenges, and its aspirations.
