Isabella Mascarenhas founded the IM-Pact Kinship to amplify the positive impact of businesses whilst empowering diverse young innovators from under-served communities to collectively create a more equitable and understanding world.

Over the last 12 years, she has helped organisations to transform their cultures by leading initiatives from the heart with grassroots changemakers. Her professional network is extensive and forms ‘the kinship’. Isabella’s work has helped businesses to collectively reach, positively impact and empower over 750,000 lives around the world, including young people, under-served groups, refugees and communities in developing countries.

Isabella is a visionary leader with a heart for humanity and a track record of transformative impact. With a career that traverses the realms of engineering, technology, and social change, she embodies the essence of purpose-driven leadership.

Isabella's journey is marked by a steadfast commitment to championing social impact, fostering youth empowerment, and forging partnerships that catalyze positive change. Her work is a testament to her unwavering dedication to anti-racism, diversity, inclusion, and equity — values that serve as the cornerstone of her endeavors. Having honed her expertise across private, public, and charitable sectors, Isabella's reputation got her head-hunted for the role of Vice President of Education & Social Impact at a global FTSE 100 business.

Isabella has done talks all over the world, sharing her unique and thought-provoking insights on how the 3 elements of social impact, youth engagement, anti-racism and DEI are intrinsically interlinked. As an avid reader of world history books, she also delivers empowerment sessions for Black and global majority youth to instil them with a sense of self, pride and confidence.