Services

Two ways
to work with us.

Social Research & Development.

Using our strengths based story-based methods and your data you can better understand the potential impact your organization has.


Leveraging Emerging Technology.

Your organization needs comprehensive impact analysis that respects qualitative and quantitative inputs, while helping find patterns of impact. We can help.

Social Impact Research, Strategy & storytelling

We work closely with your organization's team, stakeholders and rights-holders to understand the social impact you want to make and help create strategies to achieve the change you want to see.

Social & Behavior Change Communications.

We can design the strategy and impact frameworks for SBCC campaigns; implementing iterative planning for public health or your advocacy work.


Interactive social impact storytelling.

We help organizations understand and harness the power of emerging technologies, and mediums to tell powerful stories.

We can help

Our focus is on emergent media.

We want to help equip purpose-driven people with a better understanding of digital communications for change.


We host free & sliding-scale events.

Our learning and development events are open to everyone in the social impact sector, regardless of income and resources.

Learning & Development

Our work with you allows us to create free and affordable learning opportunities for purpose-driven organizations in the social impact sector, based on our research findings and strategic experience. Our social impact strategy work helps fund our learning & development training.

Danielle Paydli, Canadian Freshwater Alliance

“This course offered an opportunity for us, as a small non-profit group, to bring the quality level of our podcast up ten fold! To have expert guidance, thoughtful feedback and an amazing team of people to move through the course with, was invaluable.”

Learn with a peer group.

We know you’re always looking for chances to level-up your skills. One of the best ways is to learn with peers.


Courses are co-created and iterative.

All of our education efforts are co-created with participants. Each launches as a prototype and may graduate to a full pilot or be scaled up or out.

Working with Secret Agents

We’re driven to help systems thinkers and creative innovators.

We engage with a very limited number of strategic clients each year because of the depth and commitment of our relationships. We work with your organization - at the highest levels - to deliver strategic thought leadership, stellar strategies and extraordinary social impact value. 

We are trusted executive advisors, not a communications shop. Secret Agents does not charge by the hour. Instead, we charge a fee for our strategic services (and limited production work).

Our minimum initial engagement is $15,000. Most clients generally investing between $25,000 to over $250,000, if Secret Agents is to produce more comprehensive strategies and direct implementation. 

If we aren’t able to work together on a project, please let us know if you’d like to join our growing community of social impact professionals. As we leverage our research and expertise to offer free and sliding scale events, we’ll make sure you and your organization are invited.

Book a virtual coffee with Ian.

Kick off a conversation about social impact strategy and storytelling.

Join our learning community.

Sign up with this form to join our social impact learning community.

Explore our resource section.

Our resources to help you stay on top of trends in social impact.


Secret Agents is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy, and we’ll only use your personal information to provide the products and services you request from us. We ask for your email, name and organization to download our capabilities presentation as we follow up in person with each person who requests it. 

Let’s talk social impact

Every Successful project starts with great conversation