The Portfolio Career Accelerator
Match for Impact helps experienced corporate managers in career transition by matching them to structured 90‑day leadership projects in impact startups and social ventures. We use smart AI-matching, rigorous impact tracking and a tailored case study to support and accelerate their move into fractional and advisory roles
Right now, with AI and constant corporate restructuring, work life is changing faster than ever, so many senior leaders will struggle to find fulltime employment with a single company. Instead, they’ll find themselves working in several fractional roles, advisory and board positions. At the same time, three in four impact‑driven ventures— especially early stage — cannot find the experience they need.
Match for Impact creates a win‑win‑win by matching senior leaders who are looking to redeploy their talent into more future‑proof and meaningful work to mission‑driven ventures that urgently need their experience so that together they can tackle some of society’s toughest problems.
Rewire Your Career. Redefine Your Impact.
Break Out of the Old, Step Into What’s Next
Step into a fractional C-suite role, challenge yourself in a new space, and drive real impact while shaping your next career move.
Gain Cutting-Edge Skills in Emerging Fields
Expand your expertise by working in new sectors, industries, geographies, solving complex challenges, and gaining hands-on exposure to the latest innovations.
Elevate Your Personal Brand
“Match for Impact gave me the opportunity to work on a real, scalable problem—and use my systems thinking and leadership to help shape something truly transformative and impactful.”
- Meghna Joshi-von Heyden
Like Meghna, who showcased her leadership and built her personal brand in sustainability with NGO ShareMed Swiss while engaging the Swiss impact scene—culminating in a pitch at an accelerator final.
Future-Proof Your Career
Build connections with startups, impact leaders, and investors, creating career-defining opportunities and board-level pathways.
Like Johan, who future-proofed his move into solopreneurship via a hands-on assignment inside a growing startup.
“Working on this 90-day mission gave me exactly what I was looking for—real-world startup exposure, the chance to deliver meaningful results, and the clarity to fully step into my next chapter as a solopreneur.”
-Johan Wisenborn
Real People. Real Impact. Real Results.
Build Faster. Scale Smarter. Focus on Your Impact.
Running a startup or nonprofit means juggling funding, growth, and operations, often without the resources to bring in top-tier leadership.
Access High-Level Expertise—Without the Price Tag
Through Match for Impact, you’re paired with a seasoned executive who brings the strategic skills, network, and experience to help you tackle critical business challenges—at a fraction of the cost of hiring full-time.
“Match for Impact has an incredible knack for finding the perfect match for our team. The program’s ability to see beyond resumes and recognize the potential for meaningful collaboration is truly remarkable!”
- Janos Karovits, Co-founder ShareMed Swiss
Like ShareMed Swiss who with the help of Meghna were able to refine their business model and narrative, sharpen their platform and positioning and got ready to kick off their seed funding with investors and potential partners
You drive the mission—we provide the experience and expertise.
How 90 days can save you years… and many costly mistakes
With expert guidance form experienced senior executives, you can achieve in 90 days what might otherwise take years. From financial strategy to market expansion, you gain focused execution that moves the needle—fast.
Walk Away with Game-Changing Deliverables
By the end of the program, expect real, measurable results—a validated growth plan, refined product strategy, or improved governance—all designed to help you scale faster and secure funding.
“Match for Impact’s combination of experienced professionals and start-ups working on impact topics just makes complete sense and in my eyes has the potential to become the future norm.”
- Benjamin Holmer, Founder & CEO Minktec
Like MinkTec, who walked away with a stronger legal foundation to scale confidently—backed by a trusted advisor who understands the fast-evolving healthtech landscape.
What You Get In 90 Days
Your Fractional C-Suite Role
90-day immersive mission
Use your career transition to give back while gaining hands-on leadership in the startup space.
Take on 90-day fractional leadership roles, solving a critical challenge such as early commercialisation, sales processes, fundraising, contracting, or approaching key clients.
🚀 2+ days/week embedded in a startup leadership team.
🎯 Coaching That Keeps the Mission on Track
Included throughout the 90-day journey to support alignment, accountability, and success on both sides.
Built-In Transition Support
Live Masterclasses
Exploring a portfolio career or solopreneurship? Our Live Masterclasses help you map out aligned income streams, teach you about board roles and angel investing and set you up with essential infrastructure, tools, and smart shortcuts.
🚀 When you join, you become part of our community for life, with ongoing access to all future masterclasses and the community as an alum.
🚀 All live masterclasses are open to those not yet matched to a mission, so you can still learn, connect, and stay in the game.
Proof Points & Personal Brand
At our final event, your 90-day mission is turned into a polished professional case study, complete with filmed interviews, visuals, and a live showcase that highlight your results and leadership story. These video assets and the on-stage spotlight position you as a credible startup and impact leader you can confidently feature on LinkedIn, in interviews, or on your future solopreneur website.
🚀 Plus our Sprint on Communication & Personal Branding will prepare you to present with confidence.
Final Showcase & Branding Package
Meet the Founder
Silja is driven by the mission of "business as a force for good". Her extensive background as a senior executive in pharma and MedTech, coupled with her experience as a social entrepreneur led her to found Match for Impact.
Match for Impact is a portfolio career accelerator that uses smart AI-matching, rigorous impact tracking and a tailored case study to support senior leaders in between jobs by placing them into 90‑day fractional leadership missions in early‑stage ventures so leaders can reinvent their careers while startups get their experience and firepower
By 2030, over 90 million senior high-skill leaders in OECD countries will face AI-driven disruption, creating a €10–15 billion annual market for structured, impact-focused transition programs like Match for Impact.
With an INSEAD MBA and recognition as a TEDx speaker on social innovation, Silja offers a unique blend of entrepreneurial and corporate strategic leadership experience, combined with specialized expertise in health sector partnerships.