MANAGEMENT SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT SOCIAL IMPACT VENTURES
MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT
SPORTS | MUSIC | TECH
FILM & TV | LITERARY
BRANDS | ENTERPRISE
CULTURE
MENTAL HEALTH & SUICIDE PREVENTION
WHAT IS SOCIAL IMPACT?
From youth driven initiatives to healthcare access, from sustainability to human rights, social impact is a significant positive change that addresses a pressing societal challenge. Business, sports and entertainment, along with civil society play a vital role in transformational change, and its leaders must engage the public, private, and nonprofit sectors as well as diverse disciplines.
Storytelling is at the core of everything we do at DLM Impact Partners. We collaborate with professional/elite athletes, artists, cultural influencers and powerhouse brands not just to create groundbreaking original content, but also build sustainable movements that deliver social impact and measurable value across media platforms and product portfolios.
We believe in the incredible power of authenticity propelling important stories to new heights. Though our films, music, digital content, social action campaigns and partners, DLM Impact seeks to entertain, encourage and empower every individual to take action making a difference in the lives of the next generation and our world at-large.
WHAT WE DO
STRATEGY
CREATIVITY & STORYTELLING
CREATIVITY & STORYTELLING
We work with our clients to develop research-based strategies and rigorous social impact campaigns, communications, fund development and operations plans.
CREATIVITY & STORYTELLING
CREATIVITY & STORYTELLING
CREATIVITY & STORYTELLING
We provide the ideas and solutions, from a messaging breakthrough to a new campaign framework to inspire action and to drive positive and sustainable change.
EXECUTION
CREATIVITY & STORYTELLING
EXECUTION
Our diverse and experienced teams can scale issues. We serve our clients at the local, state, national and global levels to achieve social impact and a legacy of positive change.
We Work with some of the most influential brands
WE BELIEVE
We Believe Deeply In Innovation and Working As A Team
We believe that real social change requires careful planning and a well executed strategy, innovation, collaborative partnerships, appropriate resources, an effective communications plan, creativity, disruption and complex problem-solving strategies.
We serve as thought-partners, change agents, strategists, advisors and all around team players as we work together with our clients to move their work forward.
WE WORK WITH
BUSINESSES & POWERHOUSE BRANDS
We work with leading social enterprise, corporations, powerhouse brands, start-ups, technology leaders, and sports & entertainment businesses to maximize social impact while increasing their bottom line revenues and brand reputation.
NONPROFITS | NGOs | INSTITUTIONS & CAUSES
We work with leading nonprofit organizations committed to social impact. Regardless of the cause, we approach each issue strategically with a mission-driven purpose and passion that results in real transformation.
MANAGEMENT | INDIVIDUALS & CULTURAL INFLUENCERS
From entrepreneurs to sports and entertainment celebrity, we work with passionate and committed individuals who have the personal, financial and/or social capital to champion meaningful causes and ideas.
ISSUE ADVOCATES & CHANGEMAKERS | PROBLEM SOLVERS | POLICY MAKERS
We are not your typical consultant or advisor. We are innovative, daring and impatient issue strategists who are determined to help our clients drive impact and leave a legacy of positive change that is sustainable for future generations.
From the private and public sectors to the entertainment and sports industries, we leverage every resource available to produce outcome-driven and groundbreaking solutions for our clients.
- Strategic Insight & Development
- Strategy Implementation
- Impactful Results
DIVERSITY & INCLUSION INITIATIVES
We have long worked at the intersection of sports, entertainment and social change. As a leading advisor to global changemakers, we have become a respected and trusted voice for the LGBTQ community. With a keen focus on equality and inclusion we advise powerhouse brands, executives, athletes/coaches, studios/networks, leading governing bodies of sport, and cultural influencers to ensure that the opportunities and dreams are the same for all regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity and/or gender expression.
LEADING MENTAL HEALTH & SUICIDE PREVENTION INITIATIVES IN THE U.S.
We collaborate with the nation’s leading public-private partners to advance national priorities and create groundbreaking solutions that transform communities and access to healthcare.
We are currently working with some of the biggest influencers and brands in the media, entertainment, sport, technology and music industries.
New updates coming soon.
MANAGING partner | manager + ADVISOR + executive producer
DAVID MCFARLAND
David is an accomplished executive, strategic advisor, award-winning producer/writer for film & television, manager of professional/elite athletes & artists, and sought-after public speaker. In his work, David brings together cultural influencers, powerhouse brands, funders and coalition partners not just to create groundbreaking original content, but also build sustainable movements that deliver social impact and measurable value across media platforms/product portfolios.
His demonstrated successes build on decades of experience in business, social impact and media & entertainment. Most recently, David created and executive produced the critically-acclaimed AT&T Original feature documentary film, Alone In The Game, which explores the challenges facing LGBTQ athletes at the professional, collegiate and Olympic levels. The film world-premiered at the prestigious AFI-DOCS Film Festival in 2018—followed by its network premiere on AT&T’s Audience Network and DIRECTV, and an official selection by major film festivals throughout the U.S. and internationally.
Through his firms DLM IMPACT PARTNERS and DLM ENTERTAINMENT GROUP, David is creating visionary companies that inspire social change and leverage purposeful stories, campaigns and compelling new ideas that connect with socially conscious consumers offering partners and clients tremendous opportunities that enhance brand value, while moving people to action. After years of media and entertainment experience, David understands that bold, well-told stories wield significant power. He has the creative acumen to tell stories on the issues that matter, the respect of the artistic and business communities, and the entrepreneurial talent to advance these stories by any means possible throughout the world.
David is a respected expert and thought leader on the intersection of business/sport/entertainment, mental health/suicide prevention and social impact. He has advised ABC/Disney, AT&T/DIRECTV, NBC Universal, Google, ESPN, Netflix, Amazon, Nike, Prudential Financial, and other Fortune 500 companies and nonprofits on integrating social responsibility with successful business strategies.
