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Five top awards from Brandon Hall Group

Five Impact clients have been awarded HCM Excellence Awards® by Brandon Hall Group. We've scooped three gold, one silver and one bronze award in 2024.

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Digital & Technology
Leadership

Podcast: Leading with AI: transforming organisational culture

Michael Molinaro joins Dan to discuss Gen AI, leadership and culture.

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Leadership
Sustainable Innovation
Talent

Purpose: A key driver of employee engagement

Research shows that only 23% of people are actively engaged at work. Can having a strong organisational purpose flip this?

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Change
Leadership
Sustainable Innovation

Podcast: Learning from experience

An In Good Company podcast with David Williams , co-founder and CEO, Impact The desire to make change happen Could the 23-year-old you imagine leading an organisation for over 40 years? Taking a start...

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Coaching
Leadership

Podcast: Making every voice heard

An In Good Company podcast with Kaja Podgórna-Strzelec , HR Director, PwC Polska Is it possible to make every voice heard within an organisation? Can you reconcile what is best for your business and...

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Leadership
Management Development
Wellbeing & Personal Development

Building trust through dialogue

Scott Rose is general manager of Impact UK The trust landscape Trust has always been a key ingredient to business success, but in a global landscape of increasing volatility, tension, and challenge...

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Change
Leadership

Only human-centred organisations will survive

Trevor Johnson is a Senior Consultant at Impact Americas What is a human-centred organisation? A human-centred organisation is one that puts people at the heart of everything it does. It understands...

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Adventure
Change
Leadership
Wellbeing & Personal Development

The advice leaders would give their younger selves (part 2)

At the end of each leadership podcast we recorded this year, we asked our guests one question: 'If you were starting over, what's the best piece of advice you'd give yourself?' Keep reading to...

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Leadership
Talent

Podcast: Has HR lost its soul?

An In Good Company podcast with Christoph Williams , Head of Talent and Leadership Development , Sony Europe Does Human Resources need to be more people centric? Has HR lost its soul? Is it now the...

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Leadership
Talent
Teams

Podcast: How to build and inspire teams

An In Good Company podcast with Beat Calabretti , Global VP Talent at Barry Callebaut Group How to build and inspire teams Teams. We're all part of them. But what does it take to build a successful...

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Change
Innovation & Creativity
Leadership
Sustainable Innovation

To disrupt or to be disrupted?

Andy Dickson is a senior consultant and global customer solutions manager at Impact UK Leadership in service to humanity Mark Twain said: ‘ The two most important days of your life are the day you are...

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Change
Leadership

Podcast: Making business more human

An In Good Company podcast with Katherine Wässer , Head of Purpose & Culture Transformation, Jaguar Land Rover How to make human centred organisations What do we mean by making a business more human...

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Sustainable Innovation

Demystifying sustainability jargon

Navigating the complex world of sustainability jargon and decoding the business value of positive impact. Explore key terms like CSR, ESG, and conscious capitalism in a sustainability glossary...

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Change
Digital & Technology
Leadership

AI vs. leadership coach: Who can help you develop your leadership skills?

Written with Cassie Cuppek , senior consultant at Impact Americas. We thought it would be interesting to pitch ChatGPT against one of our consultants, Cassie Cuppek, asking them both the same question...

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Sustainable Innovation

The Regeneration Game

The Regeneration Game is a lively learning experience that encourages participants to reflect on their impact on the world – on both an individual and organisational level. The intensifying...

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Change
Innovation & Creativity
Leadership

How to solve complex problems

Scott Rose is general manager of Impact UK Where to start? Sometimes, you just know it’s not working. The problem is you don't know why. The clues on the surface can be very clear: disengagement, poor...

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Leadership

Podcast: Leadership lessons from a CEO

An In Good Company podcast with Emanuela Trentin , CEO at Siram Veolia What questions would you ask a CEO? It’s not often you get to ask a CEO for their leadership lessons. And as the Fortune Global...

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Leadership
Wellbeing & Personal Development

Podcast: From personal to workplace wellbeing

An In Good Company podcast with Tuuli Tervaskanto , Country Manager Finland & Baltics at VMware Wellbeing – what does this mean for individuals and organisations? I think we can all agree that...

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Wellbeing & Personal Development

Making space for wellness

Sam Egerton is General Manager of Impact Singapore. In this article he discusses what he’s been noticing lately. Recently, we have been having a lot of conversations with clients around wellness needs...

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Teams

Unified purpose: The bedrock of team performance

What causes behavioural and performance gaps in teams? In our experience, the lack of a coherent, collective purpose is the biggest culprit. We have a simple exercise you can use in your next team...

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Leadership
Sustainable Innovation

Podcast: Transforming business sustainably

An In Good Company podcast with Michael Price , global commercial director, consultant and mentor How to balance profit, innovation and sustainability Is it possible for businesses to drive innovation...

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Leadership
Teams

Podcast: What it takes to lead a high-performing team

An In Good Company podcast with David Cooper , Senior Consultant, Impact What does it take to develop a high-performing team? At the heart of all organisational performance is the ability for...

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Leadership
Talent

Podcast: The role of HR in leadership

An In Good Company podcast with Iwan de Leeuw , Executive Vice President People Operations at Toll Group Putting the human into human resources The pandemic highlighted a need for a dynamic, agile and...

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Change
Leadership
Teams

Accelerated team development

Tony Ren has been Head of Impact China since 2009, working with clients across APAC to understand their business needs and implementing people development programmes. In this article Tony discusses...

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Change
Innovation & Creativity
Leadership
Talent
Wellbeing & Personal Development

Ten leaders on the advice they'd give their younger selves

At the conclusion of each leadership podcast we recorded this year, we asked our guests one question: 'If you were starting over, what's the best piece of advice you'd give yourself?' Read on to find...

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Digital & Technology
Innovation & Creativity
Leadership

Podcast: Entrepreneurial leadership

An In Good Company podcast with Leigh Gammons , CEO at Tangent Turning problems into opportunities If we define entrepreneurial leadership as bringing people together to achieve a common goal, whilst...

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Leadership

Brandon Hall Group awards land in New York and Zurich 

We are delighted to announce that two of our clients have been awarded HCM Excellence Awards® by Brandon Hall Group. Congratulations to Shutterstock and Migros Bank. The HCM Excellence Awards® hosted...

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Leadership

“Strip me bare” by Louisa Rodriguez

Louisa Rodriguez is a leadership coach, UN Women Delegate 2023, nature lover and poet. She joined our podcast season to talk about women in leadership.

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Leadership
Wellbeing & Personal Development

Podcast: Women in leadership 

Listen to the podcast with Louisa Rodriguez, a leadership coach and a UN Women Delegate in 2023.

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Leadership
Wellbeing & Personal Development

Creating cultures of belonging

Discover how leaders can bridge the gap in Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) efforts by fostering cultures of belonging and prioritizing authenticity. Explore strategies to create...

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Change
Leadership

Podcast: Leading with diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging

An In Good Company podcast with Liz Ward , Director of Programmes at Stonewall. DEIB starts with awareness Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) has become an increasingly important topic...

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Innovation & Creativity
Leadership

Liberating Leadership event: four key takeaways

Impact's Head of Creative Change, Dom Fitch , takes us behind the scenes at our latest learning event. In July 2023 we hosted a learning event to explore the challenges leaders face in activating...

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Leadership
Talent

Podcast: HR and inclusion

An In Good Company podcast with Mukta Arya , Chief Human Resources Officer (APAC) at Société Générale. What are the biggest challenges facing HR? There can't be many departments with a bigger remit...

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Innovation & Creativity
Leadership
Talent

Sony Europe's tips for building business acumen

Christoph Williams , Head of Talent and Leadership Development at Sony Europe shares an approach to deepening business acumen. This isn't done in a classroom, or through an in-house business project –...

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Adventure
Sustainable Innovation
Teams
Wellbeing & Personal Development

Impact’s Force4Good - an adventure journey

Adventure, purpose and a shared journey, Andy Dickson updates us on Impact's Force4Good A 160km adventure journey In 2022 Impact staff, friends and family took part in the first ever Impact Force4Good...

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Adventure
Leadership
Wellbeing & Personal Development

Podcast: Vulnerability in leadership

An In Good Company podcast with Alex Staniforth , adversity adventurer and founder of Mind Over Mountains charity. Should leaders be vulnerable? Resilience, wellbeing, agility... these are all terms...

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Innovation & Creativity
Sustainable Innovation

Impact retains EcoVadis gold rating for sustainability practices

Impact’s sustainability performance for 2023 ranks among the top 5% of companies independently assessed by EcoVadis. Impact has retained gold in EcoVadis’ sustainability ratings for the fifth year...

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Innovation & Creativity
Leadership

Podcast: Agile leadership

An In Good Company podcast with Molly Brown Pickett , Head of People Development at Asana. What is agile leadership? Agile leadership is a term we're hearing more and more these days. Generally...

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