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C-level leaders on navigating complexity

Discover what it means to lead in today's global business environment through our insightful eBook.

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Diversity and Inclusion
Innovation & Creativity
Leadership

Podcast: Unlocking neurodiverse potential

Steve Hill joins Dan to explore how organisations can better support and leverage the skills and perspectives of neurodiverse individuals, discussing practical strategies and insights on creating an...

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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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Leadership
Sustainable Innovation

Podcast: Leading sustainable business

An In Good Company podcast with John Maddy , Long Valley Holidays. Is it truly possible to lead a sustainable business? From environment to supply chain, purpose to profit, risk to regulations...

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Digital & Technology
Leadership

Can ChatGPT improve your leadership?

Thoughts from Ailie Shackleton , Impact's head of content marketing. Is it just me… or is ChatGPT the topic of chat everywhere you go? Whilst walking our dogs this week, my estate agent friend...

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Digital & Technology
Leadership
Teams

Podcast: Leading hybrid teams

An In Good Company podcast with David Berz , Head of Learning Technology, Data & Strategy, Global Operations . How can you lead teams in a hybrid world? In this episode of our leadership podcasts, we...

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Leadership
Talent

Podcast: Achieving full potential

To help us explore how leaders can help people achieve their full potential, engaging GenZ and Millennials and how to manage ego, we were joined by Sylwia Chada, a people leader who we first met when...

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Leadership

Leadership podcast: In Good Company 

An In Good Company podcast with Professor Richard Little . Welcome to our new season of leadership podcasts. We've tapped into our global network to bring you interviews with some of the most...

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Wellbeing & Personal Development

How to reframe your thoughts

By Impact CEO and founder, David Williams . I woke up this morning at 4.00am thinking about work. It’s a regular thing for me and always has been. One thought that grabbed my attention, causing me to...

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Adventure
Leadership
Teams

Bringing organisational culture to life

Victoria Sheyko, Impact Americas' marketing manager, shares her experience of reconnecting with her global colleagues at Impact, a human-centred organisation that designs and delivers experiential...

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Change
Leadership
Sustainable Innovation

Is your organisation having a positive impact?

As we mark the anniversary of one year since Russia invaded Ukraine, the global risk landscape feels more volatile than ever. Our emergence from the pandemic was quickly disrupted by new war in Europe...

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Change
Leadership

A human approach in a hybrid age

Explore the benefits of a trauma-informed HR approach and mindfulness in the hybrid workplace. Prioritize a human-centered approach, embrace vulnerability, and create safe spaces for authentic...

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Change
Leadership

Your biggest challenges for 2023

Feedback is foundational to our culture here at Impact. Every programme we run is not only a learning experience for our clients, but also for us. With this in mind, we would like to thank all of you...

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Digital & Technology
Emerging Talent

Starting a career in a hybrid world

The job that arguably taught me the most in life was my first Saturday job. I was 15, and the job was in a vegetarian café. And aside from learning how to make pastry from scratch, it also taught me...

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Digital & Technology
Leadership

How to foster a learning culture in a hybrid world

Fostering a learning culture is key to achieving the agility needed to succeed in the current business landscape. An organisation’s ability to adapt is dependent on its people’s ability to learn, spot...

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Change

Failure, vulnerability, and the true nature of change

Helen Hibbott  is CEO of Impact Asia.  Sarah Brammeier  is a Senior Consultant at Impact UK.  In our fast-paced, digital world of instant gratification, change is often thought of as something rapid...

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Wellbeing & Personal Development

Tackling fear in the workplace

Fear is a primal emotion that has been part of human nature since the dawn of evolution. It is a basic yet crucial emotion that is important for survival, triggering a response designed to keep us...

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Leadership

New senior leadership: A time for listening

In the initial stages of assuming a senior leadership role, the temptation often arises to establish one's presence as a leader, asserting a personal voice, leadership style, and authority. However...

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Leadership

Leading by listening

Listening is one of the most underrated leadership skills. In the current context of digital information overload and ongoing business disruption, many leaders find themselves moving from one meeting...

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Change
Leadership
Teams

Maximising management in a hybrid era

The hardest part of giving feedback is getting started. Here are our top tried-and-tested tips for creating the right environment and opening a quality conversation. Learn more from Helen Hibbot and...

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Change
Wellbeing & Personal Development

Impact's Ukraine appeal

We are raising £15,000 to support Ukrainian refugees in Poland: The Impact Appeal. We are witnessing a humanitarian crisis in the heart of Europe. The war in Ukraine is destroying countless lives...

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Change
Leadership
Sustainable Innovation

Business as a force for good

Businesses may not solve the world’s biggest challenges alone, but with the right human-centred approach. Read the article to find out more.

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Change

Organisational culture change: the importance of having faith

Organizational culture change is feasible but demands significant effort for lasting results. Read further for insights.

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Change
Leadership

How to navigate a VUCA world in 2022

What are the most pressing global catastrophic risks that businesses currently face? Right now, we are confronted by a number of urgent, interconnected crises. We can describe the current business...

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Wellbeing & Personal Development

In the dead of night…

Friday 18th March is World Sleep Day, and the theme is: Quality sleep, Sound mind, Happy world. Sleep is super important. I know that. You know that. Yet I don’t get enough of it. Does anyone...

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Leadership
Wellbeing & Personal Development

How to talk to children about the war in Ukraine? 

The images currently coming out of the Russian invasion of Ukraine are highly affecting us all but can be particularly upsetting for children. Images and footage of war can disrupt a child’s sense of...

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Change
Wellbeing & Personal Development

Working and parenting as a woman

Caitlin McAlister discusses the challenges of balancing work and motherhood, exploring the "mum guilt" many working mothers face. She shares insights on managing this guilt, the importance of work...

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Leadership

Ukraine’s heroes without capes

This has been the most terrible week of my life. A week ago, as I was putting my two-year-old son to bed in Connecticut, I got a phone call from my family back home in Kyiv. They’d been woken up at 5...

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Sustainable Innovation
Wellbeing & Personal Development

What the world needs now is love, sweet love! 

The best way of testing something out, to check if it's the right thing to do, is to do the absolute opposite and see how that feels. So, I ask you, how would you feel about being a “Force for bad!?”...

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Leadership
Talent

Onboarding remote employees: Employee and employer perspectives

The shift to remote and hybrid working caused by the pandemic has been a huge disruption to the traditional onboarding process. Welcoming a new team member to an organisation in a remote environment...

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Change
Leadership

How to create a company worth working for

In business, our relationships with each other are everything, and this is something that has been brought into stark focus by the pandemic. How organisations treated their employees during the early...

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Emerging Talent
Leadership

The role of feedback in human-centred organisations

Helen Hibbott is Impact Asia CEO Why is it that the prospect of giving feedback strikes fear into our hearts? Often the hardest part of giving feedback is getting started. In this article, I share my...

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