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The leadership playbook: executive summary
Get hands on with our interactive leadership playbook, shaped by 45+ years' experience working with some of the world's biggest organisations.
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Mastering AI: strategies for business innovation and success
Explore the transformative power of GenAI in business. Learn how to navigate challenges, foster an innovation culture, and confidently lead in the AI era.
Leadership
Wellbeing & Personal Development
Wholehearted leadership
Erin Tetarenko of Impact Australia shares her personal journey on Wholehearted Leadership. It’s been nine years since I first learned a lesson that would impact my life forever, one that would...
Change
Sustainable Innovation
In conversation with...
Mark Quest and I sat in The Lion. The Lion is the name of our smallest meeting room here at Impact HQ. We also have meeting rooms called The Sun and The Rule and a Management Information System we...
Change
Sustainable Innovation
Being the change: My volunteering memory
I woke up in Luton that winter morning in 2011 knowing that the decision had been made. It was on a gap year between my first and second degrees and, like many people in their twenties, I didn’t know...
Innovation & Creativity
Wellbeing & Personal Development
What's your hammock?
Mark Quest, Impact UK Consultant, reflects back to a hot sunny day when his ability to work in the office was challenged and his response was to take to his hammock! It’s the middle of summer. My...
Change
Apprenticeships - opportunities for all
Impact have a strong history of working with apprentices and with the introduction of the apprenticeship levy we have been helping clients to work out how to make the most of this exciting opportunity...
Change
Filling the world with organisations worth working for
Explore how creating organisations worth working for begins with becoming someone worth working with. Discover the human-centric approach that can elevate productivity, engagement, and overall...
Wellbeing & Personal Development
Who runs the mind?
Mind Managing for Goal Achievement Mind management and mental preparation begin with an understanding of how the brain might function in terms of our focus of attention. I picked up on a piece of...
Adventure
Wellbeing & Personal Development
An expert's guide to failure
Last year I went out to run the Bob Graham Round - solo. I failed. This is not a story about how I failed but really I succeeded; about finding a greater meaning; about failure being a state of mind...
Sustainable Innovation
Force4Good: Leading an industry
I’m Dave Kowal, the Chief People and Sustainability Officer for Vita. The Vita Group is an advanced manufacturer of foams that are used for furniture, bedding, transport, and other applications. If...
Change
People own what they create
Impact's Head of Creative Change, Dom Fitch, digs deep into the concept of living changerously. This is my Nordic butter spreader – there are many Nordic butter spreaders like this but this is my...
Adventure
ReWild yourself
"Is this cooked? It doesn't look cooked to me," says Jonathan as he probes the spit roast chickens with his Sami knife, squinting as the wood smoke stings his eyes. "Yep," says Greavsie, carnivore-in...
Sustainable Innovation
Force4Good: Pioneering sustainable tourism
John Maddy, co-founder of Long Valley Yurts, leads in ethical glamping with a focus on sustainability. Discover how his innovative approach sets industry standards.
Sustainable Innovation
Force4Good: Ethical business practice
Meet Tom Martlew, 23-year-old co-founder of Nito Design. Passionate about the environment and ethical practices, Tom blends design with a strong commitment to sustainability.
Sustainable Innovation
Force4Good: Mind Over Mountains
Alex Staniforth : Inspirational speaker and f ounder of Mind Over Mountains By the age of twenty, Alex Staniforth had already made two Everest attempts. For many who attempt Everest, you either summit...
Sustainable Innovation
One solution for a sustainable world
Can there really be one solution for a sustainable world? This might sound like a bold statement but I believe it to be true. As a global society we’re currently on a path that is not sustainable – we...
Wellbeing & Personal Development
Time for yourself = more time for others
My dad was a very good painter and decorator, eventually running his own (very small) business complete with the obligatory Trotter’s Trading Company yellow van. I used to work with him in the summer...
Sustainable Innovation
Force4Good: A warming planet
Ashley Cooper, Photographer and Force4Good collaborator For the last 20 years, I’ve been a professional environmental photographer and have spent 14 years travelling to every continent to document the...
Sustainable Innovation
Force4Good: Rooted in nature
David Williams, Founder and CEO of Impact and Force4Good Collaborator I first came to the Lake District in 1974 at age 18 to attend Charlotte Mason College in Ambleside. I was training as a teacher in...
Sustainable Innovation
Force4Good: Passion for geography
Jonathan Stevens, Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Fellow, Leadership development consultant and collaborator. I’m at the Royal Geographical Society (RGS) with Jonathan Stevens, chair of the RGS...
Sustainable Innovation
Force4Good: At the heart of the local community
Simon Rayner, owner of the Hare and Hounds at Bowland Bridge, and Force4Good collaborator The Hare and Hounds is a gorgeous 17th-century inn, located in the picturesque village of Bowland Bridge, not...
Adventure
Sustainable Innovation
Rising to the challenge
Fourteen years ago, I started to read about climate change, at a time when few people were aware of the problem. As an environmental photographer I decided to do something. I organised a specific...
Sustainable Innovation
Force4Good: The perfect place to be
Rich Metcalfe, Owner of Homeground Café, Windermere, Lake District and Force4Good collaborator Having just celebrated its 7th Birthday, Homeground is a pinnacle of the Windermere community. Situated...
Sustainable Innovation
Force4Good: Inspiring greater diverse representation
Winnie Poaty, Entrepreneur, @winniepoaty Meet one of our Impact Force4Good collaborators, Winnie Poaty. She is an open water swimmer, and advocate for mental wellness and diversity. Winnie is based on...
Sustainable Innovation
Force4Good: The Lake District is a competitive advantage
Paul Riley, CEO and owner of Coniston Corporate, High quality customised embroidery workwear It’s not without a little apprehension that I approach the meeting point with Paul. Paul is a very good...
Sustainable Innovation
Force4Good: From Wasdale to Japan
Sue Hunt, Non-Executive Director of Impact Previously: Director of Strategic programmes London 2012 Olympic Games; MD Goldman Sachs; Chartered accountant What is your connection to the Lake District...
Adventure
Sustainable Innovation
Decision time
A mountain guide in Hokkaido, Japan, shares a skiing experience where he avoided an avalanche by recognizing heuristic decision traps like familiarity and social proof.
Teams
Wellbeing & Personal Development
Doing well by doing good
The Royal Albert Hall has been hosting concerts in aid of the Teenage Cancer Trust since 2000, with the biggest names in music and comedy coming together each year to raise money to help young people...
Change
Interview - David Batstone
Where does your drive to contribute to the world come from? For some reason it is easier for religious people to talk about “a calling.” A sense that you were put into the world to pursue a particular...
Teams
Employee experience
Why employee engagement is one of the most undervalued drivers of lasting change. When it comes to digital transformation, a step-change in focus on customer experience is commonly seen to be one of...
Wellbeing & Personal Development
Q not A
A four-year-old girl will ask almost 390 questions a day. Eventually these numbers dwindle as she ages, in part because they don’t include the questions she mutters to herself while submerged in...
Adventure
Sustainable Innovation
The times have begun to change!
The first update on our three year project to research and educate on the global problem of plastic pollution in our oceans. Early in January 2017, after many weeks of preparation and getting Sula...
Adventure
Wellbeing & Personal Development
Mount Kilimanjaro - my personal classroom
‘This mountain reminds me that I am made of steel! ’ said an MBA student, fresh off the summit of Kilimanjaro. Another student wrote to me the following week: ‘I’ve wanted to do humanitarian work for...
Wellbeing & Personal Development
Roots or wings
Roots and Wings. Hopefully we are cultivating or challenging one or the other at any particular time. We see it in the news and in our own lives. Obama’s parting comment to African leaders was that...
Change
Leadership
Living in a time of 'great winds' of change
This is an edited excerpt from the book "Future Fit" by Giles Hutchins, published by the Future Fit Leadership Academy. An old Chinese proverb says, "In times of great winds, some build bunkers...
Sustainable Innovation
It's 'just business' but not as we know it
Discover how Impact and Just Business, led by David Batstone, are collaborating to leverage business practices for social and environmental change. Learn about their shared commitment to responsible...
Leadership
Just tell me what to do
We live in volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous times, but have you actually acknowledged this out loud or in your thoughts? Has one of your direct reports voiced this to you? We like a...