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Leadership
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.
Change
Digital & Technology
Innovation & Creativity
Leadership
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
What can leaders learn from athletes?
There is perhaps no profession more obvious than sports – where an individual’s beliefs, focus and interactions can so clearly influence successful, and sometimes not so successful, outcomes. But what...
Change
Leadership
Podcast: What can leaders learn from the Olympics?
Sue Hunt was the Director of Strategic Programmes for the London 2012 Olympic Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. This podcast isn’t just for people who are interested in the...
Change
Digital & Technology
Leadership
Podcast: Is BANI the new VUCA? with Jamais Cascio
Jamais Cascio created the BANI framework in 2018 and six years later, Impact is the first UK/US based organisation to invite him to speak about it. In this podcast we explore what BANI is and how...
Change
Innovation & Creativity
Leadership
Sustainable Innovation
Sustainability: from boardroom to classroom
What would happen when we took the Regeneration Game from the boardroom to the classroom? Would this engaging approach that encourages participants to reflect on their impact on the world drive the...
Change
Leadership
Podcast: Is VUCA still relevant?
We first wrote about VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous) and it's relevance to business over 15 years ago - but is VUCA still relevant today? In this podcast we explore what we mean by...
Wellbeing & Personal Development
What does wellbeing mean to you?
As World Wellbeing Week approached, we used this time to answer the question 'what does wellbeing mean to you?' Here are some of our thoughts:
Coaching
Leadership
Podcast: The coaching advantage
Sarah Brammeier is Head of Executive Coaching Practice at Impact and is passionate about coaching. This episode touches on how coaching can support people to explore their edges, to learn what is...
Change
Digital & Technology
Leadership
News
The greatest organisational challenges of 2024
Our global series of events brought 183 leaders together in New York, London, Singapore and Zurich. They named their biggest organisational challenge and discussed how to shape tomorrow's workplace in...
Innovation & Creativity
Leadership
Global leaders share the advice they'd give their younger self (part 3)
We asked ten global leaders the question "if you could start your career again, what advice would you give yourself?" How does their answer match to yours?
Digital & Technology
Leadership
Leading in the AI Age
Generative AI presents huge opportunities, as well as huge risks. And it promises to transform our organisations sooner than we had anticipated. But what about our leaders? What will successful...
Change
Digital & Technology
Leadership
Podcast: How to navigate the polycrisis
Tackling the challenges of a polycrisis. In a turbulent, digitalising, uncertain world, making sense of the future is more important than ever. But what questions should we be asking and what answers...
Change
Leadership
Teams
Collective experience: An opportunity for hybrid organisations
Hybrid work is here to stay. But hybrid does present challenges. Large group, leadership workshops for events can catalyse performance and help drive business results.
Change
Digital & Technology
Leadership
Podcast: The changing world of HR
François Wang joins our podcast from his base in Shanghai. Currently working as a Senior Human Resources Director at Revlon, this podcast is 25 minutes of insights, best practices and thought...
Coaching
Wellbeing & Personal Development
The (S)Tress Test: How to give feedback
Turning uncomfortable situations into constructive feedback At the start of my last meeting with my colleague Sammy our usual two minute catch up turned into a discussion you may well be familiar with...
Adventure
Sustainable Innovation
Podcast: Exploration, ecology and values
Paul Rose is one of the world's most experienced divers, field science and polar experts. In this podcast, he joins Dan to talk about exploration, ecology, environment and the learnings that business...
Leadership
Sustainable Innovation
Podcast: Balancing profit, people and planet
A podcast on sustainability in big business. Can change, growth and sustainability go hand in hand? How can you grow your business and have a positive impact?
Adventure
Change
Leadership
Teams
Podcast: What is experiential learning?
A podcast on what makes experiential learning effective, does experiential learning work for everyone and why do global clients keep choosing to embrace this approach?
Change
Management Development
Wellbeing & Personal Development
Effectiveness and employee fatigue
The phenomenon of tired workers. Organisations across the globe are grappling with the consequences of employee fatigue. Driving profit, targets and outcomes is leaving people exhausted. Without...
Leadership
Podcast: Learning and leadership culture
A podcast on how to build a learning culture that drives business forward. What contribution can learning, leadership and purpose have on your organisational culture?
Innovation & Creativity
Leadership
Wellbeing & Personal Development
What will you do with an extra day?
2024 is a special year. Not just because it marks an election year for more than 50 countries, or the Year of the Dragon in the Chinese Zodiac, but because it’s a leap year. First introduced in 46 BCE...
Innovation & Creativity
Leadership
Wellbeing & Personal Development
Podcast: Wellbeing, resilience and mitigating burnout
How can leaders prevent burnout? There’s no one-size-fits-all approach. Resilient leaders adapt quickly. Empathetic leaders can tune in to their employees’ needs. Human-centred leaders can support...
Sustainable Innovation
Wellbeing & Personal Development
What The Body Shop taught me about positive impact
What my teenage love for The Body Shop taught my about the positive impact business can have
Change
Leadership
Podcast: Shiny penny syndrome
A podcast that explores what shiny penny syndrome is, how it affects you and your organisation, and how you can use it to stay focused on your goals.
Change
Leadership
Wellbeing & Personal Development
What makes a great executive retreat?
Impact brought a group of senior learning professionals together for a one-day immersive event. In this article we reflect on how these leaders used the executive retreat to work through their complex...
Digital & Technology
Leadership
Sustainable Innovation
Podcast: Disruption for positive change
An In Good Company podcast with Laura Chase , Managing Director, WeAre8 How to make a career change Have you ever wondered what it would be like to leave an established career and join a start up? And...
Change
Leadership
Management Development
Podcast: Leading organisational change
An In Good Company podcast with Darren Evans , CEO, Calder Stewart Change in unprecedented times Leading organisational change is one of the most searched for terms on our website. But it's rare to...
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?
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Change
Innovation & Creativity
Leadership
Sustainable Innovation
To disrupt or to be disrupted?
Reflecting on leadership in service to humanity, Andy Dickson shares insights from Anthropy 2023. The Regeneration Game challenged leaders to consider personal actions and broader impact. Anthropy...
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...