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Impact’s ‘In Good Company’ podcasts are your chance to tune in to a conversation with thought leaders from our global network. Individuals who have an innovative, creative, and future focused approach to leadership, learning and current trends. In each episode, our host Dan Jones dives straight into some of the biggest challenges leaders are facing today.

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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...

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Change
Diversity and Inclusion
Leadership

Podcast: Diversity, change and empowerment

Isabella Echeverri is a former Olympic and World Cup football player. She's a huge advocate for diversity in sports, and joins us to discuss leadership styles and how to bring systemic change.

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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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Change
Leadership

Podcast: Systems leadership

Dr Kate Simpson joins our podcast to talk about systems leadership, what it is and how it can be applied to our most complex problems, enabling leaders and organisations to make positive change and...

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Wellbeing & Personal Development

Podcast: Mental health and performance

Dr Jenn Gandhi joins us to discuss how you can recognise burnout, what it means to have a psychologically safe workplace, and the most important things for a leader to keep in mind to avoid being...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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?

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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?

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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?

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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...

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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.

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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...

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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...

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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
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
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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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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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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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
Wellbeing & Personal Development

Podcast: Women in leadership 

An In Good Company podcast with Louisa Rodriguez , UN Woman Delegate and Leadership Coach at Yorkshire Building Society. Helping women achieve their full potential In 2015 UN Member States set a...

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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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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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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
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
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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