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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...

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...

An In Good Company podcast with Sylwia Chada . In this season of podcasts, we’re exploring all things leadership. To help us explore how leaders can help people achieve their full potential, engaging...

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...

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...

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...

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...

In our fast-paced, digital world of instant gratification, change can often connote something rapid, spectacular, or even epiphanic. But in reality, change is not an event but a process. And this is...

When it comes to launching a culture change initiative, who exactly should be involved? This is a common question, and the answer is everyone! An organisation’s culture is owned by everyone who works...

VUCA is an acronym used by the American Military to describe extreme conditions in Afghanistan and Iraq. It stands for Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous. This terminology is resonating with...

' It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment .' – Carl Friedrich Gauss In the pre-pandemic days of face-to-face...

In business, failure is as much a part of life as success, if not more so. Entrepreneurs are often driven by high achievement and, therefore, can feel setbacks deeply, but when handled in the right...

Over the course of my coaching career, I’ve come to understand how much the words we use reflect our values and impact our relationships. Understanding each other is crucial when working effectively...

Change has always been, and will always be, a constant. But in the last couple of years, this change has accelerated considerably. The raft of current global challenges, including climate breakdown...

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 organization in a remote environment...

How do you stay connected? Don’t you feel isolated? Don’t you worry that your team is not really working? These are just some of the questions I have received while leading distributed or remote teams...

Popular dialogue around 'noticing' as a leadership skill largely focuses on encouraging people to pay more attention to what is going on around them, intending to increase awareness of others and the...

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

What is enterprise leadership? In this increasingly volatile world, enterprise leadership has become an essential attribute for any successful organization. But what exactly is it? Enterprise...

Reading this year’s Edelman Trust Barometer report , I started to reflect on what we have lived through over the past two years. A global pandemic and war in Europe are pretty severe in themselves...

We know that organizational culture change is possible. However, we also know that achieving lasting change requires a lot of effort. Organizational culture is an emergent property of how the people...

The drivers of ongoing change continue to impact organizations, resulting in expansions, acquisitions, transformations, reshuffles and more. One of the outcomes of change is plenty of senior leaders...

Trevor Johnson shares insights on fostering a human-centered approach in hybrid workplaces, emphasizing mindfulness, vulnerability, and creating safe spaces for authentic connection.

For me, the word ‘sustainability’ is a nonsense word. It’s completely meaningless. Victoria Halina notes that when the word ‘sustainable’ was first used in an environmental context in 1972, it didn’t...

‘Start close in, don’t take the second step or the third, start with the first thing close in, the step you don’t want to take.’ David Whyte [i] , from his poem ‘Start Close in’ [ii] I recently...

This piece forms part of our human-centred series, which explores the need to change how we think about our organisations, putting the human back into the heart of everything we do. ‘In order to live...

The global pandemic has provided a real-time/real-world insight into how organisational change works – or doesn’t. External shocks like Covid-19 have the effect of shaking us out of our complacency...

The three things that cause us the most stress are uncertainty, uncontrollability and unknowns. Do they sound familiar? In 2020 especially, I felt all three most of the time. Humans are highly...

The virtual shift that took place in 2020 has revolutionised the way we work and live, generating both positive and negative changes to our daily lives, many of which are here to stay. For many...

Here at Impact we do a lot of talking ­– a lot. But when we spend our working days going from meeting to meeting it’s very easy to fall into the trap of conversing less like human individuals and more...

As governments, businesses and communities around the world struggle in the continued grip of the Covid-19 pandemic, it becomes clear that what we are living through is not just a health crisis, but...

Even before Covid-19, a leader’s ability to adapt and thrive in rapidly changing environments was a widely recognized requirement. And now, as we approach a post-pandemic future characterized by...

There is a lot of talk right now about the rapid acceleration of remote working due to the COVID-19 pandemic and even as lockdowns start to ease, remote working is likely to be a trend that will...

At Impact, I have researched the effects of wellbeing on performance and leadership in organisations over the past several years. From my research and others, here are five evidence-based ways that...

David Williams founded Impact in 1980 with nothing but a dream for developing people. Today, Impact operates 17 offices across the world and employs over 250 talented people. This year was the 12th in...