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Five top awards from Brandon Hall Group
Five Impact clients have been awarded HCM Excellence Awards® by Brandon Hall Group. We've scooped three gold, one silver and one bronze award in 2024.
Digital & Technology
Leadership
Podcast: Leading with AI: transforming organisational culture
Michael Molinaro joins Dan to discuss Gen AI, leadership and culture.
Digital & Technology
Leadership
Podcast: Leading with AI: transforming organisational culture
Michael Molinaro joins Dan to discuss Gen AI, leadership and culture.
Leadership
News
Talent
Five top awards from Brandon Hall Group
Five Impact clients have been awarded HCM Excellence Awards® by Brandon Hall Group. We've scooped three gold, one silver and one bronze award in 2024.
Change
Coaching
Leadership
The advice you wish you'd had at the start of your career (part 4)
Ten global leaders share their career advice. What would they tell their younger selves? Including advice from Jamais Cascio, William Lankston and Dr Jenn Gandhi.
Change
Digital & Technology
Podcast: How can HR lead in the AI revolution?
How concerned should we be about job security with the growth of AI? Stacy Eng joins us to talk about the biggest questions people leaders have about the introduction of AI into the workplace.
Leadership
Your top L&D priorities for 2025
We asked our clients what their learning and development priorities are for 2025 and what organisational challenges they're predicting for the year ahead.
Change
Management Development
Talent
Teams
Podcast: Talent management
Andy MacGovern has over 25 years of experience in talent management, talent acquisition and performance management, working globally across various sectors. When we decided it was time to discuss if...
Innovation & Creativity
Teams
Wellbeing & Personal Development
Why corporate team building matters
Have you ever been tasked with organising a team build? How do you get the most out of the day, make it relevant, strategic and enjoyable?
Innovation & Creativity
Leadership
Podcast: Building organisational culture
William Lankston is Managing Director of Timpson Direct, part of the long-established British retail service provider. In this episode we look at how they continue to sustain their renowned...
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.
Change
Digital & Technology
Leadership
Wellbeing & Personal Development
2024 workplace challenges from our clients
Scott Rose explores the biggest workplace challenges we're hearing about from our clients.
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...
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...
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...