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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
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?
Andy Dickson is a senior consultant and global customer solutions manager at Impact UK Leadership in service to humanity Mark Twain said: ‘ The two most important days of your life are the day you are...
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...
Sustainable Innovation
Demystifying sustainability jargon
Navigating the complex world of sustainability jargon and decoding the business value of positive impact. Explore key terms like CSR, ESG, and conscious capitalism in a sustainability glossary...
Change
Digital & Technology
Leadership
AI vs. leadership coach: Who can help you develop your leadership skills?
Written with Cassie Cuppek , senior consultant at Impact Americas. We thought it would be interesting to pitch ChatGPT against one of our consultants, Cassie Cuppek, asking them both the same question...
Sustainable Innovation
The Regeneration Game
The Regeneration Game is a lively learning experience that encourages participants to reflect on their impact on the world – on both an individual and organisational level. The intensifying...
Change
Innovation & Creativity
Leadership
How to solve complex problems
Scott Rose is general manager of Impact UK Where to start? Sometimes, you just know it’s not working. The problem is you don't know why. The clues on the surface can be very clear: disengagement, poor...
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...
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...
Wellbeing & Personal Development
Making space for wellness
Sam Egerton is General Manager of Impact Singapore. In this article he discusses what he’s been noticing lately. Recently, we have been having a lot of conversations with clients around wellness needs...
Teams
Unified purpose: The bedrock of team performance
What causes behavioural and performance gaps in teams? In our experience, the lack of a coherent, collective purpose is the biggest culprit. We have a simple exercise you can use in your next team...
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...
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...
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...
Change
Leadership
Teams
Accelerated team development
Tony Ren has been Head of Impact China since 2009, working with clients across APAC to understand their business needs and implementing people development programmes. In this article Tony discusses...
Change
Innovation & Creativity
Leadership
Talent
Wellbeing & Personal Development
Ten leaders on the advice they'd give their younger selves
At the conclusion 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?' Read on to find...
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...
Leadership
Brandon Hall Group awards land in New York and Zurich
We are delighted to announce that two of our clients have been awarded HCM Excellence Awards® by Brandon Hall Group. Congratulations to Shutterstock and Migros Bank. The HCM Excellence Awards® hosted...
Leadership
“Strip me bare” by Louisa Rodriguez
Louisa Rodriguez is a leadership coach, UN Women Delegate 2023, nature lover and poet. She joined our podcast season to talk about women in leadership.
Leadership
Wellbeing & Personal Development
Podcast: Women in leadership
Listen to the podcast with Louisa Rodriguez, a leadership coach and a UN Women Delegate in 2023.
Leadership
Wellbeing & Personal Development
Creating cultures of belonging
Discover how leaders can bridge the gap in Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) efforts by fostering cultures of belonging and prioritizing authenticity. Explore strategies to create...
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...
Innovation & Creativity
Leadership
Liberating Leadership event: four key takeaways
Impact's Head of Creative Change, Dom Fitch , takes us behind the scenes at our latest learning event. In July 2023 we hosted a learning event to explore the challenges leaders face in activating...
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...
Innovation & Creativity
Leadership
Talent
Sony Europe's tips for building business acumen
Christoph Williams , Head of Talent and Leadership Development at Sony Europe shares an approach to deepening business acumen. This isn't done in a classroom, or through an in-house business project –...
Adventure
Sustainable Innovation
Teams
Wellbeing & Personal Development
Impact’s Force4Good - an adventure journey
Adventure, purpose and a shared journey, Andy Dickson updates us on Impact's Force4Good A 160km adventure journey In 2022 Impact staff, friends and family took part in the first ever Impact Force4Good...
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...