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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.
Change
Innovation & Creativity
Leadership
C-level leaders on navigating complexity
Discover what it means to lead in today's global business environment through our insightful eBook.
Change
People own what they create
Impact's Head of Creative Change, Dom Fitch, digs deep into the concept of living changerously. This is my Nordic butter spreader – there are many Nordic butter spreaders like this but this is my...
Adventure
ReWild yourself
"Is this cooked? It doesn't look cooked to me," says Jonathan as he probes the spit roast chickens with his Sami knife, squinting as the wood smoke stings his eyes. "Yep," says Greavsie, carnivore-in...
Sustainable Innovation
Force4Good: Pioneering sustainable tourism
John Maddy, co-founder of Long Valley Yurts, leads in ethical glamping with a focus on sustainability. Discover how his innovative approach sets industry standards.
Sustainable Innovation
Force4Good: Ethical business practice
Meet Tom Martlew, 23-year-old co-founder of Nito Design. Passionate about the environment and ethical practices, Tom blends design with a strong commitment to sustainability.
Sustainable Innovation
Force4Good: Mind Over Mountains
Alex Staniforth : Inspirational speaker and f ounder of Mind Over Mountains By the age of twenty, Alex Staniforth had already made two Everest attempts. For many who attempt Everest, you either summit...
Sustainable Innovation
One solution for a sustainable world
Can there really be one solution for a sustainable world? This might sound like a bold statement but I believe it to be true. As a global society we’re currently on a path that is not sustainable – we...
Wellbeing & Personal Development
Time for yourself = more time for others
My dad was a very good painter and decorator, eventually running his own (very small) business complete with the obligatory Trotter’s Trading Company yellow van. I used to work with him in the summer...
Sustainable Innovation
Force4Good: A warming planet
Ashley Cooper, Photographer and Force4Good collaborator For the last 20 years, I’ve been a professional environmental photographer and have spent 14 years travelling to every continent to document the...
Sustainable Innovation
Force4Good: Rooted in nature
David Williams, Founder and CEO of Impact and Force4Good Collaborator I first came to the Lake District in 1974 at age 18 to attend Charlotte Mason College in Ambleside. I was training as a teacher in...
Sustainable Innovation
Force4Good: Passion for geography
Jonathan Stevens, Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Fellow, Leadership development consultant and collaborator. I’m at the Royal Geographical Society (RGS) with Jonathan Stevens, chair of the RGS...
Sustainable Innovation
Force4Good: At the heart of the local community
Simon Rayner, owner of the Hare and Hounds at Bowland Bridge, and Force4Good collaborator The Hare and Hounds is a gorgeous 17th-century inn, located in the picturesque village of Bowland Bridge, not...
Adventure
Sustainable Innovation
Rising to the challenge
Fourteen years ago, I started to read about climate change, at a time when few people were aware of the problem. As an environmental photographer I decided to do something. I organised a specific...
Sustainable Innovation
Force4Good: The perfect place to be
Rich Metcalfe, Owner of Homeground Café, Windermere, Lake District and Force4Good collaborator Having just celebrated its 7th Birthday, Homeground is a pinnacle of the Windermere community. Situated...
Sustainable Innovation
Force4Good: Inspiring greater diverse representation
Winnie Poaty, Entrepreneur, @winniepoaty Meet one of our Impact Force4Good collaborators, Winnie Poaty. She is an open water swimmer, and advocate for mental wellness and diversity. Winnie is based on...
Sustainable Innovation
Force4Good: The Lake District is a competitive advantage
Paul Riley, CEO and owner of Coniston Corporate, High quality customised embroidery workwear It’s not without a little apprehension that I approach the meeting point with Paul. Paul is a very good...
Sustainable Innovation
Force4Good: From Wasdale to Japan
Sue Hunt, Non-Executive Director of Impact Previously: Director of Strategic programmes London 2012 Olympic Games; MD Goldman Sachs; Chartered accountant What is your connection to the Lake District...
Adventure
Sustainable Innovation
Decision time
A mountain guide in Hokkaido, Japan, shares a skiing experience where he avoided an avalanche by recognizing heuristic decision traps like familiarity and social proof.
Teams
Wellbeing & Personal Development
Doing well by doing good
The Royal Albert Hall has been hosting concerts in aid of the Teenage Cancer Trust since 2000, with the biggest names in music and comedy coming together each year to raise money to help young people...
Change
Interview - David Batstone
Where does your drive to contribute to the world come from? For some reason it is easier for religious people to talk about “a calling.” A sense that you were put into the world to pursue a particular...
Teams
Employee experience
Why employee engagement is one of the most undervalued drivers of lasting change. When it comes to digital transformation, a step-change in focus on customer experience is commonly seen to be one of...
Wellbeing & Personal Development
Q not A
A four-year-old girl will ask almost 390 questions a day. Eventually these numbers dwindle as she ages, in part because they don’t include the questions she mutters to herself while submerged in...
Adventure
Sustainable Innovation
The times have begun to change!
The first update on our three year project to research and educate on the global problem of plastic pollution in our oceans. Early in January 2017, after many weeks of preparation and getting Sula...
Adventure
Wellbeing & Personal Development
Mount Kilimanjaro - my personal classroom
‘This mountain reminds me that I am made of steel! ’ said an MBA student, fresh off the summit of Kilimanjaro. Another student wrote to me the following week: ‘I’ve wanted to do humanitarian work for...
Wellbeing & Personal Development
Roots or wings
Roots and Wings. Hopefully we are cultivating or challenging one or the other at any particular time. We see it in the news and in our own lives. Obama’s parting comment to African leaders was that...
Change
Leadership
Living in a time of 'great winds' of change
This is an edited excerpt from the book "Future Fit" by Giles Hutchins, published by the Future Fit Leadership Academy. An old Chinese proverb says, "In times of great winds, some build bunkers...
Sustainable Innovation
It's 'just business' but not as we know it
Discover how Impact and Just Business, led by David Batstone, are collaborating to leverage business practices for social and environmental change. Learn about their shared commitment to responsible...
Leadership
Just tell me what to do
We live in volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous times, but have you actually acknowledged this out loud or in your thoughts? Has one of your direct reports voiced this to you? We like a...
Emerging Talent
Innovation & Creativity
Why learning should be part of SMEs culture
As Millennials form a bigger part of our workforce and SMEs an increasing role in the labour market, it is imperative that businesses consider how to retain ‘early careers’ talent by embracing a...
Change
New year, new you?
We all do it. We aim so high at the beginning of the year. We set those personal and professional goals and feel that this time we’ll really keep the momentum going. Then, come February, we’re back to...
Leadership
The trust mandate for future leaders
Every year the PR giant Edelman publishes a global survey on one issue - trust. It considers the levels of trust we have in our public institutions, technical experts, each other - and our business...
Wellbeing & Personal Development
Do nothing - perfectly
That was an instruction at a recent Satipatthana meditation course I attended recently. 8 days of sitting on a meditation cushion, doing nothing but observing one’s sensations with equanimity. To ‘do...
Change
Sustainable Innovation
Sustainable development is good for UK business
Businesses unite in a bid to make the UK economy ‘fit for the future’ by backing sustainable development Earlier this week Impact along with 80 other organisations united to call on the Government to...
Change
What are you playing at?
Funny how something as playful as play can have negative connotations. On one hand, when we play we express our joyfulness, imagination and freedom. In other contexts, we can be seen as self-indulgent...
Talent
7 ways to compete with larger businesses for talent
All of our SME clients find it difficult to compete with larger businesses for talent. Whether it’s attracting graduates out of university or retaining mid-level managers, it’s a challenge for smaller...
Change
Sustainable Innovation
Business and the Sustainable Development Goals: what do they mean for you?
Francesca Burton of WWF-UK discusses the importance of businesses aligning with the SDGs to drive innovation, engage employees, and help achieve global sustainability by 2030.
Change
Sustainable Innovation
The times they are a changin'
A three year project to research and educate on the global problem of plastic pollution in our oceans. The last time we took our yacht Sula offshore sailing was in 2008. The previous year we had been...