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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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Kay Woodburn

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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Sarah Brammeier coaching podcast

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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Thimon De Jong

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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Francois Wang

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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Paul Rose

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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Simon Henzell-Thomas

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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Chiara Fregonese

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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Dani Saadu

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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Sahar Muhsin Laufman

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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Ségolène Brantschen

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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Laura Chase

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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Darren Evans

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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Leadership podcast: learning from experience David Williams

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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Kaja

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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Christoph Williams

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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Beat Calabretti

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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Katherine Wasser

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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Emanuela Trentin

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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Tuuli Tervaskanto, VMware

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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Michael Price

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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David Cooper, Impact

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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Iwan de Leeuw

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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Leigh Gammons

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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Louisa Rodriguez

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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Leadership podcast: leading with diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging

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 podcast: HR and inclusion

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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Alex Staniforth

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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Molly Brown-Pickett

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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John Maddy

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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Leadership podcast: Leading hybrid teams

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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Sylwia Chada, Tik Tok, podcast

Leadership

Talent

Podcast: Achieving full potential

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...

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Richard Little

Leadership

Leadership podcast: In Good Company

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...

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Podcast: From cannibals to Cambodia ft Hannes Schmid

Adventure

Podcast: From cannibals to Cambodia ft Hannes Schmid

In this episode, we hear incredible and sometimes almost unbelievable tales of photographic artist, adventurer and painter, Hannes Schmid. From being imprisoned by cannibals to photographing rock...

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Podcast: Challenge, innovation and change

Change

Innovation & Creativity

Podcast: Challenge, innovation and change

Stories are everything. They help us understand the world and reflect on how we should live in it. They help us engage with the big unwieldy issues we encounter in our lives. At their best, they allow...

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Podcast: Impact's digital transformation

Digital & Technology

Podcast: Impact's digital transformation

Every organisation has had to embrace the digital world in some way. Here's our story about how we've done just that.

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Podcast: Shift happens

Change

Podcast: Shift happens

A change strategy is a people strategy. All organisations are facing unprecedented changes in their competitive environment. Whether the disruptors are political, environmental, down to consumer...

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