In Good Company with Impact – Details, episodes & analysis

Dr Kate Simpson is Director of the Systemcraft Institute and joins our podcast to talk about systems leadership.

The world is facing more challenges than ever before. Climate change, migration, inequality, food security... the list goes on. These are big complex challenges, so big, that they can't possibly have a single owner. They are global and systemic; they need careful thought as their interconnectivity is not to be underestimated. What seems an obvious solution to one challenge, might cause more damage to another - and so what is the answer?

Systems leadership is a complex topic that we’ve recognised as a common thread across recent podcasts on the polycrisis, VUCA, BANI and sustainability. We’re delighted that Kate joined us to explain what systems leadership is and how it can be applied to these complex problems, enabling leaders and organisations to address them and ultimately contribute to a more peaceful, equitable and sustainable world.

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Head to our YouTube / Spotify channels to catch up on previous episodes, including…

035: Mental health and performance with Dr Jenn Ghandi, Mental Health and Wellbeing Manager at The Football Association

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037: The impact of Gen AI on leadership and organisational cultures

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Dr Jenn Gandhi attributes the opening scenes of The Silence and the Lambs, synchronised swimming and a sense of adventure for taking her down her career path. Tune in to this episode to hear from the Mental Health and Wellbeing Manager at The Football Association on the power and scope football has to enable positive change, how you can recognise burnout and what are the most important things for a leader to keep in mind to avoid being overwhelmed by physical, cognitive or emotional pressures at work. “Let’s compare ourselves to any professional / non-professional player. It doesn't matter what level you play at, you will always warm up, perform, cool down, rest and recover before you go again. Yet in the corporate world we just perform we don't prioritise the rest. So how can we make this part of our standard routine?” Listen / watch now to find out more. Listen again: head to our YouTube / Spotify channels to catch up on previous episodes, including… 034: What can leaders learn from the Olympics? with Sue Hunt, Director of Strategic Programmes from London 2012 Olympics Coming up 036: Dr Kate Simpson, Director of the Systemcraft Institute To learn more about Impact, please visit https://www.impactinternational.com Connect with us on social: Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/impact-international_2 Twitter: https://twitter.com/impact__intl Dan Jones on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danjones87/ Dr Jenn Gandhi on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-jenn-gandhi-a0668324/

Chiara Fregonese has been a senior consultant at Impact Italia for 13 years. She’s instrumental in designing, delivering, developing, and evaluating our experiential programmes and approach. In this episode she joins Dan to explore what experiential learning is, what an Impact programme might look like, and how experiential learning can work for organisations and individuals from across the generations. 

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025: Learning and leadership culture with Dani Saadu, Wavemaker 

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027: Change, growth and sustainability with Simon Henzell-Thomas, Ingka Group (IKEA) 

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Dani Saadu is an experienced people and culture leader with a background in talent development. He joins Dan hot from his first book launch to discuss what contribution learning and leadership can have on your culture, the role talent management plays in your strategy and what the next people challenge that organisations need to be looking out for is. Listen again 024: Wellbeing, resilience and mitigating burnout with Sahar Muhsin Laufman Coming up 026: What is experiential learning? with Chiara Fregonese, Impact To learn more about Impact, please visit https://www.impactinternational.com Connect with us on social: Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/impact-international_2 Twitter: https://twitter.com/impact__intl Dan Jones on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danjones87/ Dani Saadu on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dani-saadu-211b5617/

Sahar Muhsin Laufman joins us to talk about wellbeing, resilience and mitigating burnout. Her conversation with Dan covers the individual, the leader, the leader of a team and the organisation. How can you create a healthy culture and what are the individual skills that can make the most difference? She also ends with a five-minute exercise that you can easily do at your desk, on the move or whenever you might just need to take a pause.

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023: Shiny penny syndrome with Ségolène Brantschen, Ageas Group

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Learning and leadership culture with Dani Saadu, Wavemaker

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Sahar Muhsin Laufman on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sahar-muhsin-laufman/

In this episode, we’re joined by Ségolène Brantschen to explore shiny penny syndrome – that tendency to be drawn away from your current goals and projects by the allure of something new and shiny. We’ll talk about how it can affect you and your organisation, and how to work it to your advantage and stay focused on your goals. Let this podcast be a useful distraction in your day…

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024: Wellbeing, resilience and mitigating burnout with Sahar Muhsin Laufman, Equity Alchemy

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Dan Jones on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danjones87/

Ségolène Brantschen on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/s%C3%A9gol%C3%A8ne-brantschen-2974ba5/

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to leave an established career and join a start up? And not just any start up, but one aiming to differentiate themselves by having a clear social purpose in a sector already full of well-established global names. Laura Chase did just this when she joined WeAre8, the latest social media app battling to find a space on our phones. Laura’s conversation with Dan ranges from how easy is it to have an organisational purpose, to human-centric change, and can social media truly be a force for good?

To learn more about Impact, please visit https://www.impactinternational.com To find out more about WeAre8, visit https://www.weare8.com/

Connect with us on social: Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/impact-international_2

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Dan Jones on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danjones87/

Laura Chase on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/laura-chase-53434931

Darren Evans was less than six months into his role of CEO at Calder Stewart, New Zealand's leading property and construction solutions provider when the pandemic hit. This is his story of how to lead organisational change in unprecedented times. The podcast is bursting with energy, insights and tips on how to lead effective change, what leadership is required across an organisation and how to make that a reality and also broaches the biggest topics in town from environment to DEIB. It’s a must listen. 

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020: Learning from experience with David Williams, Impact 

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022: Disruption for positive change with Laura Chase, WeAre8 

To learn more about Impact, please visit https://www.impactinternational.com  

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Darren Evans on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/darren-evans-1b63711a 

Could you imagine taking a start up from a kitchen table to a global organisation? David Williams founded Impact in 1980 with nothing more than an idea and a passion for people development. In this episode he reflects on what shapes an organisation over 40 years, the power business has to drive the change the world needs and why experiential learning works.

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019: Making every voice heard with Kaja Podgórna-Strzelec, PwC Polska 

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021: Leading organisational change with Darren Evans, Calder Stewart

To learn more about Impact, please visit https://www.impactinternational.com

Connect with us on social:

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Dan Jones on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danjones87/

David Williams on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwilliamsimpact/

Kaja Podgorna-Strzelec is HR Director at PwC Polska. In this episode she joins Dan to talk about the challenges facing HR, how to hear from every voice in the organisation (spoiler alert, it’s not just in a customer survey) and how coaching can be used to solve problems.

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018: Has HR lost its soul? with Christoph Williams, Sony Europe

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020: Learning from experience with David Williams, Impact

To learn more about Impact, please visit https://www.impactinternational.com

Connect with us on social:

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/impact-international_2

Twitter: https://twitter.com/impact__intl

Dan Jones on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danjones87/

Kaja Podgórna-Strzelec on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaja-podg%C3%B3rna-strzelec-92978629/