Leadership

Impact International: Top 50 Best Company for 2010

A record 1,086 organizations from the private and public sectors applied for Best Companies accreditation this year, showing how high a priority talent engagement is. Of these, 773 made the grade. Impact is one of just 50 companies who achieved the highest accreditation possible - 3 star status. Best Companies established the accreditation award scheme to acknowledge excellence in the workplace. Based on staff feedback, it looks at employee engagement as an integral part of a company’s success and growth, and sets a benchmark for other employers.

Quote from Jonathan Austin, Founder and CEO of Best Companies
“We would like to congratulate Impact International on their outstanding achievement. An engaged workforce is essential as organizations move out of the recession and into a more stable economic situation. No doubt many organizations have tackled restructuring and rapid change this year. But organizations like Impact that have kept on engaging their staff and making sure they are involved in the business will be in a good position for the future and should be congratulated for their efforts.”

About the Best Companies accreditation
Best Companies are the name behind The Sunday Times 100 Best Companies to Work For lists. They conduct the largest employee engagement survey in the world having received nearly one million survey responses from over 3000 different organizations. The accreditation scheme, developed by Best Companies, is based on a star rating system where one star is first class, two stars are outstanding, and three stars are extraordinary. Organizational successes have been defined using data from the 2010 Best Companies to Work For survey which involved surveying 276,057 employees from the 1,086 companies that completed the accreditation process.

About Impact
Impact International is a custom people development consultancy focused on developing inspirational leaders, building high performing teams and accelerating organizational change. Impact is a Sunday Times Top 100 Company to Work for (placed 9th in 2009 with Best Companies 3 star accreditation) and 3rd in the Best Workplaces 2009, with special awards for Learning & Leadership for Sustainability and Corporate Responsibility Excellence. Impact’s global client base includes UBS, Google, Apple, JP Morgan, Procter & Gamble, Airbus, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Sony. Impact is celebrating its 30th year in business in 2010.

Media Contact:

Carol Pearson
Impact International
+44 15394 88333
Carol.pearson@impactinternational.com