IMPACT INTERNATIONAL is an all-custom leadership development firm with global capability across the Americas, UK, EMEA and Asia. We are 200 consultants operating in 50 countries and speaking 30 languages, serving global clients for 31 years.
Impact's solutions focus on developing leaders and key talent using a ‘pull behavioral’ (vs content push) and business-oriented experiential learning approach. In contrast to academic, model-led approaches that teach about leadership, Impact engages learners in a challenging and engaging process of discovering their own propensity for taking effective leadership action within the business context.
We partner with our clients to create development that is aligned to the needs of the business, anchored to business strategy, key business drivers, current leadership challenges, and company values. By focusing development on real issues, participants don't struggle to 'connect the dots' between 'training' and their real lives back at work. Impact's approach delivers behavioral development that transfers to the job because it is all about participants' current leadership and business challenges.
Impact designs learning & development as an engine for driving leadership action, innovation, future strategies and market creation.
We utilize innovative methodologies such as Immersive Leadership Challenges that operate live and in real-time - not computer-based - where participants must collaborate effectively to reconcile competing stakeholder demands, overcome ambiguity, manage ethical dilemmas and solve real business problems under intense deadline pressure and executive scrutiny.
Our program architectures frequently include custom designed Business Action Learning Projects, which are completed virtually over several months alongside participants' full-time jobs. Impact partners with our clients to design these in a way that achieves a 'double win' for the organization: the L&D win, by developing targeted leadership competencies; and the business impact win, as participants are challenged to identify and deliver viable projects addressing key strategic priorities and producing tangible business benefits with measurable ROI.
To help our clients gain ‘outside-in’ perspectives on current/emerging organizational challenges, Impact designs and facilitates In-Market Journey Experiences enabling participants in a leadership program to compare current practices with strategies being used by other organizations in non-competing space. This is especially useful for stimulating innovation, global mindset and customer excellence.
Impact also uses a methodology called Community Action Learning to align the Talent agenda with the Corporate Responsibility agenda. In a CAL program, participants develop leadership and team skills in the course of delivering a business project benefitting a non-profit community partner – another 'double win' for Impact's corporate clients.
Impact provides a broad range of capability – from custom design/global delivery of an end-to-end, multi-modular, multi-year leadership development solution; to smaller scale deliverables such as a single module experiential learning input to enrich the client’s in-house Leadership Academy curriculum.
