We turn the best management thinking into simple tools you’ll love and advice you can action immediately.
Impact Society delivers the toolkits, card decks, planners, courses, advice, workshops and coaching that help everyday managers become world-changing leaders. Practical work, plainly written – and made by people who’ve been in roles like yours.
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Used by businesses, government agencies and NFPs • Used on every continent (except Antarctica… so far!)
— Straightforward tools built by real managers
“When we were new managers, the leadership advice we wanted didn’t exist. Everything was too complicated, too wishy-washy or too old-fashioned. So we’re making the tools we wished we’d had”
Joel Bailey · Sean Craig · Impact Society co-founders. Between us we’ve been the no-idea new manager thrown in the deep end, drowned under a thousand competing priorities, managed bad, good and great managers, and been an executive running large teams and organisations. We’ve read the books, finished the MBA, sat through the workshops and watched a million TED talks. We learned a lot of interesting things, but didn’t find much that actually helped us day-to-day. Impact Society is what we wish we’d had instead.
— Designed to support you in your current role
Support for every stage of your leadership career.
Whether you’re an established leader, a first time manager or planning your career, we’ve built a set of tools designed to increase your impact and reduce your stress.
Lead your organisation
Align your organisation around a clear direction.
For founders, CEOs and senior teams who need clarity without a three-month consulting engagement.
Lead your team
Engage your team with a straightforward plan.
For managers and team leads translating high-level strategy into actionable direction for your team.
Lead yourself
Stay calm and focussed when the pressure’s on.
For anyone who wants to make a difference in their work and career without burning out.
— Management + leadership coaching
Coaching from people who’ve led teams.
One-on-one, online and anywhere in the world. Our coaching is practical, honest, jargon-free and no bullshit. We work with you on the things that matter most – creating clarity, building confidence and finding balance. The first session is free – and there’s no obligation after it. Delivered by our co-founders, Sean and Joel.
Format
1:1 online
Cadence
Ad hoc, monthly or fortnightly
First session
Free
All paid coaching packages come with a 30-day money-back guarantee
— Physical and digital tools
Practical, beautiful and used in the real world.
The tools we wish we’d had. We develop physical and digital tools for aspiring, emerging and established leaders around the world. And we design them to be as beautiful to handle as they are practical to use.
Turn Your thinking into a plan
Strategic Planning Toolkit.
Everything a leadership team needs to build a clear one-page strategic plan – without consultant fees. For when the conversations from the card deck reveal it’s time to commit to a direction.
Small actions, big impact
Daily Acts of Leadership.
52 cards to inspire small, daily leadership actions that build trust, boost team engagement and enhance leadership skills.
Elevate your team’s thinking
Finding Method in the Madness.
52 prompt strategic thinking prompts that start focused conversations in any meeting. No preparation, no offsite, no consultant required.
— Coming soon • Waitlist open
The first planner made for managers, not productivity nuts.
From chaos to calm, one day at a time. A premium quarterly planner for managers who want to make a difference, but are tired of juggling too much at once. Connects quarterly goals to weekly priorities to daily focus.
Format
A5 hardcover, 268pp
Cycle
Quarterly, 13 weeks
Price
From 35c/day
— Global Reach
Changing the world, one team at a time.
Our mission is to support leaders to change the world, one team at a time. And we’re pretty excited about our progress so far – from New York to Namibia, Melbourne to Myanmar and Paris to Peru, thousands of managers in more than 70 countries across six continents are already using our tools.
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Countries
6
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— Articles
Field notes on modern leadership.
Short, useful reads on management and leadership. We’re honest and sometimes unorthodox, but we always ground everything we do in the practical reality of what it’s like to be a manager – and a human being.
Articles
The six questions that every high performing organisation needs to answer
High-performing organisations don’t happen by accident. They create clarity around six fundamental questions: why they exist, how they’ll succeed, what they do, what matters now, who does what and how they behave.
How to conduct reference checks that actually work
Stop cold e-mailing referees and asking them to fill out a generic reference check forms! This has happened three times to me in the past month: I get a cold e-mail from an unknown HR person asking me…
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What is sophistication bias?
Managers seem to have an almost universal problem with sophistication bias. What does this mean? Sophistication bias is where people overlook simple, but effective, solutions in favour of more complex…
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Why using AI to write for you might be your biggest mistake
I find this absolutely bat shit crazy. Three comments in a row on the same LinkedIn post, written hours apart by three different people located in three different countries, working for three differen…
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