The Impact Sessions Podcast

Mark Mortimer is the Owner & Founder of a business called TimeZone Business as well as being actively involved in (or operating) a variety of international communication and networking businesses and groups including:

- Communication Skills for International Business

- The Communication Skills Club

- The Global Chamber

- The TimeZone Voices Podcast

A UK Ex-Pat based in Germany, and with a CV of global proportions, who better to...

Paul Cooper is a Master Photographer and owner of Bailey Cooper, an Award Winning Photography business based in York, England.

I wanted to explore if the advent and relentless growth in AI will be sounding the death knell for the photography industry anytime soon, or if by embracing AI, the sector can successfully transition like it did from print to digital around the turn of the millennium?

For context, we explore a bit about the...

Emily Marner is a Senior Project Engineer at Kier Group, after starting in the industry as an Apprentice Electrician in 2008.

In this episode of The Impact Sessions Podcast, Emily shares her career journey and some of the highlights and we consider what it was like being a young female Apprentice in a male-dominated workplace at the time.

How was the workplace then and how has it changed over the last 15-16 years?

We also explore h...

What a second episode of the recently re-launched 2025 Impact Sessions Podcast...... 

Meet Larner Caleb, Creative Marketing Director at Dynamic Business Services, a very successful Leeds based Digital Learning (Elearning) business. 

Established in 1999, October 2024 saw the 25th anniversary celebrations of a business that has gone from strength to strength over a quarter of a century and still sets new standards with every clie...

To Re-Launch the Impact Sessions Podcast into Volume 2 for 2025, we could not have a better guest than our first new episode in a while - the irrepressible and always fascinating, Lea Turner…….

I have described Lea as Creator, Commentator, Community Builder, Collaborator, Chameleon & Mum, but I could easily have also added in there Charity Worker too.  In short, she is not only a Tour De Force, but she is genuinely LinkedIn “...

Bianca Robinson is CEO of UK Charity, CEO Sleepout as well as a Lecturer at Teesside University specialising in "The Sustainable Organisation" and she is on a mission.......

In this episode of The Impact Sessions Podcast, Bianca shares her insights into how the work her Charity does (and the Teesside University MBA Programme) can help to achieve genuine change;

• A change in attitudes
• A change in focus and, 
• A change to the lives...

In this excellent episode of The Impact Sessions Podcast, we meet Rachel Hudson, the relatively new Managing Director of YB Fixings.

We have entitled this episode - Building a Brand, A Value Set & Business Momentum as a New Managing Director. It's another cracking listen or watch - guaranteed.

Rachel has had a very interesting and perhaps unorthodox journey into the role of MD, but her story, her passion and her vision for the busi...

After taking redundancy in the early days of the pandemic and lockdown 1, what could our guest this week, Martin Bennett conceivably do to put food on his table - quite literally.

This is a REET good episode of the Impact Sessions Podcast in which we meet Martin Bennett, Managing Director of Reet Yorkshire Food, a relatively new business building a strong brand, presence and following in the jams, chutneys and pickles market.

But t...

If you and your business have a vision, a mission or a set of values that you are trying to embed, if you need to shift the dial on developing and delivering any type of change, if you operate on a project management, operational or organisational programme basis, if you are a process led or process driven business, (basically most businesses in most sectors), then this is an Impact Sessions Podcast episode for you.

• Constructio...

This is a Podcast steeped in great leadership, an unswerving focus on improving the customer experience and resilience of the highest order.  One not to be missed.

Derren Gittins is Managing Director at Verplas, a UK based business, managing all of the same challenges as many over recent years, such as supply chain, transport costs, raw materials availability, the ups and downs of the pandemic, and much more.

But that is only the h...

James Steptoe is Global Sales Director at Puretech Process Systems Ltd.

Sounds like a great role, plenty of travel to exotic destinations (and some not so exotic ones), developing relationships with customers and distributors across the world, attending exhibitions, networking, carrying out negotiations, and building an international sales funnel.

So, you start the job as Global Sales Manager in Q3 2019 and get ready to go.......

Y...

An insightful Podcast hosted by Nick Bramley, featuring Chris Shanks, Head of Sales & Andrew Vincent, CEO of QUICKBLOCK, a Glasgow based business that helps clients to create temporary, semi-permanent and permanent structures using the QUICKBLOCK product range.

Sectors embracing this sustainable, environmentally friendly, 100% recycled and recyclable building material include;

- Landscaping

- Agriculture & Land Management

- Light C...

This is Episode 52 of The Impact Sessions Podcast and we are about to take a break. So, how do you leave (for now) on a high with an awesome mid-season finale?

Simple - you invite on a truly inspirational, engaging and irrepressible guest who will 100% inspire your audience.

Meet Miriam Dervan, Executive Chair of MD Group, founding Trustee of a new Education Foundation supporting mental health in schools and Author of "To Be An Ent...

So, you start a business, you grow your business, you expand your customer base and you continue on a successful path and upward trajectory, but what's next?

Well, at some stage, you might want to consider selling the business as an exit strategy, but this can be complex, fraught with stress and there are a myriad of options to confuse and potentially confound too.

Which option might be right for you, and how do you know?

Amongst t...

The Impact Sessions Podcast Reaches a Milestone Today - Our 50th Episode......

Thanks to all of my previous excellent guests, those that are regular and supportive subscribers, getting their fix every Tuesday and also to the occasional listener or viewer. Your collective support is, and remains most welcome and appreciated.

So, to celebrate our special episode, what better way to do it than with a beer - or more accurately, by meet...

The “Caged Animal” in Question in This Week’s Impact Sessions Podcast Title is Mona Norman, Managing Director of Brand Yorkshire and latterly Fogal & Barnes - (More on That Shortly).....

Mona is one of life’s “people people”, who operates a fantastic Networking & Conference Business, hit hard, like many in the pandemic.

She loves her members and loves the dynamics of her regular networking and annual conference live events. So if y...

How does a Secondary School DT Teacher develop a product to reduce stress, improve wellbeing & wellness and create a calming influence for its users - all supporting the scientifically robust technique of “conscious breathing”?

On this episode of The Impact Sessions Podcast, we meet Michael Crinnion.  Working with Richard Hall and the team at Pd-m International in Thirsk, he has created Luma³.

Not only is Luma³ a beautifully design...

One of IMPACTUS Group's longest-standing and most valued clients, SES Engineering Services is celebrating 60 years in business on Monday 19th April. 

That is a massive milestone and as part of the celebrations, we recorded this Special Edition Podcast.

We meet the longest serving man, Dave Stoughair - nearly 47 years service and still counting, the longest serving woman, Sarah Jones - who started way back in 1982, the Managing Dire...

We could have called this week's episode of The Impact Sessions Podcast - "How to Run a Successful Manufacturing Business Without Setting Foot In The Premises for Over a Year"!

On this episode, we meet both Neil Matthews, Managing Director and Chris Shanks, Sales Manager of Irvine Springs, a high-performance springs manufacturer based, not surprisingly in Irvine in Ayrshire, Scotland.

Well, that's where the business (and Chris) is ...