An Open-Source model
Global Impactors works through collaborative Circles where you access open-source tools, training and research—backed by practitioners and academic partners.
A model that adapts to any organisation
The model proposes a paradigm shift in designing and activating Corporate Social Impact programmes. It gives step-by-step guidance for key decisions, from setup to scaling, so your organisation becomes autonomous in driving and expanding social impact through employee engagement.
Refined through nearly a decade of real-world application, the approach adapts to different cultures, industries and structures—without losing credibility or integrity.
Owned by your people
If tools allow you to design and structure your Social Impact Programme, the final success relies on your capacity to make it own by your people.
As a response to the limitations revealed by the traditional top-down approach, this new model created a new playbook to guide companies in activating a new bottom-up approach and learn the codes of how movements are created, grow and live.
Cross the Business Mirror©...
Most CSR programs are designed to be safe.
It protects reputation, ticks boxes, and are built around business KPIs.
That’s the Business Mirror©.
... and you will learn
How to select and define
the right social impact to focus on
the one which will reveal the unexpected side of your company engagement. You will access a step by step process to reach this phase to become your most important foundation to generate credibility and people engagement.
How to transform your programme FOR your people into a programme FOR social impact THROUGH your people.
You will be guided into the design of a world of engagement with the potential to become a movement owned by your people, a movement people want to be part as actor.
The other side
On the other side of the mirror, your unexpected social impact becomes your main KPI and generates the visible victories you and your people are looking for to become a long-lasting programme for impact.
Your impact journey
Every organization has the potential to create real social impact — but most never unlock it.
Not because the intention isn’t there, but because traditional CSR structures were never designed for true transformation.
Your Social Impact Ladder
The decision to go for Social Impact opens to a new journey companies must learn to master and know how to navigate.
By understanding where you are on this journey you will understand the credibility and engagement you generate but most importantly you will be able use it as your compass to define where you want to go and what it requires to make it happen.
The Social Impact Ladder©
maps six stages:
from Philanthropist to Thought Leader and help you to become a real IMP-ACTOR© as being the crossing point to generate your expected level of people engagement, be recognized for your true and lasting Social impact and discover unexpected business values your programme can generate.
Each rung is a real shift.
If Social Impact requires big ambition, companies must learn to approach it within another timeframe than their usual business one. The Social Impact Ladder© helps companies to build the right capability step by step so that each rung prepares the next.
Practically, it helps you answer:
Where are we today? What’s the next rung? What must change to climb? What can I expect from each rung.
Reaching the Positive Ripple Effect©
The Positive Ripple Effect © is what happens when 2 conditions are met:
- Real, measurable social impact reaches its tipping point demonstrating concrete Victories of your action and engagement
- Your people took the ownership of your programme making these Victories their own
The Ripple Effect © helps you understand the paradigm shift and how to reach your own business KPI’s by not placing them at the center of your Social Impact Programme.
The Ripple Effect © helps you follow the right sequence, so you don’t “lock” your programme by pulling the wrong levers at the wrong time but instead discover how each one can become an amplifier of the others to unlock your own Ripple Effect©
It helps you see what to activate now (credibility, ownership, participation, partnerships, measurement).
It helps you choose the right approach for each lever — because each stage requires a different kind of action.
Credibility and victories are your programme’s fuel
And here’s the loop: credibility and victories become the fuel.
Small wins build belief. Belief drives action and people engagement. Action creates more visible impact — which creates more credibility — and the movement accelerates.
A movement powered by people
To move from a top-down to a bottom-up approach requires to learn the code of the movement and how to activate them.
Once you master it, companies can access to a new paradigm and create movements that lives and grows through people unleashing a force far greater than any campaign could achieve.
Movement
Code of the movement
A movement is built on non-negotiables,
principles that protect credibility while enabling ownership
Give it a name
A movement begins when people unite behind a name and rise for a shared purpose, a common cause. The name must be inspiring enough to engage.
Victories are the fuel
People keep acting in and for a movement if they see concrete results. Your Social Impact will be the Victories and the fuel of your movement
Make Social Impact your KPI and compass.
A movement need a clear and measurable ambition
Input or Activities are not enough to build long term engagement
Be True & Credible
People are ready to join a moment and stand-up for a cause only if they perceive it as true and credible. Make sure all elements of the movement are.
Go for ONE, and don't change
A movement only starts behind a unique and simple cause. If the cause changes, the movement stops
Freedom to join and to act
A movement must be a place open for all
People must feel they have the freedom to join and to act.
You must generate the will to join and inspire to reach action
Size matters
Make your movement the place people want to join.
The size of your movement creates the feeling of power and impact we can achieve together. To reach such feeling is essential in a movement.
Acknowledge participation
To join a movement is an engagement Recognize the engagement instead of the achievement
Speed to capture all energy
Learn how to capture the energy and momentum when it appears, not when you want
A simple story. To inspire
Make your Social Impact ambition, simple, concrete and inspiring.
People need it to engage and to spread the news outside
Make it open to all without hierarchy
A movement must be created to welcome everybody and hope to welcome all employees Inside the movement, traditional roles and hierarchy must disappear
A world of engagement
Make it warm, engaging, fun with tradition
But most importantly, make it different than your corporate one
Transform small steps into big achievements
People engage in a movement by goodwill and stay if they perceive that their effort worth it.
Make every step become an achievement and participation will grow.
Lose control
A movement grow by believe and will.
Learn how to lose control to generate participation and amplify actions