Impact: Transform Your Organisation's Capacity to Create and Demonstrate Meaningful Change

Connect Your Vision to Measurable Results

You and your team can be endlessly busy, and achieve very little. You can manage staff who never seem to have any time, but you can’t see what’s changing. Your boss can be firefighting non-stop, but never leads the team.

It's not enough to be busy, you need to have impact. You need to know what changes as a result of your work. You need to make a difference.

Whether you're a charity struggling to evidence outcomes for funders, a social enterprise balancing commercial and social objectives, or any organisation required to demonstrate value to stakeholders, the ability to create, measure, and communicate meaningful change is essential.

I can help you do it.

My impact training helps organisations move beyond activity-focused approaches. I work with teams and leaders to assess, plan for and deliver impact and show you how to shout about it to the right people.

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The Challenge of Demonstrating Impact in Modern Organisations

Is your organisation stuck in that all too familiar frustrating cycle of investing significant resources, of having talented people working incredibly hard, and delivering numerous programmes, but when it comes to telling the story about what you’ve achieved, you struggle? This disconnect between activity and impact has serious consequences:

  • Increasingly sophisticated funders demand evidence of outcomes, not just outputs

  • Boards, communities, and partners question value when impact isn't clearly demonstrated 

  • Teams lose sense of purpose when they can't see how their work creates meaningful change

  • Without clear impact frameworks, organisations struggle to make informed decisions about priorities and resource allocation

  • Organisations that can't demonstrate impact lose opportunities to those that can

Lots of companies will try to sell you the perfect impact measurement tool, or the “holy grail” of templates. Sadly, it doesn’t exist The solution isn't the perfect template, or even just better measurement and improved reporting; it requires fundamental transformation in how organisations think about and approach their work.

The good news is, that isn’t as complicated as it sounds.

Impact Made Simple

I offer two complementary approaches to building organisational impact capacity, each designed to address a aspect of the impact challenge:

Impact Consulting

Strategic Transformation for Change

Sometimes a fresh pair of eyes can change everything. Someone who isn’t caught up in the day to day, someone who can look at what you’re doing and ask why? How does that action link to the vision?

When you feel like the work is stagnating, or even when you feel things are going well but they could be going better, then I’m a good person to speak to.

My impact consulting services work at an organisational level. I’ll help you to create sustainable systems and frameworks that mean you and your team get the hang of ongoing impact management and improvement. Here’s when to give me a call:

When Impact Consulting is Right for You

  • Your organisation is struggling to articulate what it achieves despite doing valuable work

  • Stakeholders are asking difficult questions about outcomes that you can't answer effectively

  • You have data but struggle to turn it into compelling stories that engage funders and supporters

  • Leadership recognises the need for strategic transformation in approach to impact

  • You're preparing for significant funding applications, strategic planning, or organisational evaluation

What Impact Consulting Delivers

  • Comprehensive Theory of Change development that connects activities to outcomes

  • Deep understanding of how to create evaluation frameworks that drive change

  • Strategic communication approaches that resonate with different stakeholder groups

  • Embed impact thinking into daily operations to build improvement beyond the consulting relationship

  • Policy and strategy audit

Impact Training

Building the Team Approach to Impact

Sending your team on training courses, only for nothing to change is hugely frustrating.

Sitting in a training course and thinking ‘that’s interesting’ and then being unable to build what you’ve learned into your day to day is also annoying.

So when I built my training courses, I did so with those two pitfalls in mind. How can I make sure the learning is both valuable and possible to take back into the busy, overwhelming, standard work day?

My impact training programmes transform how your people think about and approach their work, shifting the focus from outputs to outcomes, creating lasting change.

When Impact Training is Right for You

  • Your team works hard but struggles to demonstrate meaningful results

  • Staff are becoming demotivated because they can't see the value of their work

  • You need to build internal capacity for impact thinking across the organisation

  • Different departments or roles need to understand how their work contributes to broader goals

  • You want to create organisational culture change around impact and outcomes

What Impact Training Delivers

  • Transformed mindsets that focus on outcomes rather than just activities

  • Practical frameworks and tools for measuring and improving individual and team impact

  • Enhanced communication skills for articulating impact to different audiences

  • Stronger alignment between daily work and organisational objectives

  • Sustainable behaviour change that continues long after training completion

“Monika helped to clarify what we’re aiming to achieve and how to build the strategy to do it too.”
— Reign
“Monika is, without doubt, the best consultant we have used. We keep returning to her because she takes time and care to understand how we work. Her days with us are relevant and effective. ”
— FiLiA

The Integrated Approach: Combining Consulting and Training

Whilst impact consulting and training can be effective individually, many organisations benefit most from integrated approaches that combine strategic transformation with capacity building:

  • Comprehensive programmes that begin with strategic consulting to develop frameworks and systems, followed by training to build internal capacity for implementation and ongoing improvement.

  • Intensive programmes that work with senior leaders on strategic impact approaches whilst simultaneously building broader team capacity for impact thinking and demonstration.

  • Tailored programmes that address the unique impact challenges and opportunities in specific sectors like education, health and social care, arts and culture, or community development.

Why Choose My Impact Services?

Proven Expertise

I have over a decade of experience helping organisations develop and demonstrate their impact, with clients including Museum of London, University of Sussex, and numerous charities and social enterprises.

Practical Approach

My focus is on real-world application rather than theoretical frameworks that look pretty but don’t help you to create change. This brings you immediate value and sustainable implementation.

Capacity Building

I make sure your team develops their skills and their approach to increase both confidence and capacity within your organisation. This means you can continue to improve long after our engagement ends.

Tailored Solutions

While many organisations struggle with the same, or similar, issues, the context, challenges and objectives you have are different. I customise my approach to reflect your need.

Lasting Impact

I have a good track record of creating sustainable change that continues years after the initial engagement, as evidenced by ongoing client success stories.

Sectors and Contexts Where Impact Services Create Value

My impact expertise spans diverse organisational contexts, enabling me to bring cross-sector insights whilst understanding specific industry challenges:

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Education and Learning

From schools to universities, from educational psychologists to education charities, from extra-curricular projects to education research, from SEND to safeguarding, from policies to strategies; I have a strong track record in supporting education and learning.

Governance

Understanding organisational impact when you’re not allowed to get involved operationally is a unique challenge. I help school governing bodies and charity trustees understand their roles, and how to drive positive impact for their organisations.

Arts and Culture

Museums, theatres, community arts organisations, and cultural institutions; I can help you to evidence and communicate your cultural impact, audience development, and community engagement.

Fundraising

Fundraising without a dedicated fundraising department is difficult and demoralising. Worse, it can limit what your organisation can achieve. I deliver fundraising training with a proven track record to help build fundraising capacity and success.

Community and Social Groups

I support charities, social enterprises, community groups and CICs to plan for, demonstrate and evaluate social impact, and beneficiary change.

From fundraising approaches to stakeholder communications, from team building to organisational change, I can help you.

Corporate Social Responsibility

A strong CSR strategy and its implementation can make your business to stand out. I can help businesses to ensure that their CSR work is more than a tick-box exercise. Build a social impact policy and strategy that aligns with your business, creates stakeholder value, and develops sustainable business practices.

Getting Started with Impact Services

The journey towards enhanced impact begins with understanding your specific context, challenges, and aspirations. Whether you're looking to transform your organisation's approach to impact or build your team's capacity for creating and demonstrating change, the first step is a comprehensive consultation to understand your needs and design an approach that delivers results.

  • Discovery and Assessment: We begin by thoroughly understanding your current impact approaches, stakeholder requirements, organisational capacity, and improvement opportunities.

  • Solution Design: Based on this assessment, I will develop tailored recommendations that might include consulting, training, or integrated approaches, all designed to address your specific objectives and constraints. If you’re not sure exactly what your objectives are, then we can work with that too.

  • Implementation and Support: All engagements include practical implementation support and ongoing guidance, to ensure sustained success.

The Return on Investment in Impact Services

Investment in professional impact services delivers both immediate and long-term value that extends far beyond improved reporting or measurement:

Immediate Benefits

  • Enhanced ability to communicate value to stakeholders

  • Improved funding and partnership opportunities

  • Increased staff engagement and motivation

  • Better strategic decision-making and resource allocation

  • Reduced frustration and increased confidence in discussing organisational value

Long-Term Benefits

  • Sustainable systems for ongoing impact management and improvement

  • Enhanced organisational reputation and stakeholder confidence

  • Stronger evidence base for strategic planning and development

  • Built internal capacity for continuous improvement and adaptation

  • Competitive advantage in securing resources and partnerships

Transform Your Impact Today

If your organisation is ready to move beyond being busy to nailing your impact, I’d love to work with you. I can deliver the expertise, tools and support you need for sustainable transformation.

We all know the feeling of running to stand still. We all know the thought process of feeling like we just need to work harder, or to knuckle down to make change happen. But sometimes the best move is to step back from the fire-fighting and let someone show us how to take the next step.

Investing in impact development is essential to develop the strategic clarity and the practical tools to help you make a bigger difference.

Ready to transform your organisation's impact?

Contact me to discuss your specific needs and explore how impact consulting, training, or integrated solutions can help you create and demonstrate meaningful change.