A bit more about us

Who We Are

We are an Integrated Social Impact Agency

Our Mission is

Enabling social impact by providing bespoke solutions through strategic advice, events, programmes and recruitment.

Our Vision is

To reimagine the world of work, where all organisations and leaders are able to deliver social impact at scale, supported by our community of #impactmakers.

Our Why is

Steering organisations and leaders towards social impact isn’t just an ethical imperative, it’s a smart business move. We have all the solutions under one roof.

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The Problem We are trying to Fix

Organisations, Founders and Leaders, brimming with impactful ideas, face resource, time and funding challenges. While those impact driven experts, able to provide support often have busy schedules and lives and also lack an easy way to know about the opportunities available.

This cycle keeps those with potential to drive positive change from accessing the support needed and those organisations and leaders who want and can help from a means of doing so. ImpactMatch aims to break these barriers and empower leaders and organisations to create meaningful societal impact efficiently.

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of execs say they lack a strong sense of purpose.

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of the public believes businesses use the language of environmental and social change without commitment.

Consumers are 4 x more likely to purchase from a brand with purpose.

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of employees believe companies must lead with purpose.

Turning purpose into action – our 3 core services

For organisations and leaders, we design and deliver impact advice, strategies and campaigns. We also find and match organisations to exceptional purpose-led talent, and we bring thousands of people together via our ImpactMatchRooms platform to stop the “talk shop” and to drive real outcomes. This is all underpinned by our #impactmaker community.

Impact Search

We #ImpactMatch your organisation to expert and diverse board members, advisors and leaders for full, or part time roles or programmes. We take care to search for the right people to make it the right match for all parties, to create impact and to not waste anyone’s time.

Impact Leadership

From ideation to navigating leadership challenges, we cover all facets of impactful leadership – this is more than mentoring, we offer personalised support and actionable plans to ensure your purpose turns to impact.

Impact Strategy

Our services ensure your organisation does good by doing good and includes strategy with implementation planning to help with delivery too. We believe that with the right strategy, organisations can utilise their existing resources to drive societal change.

Search

I’ve worked with Leigh for 10 years and she has an unrivalled network of change-makers and a relentless focus on “doing good by doing good”. #ImpactMatch is a unique proposition, enabled by Leigh’s vision. By strategically bringing the right people together with the right organisation, #ImpactMatch plays a pivotal role in driving impactful solutions for social change at scale.

Sara Weller CBE: Non Exec and Chair in FTSE and Government

Search

“Impact Match curated an exceptional event for Amazon Future Engineer, bringing our internal and external stakeholders together with national education thought leaders to share global best practices.”

Jill Hodges, UK Head of Amazon Future Engineer, Amazon

 

Search

“We have found #ImpactMatch to excel in uniting diverse talents for impactful strategies, driving social change for all sizes of organisations at the intersection of purpose and profit. ImpactMatch does not only give you the strategy but the people and delivery plan to deliver it. Really does mean you get the ACT in Impact! Leigh as the Founder is also a brilliant chair and speaker.”

Robin Knowles, CEO, Digital Leaders

Search

“When I was Director of Strategy and Insights at the Money and Pensions Service, ImpactMatch was able to bring me the exact match of brilliant talent I needed and in record time, it took only a matter or weeks to mobilise a team of ten impact driven leaders.”

Sarah Porretta, Financial Wellbeing Expert | Strategist | Exec Director | Advisory Board Member

Leadership

“Impact Match coaching services have been crucial for me, especially as a founder of a startup, to deliver strategic growth and crucially to help me lead and navigate the operational planning requirements of managing a diverse and multi-talented team to deliver social impact.”

Jonathan Ley – Founder and CEO Make Time Count

Leadership

“Impact Match services have really helped both me individually, and as founder of social business the We Are Group. Leigh has helped on multiple fronts: how we strategically empower people in need to live a better life through our welfare services, the direction of travel for our business strategy, as a door-opener and networker extraordinaire for real growth opportunities and crucially also helped mentor me personally to understand as Founder the changing nature of my role as the company has grown exponentially and brought new senior people in for the journey.”

Matt Adam, Founder and Director of Growth, We Are Group

Leadership

“Impact Match is responsible for the realisation that I could create a career with true purpose – where work is so much more than just doing a job, but its one where you make a difference. By working with them, I realised where my personal purpose lay and Impact Match helped me find the perfect role where I was able to bring my deep passion for tackling inequality to a commercial organisation, where I could hone my skills further. I’m eternally grateful that they set me on this path.”

Alex Birtles Co-Founder and CEO, In Good Company, F:entrepreneur Top 100 Female Entrepreneur 2023 and NatWest & Pioneers Post Top 100 Women in Social Enterprise 2023. Named one of the Top Womxn of 2023 by Startups Magazine. In Good Company

Leadership

“#ImpactMatch helped me change my life. Their advisory service enabled me to understand and act upon how I could create and enable much more global societal impact than I had ever imagined.”

Martin King, General Manager – Customer Vulnerability, Bank of New Zealand

Leadership

“ImpactMatch made the time to understand my work (and life) goals and career history, then tailored a strategy to help me carve out a portfolio career which blended both executive and board-level positions. They were my ‘personal champions’ throughout this process and I can’t recommend them highly enough!”

Beth Knight, Social Sustainability Director, NED British Tourism Authority, Chair of Save the Children Corporate Advisory Board, Fellow of Cambridge Institute of Sustainability Leadership

Strategy

“Impact Match offers support with social impact board level skills, paired with an unusual and unparalleled entrepreneurial flair. I wholeheartedly endorse Impact Match for any social impact strategy, advice or delivery. They not only efficiently get things done but also do so with a remarkable blend of kindness and care.”

Baroness Lane Fox CBE, President British Chambers of Commerce and Chancellor of the Open University and Co-Founder of Lucky Voice

Strategy

“We have worked so well with Leigh the founder over a number of years. I do not know anyone better at forging wide-ranging and effective partnerships and collaboration and taking that to effective outcomes and I would not have been half as successful at driving awareness of our work and impact without her help and strategic advice and especially the partnships including the BBC!”

Will Gardner OBE, CEO and Founder, Childnet

Strategy

“As a response to the pandemic ImpactMatch supported us to ensure the Digital Poverty Alliance was funded and had the right strategy in place for impact which also enabled us to launch with incredible off the charts awareness and speed.”

Niel McLean, Chair of Trustees, Learning Foundation and Digital Poverty Alliance

Strategy

“As social impact investors and innovators, our partnership with #impactmatch has been incredible. Their expertise in finding the right people, coaching our founders and also crafting and orchestrating growth strategies, coupled with the precise execution of operational plans, consistently yields concrete and meaningful outcomes so enables us to deliver on our mission.”

Duncan Parker, MD, The 44 Group

Impact Experts

Join the movement, we’re fostering a community of impact experts dedicated to creating a just and sustainable society who want to share their impact via inspirational insight stories, events and talks. We also have something new coming into this space so sign up to become part of the community where we will keep you updated.

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About our Founder

Leigh Smyth, Founder, ImpactMatch

Leigh is an accomplished social inclusion #tech4good activist, strategist and advisor who is an expert in enabling organisations to do well by doing good. Her award-winning achievements include launching the UK’s first children’s technology range and designing and leading a groundbreaking market model for a government program that benefited half a million low-income families. As CEO of the RaceOnline2012 campaign and Go ON UK Charity, Leigh supported Baroness Lane Fox and spearheaded initiatives with Top FTSEs to drive digital inclusion as a movement, leaving a lasting impact on society and Leigh is still an active campaigner for digital and financial inclusion today.

Leigh Smyth speaking at Digital Leaders Impact Summit

Leigh’s belief in the power of meeting and working with people who want to do good, has not only transformed her own life but also uplifted countless individuals. With determination and support from her wide global network of #impactmakers, Leigh has guided national initiatives and led the creation of impactful programs such as the Lloyds Banking Digital Skills Academy for “Everyone” and has also led from concept,  the design and launch of several impact measures such as The Consumer Digital Index. Leigh also led the team which designed and championed the establishment of the largest corporate volunteer Digital Champion network in Europe.  Her global company Impact Match has also advised prominent organisations, including the United Nations, and Global Banks, supporting them to a universal financial inclusion commitment and also now includes supporting We Are Group Impact Council  to co-design their new Wel-Tech platform to enable a world where no one is left behind. Leigh has also held various Board positions to drive more inclusion at work including Women In Banking & Finance and @TechTalentCharter and also inclusion within communities with the Digital Poverty Alliance.  

Leigh’s journey exemplifies how one person with the right support can challenge the status quo, transform the lives of millions and leave an indelible mark on the world. Leigh’s belief is that every organisation is able to create social impact and her vision is to simplify how organisations and leaders find and maintain their true purpose whilst delivering impact at scale.

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