Impact Pathways groups

Our approach.

Our role is to help you bring impact back to the centre of how your organisation thinks, decides, and acts.

There are no off-the-shelf answers. We work alongside you to build clarity, focus, and practical ways of managing impact that fit your organisation, your context, and the challenges you are facing now.

Strengthen your impact practice.

Our work is built around four connected building blocks.

Organisations can start anywhere, but impact is strongest when all four are in place.

Theory of change and impact strategy.

Get clear on the pathway to the change you exist to create.

We help you articulate:

  • The difference you exist to make

  • Who you are trying to create that change for

  • How your products, services, or activities are expected to contribute

  • Which operational details really make a difference

This is not an academic exercise.

Together, we surface assumptions, priorities, and trade-offs so you can focus on what truly matters. The result is a shared understanding of impact that guides decisions across the organisation.

Measurement for learning and decision-making.

Measure what matters and manage what counts.

We help you:

  • Identify a small number of meaningful indicators linked to the change you are trying to create

  • Design proportionate, practical ways of using information you already collect

  • Integrate learning into existing processes, rather than creating parallel systems

The focus is not on perfect data. It is information that helps you understand what is working, what is not, and where to adapt.

Embedding impact across the organisation.

Make impact everybody’s business.

Impact does not sit in one role or one team. It is shaped by decisions made every day.

We help you bring an impact lens into:

  • Strategy and planning

  • Governance and leadership conversations

  • Programme, product, or service design and delivery

  • Performance management, learning, and improvement

  • Communications and external engagement

This includes building simple routines that make impact visible and usable, and supporting teams to take shared ownership so impact becomes part of how the organisation works.

Learning, improvement, and communication.

Learn, adapt, and tell a clear story of your difference.

We support you to:

  • Make sense of what you are seeing

  • Ask better questions about what is working and why

  • Adapt what is not delivering the outcomes you want

We also help you communicate your impact clearly and confidently, by explaining how your work creates value, what you are learning, and how you are responding to challenges with honesty and intent.

Ways we can work together.

  • Sometimes the most useful starting point is a short external review to clarify how impact currently works across the organisation and where the biggest opportunities lie. This helps leadership identify priority areas for strengthening strategy, systems and reporting.

    Our Impact Action Review, may be a good starting point.

  • Where organisations want a more detailed assessment, the work can look more closely at how impact is embedded across strategy, delivery and organisational systems. The result is usually a clear Theory of Change together with practical recommendations for strengthening strategy, measurement and management.

  • Some organisations already know what they need and want focused support on a particular element such as developing a Theory of Change, defining impact indicators, strengthening measurement systems, or aligning strategy and products with impact goals.

  • In some cases I work with organisations over a longer period, acting as an external advisor or fractional impact lead as impact becomes embedded across strategy, management and reporting.

What working together looks like.

How I work.

Impact Pathways BRITE group

My approach is practical and tailored. There is no single template. The starting point is understanding your organisation, your ambitions, and the questions you want to answer.

Work typically begins with a small number of focused conversations with leaders and key staff, alongside a review of relevant documents, data, or reporting. This builds a clear picture of how your organisation currently creates impact and where greater clarity could make the biggest difference.

From there the work typically combines short interviews with staff, stakeholders or clients with structured workshops where the team works through key questions together. Preparation happens in advance so sessions focus on refining ideas and making decisions, rather than starting from scratch.

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What this often produces in practice.

A shared Theory of Change that leaders and teams actually use

A small set of impact questions that shape planning and review

Data collection integrated into existing customer and stakeholder touchpoints

Simple dashboards that balance performance, outcomes and learning

Clear roles and routines for reflection and adaptation

Decision prompts that connect day-to-day choices back to impact

Reporting formats that support learning internally and clarity externally

These are not extra layers of work.
They are ways of making impact part of how the organisation already operates.

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  • "There was never a doubt that Anton knew his subject matter, that was why we hired him after all (!), however the depth of his knowledge and experience was even greater than expected."

    Claire Bedwell-Thomas, MEAL Manager, Islamic Relief Worldwide

  • "We've now reorganised our service offerings to align to the impact we want to achieve, improved our services by designing a set of building blocks to show our beneficiaries how to get to the impact quicker."

    Deserve Digital

  • "Gave me space to think strategically and work with others outside of my normal network to deep dive into what we are doing, why and how."

    Grace Eyre

  • "Having a clearer vision and more organised ideas has really helped us when drafting funding applications. Thank you Anton."

    Anna McDivitt, Smarter Uniforms

  • "The process brought clarity to our vision and strategy, helping me articulate why the Pearce Foundation offers "more than money.""

     Jane Robbie, Pearce Foundation

  • "The workshops helped us to really think about how the different elements of our work contribute to achieving impact…The process is action focused, and collaborative, guided expertly by Anton."

    Kennedy Street Recovery

  • "As a small charity we had little to no experience in this area and learnt a lot through working with Anton. We’re very proud of what we’ve learnt and achieved."

    Sight Support Worthing

  • "The most valuable contribution was to help clarify the central questions we wanted to answer... Anton was quickly able to determine our strengths and gaps... drawing the essence of 'what matters most' from amidst a confusing pool of stakeholder values."

    Acumen Academy

  • "I am truly impressed by the thorough and insightful work accomplished... The guidelines lay a solid foundation for sustainably addressing extreme poverty through the Graduation approach, and we eagerly look forward to the successful rollout."

    Islamic Relief Worldwide

  • "Anton's critical analysis was especially useful for communicating challenges and lessons learned to different audiences, as he was able to effectively highlight pertinent information and key messages as necessary."

    Trickle Up

  • "I highly recommend Anton as a teacher, mentor, evaluator, consultant, author or board member. I have seen him work in each capacity and he will get the job done for you!"

    Fonkoze

Turn clarity into action.

Use the tools, then book a 30-minute working call with Anton to review your results and agree your priority next steps.

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