Welcome to The Impact Edit
Hey there, It’s been a while.
If you’ve been around for The Spark, thank you for sticking with me through 30 editions. I loved curating headlines and sharing what I was seeing in the world. But at some point, I found myself asking—okay, but now what?
So this is me trying something new.
The Impact Edit is a bit of a shift. It’s not about tracking trends. It's not about the (horrifying) headlines. It’s about making sense of the messy, often invisible work it takes to make change actually happen.
We’re still talking about impact. Just going deeper. More behind-the-scenes. More honest. More… useable, I hope.
What you’ll find here from now on: – Ideas that help connect purpose to practice – Tools and frameworks that make strategy feel doable (not like homework) – Quiet wins, real questions, and the pivots no one puts in a case study – Communications strategies that help you actually get things moving—not just get things approved
Because most of the work? It’s not happening in splashy press releases or thought leadership pieces. It’s happening in the in-between: in team huddles, policy drafts, shared Google Docs, and all the comms you write that no one sees—but that shape everything.
That’s where The Impact Edit lives. That’s what I want to focus on.
And while this is technically a “new” thing, I’m not starting from scratch. This is built on what came before—from the thinkers, doers, critics, and care-holders who’ve shaped social sustainability into something real and worth building on.
If you’re someone driving impact—quietly, persistently, without always getting credit—this one’s for you.
Glad you’re here.
More soon.
—Gayathri
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I’d love to have you there.
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