Meet Andrea Gamson, founder of Social Impact Support.
Hello. I envision a world that is inclusive by design, where our economy, infrastructure, businesses, and communities are regenerative - and do more good than they do harm. I am a stubborn optimist!
My mission is to align our leadership, culture and organisations with the living systems that have survived billions of years. Study a forest and it will teach you everything you need to know about resilience and collaboration.
Organisations are living systems too. Do you seek a new operating system? One that improves authenticity and wellbeing, and is more inclusive - without jeopardising a healthy productivity? Would you like to explore what this means for your team?
How about collaborating to solve a leadership challenge, and engaging with (and learning from) community leaders at the same time?
Regenerous and Netshift CIC work with partners that align with - or aspire to - these values. To work with Regenerous and our associates, you value fresh thinking, inclusive facilitation and whole systems design. I am looking forward to getting to know you and your challenges better.
Why Mentoring Programmes Are Smart L&D Investment for Mid-Level Managers
Mid-level managers are the most stretched and most overlooked cohort in most organisations - expected to lead, deliver and develop themselves, often with the least dedicated L&D support. Traditional training rarely cuts it. A two-day workshop doesn't build the adaptive, human-centred capabilities modern management demands.
Mentoring does.
Placing managers in real advisory relationships with social entrepreneurs - founders solving complex problems with minimal resource - accelerates exactly what formal training can't teach: active listening, coaching over directing, and leading through ambiguity. Real challenges, real stakes.
For HR teams, the ROI is clear. Mentoring increases retention, accelerates promotion readiness and builds confidence in ways classroom learning doesn't replicate. At £22k for a cohort of 8–12 managers, that's a fraction of replacing a single mid-level hire - typically 50–200% of annual salary.
The social impact dimension makes it a genuine win-win. Every learning hour generates measurable community value, strengthening ESG credentials and employer brand. Not volunteering bolted on the side —- skills-based, outcome-driven and mutual. The managers grow. The entrepreneurs grow. All with an evidence base around it, with clear outputs and outcomes.
Andrea's Background & Story
Andrea began her career in magazines and newspapers in the 2000s, drawn to media as a tool for social change - only to discover its capacity for harm as much as good. That disillusionment redirected her attention to the people media too often failed: young and marginalised communities, the working poor, those surviving rather than thriving. She travelled to Kenya, India, Sri Lanka and Brazil to learn from grassroots changemakers building their own solutions through entrepreneurship.
That journey landed her firmly in social enterprise. In 2014 she co-founded the award-winning _SocialStarters, supporting hundreds of underserved social entrepreneurs with private sector mentorship partnerships across the world. She later established NetShift CIC (2023), a women-led sustainability consultancy training the next generation of climate-positive business leaders, alongside Social Impact.Support Ltd and Regenerous - a talent development programme built on skill-sharing and peer support.
Andrea holds a MA in Regenerative Economics from Schumacher College (2022), and is deepening her practice in Regenerative Leadership whilst currently studying a Diploma in Strategic Leadership & Management. Accolades include Pioneers Post & NatWest's Women's Champion (2019), The Escape 100 (2019), WISE100 (2019 & 2020), and EUCLID's Top 100 Women in Social Enterprise (2021). In 2025 she published Social Starters: Make Changing the World Your Business which is available via Amazon, Foyles, Blackwell's, Barnes & Noble.
The call for 'future fit' business
Businesses and organisations the world over are getting ready for the complex challenges that lie ahead - be it supply chain disruption, increasing staff burn out, or the struggle to recruit and retain values-driven talent. Being 'future fit' requires an openness to set the right ambitions and make better decisions, for the benefit of people, planet and place. As we move into an ever-more volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous world, the companies that adapt and respect the need for a more equitable and 'just', low carbon, high well being planet; are paving the way for resilience in unprecedented times. This calls for a new kind of leadership, a regenerous one - that has a deep and profound respect for all parts of its ecosystem.
Finally, through NetShift CIC we are looking to transform small businesses toward net zero and beyond, recognising that sustainability management is going to become one of the most in demand jobs we're also on a mission to train the next generation of sustainability leaders, placing them in future fit companies.
Why do we need a regenerative economy?
Protection of species and natural habitat is our duty, let alone a moral obligation. It's no longer acceptable to think about the world's problems as charitable objects. To transform the system we inherited, protect future generations and all living systems on the planet (so they still have a future in which to operate in), we need to rethink the operating model. Nobody wants to be the generation who triggered extinction. There is another way of doing business, and I believe we can move more towards something fairer and greener. A just transition. Activism comes in all shapes and sizes. Shifting our combined consciousness toward an economy of regeneration, rather than extraction, is essential. Collaboration is key.
Regenerous Fellowship Launches in Spring 2026
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