Julia Middleton

Julia Middleton (born 1958 in London) is the founder and chief executive officer of Common Purpose UK, an international charity that runs leadership development programmes in 18 countries across the world.[1] The charity's aims are to "give people the skills, connections and inspiration they need to become better leaders both at work and in society".

She is a campaigner for the progression of diverse leaders in civil society.[2]

Education

Middleton was educated at a French lycee before gaining an Economics degree at the London School of Economics.[3]

Career

In 1980 Julia Middleton began her career at the Industrial Society where she created Head Start, a programme providing high school drop-outs with training and advice from prospective employers.[4]

In the autumn of 1988, Middleton formed Common Purpose UK.[5]

Common Purpose UK runs a range of leadership development courses that offer participants the inspiration, knowledge and connections to help them become more active and engaged in society.[6]

Its courses run in 11 countries worldwide and aim at improving the way organisations work by increasing the number of informed individuals who are actively involved in shaping the future of the area in which they work.[6][7]

Since 1989, more than 25,000 leaders have completed one or more Common Purpose UK courses.[2]

Non-executive Roles

Alongside her role as CEO of Common Purpose, Middleton occupies a number of non-executive roles, including Deputy Chair of the Media Standards Trust Board, a registered charity that runs Journalisted, a free online journalist portfolio designed to improve public accountability in journalism.[8]

She is also member of the Board of Trustees for Alfanar, a venture philanthropy fund set up by Tarek Ben Halim to assist organisations in the Arab region.[9]

She helped in the founding of DEMOS, an independent think tank, and Impetus Trust, developing venture philanthropy in the UK.[2]

Literature

In 1982, Middleton authored a book called Quality Circles, published by the Industrial Society in London.[10]

She also wrote the foreword to the book How to be an even better chair: Sensible Advice from the Public & Charity Sectors, written by Sophie Petit-Zeman.[11]

In February 2007, Middleton's book Beyond Authority: Leadership in a Changing World was published by Palgrave Macmillan, and she recorded a meet-the-author video.[12]

In 2010, it was translated into Hungarian and published by HVG Konyvek.[13]

In 2014, Middleton wrote "Cultural Intelligence: CQ: The Competitive Edge for Leaders Crossing Borders" published by Bloomsbury[14][15] and she recorded a video on why she wrote it.[16] In late 2014, a paperback version was published for the Indian market.[17][18]

References

  1. ↑ "Bursaries to help bosses". This is Derbyshire. 25 November 2008. Retrieved 8 December 2011.
  2. 1 2 3 http://www.peoplealchemy.co.uk/what-we-do/performance-assistant/julia-middleton/
  3. ↑ "London School of Economics and Political Science – Home". LSE. Archived from the original on 7 December 2011. Retrieved 8 December 2011.
  4. ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20061017075203/http://www.contextmag.com/setFrameRedirect.asp?src=/archives/200004/BookReview1.asp. Archived from the original on 17 October 2006. Retrieved 9 June 2010. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5. ↑ Archived July 7, 2009, at the Wayback Machine.
  6. 1 2 Business Club (21 January 2010). "Video: Common Purpose – Business Club Video". The Telegraph. Retrieved 8 December 2011.
  7. ↑ "In salute to leaders". The Economic Times. 7 May 2008. Retrieved 8 December 2011.
  8. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 10 May 2009. Retrieved 9 June 2010.
  9. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 20 December 2009. Retrieved 9 June 2010.
  10. ↑ Morland, Julia (1982). "Quality Circles". Open Library. Retrieved 8 December 2011.
  11. ↑ Archived October 11, 2008, at the Wayback Machine.
  12. ↑ "A video of Julia Middleton talking about Beyond Authority". Palgrave.com. Retrieved 8 December 2011.
  13. ↑ http://www.hvgkonyvek.hu/index.php/Gazdasag-es-menedzsment/Hataskoron-tul/book_flypage.tpl.html
  14. ↑ Middleton, Julia (2014). Cultural Intelligence: CQ: The Competitive Edge for Leaders Crossing Borders. London, UK: Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-1472904812.
  15. ↑ "Cultural Intelligence: CQ: The Competitive Edge for Leaders Crossing Borders Book Information". Amazon UK. Bloomsbury. Retrieved 2015-08-06.
  16. ↑ Middleton, Julia. "Julia Middleton on why she wrote Cultural Intelligence". YouTube. Common Purpose. Retrieved 2015-08-06.
  17. ↑ Middleton, Julia. "Cultural Intelligence: The Competitive Edge for Leaders Crossing Borders". Amazon India. Bloomsbury. Retrieved 2015-08-06.
  18. ↑ Middleton, Julia (2014). Cultural Intelligence: The Competitive Edge for Leaders Crossing Borders. Mumbai, India: Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-1472915399.

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