Leadership Masterclasses

What is the Masterclass about?

Common Purpose Masterclasses are a unique opportunity to take part in small group discussions with a variety of different leaders. They are designed to allow for informal discussion and sharing around the challenges and rewards of leadership and change.

Past Masterclass contributors have included:

• Dame Deirdre Hutton, Chair, Food Standards Agency
• Prue Leith, Social entrepreneur, businesswoman, restaurateur and writer
• Richard Ellis, Chair, East of England Development Agency
• Richard Greenhalgh, Former Chairman, Unilever UK
• Shami Chakrabarti, Director, Liberty
• Zenna Atkins, Social entrepreneur, Chair of OFSTED and Chair of Places for People

"How do you make sure you get the bubbling up of ideas through a coalition of energy, rather the boiling down that consensus inevitably provokes? It's about eliminating all the ordinary, in-between stuff that is no good. You have to cut it out and concentrate all the energy on stretching for the best. Then the really good stuff acts as a magnet for more. If you allow middling stuff to stay - the filler stuff - then that works as a magnet for more of the same too."

Siobhan Davies, Artistic Director and Choreographer, Siobhan Davies Dance