Our purpose

Doing well and doing good are becoming increasingly interconnected in our rapidly changing world. The Purpose Collective is a trio of purpose pioneers with a shared passion. We want to create a buzz about making work meaningful so that each person feels energised by what they do, day-to-day. We want to build a network of leaders who have conversations about making a difference. We want to see positive change happen: in organisations, teams and individuals.

Our guest speaker

Andy lives and breathes transformative communications, generating creativity, storytelling and social capital - even harnessing your pessimism! He helps people break down their barriers to transformational change to make the most of their potential and their situations.

He is the founder of the Dublin Conversations, that transforms and calls for a radically new approach to purpose that is making an inspiring call to action - plus provides the easy-to-do first steps - to enable anyone go forward with greater confidence, capability and purpose.

Andy is also the author of seven books on creativity, brand storytelling and social capital - translated into eight languages. Andy created the ‘Blue Monday’ meme to demonstrate how you can turn the symbolically most depressing day of the year into a positive opportunity.

As a speaker and presenter Andy he has worked around the world, from Austria to Australia, for major blue chip clients such as British Airways, BMW, and Microsoft.

Our next session: Making purpose contagious

How we can make purposefulness contagious by:

1. Make it more relevant and resilient to misuse, being empty words or a passing fad.

2. Make it more transformational

3. Make it easier to do, grow, share, and sustain

Andy Green celebrates ‘practical purposefulness’. He shares the equivalent of a new roadmap and toolkit to enable anyone to kickstart their change for a ‘new normal’ in their world.

He provides pioneering practical tools, co-produced through the Dublin Conversations, to guard for example against ‘Purposewash’ - where people, brands and leaders mislead or exploit through insincere claims about being purpose-driven.

The Purpose Collective - Meet the team

Chris Blackwell’s passion is providing leadership development and consultancy to Scale-ups. Chris is an experienced CEO and has led organisations that have achieved incredible growth. Early in his career, he helped Ingeus grow from £4m revenue to £120m in ten years and subsequently helped MAXIMUS grow from £25m revenue to £170m in under four years. Those experiences inspired the S.W.I.F.T model for sustainable growth, which sets out the foundations for successful growth and the five key-skills and stages of growth. Chris’s first book, ‘Purpose First – the vital ingredient for swift and sustainable growth’ will be published at the end of 2020.

Sarah Rozenthuler has a passion for engaging teams to do great work. When a team becomes purpose-led, rather than dominated by a strong personality, it achieves extraordinary results. Sarah joined the Purpose Collective as Covid-19 took hold and made more conventional ways of working impossible. Sarah has discovered how purpose is a magnet for collaboration even when a team can’t get in the same room together. As the most potent unit of change in an organisation, Sarah loves to help teams go on the journey to become purpose-led. Her clients include BP, Discovery Inc and Standard Chartered Bank. Sarah is the author of two books: How to Have Meaningful Conversations (Watkins, 2019) and Powered by Purpose: Energise Your People to Do Great Work with a foreword by Paul Polman and an epilogue by Dr Victoria Hurth.

Alberto Gonzalez Otero is an optimist leader and entrepreneur who believes in Purpose as the driving force for positive change for individuals and organisations. He has spent almost 20 years in sales and commercial leadership roles working as Head of Sales, Director of Customer Experience and Customer Success at a different software start-up and scale-up companies building, leading and developing teams across different countries and continents, creating company cultures, designing strategies, implementing technology and processes. Today, Alberto helps organisations, leaders and teams discover their purpose, transform and maximise results through leadership programs, workshops and retreats.