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

Marie is passionate about being clear about purpose at individual, team and organisational level. After defining and refining her own personal purpose which is ‘being the spark that lights the fuel for sustainable and transformational change’ she uses this to guide, make choices, develop and live her life ‘on purpose’ every single day.

With a solid foundation of 30 years in the HR and Learning and development profession and a Fellow of FCIPD, Marie set up her own business SUCCESSMITH in 2012, specialising in leadership coaching and development. She is qualified as a Professional Certified Coach (PCC), accredited by the International Coach Federation (ICF) coach, and trained as a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC) by the highly acclaimed Coaches Training Institute (CTI).

The session:

During this interactive session, you will be guided to look at your own personal or life ‘purpose’ through a number of lenses. You will be given the opportunity to explore, discuss, share and learn from each other to deepen your understanding, and the application of, your personal/ life purpose. Come with an open mind and an open heart and get ready for a purposeful hour!

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.