Julia Middleton

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Julia Middleton is the chief executive and co-founder of Common Purpose, a leadership development organisation. [1] She formerly worked at The Industrial Society.

Background

Common Purpose was formed in 1988. Her husband, Rupert Middleton went on a business course in USA where he spotted Community Leadership Programmes. Julia Middleton raised half a million in business sponsorship. According to Charles Handy, in 1999 Common Purpose had 120 paid staff with a turnover of £3million sterling. Julia's father worked for Peat Marwick and she had met Rupert, John Garnett, Julia Cleverdon at the Industrial Society.[2]

CP's website has an impressive PR and sponsor list. There are a few rants about it online (mostly centring around Middleton's proximity to the Office of the Deputy PM (ODPM) and the political patronage thereof. [3] Yet Middleton has herself criticised political patronage.[4]

Middleton is well networked in the New Labour, Careerist, Atlanticist networks.

Affiliations

Middleton's biography states she has helped to found the following organisations:

Middleton is also on the Advisory Group of the Oxford Business School.

Notes

  1. Julia Middleton, Common Purpose, accessed 14 December 2010.
  2. Handy, C. (1999) The New Alchemists, Random House
  3. For example [1]
  4. House of Commons Public Administration Select Committee, Government By Appointment: Opening Up The Patronage State, Fourth Report of Session 2002–03
  5. Arab Learning Initiative [2] and Alfanar