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.
About this session
In this session, Mike Adams will share his purpose blueprint and how to accelerate the pace and impact for any organisation on their disability journey.
Mike will talk about how to get started, create some quick wins and take your whole organisation with you. He will provide the commercial arguments, set out the social reasoning and point you very clearly in the direction of success and the roads that need to be taken.
Post pandemic provides the opportunity to leave an indelible legacy as the new world puts diversity and inclusion front and centre.
Our speaker
Mike Adams is CEO of Purple, a cutting edge organisation changing the disability conversation with businesses and disabled people. Purple see the £274 billion Purple Pound disability market as a value opportunity and Mike is leading the development of products and services, to transform the landscape across all business sectors and borders.
Purple Tuesday (www.purpletuesday.org.uk), created and co-ordinated by Mike, has achieved national acclaim for its contribution to changing the customer experience for disabled people, influencing the physical, online and work base environments.
Purple is unique in that it also provides direct support services to over 4,500 disabled people to lead more independent lives.
Mike has been named in the Shaw Trust Power List of the UK’s top 100 most influential disabled people for 2021 and he was awarded an OBE in 2012 for his services to disability.
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 2021.
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 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.