Common Purpose South Africa | Company Information | Participants/Alumni
Common Purpose gives leaders the inspiration, the knowledge and the connections they need to produce real change. Through our unique leadership development courses, a growing number of people around the world are making a difference in the industries and places where they work, in the communities where they live and in wider society.
The impact of their Common Purpose experience and the course they take part in, can be seen in the changes they make in their organisations, communities and in wider society.
"Wherever Common Purpose operates, you will find leaders doing unusual things; taking responsibility for problems other than their own - at work and in their community - connecting efforts, recognising consequences, asking difficult questions and gathering disparate teams. These leaders are able to build sufficient trust so that people actually change things. There will be many leaders who face up to the complex, messy, long-term problems that really matter; the unusual part is when they become almost limitless as leaders - when they have recognised the need to operate beyond their own space and started to learn how to actually do it, working with others so their efforts combine more often, and add more.
Locally and internationally, Common Purpose graduates will be 'lighting small fires' to create change in their organisations and communities, which are both deeply interconnected and frustratingly fragmented. The Common Purpose effect is best illustrated by the many stories of small changes brought about by leaders, who themselves have changed. It is this individual shift, combined with its local nature and now its sheer scale, that makes it so exciting and sustaining."
Julia Middleton, founder and Chief Executive of Common Purpose International
"I brought back issues to the city council to take practical action on" Matrix graduate and Project Manager, City of Johannesburg
"I began to mentor a Navigator graduate, advised a multinational company on a partnership with the Limpopo government, organised a fifty thousand rand sponsorship for a project and ended up on an international peace mission to Sri Lanka, all as a result of Common Purpose." Matrix graduate and previous CEO, Truth and Reconciliation Commission
"I instituted a sustainability group that meets at the Greenhouse." Navigator graduate and Executive Director, Greenhouse Project
"The greatest contribution of Matrix is that it makes people excited about living in Jo'burg at this time. The spirit and optimism of Common Purpose follows graduates into their lives." Matrix graduate and previous Director, People Opposing Women Abuse (POWA) "Our learners were gripped and challenged. Even though they come from poor families, Your Turn taught them appreciation. They now see that there is much to live for." Educator, United Church School "It was wonderful to see that people haven't given up." Matrix graduate and Partner, PriceWaterHouseCoopers
"Matrix stimulated a new interest in economics for me. I also set up a volunteer group after doing the programme." Matrix graduate and Deputy Registrar (Academic and Research), University of the Witwatersrand
"I decided to take a Zulu course after doing the programme." Navigator graduate and Director, Prefix Technologies
"I was a know-it-all and totally entrenched in my own field until Common Purpose got me to grips with reality. I was touched in so many ways." Matrix graduate and Deputy Managing Director, BBDO Network
"I see that I am an important thread in a bigger fabric." Matrix graduate and CEO, Business and Arts South Africa (BUSA)
"The most important contribution that Navigator makes is how it enables the connecting of people. The personal friendships I made are invaluable. I also hooked up a fellow participant with a friend of mine and she started her producing career as a result." Navigator graduate and Entrepreneur
"On Matrix I developed a partnership philosophy as well as a relationship network that I never would have otherwise been able to." Matrix graduate, Deputy Managing Director, BBDO Network
"The greatest contribution of Matrix is that it breaks down prejudice." Matrix graduate and Deputy Registrar (Academic and Research), University of the Witwatersrand
"Putting such diverse individuals and sectors into one room is very powerful. Navigator gave a human face to other sectors and, once we share perspectives like that, it is easier to develop the city." Navigator graduate and Executive Director, Greenhouse Project
"The programme showed me that difference is safe and can be worked with effectively." Matrix graduate and previous Director, People Opposing Women Abuse (POWA) "Success in SA depends on interaction with various levels of society - I took a big leap in developing this skill on the programme." Navigator graduate and Director, Prefix Technologies
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