Cultural Intelligence in our Schools - A Conversation with Julia Middleton

Julia Middleton is passionate about helping people from all
backgrounds to develop as leaders and make an active and tangible
contribution to their communities and to wider society. Julia is
the author of two bestselling books: Beyond Authority: Leadership
in a Changing World and Cultural Intelligence: The Competitive Edge
for Leaders Crossing Boundaries. In the autumn of 1989, Julia
founded Common Purpose, which has grown to be one of the biggest
leadership development organizations in the world. Julia stepped
down from the position of Chief Executive in 2019. In 2015, Julia
gave a very well-received talk at TEDxEastEnd on Cultural
Intelligence: The Competitive Edge for Leaders. In April 2020 she
launched Women Emerging from Isolation which she now leads. Julia
is also a member of the Advisory Group of Common Purpose in
Pakistan and is a Patron for Common Purpose of the Europe101
initiative. She is on the board and chairs the investment committee
of Alfanar (delivering Venture Philanthropy in the Arab World), is
on the International Advisory Council for Fundação Dom Cabral,
business school in Brasil, is a Senior Fellow of Babson College, is
a trustee of The Wren Project and is a Goodwill Ambassador of the
Aurora Forum. Julia was born in London and educated at French
Lycées around the world. She worked for the Industrial Society
after receiving an economics degree from the London School of
Economics. Social Links Twitter: @JuliaMiddleton LinkedIn:
@juliamiddleton