Common Purpose Blog

The following is a guest post from Rosie Walford, a participant on the 2011 Dishaa event in Pune, India, sharing her experience from Day 1 of the course. Stay posted for further updates each day. We were a bunch of strangers from very mixed backgrounds and we were still being very polite on our first [...]

“Enlightened trial and error succeeds over the planning of the lone genius.” This is a quote from an ABC Nightline news story about IDEO, a company in Palo Alto, CA who are experts in nothing but the process of how to design something. Participants at the Dishaa event in Pune watched this on day two [...]

CBI has released a call for action to boost the number of women on boards. They are calling for a review of the UK Corporate Governance Code and for all listed companies to measure and report their progress on improving diversity – particularly increasing the number of women on boards – on a ‘comply or [...]

Adirupa Sengupta, International Director at Common Purpose, reflects on the Asian Women of Achievement Awards held last night in London. Last night I attended the Asian Women of Achievement Award at the London Hilton. I was shortlisted for the Social & Humanitarian Award…and thrilled to be, but also completely in awe of my contemporaries and [...]