Julia Middleton's thoughts on leadership

I spoke at the start of a Frontrunner (our course for university students) specifically for disabled students, which we run in association with Santander. They were a hugely focused and dynamic group who were determined to work across disability and other organisations as leaders rather than stick to networks for people with their specific disability. [...]

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When I started work, I was very lucky. My first boss gave me opportunities to lead small teams from a very early age – to learn some of the lessons at an age when I could simply bounce back from my mistakes – to mess up when the stakes were not high – to succeed [...]

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Last week I was talking about the ability of senior leaders to inspire young leaders. I met a very senior person in the army today. Interesting. Her view was that this is less of a problem in the army. For many predictable reasons. The one I did not know about is – which was almost [...]

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Been thinking a lot about the Channel 4 panel debate I was on last night with Lord David Puttnam, Charles Clarke, Trevor Phillips & Michelle Mitchell about older people and IT. There were loads of great people in the audience too, including John Best, former Chief Executive of Milton Keynes Council. Lots of interesting discussion. [...]

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