Our next dinner event for purpose-driven leaders is coming up: 12th November 2024 in Sydney
igniting Purpose
What to expect from an Igniting Purpose dinner event
Interested in joining us this November?
This event is strictly by invitation only.
Register your interest and you'll be the first to receive details once we have confirmed our venue and guest speaker. With limited places, you'll also be given priority to secure your place at the event.
Are you a purpose-driven leader who is interested in connecting with like-minded leaders navigating purpose within their organisations?
We believe that creating a healthy planet with shared prosperity requires the mindset and scale of purpose-driven business. Our mission is to support purpose-driven leaders in positively changing the way we do business from the inside out.
Part of our offering includes creating opportunities to connect like-minded purpose-driven leaders from different industries and organisations, in different roles, to inspire, support and collaborate with each other.
If this resonates with you and you are interested in joining one of our events or learning about how we support purpose-driven leaders, please reach out directly to us, or register your interest via the form below.
Meet Your Collaborators
Carolyn Butler-Madden
Phil Preston
As Chief Purpose Activist of her B Corp Certified Consultancy, The Cause Effect, Carolyn believes in a world where business is a force for good and brands drive profit through purpose. An inspiring speaker, award-winning author, podcast host, and contributor to media publications including Forbes Australia, CEO World Magazine, Marketing, Smart Company and Women’s Agenda; Carolyn’s mission is to make meaningful purpose vital in business. Her first book, Amazon bestseller, Path To Purpose, was Australia’s first on Cause Marketing. Her second book “For Love & Money” was awarded best Social Responsibility book in the 2022 Australian Business Book of the Year Awards. 30 years’ international experience creating successful and internationally awarded marketing campaigns for some of the world’s best brands, provides the backdrop to her Purpose career. She owned and ran two agencies in Sydney before quitting the agency world to pursue her passion for purpose-led business. Today, through consulting, workshops, and keynotes, Carolyn empowers leaders to embrace purpose-driven strategies, unleashing the full potential of their people, organisations and brands; and shaping a future where business is a force for good and purpose is integral to its success.
Phil is the founder of WhyThisNow, helping leaders, teams and organisations thrive in challenging conditions with purpose-driven strategies and collaborative solutions. Following a successful corporate career where he led high-performance teams, Phil set up his own business and has been assisting organisations with complex challenges for more than 15 years. He was invited to Boston by Harvard Business School leaders in the business purpose field and gained prominence authoring case studies and the book, Connecting Profit with Purpose, and was recently quoted in the AFR report on purpose in business. Phil’s since worked with the likes of BlueScope, Challenger, IAG, JLL, NRMA and QBE, and a wide range of nonprofit and government entities. From a project perspective, he’s helped sponsors of complex multi-sector projects achieve buy-in with critical stakeholder groups, including Just Reinvest (Bourke), the Wagga Wagga Local Employment Initiative and packaging industry peak body, APCO. As a speaker, he has a warm and engaging style, injecting humour and actionable takeaways for audience members. His topic areas include increasing resilience and growth, purpose-driven work cultures, high impact leadership and collaborative success.. His services also include planning and strategy sessions, team building, tune-ups and trouble-shooting, purpose exploration workshops, stakeholder engagement assistance and advanced problem solving techniques. The purpose of his own work is to help leaders, teams and organisations elevate their performance and impact so they contribute to a healthy planet with shared prosperity. Chocolate is his kryptonite and you’ll often find him running the tracks and trails in Bulli, one hour south of Sydney, Australia.
Connect your people to your organisation’s purpose and fulfil your leadership legacy