Common Purpose: A New Secret Society for Leaders

Already, more than 20,000 people across the UK have been attending courses provided by an emerging, secretive organization called Common Purpose, a company that claims to provide advice and guidance for the country’s next leaders and high fliers. Whilst the company is non-profit, it has support from businesses and people like BBC business editor Robert Peston and Cressida Dick – the Assistant Deputy Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police. People who attend the courses are asked to explore the dark corners of their own psyches, confessing to their own strengths and weaknesses, and are also taken on workshops to mental hospitals, prisons and local tenants associations. Some of these courses cost as much as £5,750 and although anyone can apply, members are only chosen if they are assessed as having future leader potential. Their meetings are also held under the Chatham House rule which states that everything said within them is unattributable.

With rules and regulations like this it’s no wonder that the company has gone under scrutiny. Conspiracy theorists think that the Common Purpose are trying to take over the world and breed the batch of new leaders to shape a European super-state. Common purpose deny this and say they’re just providing opportunities for success to a wider and more diverse range of people.

[via BBC]