about
The Purpose Collective
The Purpose Collective was founded in 2021 by Carla Henry, on a mission to help more organisations, leaders and teams on their purpose-led change journeys.
Carla has over 24 years experience in supporting complex organisational change, senior leaders, teams and developing high potential leaders
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“Carla’s strength in connecting with the business, enabling interventions that support mindset shifts as well as clear outcomes orientations also supported considerable Leadership team interventions. Enabling support for Business Unit and Regional Leadership teams who were at the stage of forming or undergoing change because of business performance. I appreciate Carla’s thought leadership, as well as partnership in really helping us to think through an end-to-end agenda that enabled tangible outcomes."”
Chief Learning Officer
Leadership Performance and Top Team Development -
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“Carla is an exceptional human being and truly lives her purpose in everything that she does. She has the gift of being compassionate and caring but at the same time strategic and business minded. She has the ability to ask powerful and impactful question with clients that truly get to the heart of the issue and then gently lead them to solutions. In the last 5 years, she has partnered with Kellogg’s to build both team effectiveness sessions and truly world class leadership development programs that we deliver to date.
Regional Head of Talent
High Potential Leadership Journey -
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“Carla worked with me for over 10 months and I enjoyed our sessions. Not always comfortable but Carla pushes me to think deeply about my leadership style, personal impact, and my blind spots. It takes courage to face oneself truthfully and takes someone like Carla to embrace one’s inner self and come out a better leader. I think my team would agree that Carla has made their work life easier."
Regional CEO
10 month Coaching Journey -
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“The most salient memory of collaborating with Carla was the calming presence she brought to an otherwise excitable team. Her empathy, compassion, and patience were a stabilising feature. She was resilient through all of this. She has strong strategic instincts, as she provided great guidance from a content and strategy perspective. One final point about Carla: she is just as comfortable rolling up her sleeves and producing work as she is advising and counselling senior leaders. ”
Global Head of Culture & Strategy
Global Culture and Values Programme -
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After working with Carla for more than 3 years, I am constantly inspired by her empathy, authenticity and deep knowledge of how to bring the best out of organisations, teams and people to align with their purpose and values. Carla has been instrumental in shaping the culture of Eastspring Investments, she continues to challenge us to keep doing better and as a result, we’ve created an amazing place to work!
HR Director
Culture & Values Roll Out Programme -
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Working with Carla I have re-discovered my purpose, drive and passion for what I do and helped me bring new energy and spirit into my life. She has stretched me to learn and try new experiences and to deeply reflect and understand myself, who I am and why I am, and this Inside work has re-ignite the fire to be bolder and more ambitious in my endeavours not just from a career perspective but also on a personal level.
12 month Coaching Journey
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Carla worked as part of a team of expert OD & Change consultants, supporting a major organizational transformation in one of my client organisations. Working in a very challenging and dynamic client environment, Carla was able to make an early impact with the senior leadership team, establish her credentials, build trust with her particular leadership counterpart and hold a safe coaching space for leadership challenge and development.
CEO Global Change Practice
Global IT Transformation Project -
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All my gratitude goes to Carla for the incredible impact she has had on my personal and professional growth through our executive coaching skills sessions. Her guidance, expertise, and insights have been truly transformative. Her ability to listen attentively, ask thought-provoking questions, and provide actionable feedback has been invaluable. Her unique gift for helping me see things from different perspectives and challenge my assumptions, has allowed me to break through limiting beliefs and achieve my goals.
12 month Coaching Journey with Global CIO
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Understanding, flexible, intuitive, and caring. Carla managed to frame and direct our coaching sessions very naturally, and has been spot on about the focus areas. Carla provided me simple but powerful ways to look at and analyse people, including myself, and situations. Her approach had just the right balance between being inquisitive, direct, and being a guiding force to make me find my own path. Eventually, our sessions allowed me to become a more effective with my team – as well as more efficient and assertive within the leadership team.
Regional Head of Sales
6 month coaching journey -
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"Carla has been instrumental in helping us develop and implement a variety of leadership programs, including diversity programs aimed at strengthening our leadership and female pipeline. Carla brings a wealth of experience and expertise to her work, which is evident in the quality of her programs and the positive impact she has had on our organization. She is skilled at designing and delivering customized solutions that meet the unique needs and challenges of our business and industry."
Regional Head of Talent
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Carla is a gifted and insightful change manager. She brings a wealth of experience of the many changes she has worked on to her role meaning that she has a broad portfolio of content and interventions to use in any situation. Carla has a real ability to inspire confidence in others during change and to make the unpalatable and daunting feel manageable. She is warm and empathetic which helps others to engage proactively with change. I recommend her highly and would want to work with her again in the future.
Programme Manager
Global IT Transformation Project -
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Carla has been a pleasure to work with! She supported Eastspring on our culture journey, starting with understanding our personal and organisational purpose This was a huge effort that involves stakeholder interviews, focus groups and staff immersion workshops across our footprint. Carla continues to support us in our roll out of corporate values. She is very much a part of our team, taking time to discuss and adapt our course of action whenever necessary to deliver a great employee experience. Am really thankful that I have the opportunity to work with Carla and learning something new each time.
CHRO
Culture & Values Roll Out Programme
Our Collective
We support our global clients with amazing people we know and trust all over the world.
We know our clients very well and often they tell us they don’t want an army of analysts on their projects.
They want experienced, capable, wise and conscious consultants and coaches to super charge their own teams impact.
We are the secret weapons that make our clients even more successful in their leadership and culture change programmes.
We bring a combination of consulting, business and strategic insight, psychological methods, facilitation and coaching to augment our clients existing capacity and capability to deliver people and organisation change projects.
We often work on long-term projects and build trusted relationships and friendships for life with our clients. We want to set up environments where we both learn a lot from each other on the journey.
We only say yes to work we know we can add value to and to clients who we think we will also have fun working with!
We hope that through our work, we help leaders and organisations change and transform to have an even more purposeful impact in the world of work and beyond.
Carla
Founder and managing Director
More About Carla
Based in Singapore but originally from the UK, Carla is a meaning maker, story finder, and dot connector. She brings 23+ years of global experience in organisational change, people and learning strategy, management consulting, leadership development, coaching psychology and facilitation.
Her clients over the years have included many well known brands and organisations including Mondelez, Kelloggs, BP, Prudential, Eastspring, HSBC, Inchcape, NHS (UK), Government sector (UK), SABMiller, Vodafone and Dyson.
Carla is a member of the British Psychological Society (BPS) and a founding member of the BPS Division of Coaching Psychology.
She is also a trained Co-Active Coach, ICF member, Barrett Values Certified Consultant, Leadership Circle Consultant, Hogan trained, and Harthill Leadership Development framework practitioner.
As you can tell she loves learning and evolving her own leadership and practice.
Outside of work, Carla is Mum to Theo and Zac and passionate about raising conscious and compassionate humans!
Learn more about Carla here
Kath
head of Programmes and design
More About Kath
Based in Sydney, Kath is an extraordinary Programme Manager and Instructional Designer
She is a creative and dedicated learning partner, with over 23 years experience in instructional and learning design, development and implementation of learning solutions and as consultant and trainer for two Big 4 Professional Services Firms.
Her purpose is to be a positive, caring and supportive force that helps others to achieve their goals.
Learn more about Kath here
Cindu
principal consultant
More About Cindu
Based in Singapore, Cindu is a coach, facilitator and developer of leaders and teams.
She uses behavioral psychology, and science backed, potential focused models to support individuals and organizations grow alignment, performance, and flexibility.
She has many years experience consulting for large global leadership organisations across the APAC region and globally. Prior to her consulting career, Cindu was a Senior Leader at OnMobile Global, working across teams in 50+ locations and a Senior. Consultant with Media organisations – Star TV (now Disney Star), Clear Media and Indigo.
In addition to her years of experience she is also a PCC ICF Certified Coach and accredited in a wide variety of culture and leadership assessment tools including Barrett Values, Leadership Circle,Hogan Personality assessment, Influence style indicator, Workplace Big5, Integrative Enneagram. She is also certified in systemic constellations and systemic team coaching
Learn more about Cindu here
Sam
social media magician
More About Sam
Sam is our Social Media manager and has a literally magical mind reading ability to get inside brands and turn thoughts and ideas into engaging and inspiring social media content.
She runs a fabulous social media business Samantha Wiltshire Social.
Outside of work she is a dedicated mama to twin girls Zoe & Sidney and her purpose and passions is to support women thrive in business.
Learn more about Sam here
Rakhee
PURPOSE COLLECTIVE PARTNER
More About Rakhee
Rakhee works with leaders and teams to co-create high- performance ways of working which lead to a measurable impact on business growth and performance. Often these teams are facing new transitions or complex change. Working across the personal, team and organisational dynamic, Rakhee ensures they are better equipped to successfully lead themselves and others to deliver.
Drawing on her specialist background in leadership and organisational development and her significant experience as an HR Director setting and delivering people strategy, Rakhee collaborates with business leaders to be better at creating the clarity and conditions that inspire engagement and extraordinary people performance to deliver business results.
Rakhee is recognised as a strategic thinking partner and insightful facilitator. She anticipates challenges and provides valuable observations and connections to help nudge teams forward in a challenging and supportive way
Learn more about Rakhee here
Dani
Psychology research Assistant
More About Dani
Based in London, Dani is a Psychology and Counselling student progressing into her 3rd year.
She helps us turn psychology and business research and theory into actionable, wise and helpful content that people can relate too!
Dani is passionate about promoting positive wellbeing, normalising discussions about mental health… and coffee (a trained barista!) She loves her dogs, pilates, spending time with friends and building a community.
Learn more about Dani here
Henrik
PURPOSE COLLECTIVE PARTNER
More About Henrik
Henrik is an executive coach, sparring partner, facilitator and advisor for senior leaders and their teams across Asia and Europe. After 20+ years in corporate organizations, Henrik reinvented his professional life, went back to university and now works with senior leaders and their team globally.
His 1:1 work focuses on enabling leaders to create impactful personal growth and leadership practises. His team development work focuses on enabling high team performance through team momentum and new co-creation capabilities.
In addition, he also supports companies’ growth and transformational initiatives, and he is a Senior Program Advisor at the National University of Singapore.
When he’s not taking care of people and their teams, Henrik loves hiking and exploring the amazing South-East Asia region.
Learn more about Henrik here
Manish
Purpose collective partner
More About Manish
Based in Singapore, Manish is Head of The Resilience Institute and active member of The Purpose Collective
He is passionate about helping leaders build agility, resilience, and sustainable performance within their organisations. His purpose is to help leaders build the muscles within their organisations so they can bring more fulfillment and agility in their actions.
Learn more about the work of The Resilience Institute here
Learn more about Manish here
Veronica
PURPOSE COLLECTIVE PARTNER
More About Veronica
Based in London, Veronica is a passionate executive coach and leadership consultant with a 20+ year career spent mostly within the FMCG sector. She brings a unique combination of leadership experience having held senior director roles in Finance, Transformation and HR within blue-chip organisations like PwC, Mondelez and Coty.
She is also the founder of Values Leadership Consulting an executive coaching and leadership consultancy business specializing in working with leaders who want to develop their emotional intelligence, connect with their values and purpose and ultimately lead from a higher level of consciousness.
Learn more about Veronica here
“The hypothesis that has driven my life’s work is that changing people in systems can change the world.”
Our Values
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Integrity
We only do work we believe in. If we can't do it or don’t think you believe in it we will challenge this before we start.
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Realness
We celebrate our shared humanity by bringing our whole selves to our work, and help you show up fully as well.
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Sparkle
We believe in living and working with wonder, finding fun, beauty and magic wherever we go, in whatever we do.
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Compassion
Listening and empathy are our superpowers. We care deeply about our clients - personally and professionally.
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Deliver
We believe in leaving things better than we found them. We deliver!
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Balance
We seek a holistic approach in everything we do, and encourage our clients to do the same.
