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Through compelling ideas and examples, Beyond Authority argues that new leaders need to be confident to legitimize themselves and challenge old ways. They need to develop a leadership style that enables them to lead beyond the traditional boundaries and constraints of their organizations.

Reviews

• ‘In Beyond Authority, Julia Middleton offers a refreshing and original perspective on leadership. She shows us how to implement our dreams and overcome obstacles – including the obstacle that no one asked us to do it, in the first place. This is the right book for bureaucracy-bashers and social entrepreneurs who want to change the world.’ – Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Harvard Business School Professor and author of Confidence: How Winning Streaks and Losing Streaks Begin and End.
• ‘What you will learn from this book is worth more than money. Not only will you learn to lead beyond your authority, but also how to be a better leader within your authority too. If you were only to buy one book about leadership, then it should be this.’ David Puttnam, President of UNICEF (UK), former filmmaker
• ‘Julia Middleton has a contacts list to die for – and it shows in the enormous range of experience and wisdom she has been able to tap for this book. Effective leadership in the real world operates way beyond the conventional boundaries of business management and this book is both brave and successful in showing what it takes to succeed.’ Sir Derek Higgs, Chairman, Alliance & Leicester plc
• ‘Beyond Authority is an insightful, highly relevant book on leaders who play key roles outside their spheres of influence. In a very lucid manner, Julia Middleton explains, with real-life examples and anecdotes, how leaders gain legitimacy in areas where they don’t have control. This Is an indispensable, inspiring book for leaders who hope to bring about real, tangible change: not just in their professions, but also outside them, in the broader community in which they live.’ Narayana Murthy, Chairman and Chief Mentor, Infosys Technologies Ltd.
• ‘This book is like its author: original, surprising, clear as a bell, and really helpful. Good read too.’ Prue Leith, businesswoman, celebrity cook and novelist
• ‘Julia Middleton knows about leadership in a truly natural yet profound way. If you do nothing else this year – read this book. It will be the beginning of something good.’ Sir Gerry Robinson, Chair, Moto Hospitality Ltd, author of I’ll Show Them Who’s Boss! Six Secrets of Successful Management
• ‘This is a handbook on how to become influential and useful when you go beyond your immediate circle…It is peppered with examples of people who have extended their influences to the benefit of society and, indeed, themselves.’ – Dudley Fishburn – eBooks.com
• ‘The book will be useful for those in leadership development; for leaders who want to understand what is required when they step into new levels of leadership; and for those who are appointing leaders, both in describing the task and recruiting the right qualities for achievement.’ – Glynis Rankin, Leadership Matters
• ‘A thought-provoking, insightful and entertaining new book.’ – David Grayson, Director of the Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility, Cranfield School of Management
• ‘Beyond Authority is enlightening, practical, motivating and extremely useful for anyone in a leadership position, or for anyone tasked with the job of building strong leaders for the future.’ – Sara Nolan, Strategic HR Review

Julia Mary Middleton (née Morland; 21 April 1958) is the founder of Women Emerging in the UK. She is also the founder and former chief executive officer of Common Purpose, an international charity that runs leadership development programmes. She is a campaigner for the progression of diverse leaders in civil society.

Born in Lambeth, London, Middleton is the daughter of Agnes (née Whowell) and Eric Morland. Middleton was educated at the lycée Français in France and New York before earning an Economics degree from the London School of Economics.

In 1980, Middleton began her career at the Industrial Society, where she created Head Start, a programme providing high school dropouts with training and advice from prospective employers. In the autumn of 1988, Middleton formed Common Purpose,an organization that hosts leadership development courses. The group runs local leadership courses in cities across the world, as well as global programmes for leaders from over 100 countries across six continents.

In 2020, Middleton formed another organisation, Women Emerging, and in 2022, she launched the Women Emerging Expedition, to find an approach to leadership that resonates with women. She also launched a podcast which documents the experiences of the women taking part in the programme.

Middleton is a member of the board of trustees for Alfanar, a venture philanthropy fund, the International Advisory Council for Fundação Dom Cabral, and is a Goodwill Ambassador of the Aurora Forum.

She was also involved in the founding of the Media Standards Trust, a charity that runs Journalisted, a free online journalist portfolio DEMOS, a UK-based think tank, and Impetus Trust, which develops venture philanthropy in the UK.

In 2019, Middleton handed over the role of CEO of Common Purpose, although she is still involved in the organisation.

In 2020, she founded a social initiative called ‘’Women Emerging from Isolation’’. 

Literature

• In 1982, Middleton wrote a book called Quality Circles, published by the Industrial Society in London.
• She also wrote the foreword to the book How to be an even better chair: Sensible Advice from the Public & Charity Sectors, written by Sophie Petit-Zeman.
• In February 2007, Middleton’s book Beyond Authority: Leadership in a Changing World was published by Palgrave Macmillan, and she recorded a meet-the-author video. In 2010, it was translated into Hungarian and published by HVG Konyvek.
• In 2014, Middleton wrote “Cultural Intelligence: CQ: The Competitive Edge for Leaders Crossing Borders” published by Bloomsbury and she recorded a video about why she wrote it. In late 2014, a paperback version was published for the Indian market.

Julia Middleton married Rupert Middleton in 1984; they have two sons and three daughters.