Additional Resources

Tools (for download)

“The Purpose Pulse.” It’s likely that your employees are suffering from a workplace purpose deficiency and, thus, are disengaged, underproducing and planning to leave. Learn if this is the case and what to do about it. Download

“Six Simple Ways to Job Purpose.” This tool provides feasible tactics for igniting purpose in almost any job.  Download

“Does ESG Benefit the Business?” See what the evidence says.  Download

“5 Tips to Get Approval for Your Job Purposing.” Whatever your idea for making meaningful contributions to others or to societal causes at work – to job purpose – here’s how to get it approved.  Download

“Do Good at Work: The Workbook.” This fill-in workbook helps maximize the transformative power of reading Do Good at Work.  Download

“10 Book Club Questions.”  A list of potential discussion questions for Do Good at Work: How Simple Acts of Social Purpose Drive Success and Wellbeing.  Download

Short Reads (articles/blogs)

“Does Your Job Improve the World? If Not, Improve Your Job” – Forbes. This article answers frequently asked questions about workplace purpose, including how it’s possible it can be so impactful and the difference between passion and purpose. 5 mins.  Read / Listen

“Why Your Values Belong at Work” – Harvard Business Review. This article explains the practice of job purposing and why it’s a powerful workplace practice. 5 mins.  Read

“Changemaker Interview I: Bea Boccalandro, President, VeraWorks” – Forbes. I’m honored that David Hessekiel interviewed me for Forbes about ESG and purpose. He asked the hard questions many executives ask: What the heck is ESG? What’s the difference between ESG and purpose? Will the anti-ESG forces prevail? Why or why not? I hope it helps bring clarity and calm to the heated debate Read

“Changemaker Interview II: Bea Boccalandro, President, VeraWorks” – Forbes. David Hessekiel, Forbes contributor, read Do Good At Work in two days and found it an “easy read” that offers “terrific and practical advice,” so he decided to interview Bea. Read

“Practical Activist Q&A” – Bluestone Life. Learn the stories behind Bea writing Do Good at Work and how you can apply what she’s learned in the process to brighten your workday. Read

“Job Purposing and Remote Work” – Impact Entrepreneur. Allison Lee interviews Bea on how your remote team can job purpose. Read

“How Caesars Entertainment Drastically Augmented its ESG Impact” – Sustainable Brands. This article explains how one Fortune 500 department head ignited workplace purpose across multiple departments using an innovative initiative around social justice. (4 minutes). Read

“To promote social justice, make one edit to your job application” – Includr. If you want to promote social justice and can influence hiring practices (or are willing to forward a 3-minute article to someone who can) this is the blog to Read

“Burned Out? Don’t Quit” – The Boston Globe. Our prehistoric ancestors have something to teach us about how to address our dislike of work. Read

“How can we have our purpose efforts focus on the causes employees care about most?” – Forbes. My surprising (so I’ve been told) answer, along with other superb corporate social responsibility advice from Karen Wu and Mollye Rhea.  Read

“Putting Meaning Into Your Job” – Business Digest  (from France). Marianne Gerard coming up with beautiful tactics for igniting purpose at work based on her reading of Do Good at Work. Super inspiring! Read in English or French

“Do Good at Work: A Conversation with Author Bea Boccalandro” – Impact Entrepreneur. Allison Lee interviews Bea Boccalandro about catalyzing a revolution within the corporate workforce that leads to 100x more corporate social responsibility (CSR) / social good than we have now. Read

New Years Inclusion Resolutions – Includr. My tip for a quick pre-meeting prejudice-busting reflection. Plus that same article has clever New Year’s resolutions by great thinkers in the diversity, equity and inclusion space.  Read

“Our workplaces are natural incubators for social justice” – Includr. What do professional sports teams teach us about workplace inclusion? Read

“The prejudice-busting superpower of teams” – Includr. Manage in a way that organically promotes social justice. It’s simpler than it sounds. Read

“Marcar Diferencia en Nuestro Trabajo” – Nuevas Tendencias (from Spain). Universidad de Navarra’s management faculty member, Felipe Mosquera Blanco, wrote a great summary of Bea’s book, Do Good at Work. (In Spanish.) Read

Community for Employee Civic Engagement (CECE). This online resource is designed and managed by Points of Light. It aims to help people looking for answers and ideas to help employees connect to causes and help companies maximize the impact of their social-impact actions. Bea is honored to serve as a CECE expert. Explore

“Class Purposing: How to Bring a Societal Purpose to Your Class to Enrich the Classroom Experience” – The International Undergraduate Journal For Service-Learning, Leadership, and Social Change. Professor Ryan Gottfredson applies the job purposing presented in Do Good at Work to the classroom and the results are good. Read

“Copy This: HP Canada’s Eco Advocates Program” – Alternatives Journal. Bea shares the approach HP uses to have sales and sustainability support each other. Read

Bea’s illustrated blog. Wisdom and tips on everything related to purpose and work. Read

Podcasts/Radio

Potential Psychology podcast. Brilliant host and workplace psychologist, Ellen Jackson, asks truly marvelous deep-dive questions about workplace purpose (48 minutes each). Listen to part 1 and listen to part 2

“Making Work More Meaningful with Bea Boccalandro” Making Waves on Purpose podcast. This conversation between Bea and purpose luminary Jeff Senne covers how to overcome common organizational challenges to igniting every job with purpose. (24 minutes).  Listen

The 3-Day Weekend Entrepreneur podcast. Wade Galt, the wonderful host of this show, and I discuss how to lead a meaningful work life without becoming Mother Theresa, why doing what you love is not the answer and what a woman in a gorilla costume has to do with it (63 minutes). Listen

The Drew Pearlman Show podcast. A discussion on having a meaningful life. Can pursuing justice for yourself be counterproductive to wellbeing? Is it a bad idea to pursue purpose from your personal life? How is being motivated to work to support your nuclear family aberrant? How will the world ultimately respond to your efforts to do good if you end up not doing much good? Drew Pearlman, the insightful host of the Drew Pearlman Show, and I discuss these questions and more! (40 minutes) Listen

10x Leadership Lab podcast. Igniting Job Purposing at Work (42.14 minutes). Listen

PurposeCast 1 with University of Michigan’s Vic Strecher, Job Purposing: Why Your Values at Work Makes You Happier and Healthier (31 minutes).  Watch/Listen

PurposeCast 2 with University of Michigan’s Vic Strecher, Job Purposing: Bring More Meaning to Your Work (60 minutes). Watch/Listen

MeTV cityCURRENT interview. Host Andrew Bartolotta asks great questions about igniting purpose at work. This conversation will help you find ways to make work meaningful – even if you don’t have your life’s purpose figured out. (27 minutes).  Watch

CauseGirl GLOBAL podcast. An exceptional corporate social responsibility (CSR) practitioner and leader, Elena Sacca Smith, launched her CauseGirl podcast and I’m her first guest! Listen to “Don’t Quit Your Day Job” (49 minutes) on the CauseGirl website,  Apple, iHeart or Spotify

“Working on Purpose with Dr. Alise Cortez” radio interview (55 minutes).  Listen

“All In with Rick Jordan” podcast interview (40 minutes).  Listen

“Biz Help For You” podcast. Drive Success by Doing Good at Work (44 minutes).  Listen

“Beyond the Stethoscope” podcast with Dr Angela Demaree. How to do good at work with Bea Boccalandro – learn how to get the wellness benefits of Job Purposing. Feb 16, 2021 (38 minutes).  Listen

From the Hart podcast. Ed Hart talks with Bea about the surprising thing that might be undermining our work performance. Watch the video of their conversation or listen to the audio version via Spotify, Apple or on From the Hart site (70 minutes).

Good Money Good Hands Good Work. Derrick Kinney, CEO of the Good Money Framework, interviews Bea (42 minutes). Listen on Apple or Spotify 

Morgan James Radio. David Hancock, CEO of Morgan James Publishing, talks with Bea about how writers can do good at work (37 minutes). Listen on Spotify, Apple or Libsyn

Successful Nonprofits podcast with social-sector guru Dolph Goldenburg. Our conversation will especially be of interest to nonprofit managers (42 minutes). Listen

Pro Bono Perspectives podcast. Bea discusses job purposing on this program from Common Impact (36 minutes). Listen

“Forming An Upstream Mind”. COVID-19 just might improve our troubled society. Bea has a conversation with Jennifer Mulholland and Jeff Schuck on their Plenty for Everyone podcast (51 minutes). Listen

“Tables-turned” podcast interview on “Good Money Framework” where Bea asks host Derrick Kinney questions. (45 minutes).  Listen

TV/Videos

Bea’s YouTube Channel.  Short videos answer questions related to workplace purpose. Watch

FOX TV interview.  Bea explains job purposing quickly (4 minutes). Watch

“Job Purposing: Why Your Values at Work Makes You Happier and Healthier” – PurposeCast. Vic Strecher and Bea will walk us through job purposing and its benefits including higher job satisfaction, better performance, reduction in stress, and improved wellbeing. (30 minutes).  Watch

Making the case to invest in Employee Purpose at your company webinar. Learn how companies can make a compelling case for purpose-driven CSR programs, with insights from leading companies and experts: Neil Edwards from PwC, Padmasini Dayananda from Cognizant, Stephanie Grawehr from Ayala and Bea. Watch

Author interview for the book launch of Do Good at Work by Bea Boccalandro. (12 minutes). Watch

Shark Bite Biz videocast interview. (50 minutes). Watch

Biz Help For You with Candy Messer. (45 minutes). Watch

Empresabilty CSR conference keynote address (25 minutes; in Spanish; at 6:01:00 on day 3). Watch

Long Reads (reports and books)

Do Good at Work: How Simple Acts of Social Purpose Drive Success and Wellbeing. Bea’s book, selected by four-time New York Times bestselling author Adam Grant as a top-30 new book, is available.  Get your copy

“Investor Consideration of Racial and Ethnic Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: Current State and Ideas for Improvement” – White paper commissioned by Caesars Entertainment (leaders in the diversity, equity and inclusion space). Bea had the honor of working with Caesars and over 40 other companies and nonprofits to author the paper. A special thanks to the wonderful Sustainable Brands for distributing the paper. Get white paper

“Volunteering Benefits Employees — Here’s the Proof” – CSAA Insurance Group volunteerism research study: 2019.   Get study

“The New Business Imperative: Employees Turn Environmental Action Into a Workplace Necessity” – EarthShare report (Bea Boccalandro served as lead writer).  Get report

“Increasing Employee Engagement Through Corporate Volunteering” – Original research report conducted with Voluntare, Orange, Repsol and PwC. Download

“Drivers of Effectiveness for Employee Volunteering and Fortune 500 Performance” report (this report is a favorite classic). Get report