Speaking

Bea Boccalandro delivers uplifting presentations on employee sense of purpose, corporate purpose, sustainability, CSR (corporate social responsibility) and ESG (environment social governance). She has over 15 years of experience teaching corporate purpose and CSR at Georgetown University and Boston College, where over 80% of student evaluations have rated her courses a perfect 5 of 5. Furthermore, her speeches delivered across dozens of countries in English and Spanish have inspired many.

Bea is the author of Do Good at Work: How Simple Acts of Social Purpose Drive Success and Wellbeing (New York: Morgan James Publishing, 2021), which helps anybody in any job do meaningful work. The book has received critical acclaim for being transformative and enjoyable, including being named a best book of the year by New York Times bestselling author and Wharton professor Adam Grant.

All speeches can be combined with follow-up implementation assistance and with book giveaways.  

Popular presentations

The New Business Imperative: Purpose Management (good for leaders/managers at all levels and HR)

The rise of the meaning-seeking employee has suddenly made every manager a purpose manager. Yet, many leaders are unaware of this new imperative and most are unsure how to meet it. This isn’t just unfortunate, it’s a silent crisis. Research reveals that purpose mismanagement is a top-three driver of job dissatisfaction, under performance and quitting. Good news! Whether they are in the storeroom or c-suite, any manager can ignite team-member purpose – even if their organization has no stated purpose. In this highly engaging and entertaining session, Bea Boccalandro shares the steps to managing purpose in a way that boosts employee engagement, productivity, retention and wellbeing, as applied by FedEx, PwC, Toyota and other major brands she has worked with. Managers and HR representatives will leave supercharged to boost their managerial success while making their own work, and that of their team members, more meaningful.

 

Key Takeaways:

• Understand what workplace purpose is (and isn’t)
  
• Know the key methods to creating workplace purpose as a manager or as HR
  
• Understand the proven benefits of workplace purpose 
  
• Know the steps to igniting workplace purpose
  
• Know how to measure workplace purpose
  
• Leave with actionable next steps to help employees benefit from meaningful work

Watch a version of this keynote. 

Supercharging Your Personal Success with Job Purposing (good for employee and commencement events)

Research finds that most people don’t benefit from a sense of purpose at work and that this dampens their health, happiness and success. This session equips participants with the inspiration and confidence to apply a little-known practice called job purposing that solves the purpose-deficiency problem in whatever job they have, be it project manager or parking attendant. It’s the perfect commencement address or employee motivational presentation.

Bea Boccalandro clarifies what meaningful work is, why it’s vital and how, with a little rebelliousness, anybody in any job can bask in it. With humor, energy, and practical insights, Bea empowers and inspires participants to take charge of their professional fulfillment.

Key Takeaways:

• Understand what workplace purpose is (and isn’t)
  
• Understand the proven personal and career benefits of workplace purpose
  
• Understand the difference between passion and purpose and why the first is not enough
  
• Learn a surprisingly simple method of igniting purpose in your workweek
  
• Leave inspired to make work, and life, more meaningful
  
• Leave with actionable ways to end every workweek fulfilled
  

Does Your Small Business Need to Be Socially Responsible? (good for small and medium businesses)

Nine out of 10 large companies engage in corporate social responsibility (CSR). Some call this behavior, especially its climate-change mitigation and social justice efforts, “woke” nonsense. Others consider it a new business imperative. No wonder entrepreneurs and small business managers are unclear whether to engage in CSR or run the other way. Fortunately, academic studies have uncovered a nuanced but clear answer to their dilemma. In this engaging and entertaining session, Bea Boccalandro helps business leaders understand what exactly CSR is and determine if and how it will benefit their organization. Participants leave equipped and inspired to benefit from CSR as much as their large competitors do.

Key Takeaways: 

• Understand what CSR is (and isn’t) and whether it’s the same as ESG, sustainability and other related terms
  
• Understand when CSR benefits the business and when it doesn’t
  
• Leave equipped to make smart decisions regarding CSR in the future
  
• Leave with promising CSR for their CSR journey
  
• Leave upbeat and inspired

Watch a version of this keynote. 

The New Wellness Imperative: Purpose (good for HR and workplace wellness professionals)

Health researchers are now discovering that purpose impacts our health as much as exercise and diet do. Sadly, most of us suffer from a workplace purpose deficiency. This leads to depression, anxiety and other mental health issues. It also increases our risk of cardiovascular disease, prolonged infectious diseases and other physical ailments. Good news! There’s a proven DIY purpose technique called job purposing. It’s simple and, provided you’re willing to be a tad rebellious, easy to implement. In this engaging and entertaining session, Bea Boccalandro helps you understand what workplace purpose is, why it matters and how you can bask in it every workweek, no matter what job you do.

Key Takeaways:

• Understand what workplace purpose is (and isn’t)
  
• Understand the research-established health benefits of having a sense of purpose at work
  
• Leave equipped to ignite purpose at work without changing jobs by applying job purposing
  
• Leave upbeat and inspired about you work life
  

Select speaking clients

• BMW, Munich, Germany
• Business 4 Better, Anaheim, California
• Charities at Work, New York, New York
• Companies and Causes, Toronto, Canada
• Conferencia Voluntare, Madrid, Spain
• Georgetown University, Washington, DC
• Google, Menlo Park, California
• IMPACT 2030, United Nations, New York, New York
• National Conference for Service and Volunteering, Saint Paul, Minnesota
• Professionals in Human Resources Association, Newport Beach, California
• PwC, New York, New York
• ServiceUnites, Atlanta, Georgia
• The Conference Board, New York, New York
• The Conference Board of Canada, Toronto, Canada
• Toyota, Torrance, California
• University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada
• Victorian Chamber of Commerce, Melbourne, Australia
• Volunteer Canada, Toronto, Canada