Bea Boccalandro helps workers find simple ways to alleviate global hunger, boost customer well-being or otherwise make meaningful contributions to others from their desks or work benches. This do-good-at-work practice, called job purposing, is a proven way to heighten workplace productivity, performance, satisfaction and success. Bea is founder and president of VeraWorks, a global firm that helps businesses implement and measure the impact of job purposing. Her clients include Aetna, Allstate, Bank of America, Caesars Entertainment, Disney, Eventbrite, FedEx, HP, IBM, Levi's, PwC and Toyota. Bea also teaches at Georgetown University and is a frequent keynote speaker. She splits her time between San Clemente, California and Park City, Utah.
“Actionable and fun to read.”
—Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author of Think Again,
Originals and Give and Take and host of the TED podcast
“WorkLife”
“Unique, original, practical, inspiring, Do Good at Work: How
Simple Acts of Social Purpose Drive Success and Wellbeing is
unreservedly recommended as a life changing, life enhancing read
for anyone having difficulty with their present employment.”
—Midwest Book Review
“Written in a light, humorous style and dotted with pen and ink
illustrations by the author, Do Good at Work is an easy read that
offers terrific, very practical advice on how to make your work
life more meaningful.”
—Forbes
“You can’t get what’s here anywhere else. The author, an expert in
her field, creates a deeply affecting work of art combined with
thoroughly researched findings, personal narrative and her own
portrait sketches.
A lot more makes it unique. Ms. Boccalandro fully shows the central
importance of bringing social purpose to work, brings dozens of
examples shown with a novelist's eye, deals with resistance and
objections and the reality of work pressures and, after all that,
invites the reader to be in contact with her if they can’t find a
way to implement what she’s writing about.
I don’t know any other author who’s done that.
The author also addresses the essential point that the actions we
take turn us into the kind of person we are. Every day, by the
actions we take or resist taking, we become someone closer to our
authentic self—or someone more distant. She makes a powerful case,
a stupendous invitation: participate in transforming the world
through everyday small activities and become who you really are by
doing so.
Almost everyone can take up this book and be informed, supported
and inspired. Read it yourself and recommend it to others. Remember
seeing or reading The Color Purple or hearing Aretha Franklin for
the first time? This book is like that.”
—James Flaherty, founder of New Ventures West, co-founder of
Integral Leadership LLC and author of Coaching: Evoking Excellence
in Others
“Do Good at Work is both a riveting and vital read for corporate
leaders, especially now. The events of 2020 have demonstrated that
companies need to play an increasingly larger role in the broader
society. Bea Boccalandro guides us to this future. Using engaging
writing and sound research, she shows us that it’s possible to
infuse every employee’s work with purpose in a way that benefits
society, employees and the business. Do Good at Work is
transformative: It turns its readers into inspired leaders.”
—Jan Jones Blackhurst, member of the Caesars Entertainment Board of
Directors and former Mayor of Las Vegas
"I would put Do Good at Work as among the best business books
ever—for both managers and non-managers. It's inspiring yet
practical, eye-opening yet digestible and soundly researched yet
deeply engaging. Its advice is so practical one wonders why it has
taken so long for the word to get out."
—Cynthia Currin, Vice President, JBS International
“I fell in love with this book! It touched me in a personal way.
Its self-effacing style makes it fun and super accessible. As a
scientist, I run into a lot of books where I wonder ‘where’s the
science in this?’ Not this one! In fact, I kept flipping to the
back thinking ‘Whoa! She has another awesome reference.’ Do Good at
Work is also replete with practical real-world people and
real-world companies. It’s simply a really, really good book!”
Vic Strecher, Professor, University of Michigan Schools of Public
Health and Medicine, Founder and CEO of Kumanu and author of Life
on Purpose and the graphic novel, On Purpose
"As a professor and organizational/leadership development
consultant, I have learned that to be a great, agile and
future-ready organization or leader, we must be focused on lifting
with purpose. We must do good at work. There is no better person to
deliver this message than Bea Boccalandro. Do Good at Work should
be on every leader's shortlist of books to read this year. I am
excited for all of the good that will come to this world because of
it."
—Ryan Gottfredson, author of Wall Street Journal and USA Today
national bestseller, Success Mindsets
“Do Good at Work is a wonderful read that will inspire frontline
workers, managers and leaders to enhance the work environment to
create higher purpose and effect positive outcomes. In turn, this
will provide value to employees, owners and communities—a
win-win-win strategy. The author uses both quantitative research
results and memorable anecdotes to make a compelling case for why
we should all work to evolve and transform the workplace.”
—Tom Mutryn, CFO, CACI International and former CFO, US Airways
"I LOVED Do Good at Work! Its insightful writing provides
compelling stories and characters throughout the book that drive
home the impactful message that our jobs can provide us with more
than just an income; they can provide us with a sense of purpose.
Interesting, funny, and engaging, it is also packed with
data-driven evidence and strategies to help workers at any level
within their organization make their work more meaningful. I
encourage everyone to pick up this book and make the investment in
themselves; you'll be immensely glad you did."
—Chris Lacey, Founder and President, Autism ALERT, Inc.
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