About us

Bea Boccalandro 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 Wharton professor and New York Times bestselling author Adam Grant named a top 2021 book and Midwest Book Review recommends it as a “life changing, life enhancing read.” Bea has been published in Harvard Business Review, The Boston Globe and other major publications; and has been featured on Forbes, FOX TV and other media outlets. As founder and president of the global purpose advisory firm, VeraWorks, Bea has two decades of experience helping businesses make customer interactions more human, products more inclusive, operations more environmentally sustainable, marketing more charitable or otherwise make work more meaningful. Her clients include Aetna, Bank of America, Disney, Eventbrite, FedEx, HP, John Hancock, IBM, Levi’s, PwC, TOMS Shoes, Toyota and Western Digital. Her work has been featured in popular business media such as FOX TV, Business DigestForbes and Harvard Business Review – as well as in specialized academic publications. Bea also has 15 years of experience teaching corporate social purpose and corporate social responsibility (CSR) at Georgetown University, Boston College and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She lives in San Clemente, California, with her husband. She is also also a proud Rotarian, Venezuelan-born Latina and comically bad surfer.

Learn more at www.BeaBoccalandro.com.

Giving back

VeraWorks’ own job purposing / community involvement program helps the nonprofit sector develop its capacity to benefit from the nonprofit-business partnerships that VeraWorks promotes with corporate clients. Our team members conduct webinars, deliver keynote addresses, write publications and conduct other reduced-fee or pro-bono work to help nonprofits partner productively with businesses. VeraWorks has conducted dozens of free or reduced-fee presentations, including for Georgetown University, the BMW Foundation and The Qatar Foundation.
It has also written publications to support nonprofits with their corporate partners including A Helping Hand or a Hijacking? How Nonprofits Can Respond to Ever-Increasing Corporate Involvement in the Community, published by the Center for Corporate Citizenship (CCCD) in Germany. If you are affiliated with a nonprofit and are interested in benefitting from VeraWorks services, please contact us.

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