Our services

Board and executive advising

VeraWorks founder and president, Bea Boccalandro, advises corporate boards and senior executives on corporate purpose, CSR (corporate social responsibility) and ESG (environment social governance).

Bea’s board and executive advising has helped Caesars Entertainment, Erie Insurance, Eventbrite, FedEx and other companies:

  • Educate the board of directors on CSR/ESG
  • Determine what cause areas are material (productive CSR focus areas) to the business
  • Respond to stakeholder expectations on ESG
  • Comply with ESG regulations
  • Determine their CSR/ESG staffing structure

Consulting and fractional executive roles

VeraWorks helps companies design, implement and measure the impact of their corporate purpose, CSR and ESG, both as consultants and fractional executives. VeraWorks teams are custom assembled to best serve the client from dozens of experts and our founder and president, Bea Boccalandro, leads and plays a key role in all engagements.

VeraWorks has helped companies plan, benchmark, design, manage and measure their workplace purpose CSR efforts, including helping:

  • FedEx redesign its CSR program to be more strategic, streamlined and impactful.
  • HP collect data indicating that its corporate purpose efforts increase employee engagement by more than 10%.
  • PwC measure the impact of its purpose efforts on employee performance and retention.
  • Toyota redesign its CSR program, generate middle management support for it and measure its impact on employee engagement.
  • Voluntare conduct a pre-post random-assignment study indicating that team members who have a sense of purpose at work have higher employee engagement, satisfaction and other desired outcomes.

Download a description of VeraWorks’ corporate purpose services.

See full list of clients.

Speaking

Bea is a popular and engaging speaker who keynotes at conferences, presents at company gatherings, delivers commencement speeches and otherwise inspires audiences around the world, both in English and Spanish. Her teaching evaluations at Boston College and Georgetown University average 4.7 out of 5.

 

Bea has spoken at events organized by:

  • Georgetown University
  • IBM
  • Points of Light Foundation
  • PwC
  • The Conference Board
  • The Conference Board of Canada
  • Toyota
  • United Nations
  • Victorian Chamber of Commerce and Industry

 

Popular keynotes

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