A list of consultancies helping organizations all around the world to become more purpose-driven
Conspiracy of Love – Los Angeles, USA
Afdhel Aziz is on a mission to solve one of the biggest problems facing companies and individuals in the 21st century: how to find purpose and meaning in the work they do, and unlock the power of business to do good in the world.
In Good Co – Los Angeles, USA
In Good Co is a culture-conscious brand consultancy that aligns people and organizations around a purpose, creates connections and inspires action. They work with startups, Fortune 500s and nonprofits to create and align internal and external cultures and build visionary brands.
Conscious Company Media – Boulder, USA
Conscious Company Media is a community dedicated to doing business better. We believe that companies and business leaders have a crucial role to play in creating an environmentally sustainable, socially just, and spiritually meaningful human presence on this planet. Through our print magazine, stories, education, events, and membership community, we inspire and enable you to redefine success in business and create a better life for yourself and future generations.
The B Team – New York, USA
The B Team is a not-for-profit initiative formed by a global group of business leaders to catalyse a better way of doing business, for the wellbeing of people and the planet. They are developing a so-called ‘Plan B’ – for concerted, positive action that aims to ensure business becomes a driving force for social, environmental and economic benefit.
LIFT Economy – San Francisco, USA
Ryan Honeyman is a Partner / Worker / Owner at LIFT Economy and co-author of The B Corp Handbook. The book shows how using business as a force for good, not just pursuing short-term profits, can be better for consumers, employees, local communities, the environment, and a company’s long-term bottom line.
Great Place To Work – San Francisco, USA
Great Place to Work makes it easy for organizations to survey their employees, uncover actionable insights and get recognized for their great company culture. They ultimately help businesses build a high-trust workplace culture that engages employees and drives better business.
fern – San Francisco, USA
fern helps organizations build supportive, cherished relationships with their communities, designed for impact. They work together with their clients’ communities to envision and launch beloved products, services and campaigns.
GOOD Corps – Los Angeles, USA
GOOD Corps helps organizations understand opportunities for impact and build breakthrough programs that create social impact.
enso – Santa Monica, USA
enso is an agency and a community — its core team is surrounded by the agency’s Shared Mission Network: a group of diverse experts working across a range of disciplines committed to creating impact.
PeopleFirm – Seattle, USA
A consulting firm built to help your organization achieve the ultimate win-win: inspired people driving inspiring performance. The PeopleFirm team develops talent and people strategies, drives organizational performance, and implements sustainable change.
TMI Consulting – Richmond, USA
TMI Consulting helps organizations build cohesive, accountable, diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplaces. They offer a full suite of diversity, equity, and inclusion services, ranging from full service organization-wide assessment and strategic planning, to keynotes and employee training.
Connective Impact – Arlington, USA
Connective Impact provides structure and methods to mission-driven, socially and environmentally-conscious companies that inspire partnership and collaboration to make the world a more harmonious and prosperous place. They help clients build brands, launch campaigns, create social impact, tell their story, develop effective leadership, find, monitor and evaluate partnerships, and much more.
MAG Collective – Dallas, USA
MAG Impact Collective is a group of high-level, experienced leaders in branding, marketing, design, and organizational strategy – all passionate and experienced in driving social impact. They provide a closed network of professionals who work together & collaborate on projects to help their clients achieve their goals while delivering social impact locally, nationally, and globally.
3BL Media – Northampton, USA
3BL Media delivers purpose-driven communications for leading global companies and NGOs.
Dan Salva – Missouri, USA
Dan has over 30 years of experience in helping organizations across a wide range of industries discover how bringing purpose into their story can transform their success.
We First – Los Angeles, USA
We First is a brand consultancy committed to business as a force for good. They build brands that put purpose, people, and planet, first.
Simon Sinek – New York, USA
In 2009, author Simon Sinek gave a viral TED talk called “How Great Leaders Inspire Action” and subsequently published Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action, which appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list. Sinek is also a motivational speaker and organizational consultant.
GameChangers – Boulder, USA
By ranking the world’s top for-benefit businesses, sharing their world-class best practices, and using gaming dynamics to enroll organizations into the for-benefit model of business, GameChangers is on a mission to create a critical mass of for-benefit businesses in every major city in the world.
Kumanu – Ann Arbour, USA
Kumanu offers a SaaS platform that uses advanced behavioral and data science to help people find purpose in life and connect their purpose to action. The platform also seamlessly integrates with an organization’s own programs, resources, and benefits — lifting use and satisfaction — while generating powerful insights into life engagement and behavior patterns to help guide strategy.
Lift Consulting – Ann Arbour, USA
Lift Consulting is a consultancy by purpose expert Robert Quinn helping individuals and teams to lead change and create excellence. Robert Quinn is a prominent figure among the purpose-driven business scene, having written several books on the topic.
Sylvain Labs – New York, USA
Sylvain Labs is an innovation and brand design consultancy. By applying imagination to complex business problems and opportunities, they develop brands and re-imagine products. Sylvain Labs is a Certified B Corporation.
IDEO U – San Francisco, USA
IDEO U is an online school where participants can unlock their creative potential and solve complex problems through design thinking. IDEO U is a part of IDEO, the award-winning global design firm that takes a human-centered, design-based approach to help organisations innovate and grow.
The Flux Group – New York, USA
The Flux Group is a media, insights and strategic advisory firm. Launched by former Fast Company editor and managing director Robert Safian in 2018, The Flux Group is dedicated to encouraging businesses and businesspeople to act as vehicles for progress.
Intentional Media – New York, USA
Intentional Media is a family of media and event brands catalyzing the transition to an economy that ensures that social, environmental and economic systems thrive together. Through the power of story-telling and networks, Intentional connects, educates, and inspires people to intentionally consume, invest and run their business for good.
Conscious Capitalism – San Francisco, USA
Conscious Capitalism is a philosophy based on a simple idea that when practiced consciously, business innately elevates humanity. Conscious Capitalism, Inc. builds and supports a global network of entrepreneurs, business leaders, and intrapreneurs dedicated to growth through conscious leadership.
B Lab – Pennsylvania, USA
B Lab is a nonprofit that serves a global movement of people using business as a force for good. B Lab’s initiatives include B Corp Certification, administration of the B Impact Management programs and software, and advocacy for governance structures like the benefit corporation.
Carol Cone On Purpose – New York, USA
Carol Cone is internationally recognized for her work in Purpose and CSR. Carol Cone ON PURPOSE is the return to her entrepreneurial roots and life’s passion: to educate, inspire and accelerate purpose programs and impacts for organizations, nonprofits and individuals around the globe.
Inspiring Capital – New York, USA
Our mission is to re-inspire the American workforce. We aim to help individuals, organizations, and employers align their skills, interests, and needs with the needs of their communities and the world, to do work that really matters. In doing so, we create a purpose-driven, motivated workforce!
The Purposeworks – New York, USA
Purposeworks offers a process that is engineered to help uncover, define and ignite a unique Purpose – for organizations, teams or individuals. Every step along the journey is filtered through the lens of Purpose to find and articulate a clear, meaningful direction, so the organization can build a culture of shared values and success.
The Circular Design Guide – San Francisco, USA
A network of professionals who see design differently and are co-creating the circular economy based on the Circular Design Guide.
The Purpose Institute – Austin, USA
The Purpose Institute exists to help organizations discover, articulate and bring to life their deeper Purpose in the world through workshops, keynotes, and various consulting services.
Raj Sisodia – Massachusetts, USA
A founding member of the Conscious Capitalism movement, Raj Sisodia is FW Olin Distinguished Professor of Global Business and a Whole Foods Market Research Scholar in Conscious Capitalism at Babson College. He is also the Co-Founder and Chairman Emeritus of Conscious Capitalism Inc.
Imperative – Seattle, USA
Imperative, a B Corp, is the leadership, manager, and career development platform for the Purpose Economy.
Michael Chavez – Durham, USA
Michael Chavez is the Chief Executive Officer for Duke Corporate Education. Michael is passionate about “re-humanizing leadership.” By engaging people around a purpose, shared meaning and empathy, he believes leaders can create the foundation for greater sustainability in a world that is more complex and unpredictable than ever.
Jason Wiener – Denver, USA
Jason Wiener is a legal and business consulting firm for mission-driven companies, social impact, and environmental enterprise. They have plenty experience working with founders, executive teams, impact investors, venture capitalists, and Boards of Directors, helping them bake purpose and values into all aspects of their organizations.
Purpose Pioneers – Orlando, USA
The Purpose Pioneers (Thomas Waterman and Alex Agresta) are committed to empowering leaders and entrepreneurs to put purpose first in all they think, say and do so they can live a meaningful life and lead an impactful business. Thomas and Alex offer personal coaching and consulting workshops to CEO’s and coaches in Florida.
Robert E. Quinn – Virginia, USA
Robert E. Quinn is the Margaret Elliot Tracy Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan, Ross School of Business. His research and writing focuses on purpose, leadership, culture and change. He is one of the co-founders and of the field of Positive Organizational Scholarship and a cofounder of the Center for Positive Organizations. He has published eighteen books and received multiple awards for both his teaching and research.
Sense-Lab – Sao Paolo, Brazil
Sense-Lab works with strategy and innovation focusing on developing the organizations, systems and leaders needed to face the main collective challenges of the 21st century. Sense-Lab works with projects, programs, content and courses in 3 main activity areas: Organisational innovation and strategy; Social enterprises; Networks and Multis-stakeholder systems.
Mandalah – Sao Paolo, Brazil
Founded in São Paulo, Brazil in 2006, Mandalah is also present in Mexico City, New York, San Francisco, Berlin and Tokyo. The firm calls itself Conscious Innovation Partners. They work with organisations on purpose-driven growth, through the creation and delivery of brands, strategies & cultures. Mandalah Brazil is a Certified B Corporation.
Ana Couto – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Ana Couto is a consultancy helping businesses align branding, business and communication based on purpose. For more than 25 years, they have been developing branding and advertising strategies for their clients, challenging people and brands to grow based on their purposes.
BrightHouse – Atlanta, USA (also in New York, Berlin, Paris)
BrightHouse is a global creative consultancy part of the Boston Consulting Group. They help organizations uncover their timeless purpose and translate that purpose into the growth of people, profits, and social impact. They work with organizations on transforming their culture, aligning their people and infusing true meaning into their brands.
BSR (Business for Social Responsibility) – San Francisco, USA
BSR is a global nonprofit organization that works with its network of more than 250 member companies and other partners to build a just and sustainable world. From its offices in Asia, Europe, and North America, BSR develops sustainable business strategies and solutions through consulting, research, and cross-sector collaboration.
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