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Empowering a New Era of Business
Leaders on Purpose empowers leaders to drive progress and shape a purpose-led, future-fit economy
1. Capacity Building
Learn & advance to bridge knowledge gaps through cutting edge tools, insights and trainings
2. Community Building
Engage & connect with a vibrant network of diverse leaders, stakeholders and businesses through events
3. Coallition Building
Collaborate for collective first mover advantage and impact, reducing innovation costs and balancing short-term vs. long-term objectives through strategic programs or alliance
We are the Next-Generation Leadership Platform for Purpose-Driven Business
Our mission is to empower business leaders to prioritize positive, purpose-driven profit for the next evolution of the global economy, forging a sustainable and equitable path forward for generations to come.
Past participants of our CEO Summits and the CEO Study
 HRH Queen Maxima of The Netherlands |  Paul Polman, Influencer, business leader, campaigner, Co-Author of “Net Positive" |  Tony Robbins, coach and professional speaker |
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 Richard Dickson, CEO, Gap Inc. |  Dan Schulman, President, PayPal |  Alan Murray, CEO, Fortune |
 Jim Kim, Former President of the World Bank Group |  Particia Obo Nai, CEO, Ghana Telecommunications Company Limited (Telecel Ghana) |  Mark Read, Chief Executive Officer at WPP |
 Thippaporn Ahriyavraromp, CEO, MQDC |  Fernando Gonzalez-Olivieri, CEO, CEMEX |  Hans Vestberg, CEO, Verizon |
 Andrés Gluski, President and CEO, The AES Corporation |  Anousheh Ansari Founder & CEO, XPRIZE |  Alan Jope, CEO, Unilever |
 HM, King Dein Kiagborekuzi of the Agbor Kingdom located in the Delta State, Nigeria, Chancellor of the West African Union University ( Order of the Crown of Belgium) |  Antoine de Saint-Affrique, CEO, Danone |  Jesper Brodin, CEO, IKEA |
 Camila Escobar Corredor, CEO, Juan Valdez Café |  Hakan Bulgurlu, CEO, Beko |  Christian Klein, CEO and member of the Executive Board of SAP SE |
 Henrietta Fore, Executive Director, UNICEF |  Dr. James Mwangi, Managing Director, CEO CEO Equity Group Holdings |  Andy Poppink, CEO, Global Markets Advisory |
 Laurel Hurd, President and CEO, Interface |  Ynon Kreiz, CEO, Mattel |  Feike Sijbesma, Honorary Chairman Royal DSM |
 Barbara Humpton, President and CEO of Siemens Corporation |  Dr. Arlo Brady, CEO of freuds |  Epsy Campbell Barr, Primera Vicepresidenta de la República de Costa Rica |
 Steve MacMillan, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Hologic |  Brian Rice, Senior Vice President, Chief Brand and Design Officer 3M |  Robert-Jan van Ogtrop - Founder, Circle Economy |
 Gillian Tett, Chair of Editorial Board and Editor-at-large, Financial Times US |  Jonathan T.M. Reckford, CEO of Habitat for Humanity International |  Dr. Marcius Extavour, Vice President of Climate & Energy at XPRIZE |
 Tom Monahan, CEO & President, DeVry University |  Nigel Elderton, MD & Chairman, PRS |  Taejun Shin, Co-founder and CEO, Gojo & Company |
 Jan Erik Saugestad CEO, Storebrand |  Stephan Nicoleau, Partner at FullCycle |  Tony Cho, Founder & CEO, Future of Cities |
 Helle Bank Jørgensen, CEO, Competent Boards |  Jeff Huber Founding CEO, GRAIL |  Jay Jakub, Chief Advocacy Officer of the Economics of Mutuality (EoM) movement for the EoM Foundation |
 Vanessa Fajans-Turner, Executive Director at BankFWD and Principal at Investable Oceans | Tom Monahan, President & CEO at DeVry University |  Veronica Bonifaz CEO, CONFIEP |
 Christopher Burnham, former Under Secretary General of the United Nations & Senior Independent Director at En+ Group and Director at United Company Rusal |  Domina Stamas, NASA & The SETI Institute Airborne Astronomy Ambassador, Space4Girls Global Education Director |  Gemma Corrigan, Head of Policy and Advocacy at Federated Hermes |
 Andy Bird, CEO at Pearson |  Philipp Mueller, CEO of BlueOrchard |  Nicole Stott, Astronaut, Artist, Founding Director of the Space for Art Foundation |
 Saker Nusseibeh, CBE – CEO, International at Federated Hermes |  Karn Manhas, Terramera Founder and CEO |  Dr. Paul Farmer, Co-Founder and Chief Strategist, Partners In Health |
 Peter ter Kulve, President, Home Care, Health & Wellbeing at Unilever |  Hiro Mizuno, Special Envoy of U.N Secretary-General on Innovative Finance and Sustainable Investments |  Richard Walker, Managing Director at Iceland Foods |
 Scott Russell, Member of the Executive Board of SAP SE |  Carmen Mora, Acting Deputy Chief of Mission at The Embassy of Panama in The United States |  Danielle Suber, Director of International Government Affairs at Emerson |
 Kristina Kloberdanz, Chief Sustainability Officer at Mastercard |  Renu Karnad, Managing Director at HDFC LIMITED |  Travis Bradford, Professor of Energy Innovation and Sustainability |
 Karin Krchnak, Global Lead at World Bank Group |  Michel Doukeris, CEO at AB InBev |  Camille Wardrop Alleyne, Founder & Rocket Scientist |
 Rachel Minard, Founder & CEO of Minard Capital LLC |  Vipula Gandhi, Managing Partner and Head of U.S. Enterprise at Gallup |  Julia Torreblanca, Vice-President of Corporate Affairs at Sociedad Minera Cerro Verde S.A.A. |
 Lord Gregory Barker, Executive Chairman at En+ Group |  Loretta Hidalgo Whitesides, Founder Astronaut at Virgin Galactic, Co-Creator of Yuri's Night the World Space Party, and author of The New Right Stuff: Using Space to Bring out the Best in You |  Laura Lane, Chief Corporate Affairs Officer at UPS |
 Dr. Sanjeev Khagram, director general and dean of Thunderbird School of Global Management, ASU |  Ralph Simon, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer at Mobilium |  Frank Samolis, Partner and Co-chair of the International Trade Practice at Squire Patton Boggs |
 Harald Tepper, MT member Group Sustainability and Program Lead Circular Economy program at Philips |  Ronali Amatya, UNICEF Young Leader |  Ambassador Stuart Holliday, CEO of Meridian International Center, |
 Gary Shaughnessy, Chair of the Z Zurich Foundation |  Dr. Tatiana Kazakova, Co-Founder and CSO at Leaders on Purpose |  John Banovetz, CTO at 3M |
 Marisa Drew, Chief Sustainability Officer Standard Chartered |  Dianne Dane, Chief Innovation Officer at Quiet Mark |  Mia Mends, Global Chief Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Officer, and CEO, Impact Ventures, for Sodexo |
 Karim Lesina, EVP Chief External Affairs Officer at Millicom |  Georgie Benardete, Co-Founder and CEO of Align17 |  Daniel Fox, Founder of Space 100.10 & Feel the Wild VR, SONY Photographer |
 Olga Algayerova, Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary to the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe |  Kent Walker, Senior Vice President for Global Affairs and Chief Legal Officer |  Kimberly Washington, Leaders on Purpose, Founder/CEO Beviam & Board Chair Space4Girls |
 Natalia Vega-Berry, Director/Executive Producer at Net Zero World |  David Gross, Former Meridian Trustee & Partner at Wiley Rein |  Ann Rosenberg, SVP for Sustainability Solutions at Wood plc and Co-Founder of SDG Ambition |
 Jeffrey Twentyman, Partner and Head of Sustainability, Slaughter and May |  Rosemary Banks, Ambassador of New Zealand |  Michael Train, Chief Sustainability Officer at Emerson |
 Karan Bhatia, Vice President – Global Public Policy and Government Relations at Google |  Jonathan Miller, CEO at Integrated Media Company |  Dawn Nakagawa, Executive Vice President, Berggruen Institute |
 Heidi Gardner, Distinguished Fellow at Harvard Law School, Co-Founder at Gardner & Collaborators |  Christa Gyori, CEO, Leaders on Purpose |  Lucian Tarnowski, Founding Curator of the United Planet Game |
 Ellen, CEO, WaterBear Network |  Martin Whittaker, Founding CEO, JUST Capital |  Ted Janulis, Founder & Principal at Investable Oceans |
 Hakan Bulgurlu, CEO, Arçelik |  Manuel Magalhaes, Co-Founder, Materra Group |  Rebeca Hwang, Professor of Practice and Senior Director for the Center for Global Entrepreneurship and Family Business, Thunderbird |
 Dr Aboubacar Kampo, Director Program Health, UNICEF |  J. Carl Ganter, CEO, Vector Center |  Charlotte Petri Gornitzka, Assistant Secretary-General and Deputy Executive Director, Partnerships, UNICEF |
 Simon Anholt, Founder, Good Country Index |  Harald Neidhardt, CEO & Curator of the Futur/io Institute. |  Sonia Johnson, Board Member at The Quantic Group |
Past participants of our CEO Summits and the CEO Study
HRH Queen Maxima of The Netherlands | Paul Polman, Influencer, business leader, campaigner, Co-Author of “Net Positive" | Tony Robbins, coach and professional speaker |
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Dan Schulman, President, PayPal | Jim Kim, Former President of the World Bank Group | Patricia Obo-Nai, Chief Executive of Vodafone Ghana |
Mark Read, Chief Executive Officer at WPP | Anousheh Ansari Founder & CEO, XPRIZE | Alan Jope, CEO, Unilever |
HM, King Dein Kiagborekuzi of the Agbor Kingdom located in the Delta State, Nigeria, Chancellor of the West African Union University ( Order of the Crown of Belgium) | Christian Klein, CEO and member of the Executive Board of SAP SE | Henrietta Fore, Executive Director, UNICEF |
Dr. James Mwangi, Managing Director, CEO CEO Equity Group Holdings | Feike Sijbesma, Honorary Chairman Royal DSM | Barbara Humpton, President and CEO of Siemens Corporation |
Dr. Arlo Brady, CEO of freuds | Epsy Campbell Barr, Primera Vicepresidenta de la República de Costa Rica | Steve MacMillan, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Hologic |
Brian Rice, Senior Vice President, Chief Brand and Design Officer 3M | Robert-Jan van Ogtrop - Founder, Circle Economy | Gillian Tett, Chair of Editorial Board and Editor-at-large, Financial Times US |
Jonathan T.M. Reckford, CEO of Habitat for Humanity International | Dr. Marcius Extavour, Vice President of Climate & Energy at XPRIZE | Tom Monahan, CEO & President, DeVry University |
Nigel Elderton, MD & Chairman, PRS | Taejun Shin, Co-founder and CEO, Gojo & Company | Jan Erik Saugestad CEO, Storebrand |
Stephan Nicoleau, Partner at FullCycle | Tony Cho, Founder & CEO, Future of Cities | Jeff Huber Founding CEO, GRAIL |
Jay Jakub, Chief Advocacy Officer of the Economics of Mutuality (EoM) movement for the EoM Foundation | Vanessa Fajans-Turner, Executive Director at BankFWD and Principal at Investable Oceans | Tom Monahan, President & CEO at DeVry University |
Veronica Bonifaz CEO, CONFIEP | Christopher Burnham, former Under Secretary General of the United Nations & Senior Independent Director at En+ Group and Director at United Company Rusal | Domina Stamas, NASA & The SETI Institute Airborne Astronomy Ambassador, Space4Girls Global Education Director |
Gemma Corrigan, Head of Policy and Advocacy at Federated Hermes | Andy Bird, CEO at Pearson | Philipp Mueller, CEO of BlueOrchard |
Nicole Stott, Astronaut, Artist, Founding Director of the Space for Art Foundation | Saker Nusseibeh, CBE – CEO, International at Federated Hermes | Karn Manhas, Terramera Founder and CEO |
Dr. Paul Farmer, Co-Founder and Chief Strategist, Partners In Health | Peter ter Kulve, President, Home Care, Health & Wellbeing at Unilever | Hiro Mizuno, Special Envoy of U.N Secretary-General on Innovative Finance and Sustainable Investments |
Richard Walker, Managing Director at Iceland Foods | Scott Russell, Member of the Executive Board of SAP SE | Carmen Mora, Acting Deputy Chief of Mission at The Embassy of Panama in The United States |
Danielle Suber, Director of International Government Affairs at Emerson | Kristina Kloberdanz, Chief Sustainability Officer at Mastercard | Renu Karnad, Managing Director at HDFC LIMITED |
Travis Bradford, Professor of Energy Innovation and Sustainability | Karin Krchnak, Global Lead at World Bank Group | Michel Doukeris, CEO at AB InBev |
Camille Wardrop Alleyne, Founder & Rocket Scientist | Rachel Minard, Founder & CEO of Minard Capital LLC | Vipula Gandhi, Managing Partner and Head of U.S. Enterprise at Gallup |
Julia Torreblanca, Vice-President of Corporate Affairs at Sociedad Minera Cerro Verde S.A.A. | Lord Gregory Barker, Executive Chairman at En+ Group | Loretta Hidalgo Whitesides, Founder Astronaut at Virgin Galactic, Co-Creator of Yuri's Night the World Space Party, and author of The New Right Stuff: Using Space to Bring out the Best in You |
Laura Lane, Chief Corporate Affairs Officer at UPS | Dr. Sanjeev Khagram, director general and dean of Thunderbird School of Global Management, ASU | Ralph Simon, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer at Mobilium |
Frank Samolis, Partner and Co-chair of the International Trade Practice at Squire Patton Boggs | Harald Tepper, MT member Group Sustainability and Program Lead Circular Economy program at Philips | Ronali Amatya, UNICEF Young Leader |
Ambassador Stuart Holliday, CEO of Meridian International Center, | Gary Shaughnessy, Chair of the Z Zurich Foundation | Dr. Tatiana Kazakova, Co-Founder and CSO at Leaders on Purpose |
John Banovetz, CTO at 3M | Marisa Drew, Chief Sustainability Officer Standard Chartered | Dianne Dane, Chief Innovation Officer at Quiet Mark |
Karim Lesina, EVP Chief External Affairs Officer at Millicom | Georgie Benardete, Co-Founder and CEO of Align17 | Daniel Fox, Founder of Space 100.10 & Feel the Wild VR, SONY Photographer |
Olga Algayerova, Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary to the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe | Kent Walker, Senior Vice President for Global Affairs and Chief Legal Officer | Kimberly Washington, Leaders on Purpose, Founder/CEO Beviam & Board Chair Space4Girls |
Natalia Vega-Berry, Director/Executive Producer at Net Zero World | David Gross, Former Meridian Trustee & Partner at Wiley Rein | Ann Rosenberg, SVP for Sustainability Solutions at Wood plc and Co-Founder of SDG Ambition |
Jeffrey Twentyman, Partner and Head of Sustainability, Slaughter and May | Rosemary Banks, Ambassador of New Zealand | Michael Train, Chief Sustainability Officer at Emerson |
Karan Bhatia, Vice President – Global Public Policy and Government Relations at Google | Jonathan Miller, CEO at Integrated Media Company | Mia Mends, Global Chief Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Officer, and CEO, Impact Ventures, for Sodexo |
Dawn Nakagawa, Executive Vice President, Berggruen Institute | Heidi Gardner, Distinguished Fellow at Harvard Law School, Co-Founder at Gardner & Collaborators | Christa Gyori, CEO, Leaders on Purpose |
Lucian Tarnowski, Founding Curator of the United Planet Game | Ellen, CEO, WaterBear Network | Martin Whittaker, Founding CEO, JUST Capital |
Ted Janulis, Founder & Principal at Investable Oceans | Hakan Bulgurlu, CEO, Arçelik | Manuel Magalhaes, Co-Founder, Materra Group |
Rebeca Hwang, Professor of Practice and Senior Director for the Center for Global Entrepreneurship and Family Business, Thunderbird | Helle Bank Jørgensen, CEO, Competent Boards | Dr Aboubacar Kampo, Director Program Health, UNICEF |
J. Carl Ganter, CEO, Vector Center | Charlotte Petri Gornitzka, Assistant Secretary-General and Deputy Executive Director, Partnerships, UNICEF | Simon Anholt, Founder, Good Country Index |
Harald Neidhardt, CEO & Curator of the Futur/io Institute. | Sonia Johnson, Board Member at The Quantic Group |
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Event Partnerships & Participation
Partner with or attend exclusive events to connect with purpose-driven leaders, expand your network, and showcase your thought leadership
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Annual Program Membership
Access year-round events, workshops, and exclusive reports while building leadership capabilities and gaining network insight that supports purpose-driven growth
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Strategic Program Membership & Theme Leadership
Advance purpose-driven business through continuous engagement at all flagship events and tailored trainings. Drive impact, internally and externally, whilst shaping global themes.
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About Us
At Leaders on Purpose, we partner with forward-thinking executives to embed purpose into the core of their organizational strategies. Our team, drawing on expertise in research, corporate strategy, and systemic innovation, helps businesses transition to sustainable models that tackle urgent global challenges. Through peer learning and policy advocacy, we enable organizations to enhance their commercial viability and outperform their peers.
Originally founded as a collaboration among leaders and experts from institutions like Harvard University, Unilever, The World Bank, and The London School of Economics, we align the CEO agenda with the global agenda. This ensures that purpose-driven strategies benefit organizations, their employees, society, and the planet. In times of crisis, businesses that adopt a purpose-first approach are empowered to act for the greater good.
How We Work
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Leaders on Purpose Research
The only longitudinal study spotlighting CEOs driving the shift to a purpose-first business logic
Shifting from Profit-First to Purpose-Driven
Helping leaders implement the new business logic to align strategy with purpose-driven performance
Co-Created by CEOs, for CEOs
Our annual summit is a dynamic platform where cross-sector leaders collaborate to accelerate a just and sustainable economy
Accelerating a Purpose-First Economy
Uniting policymakers, international organizations, business leaders, and changemakers to fast-track transformative solutions
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