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Introducing
Voices of Purpose
There’s never been a more important time to share why purpose matters and how it makes a difference for your business, society and planet.
Voices of Purpose is memorable first-person storytelling that proves the power of purpose.
The Purposeful Nine and Soulful Advantage
In his new book, author and purpose consultant Andre Beaupre helps businesses of all types envision, create and broaden their social and environmental impact. Rather than focusing on large consumer companies and well known brands, this book spotlights a fresh, diverse group of successful organizations that have been authentically purposeful for decades. Each story comes alive through the first-person perspective of founders and leaders who reveal why they became more purposeful, what they did and how it created remarkable competitive advantage.
Learn more about the book
When business is a force for good, it’s also good for business.
Profit and shareholder return are no longer the ultimate measure of business success. People want to invest in, buy from, partner with and work for organizations they believe in. They need to feel – and experience – a meaningful personal connection reflecting their own values.
Creating a just, inclusive, values-driven workplace, improving sustainability, helping communities and nurturing a stakeholder driven vision positively impacts belief, support and financial success. It also measurably increases competitive advantage.
Triple Bottom Line. People. Planet. Profit.
We help business broaden purpose and communicate this soulful advantage.
It’s what we’re all about.
Value-aligned workplace culture
The critical ingredient most responsible for creating lasting business success
Stakeholder-driven capitalism
The positive impact created when organizations serve the interests of all stakeholders.
Sustainability
Environmental accountability, caring for our planet and supporting UN Sustainable Development Goals
forging an emotional connection
@ the intersection of profit and purpose
Establishing a more meaningful, personal connection is the catalyst behind Soulful Advantage.
People will get behind (and stay behind) a product, service, company, brand and cause when they instinctively sense, understand and appreciate (head and heart) the benefit.
Ongoing research over the past two decades has consistently – and statistically – validated how people prefer engaging with brands – and working for companies – making the world a better place.
Shaping an authentic, purposeful culture benefits all. Hiring and retention is improved. The planet is healthier. People get the help they need. Businesses gain differentiation and competitive advantage.
A proven way
Soulful Advantage’s three-step methodology forges more purposeful impact and improves competitive advantage.
Discover soul
Listening is one of our strong suits. We ask a lot of questions, internally and externally. We evaluate and assess your organization’s purpose as well as the ecosystem within which it operates. We discover sources of meaningful value that exist (or could exist) for your brand, product, service or cause. The obvious, forgotten and overlooked. This insight reveals new opportunities for more organizational soul.
Develop soul
Soulfully armed, we build a strategic framework that considers what is and isn’t being done today and what could and should happen tomorrow. We design authentic initiatives that enhance and complement your organization’s values and mission. Measurable plans and outcomes are put in place. Specific timeframes and actions are designed.
Express & measure soul
With soulful strategy and tactics in hand, we help move targeted programs and activities forward in an organized, thoughtful way. Voices of Purpose helps our clients communicate and prove the power of purpose. This framework is integrated across all appropriate marketing and communications initiatives, stakeholders and channels. On a consistent basis, we help evaluate the success of planned outcomes.
A sharper edge
Why we do what we do
Strategic reasons people engage us include:
Communicate the positive impact of purpose more memorably and credibly
Expand Triple Bottom Line impact (position the business more purposefully)
Deepen community engagement
Open more wallets (increase financial support)
Improve workplace culture and loyalty
Build a movement (create an emotional connection)
Create more impactful differentiation
Create meaningful value in a parity marketplace
Boost brand preference (broaden customer base)
shaping soulful advantage
Examples of soulful services
Services include:
Voices of Purpose
CSR and Purpose Impact report development
Strategic messaging
Organizational positioning
Competitive differentiation
Integrating purpose within marketing strategy (across all appropriate functions, stakeholders and channels)
Qualitative & quantitative research
Outcome based ROI measurement
Purpose and CSR planning
Third party validation
what people say about us:
As a founder and entrepreneur, I wanted to reposition my company to create an authentic connection with prospects, partners and customers, rooted in sustainability innovation and benefits. We also needed to credibly improve visibility, increase corporate value and achieve an even higher level of financial success. Andy worked closely with us to discover, develop and express our differentiated value in an authentic way. The resulting SageGlass® customer value difference – built around sustainability – came through loud and clear. We were ultimately acquired in a highly successful transaction with a Fortune 200 company that continues to closely fit our vision.
John Van Dine
Founder, SageGlass®
www.sageglass.com
Acquired by Saint Gobain, a Fortune 200 company
We’re a fast growing 501c3 with close ties to over 500 leading colleges and universities as well as corporations, high schools and NHL and NBA professional sports teams. We compete with many other veterans focused causes that initially sound alike, but aren’t. Motivating consumers to ‘make a purchase with a purpose’ and getting them emotionally engaged is the key to OHT becoming a national movement. Andy has helped me think strategically about purpose, making our difference crystal clear, expressing our cause more personally, and meaningfully, to consumers.
Dot Sheehan
Founder, Operation Hat Trick
www.operationhattrick.org
“There’s so much hype out there. Competition can make any claim and customers increasingly can’t tell the difference. While we’ve been in business over a decade and are a successful, global software company, our purpose wasn’t clear. Soulful Advantage worked very closely with us to discover, validate and create a meaningful position with more heart. This triggered an authentic emotional connection with key audiences and clear differentiation that didn’t previously exist. What Soulful Advantage did ended up being very material to our business success.”
Glenn Ricketts
CEO, Active Docs
www.activedocs.com
B2B companies face a variety of unique challenges, including the fact that their brands are invisible to consumers, sales are more complicated, purchase amounts are larger, sales cycles are longer and purchases are more head than heart. Andy understands this world, knows how to shape and orchestrate soulful change and get companies to a demonstrably higher level.”CEO, Uptown Network and former Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO of Preferred Systems and Bowstreet
Jack Serfass
Founder, CEO, Uptown Network and former Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO of Preferred Systems and Bowstreet
It’s a significant challenge to create a singular identity for a public institution. Andy worked closely with us to develop and express our authentic vision and differentiation. This positively impacted our strategic planning and distinctiveness.
Joan Leitzel
President Emerita, University of New Hampshire
www.unh.edu
Unlike the majority of books focused on large consumer companies and well-known brands—think Ben & Jerry’s, Microsoft, Toms, Stonyfield Farm, Patagonia, Timberland, Disney, Dove, Starbucks, Unilever, IKEA, Google—The Purposeful Nine and Soulful Advantage spotlights a fresh, diverse group of successful organizations that have been authentically purposeful for decades.
Gary Hirshberg
B corporations are a new kind of business that balance purpose and profit. This community of leaders—now numbering over 4,000—is driving a global movement of people using business as a force for good. The inspirational leaders and engaging stories in The Purposeful Nine and Soulful
Advantage represent the essence of B Corps because they are stakeholder-driven, always considering the impact of their decisions on their workers, customers, community, suppliers, and environment. This book is a recommended read for business leaders focused on taking corporate purpose to an even higher level.
Bart Houlahan
Co-Founder and Co-CEO, B Lab
Podcasts
How can companies go beyond profit to create meaningful social change? Why should they embrace a stakeholder-driven mission, versus a traditional shareholder-driven philosophy? What tangible benefits will they – and others – reap when they authentically embrace this mission?
David Reiling, host of the popular NextGen podcast, speaks with Andre about the fast-growing movement within the corporate sector to validate how business can – and must be – a force for good, while remaining financially viable. The wide ranging conversation includes a discussion about the critical importance a top-down approach plays in creating a high performance, values-driven workplace culture.
David chairs The Global Alliance for Banking on Values, an independent network of banks around the world using finance to deliver sustainable economic, social and environmental development.
How do small and mid-sized companies go about making their world a better place?
Andre’s passion is inspiring a more diverse array of companies to purposefully transform into Triple Bottom Line stewards that tangibly improve people, communities and planet, while reaping significant competitive advantage. Gina Burke, host of The Red River Cares podcast, interviews Andre about why it’s a threshold moment to encourage a broader range of businesses across a variety of industries to make the world a better place.
LISTEN TO THE PODCASTThe soul of a company
helping organizations shape, grow and communicate authentic, purposeful brands
As a purpose-centered strategist and author, Andre partners with founders, executives and nonprofit leaders to authentically and memorably express the power of purpose.
He is the author of The Purposeful Nine and Soulful Advantage (2021), which tells the stories of nine inspiring founders, CEOs and sustainability leaders who share why they became more purposeful, what they did and how it created remarkable competitive advantage. Unlike books focused on large consumer companies and well known brands, the book spotlights a fresh, diverse group of successful organizations that have been authentically purposeful for decades.
As an entrepreneur, he measurably increased purpose, credibility, belief, support and valuation for hundreds of Beaupre & Co. clients within technology, B2B, education and nonprofit sectors. Nearly 50 of his clients were acquired in M&A deals by such industry giants as IBM, Cisco, Oracle, Microsoft, HP, Verizon, Symantec, Canon, Saint-Gobain, Computer Associates, Lucent and Dassault Systemes.
Beaupre & Co. was acquired by Brodeur Partners and Omnicom, Inc., a New York Stock Exchange traded Fortune 500 company. At Brodeur, he provided strategic purpose-driven counsel to nonprofits as well as technology and global consumer companies.
In 2017, he co-founded Soulful Advantage, a strategic consultancy at the intersection of purpose and profit. The firm helps businesses expand social impact, increase stakeholder support, gain competitive advantage and meaningfully communicate purpose. A core service of Soulful Advantage is Voices of Purpose, a multi-stakeholder storytelling content platform that proves the power of purpose.
Personal social cause passions include sustainability; reducing food insecurity; improving the lives of service members and veterans; advocating for children and youth; and supporting entrepreneurs in developing nations.
Andre’s Board experience includes the University of New Hampshire Sustainability Institute Advisory Board; NH Hunger Solutions; Granite State Children’s Alliance; Operation Hat Trick; NH Kids Count and the University of New Hampshire Foundation. Earned third party results validation includes Engage For Good HALO cause marketing award, as well as Silver Anvils, Super Bells, SABRE and Bronze Anvils.
Andre was named a Hall of Fame Entrepreneur by The University of New Hampshire (his alma mater) in 2023.
Contact us
If you’re interested in creating more purposeful impact and sparking more competitive advantage, let’s start a conversation.
Soulful Advantage LLC
36 Maplewood Ave.
Portsmouth, NH 03801
603-767-8988
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