The Bates Center for Purposeful Work invites applications for a Purposeful Work Internship Peer Advisor. This paid position offers the opportunity to work closely with the Center’s professional staff, ...

Purpose is what helps organizations to inspire their workforce into achieving something great, but it is a difficult beast to master. Despite the efforts by organizations to improve engagement, ...

Companies that can connect purpose to the bottom line will gain a competitive advantage. For the rest, the idea will fade ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about self-leadership and leading others. This article is more than 3 years old. Employees want to work for organizations ...

Endowed support for the Bates Center for Purposeful Work empowers students to connect their academic experiences with meaningful career paths, fostering skills, resilience, and a sense of direction ...

Like many of us, earlier in my career, I found myself chasing the elusive ideal of work-life balance. It’s an older concept—one that promises we can seamlessly manage both professional ambitions and ...

When Jed Smith, 95, of Gilbertsville, Montgomery County, retired at the age of 65, he took advantage of his good physical condition to do work for himself or others that was engaging physically, but ...

Purposeful Work at Bates is about helping students discover the joy and power that arise from aligning who they are with what they do. It helps students identify and cultivate their interests and ...

I spend a lot of time talking with college students and young professionals about the transition into work. The transition out of work to whatever comes after is no less important, and perhaps one of ...

In the Benevity Impact Labs 2025 State of Corporate Purpose Report, leveraging proprietary data from the collective giving, ...

Workers with a strong sense of purpose in their roles are more likely to be engaged at work and less likely to feel burned out or search for a new job. Yet only 30% of hiring managers consider purpose ...

After a ten-year career serving in the Army, Ethan Subra (MBA’25) came to Leeds last fall to pursue work in the clean energy transition, an area that would let him continue to focus on creating a ...