We leverage
knowledge and leadership experience from inside top global companies
to offer both strategic and practical advice that supports your success.
We extend your team with the
right-size expert resource
you need, working exclusively on a customized basis with no extraneous fees.
We deploy a
proven data and insights-driven model
to deliver measurable positive impact on your business and society.
Founded in 2019, Purposeful Projects Group provides top companies with the specific expertise needed to complete bespoke initiatives and drive progress toward business goals. Managing Principal Rebecca Leonard is the hands-on lead consultant, so your projects have the benefit of more than 25 years of leadership experience from inside top companies. Additional experts all have decades of experience and successful track records from their work inside leading companies. Our consultants range from carbon accounting experts to brand gurus , deployed depending on your needs.
Rebecca and team have been fortunate to work with great companies and people from multiple industries across the globe, including Electronic Arts, Element Fleet Management, FM Global, Goodwin, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Lam Research, Peppino's Italian Foods, Ralph Lauren Corporation, Tanger Outlets, Teradata, TH Lee Partners, Weatherford International, and others.
Rebecca Leonard has a love of building meaningful impact that has driven her 30-year career in corporate citizenship and communications. Her consulting work has spanned industries and ranges from ESG reporting to long-term strategic development. In addition to her consulting practice, she is an Executive Advisor and Teaching Fellow at the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship, a thought leadership center in the Carroll School of Management.
For 25 years, she held leadership roles at Fortune 500 companies and drove various ESG-related programs and initiatives. Prior to corporate roles, she worked in communications agencies on top brands such as Frito-Lay, Universal Entertainment, and AT&T. She has earned credentials from the International Financial Reporting Standards and the Global Reporting Initiative in addition to her education at Loyola University (economics) and Harvard University (corporate sustainability innovation). She has taught integrated communications at Suffolk University.
Her passion for positive change extends into community leadership and advocacy.. She serves as a board member and advisor to local and international non-profits. She is a speaker at universities, events, and conferences, and has shared her perspective in media outlets such as USA Today, Forbes, Rolling Stone, Newsweek, Brandweek, and others.