Chief Executives for Corporate Purpose (CECP) advises the chief executive officers (CEO) in corporate responsibility, sustainability, foundations, investor relations, finance, legal, and communications about how to lead with purpose. Founded in 1999 by actor and philanthropist Paul Newman and other business leaders, CECP is a movement of more than 200 of the world’s largest companies that represent $11.2 trillion in revenues, $23 billion in total community investment, 14 million employees, 30 million hours of employee engagement, and $21 trillion in assets under management. 

CECP helps companies transform their strategy by providing benchmarking and analysis, convenings, and strategy and communications in the areas of societal/community investment, employee engagement, environmental social governance (ESG), sustainable business, diversity equity inclusion. CECP advises companies on a range of strategy topics including grantmaking, matching gifts, volunteerism, budgets, purpose, impact, measurement, communications, global social investment, cause areas, reporting, trends, disaster relief, partnerships, and more.

CECP has a CEO Investor Forum that seeks to empower CEOs to refocus expectations towards the long term through supporting the work of investor relations, corporate sustainability, corporate social responsibility, corporate communications, and the corporate secretary. CEO Investor Forum’s advisory practice helps companies identify and navigate the business opportunities and risks material to their industries. Through research, events, and sustainable solutions, CECP advises corporate executives on matters such as stakeholder capitalism and engagement, corporate purpose, sustainable finance, best practices for integrating ESG into their decision-making processes, and the importance of long-term shared value creation.

Create a better world through business.

CECP is a for-profit advisory firm.