Portrait of Luca Leonardini by Andreana Ferri

Hi, I am Luca Leonardini | Purpose-Driven Culture & Innovation Coach

I help founders and leadership teams design purpose-driven organizational cultures and future-proof their organizations through a clear and consolidated framework.

Why I Love What I Do

The big challenge? Turning organizations into meaningful places to work — where people thrive because culture and purpose truly align.

That's where my personal purpose, "accelerating the business mindset's shift globally," drives what I do: helping founders and leadership teams reconnect with meaning — and turn it into impactful strategy.

How I Work

The Method Is A Clear, Three-Step Transformation Process

Helping organizations consolidate their culture, and enable purpose in all daily activities at every level is a journey. Where does the journey begin?

It begins with the natural sequence that brings individual and organizational purpose closer together through the following three steps: Codify Your Purpose, Identify Company Purpose, and Enable Company Purpose.

This sequence is the blueprint for all our projects — where we transform organizational culture into a new business process.

In the third step, we apply the Culture as a Business Process framework. This allows us to help teams and organizations generate positive impact, become better places to work, and tap into the enormous potential of a purposeful workforce aligned with a purpose-driven organizational culture.

Three-step transformation process
  • Codify individual purpose

    Codify Individual Purpose

    An iterative, self-paced, personal, and empowering journey.

  • Identify company purpose

    Identify Company Purpose

    An iterative and collaborative effort of the leadership team.

  • enable company purpose

    Enable Company Purpose

    Culture as a Business Process is an iterative and collaborative process to activate, spread, and enable purpose within the organization.

What I do

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Purpose-driven organizational culture design

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Purpose-driven strategy lab for 10x impact

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Workshops & strategic facilitation

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Team coaching to identify company purpose

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Purpose alignment for teams with coaching one-to-one

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Personal coaching to codify individual purpose

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AI-powered innovation processes with Aipermind

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Startup mentor at Murate Idea Park (MIP)

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I help individuals, teams, and organizations design cultural transformation journeys that drive performance — through a structured and human-centered transformation process.

Explore My Books

Book cover Il Metodo Fionda

Il Metodo Fionda 🇮🇹 (Slingshot)

Metodo Fionda is a project created and developed through my collaboration with Gabor George Burt, author of Slingshot, a book about business management, creativity, and innovation for which I edited the Italian edition.

Book cover Codify Your Purpose

Codify Your Purpose

Designed to bridge the gap between individual and organizational purpose, Codify Your Purpose is a practical guide. It presents the three-step transformation model and illustrates the iterative process to codify individual purpose.

Book cover Pictorial Atlas of 101 Purpose Statements

Pictorial Atlas of Purpose Statements

Organized with rankings and thematic chapters, the atlas is designed to inspire readers, and to spark curiosity about how purpose shapes organizational culture. It offers insights from years of research and practice.

Selected Collaborations

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Logo Simurg Ricerche
Logo Murate Idea Park di Firenze
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Logo Wondersys Livorno
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Logo Università di Genova
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Our Testimonials

  • Luca helped us rediscover our reason to exist as a team and better focus on our global identity. The results have gone far beyond expectations.

    Giacomo Sergio – CEO, Wondersys Group

  • Luca is the Italian champion of meaningful innovation.

    Gabor George Burt – Global Expert on Business Transformation

  • With Luca, we’re designing our company culture by transforming it into a new business process.

    Giorgio Ghisalberti – CEO, OTO Agency

  • There’s a rare mix of clarity, philosophy and practicality in Luca’s work. He reawakened our attention and helped us focus on the real impact we want to make.

    Silvia – PMO, UISP

  • Our collaboration with Luca helped elevate the quality of our institutional work to a new standard — now a reference for others across Europe.

    Bruno de Halleux – Former Director, Antenne 110, Brussels

About Me

Portrait of Luca Leonardini a Montescudaio

My unique mindset, forged professionally in Belgium and Germany, and rooted in Italian creativity, blends Northern European structure with Southern ingenuity.

This allows me to approach challenges with both rigorous methodology and creative thinking, helping entrepreneurs and leadership teams design purpose-driven organizational cultures through a clear and consolidated framework.

I am an entrepreneur, culture transformation strategist, innovation coach, and author. I founded the Purpose-Driven Academy to help leaders build purpose-driven, future-proof organizations.

My work has been featured in academic theses at the Universities of Verona, Ferrara, and Bolzano. I served as tutor at the University of Genoa, and guest lecturer at the University of Ferrara and Sapienza University of Rome.

Let's explore how culture can become your most powerful operating system.

FAQ

  • Because without it, you’re just optimizing the present. Purpose is the heart of organizational culture — without it, there is no real culture, only manuals and job descriptions. It gives direction, meaning, and coherence. A clear purpose helps create an environment where people are free to express their full potential, feel they belong to something meaningful, and act in alignment with the group’s values — in every situation.

  • A culture where people find meaning in what they do, and where purpose it’s the engine behind strategy, innovation, and daily operations, not just an empty statement.

  • It all begins with a natural sequence that brings individual and organizational purpose closer together: Codify Your Purpose, Identify Company Purpose, Enable Company Purpose.

    This sequence becomes the blueprint for transforming culture into a real business process — one that connects purpose with behaviors, processes, and decisions. Culture stops being a soft topic and starts driving performance.

  • I work with entrepreneurs and leadership teams across businesses, institutions, and academia — especially those navigating transitions, growth, or the need to realign their culture with their future vision.

  • The method starts from people, not tools. It’s designed for organizations at any stage — even if you’ve never worked on purpose or culture before. Through a clear, three-step transformation process, it connects individual and organizational purpose and turns culture into a real business process — not just a narrative.

  • It’s a sequence of three intentionally designed modes:

    • Individual Purpose Alignment: After reading Codify Your Purpose and completing its exercises, each team member joins four one-hour coaching sessions to define their own purpose statement.

    • Identify Company Purpose: a two-day retreat plus a debrief session to define organizational purpose and manifesto. 

    • Enable Company Purpose: using what’s been learned in the first two phases, we co-design processes that embed purpose throughout the organization. 

    The first two phases are relatively quick and can be completed within two months. The third step, however, is time-intensive, depending on your organization’s size, resources, readiness for change, and urgency to act.