Feeling Lost?
You're Not Alone

At the Life Purpose Lab, my team and I have spent six years studying how people find purpose. We turned our research into a training experience that helps people find significantly more purpose in their lives. We've tested it with over 1,000 people, and the results have been, well, remarkable. Now, we're offering it more broadly.
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How Clear is Your Purpose?

Take our free Purpose Clarity Assessment. Just 12 research-based questions, and in a few minutes you'll get a personalized score that shows where you stand.

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What we offer

Purpose Course

This course is for people in the helping professions — therapists, counselors, doctors, nurses, social workers, clergy, nonprofit leaders, and others whose work centers on caring for people. When your career is built around helping others, it's easy to lose your own sense of why you do what you do. This course guides you in building a deeply fulfilling career grounded in who you are and what matters most to you.

Short video lessons, hands-on exercises, and guided journaling walk you through a research-validated purpose transformation process. You'll examine your current life, uncover new possibilities, and build a concrete plan for living with greater purpose. The course is self-paced, includes eight hours of material, and has built-in assessments so you can measure your own change.
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Purpose Workshop

We bring purpose transformation to teams and organizations. Participants explore their own purpose while building deeper connections with each other, and individual purpose gets connected to the group's mission. The result is a team that's more aligned, more effective, and more fulfilled — because people who understand why they're there do better work and feel better doing it.

Each engagement is tailored to your group's needs. The experience is live, either in person or by Zoom. Past groups have included law firms, counseling practices, nonprofits, law enforcement teams, university teams, and consultancies.

Interested?

Book a free call and we'll talk about whether it's a good fit.
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Purpose Coaching

I've been informally coaching people on purpose for years — friends, family members, students. This has been rewarding work with striking results. Now I'm exploring what it looks like to offer this more formally — a structured, longer-term coaching engagement that goes deeper than a workshop can.

I'm looking for one or two people who want sustained, personal guidance on building a more purposeful life. If you might be interested, let's talk.
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Does It Work?

Yes... much better than we had anticipated

Data

In our workshops, we’ve collected pre- and post-test assessments of life purpose, and we follow up six months later. Here's what we've found: 85% of participants report a significant increase in life purpose. On a 1-10 scale, participants start at an average of 5.3 and finish at 7.4 — in just eight hours! Participants also report becoming significantly happier and more satisfied with their lives. These effects hold for at least six months.

Testimonials


"The experience was truly life changing. Our team came together, thought deeply about what gives their life meaning, and shared their dreams and passions with each other." — Andrew Garza, Trial Attorney

"Working with Dr. Wright helped me learn so much about myself and my priorities. I feel very well equipped to navigate the world around me with clarity of purpose." — Irene Soteriou, Truman Scholar

"It showed me how to set aside my self-imposed barriers and deeply explore new ways to move forward with my life and career." — Bryan Dik, University Professor


Learn More About Our Lab Work

Newsletter

Life Purpose Lab Newsletter
Each month you get a story, an idea, and a resource to help you answer the question "what's next?"

How This Started

I'm a professor of sociology at the University of Connecticut, where I do professor-y things like teach classes and conduct research. About eight years ago, I realized that decades of academic publishing, grants, and citations weren't having the wider impact I'd hoped for. Something was missing. So I went looking for a research topic that could make a measurable difference in people's lives. I landed on life purpose — specifically, how people find it.

Working with a team of talented students and staff, I spent two years developing a workshop to test whether we could effectively guide people in finding more purpose. What we developed worked — far better than we had expected. So we started offering it — first to UConn students, then to UConn staff through HR, and eventually to outside groups who heard about the results and reached out.

Now, we're making our work available more broadly — through online courses, group training, and personal coaching.
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Want to learn more?

A UConn Magazine cover story about our work

My academic publications

My TEDx talk on purpose

Let's Talk

Want to talk about purpose?

I offer a limited number of free 20-minute conversations each week. We can talk about purpose in your own life, in your team or organization, or just something you've been mulling over.

No agenda — just a (hopefully) useful conversation with someone who thinks about this all the time.
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Stay in Touch

Life Purpose Lab Newsletter
Each month you get a story, an idea, and a resource to help you answer the question "what's next?"


Questions? Comments? Ideas for working together? Feel free to reach out to me at bradley@bradleywrightphd.com