SCOTT M. CURRAN — AUTHOR, SPEAKER, FOUNDER OF BEYOND ADVISERS

You can make the world a better place. I’ll show you how.

You’re already doing more than you think.

It’s a confusing time to care, and the pull to help gets crowded out by the pressing needs of daily life. Too often, we give up before we even start.

Here's the good news: you don't need more time, more money, or a different career to make an impact. You already have everything you need — what's been missing is the how. I've spent 25 years finding it, working with leaders in organizations like Starbucks and Chobani, with street-corner nonprofits, and on the board of a foundation that started with a nine-year-old's cardboard arcade. From household names to hometown heroes, the same truth holds every time. The people who change things aren't more gifted or better connected than the rest of us. They're simply further along the same discovery process. They've found a system for turning what they already have into lasting good.

Better Good is that system. My life's work is putting it in your hands, so you can do more good, and do it better, in your life and work.

Who is Scott Curran?

National Best-Selling Author

100% of Curran’s net proceeds from Better Good: A Simple System for Creating Lasting Impact, benefit the organizations mentioned in the book. (Look at you, already doing good!)

Podcast Host

On The Better Good Podcast, Scott reveals how the best in the world do good (and how you can too) in conversation with the doers, givers, and bridge-builders leaving the world better than they found it.

Speaker

From private boardroom presentations to main stage sessions at the world's leading conferences to inspiring sessions at team retreats, Scott brings the Better Good framework to any room, leaving people both inspired and equipped.

Founder & CEO of Beyond Advisers

Beyond Advisers is the social impact consulting firm of record for some of the world's biggest businesses, brands, and brains. Scott and his team design, build, and grow impact organizations and initiatives that scale and sustain.

Attorney, Legal Educator & Industry Expert

Scott's legal career spans corporate law, nonprofit law, and serving as General Counsel of the Clinton Foundation. Today, he advises legal industry leaders on social impact and teaches social impact law at Chicago-Kent College of Law.

Entrepreneur

Scott has founded and built multiple businesses, including one of the world's leading professional peer education platforms. His gift is turning complex systems into simple, scalable execution.

The Story

The first good I ever did as a lawyer involved a ferret.

I was twenty-four, a corporate lawyer in Chicago, buried in loans and billable hours and afraid that "make a difference" would stay on my someday list forever. Then an email arrived from Norman at the Greater Chicago Ferret Association. He had a volunteer problem, and he happened to know a lawyer. (I owned a ferret named Aspen. I'd read Ferrets for Dummies. Huge nerd. Still am.)

So I walked down the hall, asked a colleague for help, and we wrote the world's gentlest cease-and-desist. It worked. And I felt amazing — not because it was heroic, but because it was easy. I'd used what I already had, in time already baked into my workday.

I was hooked.

The rest goes quickly: Law school. Corporate practice. A mid-career detour to the Clinton School of Public Service, and a summer internship at thirty-one that turned into starting the legal department at the Clinton Foundation — where I spent a decade as general counsel, learning how good scales and how it survives scrutiny.

Then one December night, my wife, Amy, asked what I'd be most excited to do if time and money were no limitation. I answered before I could overthink it: "I want to give it all away."

The “it” I was referring to was the framework. How to do more good, and do it better.

So, I wrote it all down. And now it's yours.

WHAT PEOPLE SAY ABOUT BETTER GOOD

  • “Better Good is the blueprint to create your unique impact — and Scott Curran is who you go to when you’re ready to uncover yours.”

    —Ameena Majid, Impact & Sustainability Partner, Seyfarth Shaw LLP

  • “Better Good not only lays out ‘what’ you need to do to make a difference in your life and in the world, but also the very crucial ‘how.’ ”

    —President Bill Clinton, 42nd President of the United States and Founder & Board Chair of the Clinton Foundation

  • “Everyone needs to read this book. Simply put—it’s the Atomic Habits of doing good.”

    —David Fajgenbaum, MD, MBA, MSc, National Bestselling Author of Chasing My Cure and Co-Founder of Every Cure

  • “A sharp guide for anyone ready to stop spectating and start building something meaningful.”

    —Amanda Litman, Co-Founder & President of Run for Something and author of When We're In Charge

  • “Offering both insight and inspiration, Curran's simple framework shows how everyone — from seasoned business leaders to first-time volunteers — can use the tools they already have to make a real impact.”

    —Rajiv J. Shah, President, Rockefeller Foundation; Former Administrator, USAID; Author of Big Bets

More Praise for Better Good

What Next?

The questions Scott hears most:

Where do I start?

What actually works?

How do I do more good, better?

The answer to all three is the same: start where you are.

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