Thanks

This book is an important part of our mission to build a better world by helping organizations become Great Places to Work For All, and we’d like to recognize everyone who helped to create it.

Steve Piersanti and the team at Berrett-Koehler Publishers, thank you for your steadfast enthusiasm and support of For All, and for helping us change the world by reaching people around the globe with this message.

Tabitha Russell, Nancy Cesena, Chandni Kazi, and our friends at Datable, including Daniel Gibson, Matt Lichti, and Lull Mengesha: thank you for your impeccable analysis of the vast amount of data that helped form the themes of the book. Without your efforts we’d have inspiring words alone. Your data points will help move the needle toward real change.

Thank you to our amazing design partners at Majorminor for your work on the cover design and graphic elements of the book. Thank you to Carolyn Monaco, Jill Totenberg, and Melissa Kranz for your experienced insights in helping our For All message reach the public, to Tessa Herns for helping to manage the book’s marketing and distribution, and to Cecilia Riva Mosquera for your efforts to bring the book to an international audience.

We’d also like to thank Lizelle Festejo and Jamie Holt for coordinating the Great Place to Work For All conference, which brought hundreds of people together to publicly discuss the For All message and led to many of the insights featured in this book.

Thanks also to everyone who provided writing and editing support: Michelle Rafter for your editorial assistance in preparing the manuscript, and Teresa Iafolla, Casey Li, Tyler Matheny, and Kristen McCammon for additional editing and research support.

We’d like to recognize and thank the many inspiring leaders featured in this book, who have set a high bar for leaders everywhere as they work toward For All: Monica Bailey, Auguste Goldman, and Blake Irving of GoDaddy, Beth Brooke-Marciniak of EY, Heather Brunner of WP Engine, John Chambers of Cisco, Tim Ryan of PwC, Arne Sorenson of Marriott International, Randall Stephenson of AT&T, and Nancy Vitale of Genentech.

To all of our colleagues at Great Place to Work in the U.S. and around the world, thank you for your unwavering commitment to our mission. This work is possible only through our shared belief that a better world can—and will—be achieved through our collective efforts.

We also want to tip our hat to our cofounder and prior owner Robert Levering, to our other cofounder and pivotal leader Amy Lyman, and to the visionary Reuben Ly for making magic happen.

Our ownership change in 2015 and the resulting board leadership has made our recent technology and analytics advancements possible. These innovations have enabled the development of our new methodology and our Accelerated Leadership Performance product. For that we thank our new owners, Katharine Whalen, Dan Whalen (chairman of the board), Melba Wu, and Michael Bush.

Finally, we’d like to thank the many companies and leaders who work tirelessly to build Great Places to Work For All, and the millions of employees who work there. You are our inspiration. The dedication, sweat, conviction, humanity, and creativity at the best of these companies bring out the best of us here at Great Place to Work, and give us a hopeful vision of what the world can be.