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    Our Community

    Our Community

    Best Practice Institute today is the research and certification organization behind the Most Loved Workplace® program. Our community is the global network of CEOs, CHROs, Heads of Talent, Employer Brand, and Culture leaders building workplaces employees genuinely love — and the practitioners, researchers, and faculty who help them get there.

    Who's in the community

    • CEOs and founders who treat culture as a performance system, not a poster
    • CHROs and senior HR executives at certified and aspiring Most Loved Workplaces®
    • Heads of Talent, Employer Brand, and Culture using SPARK to sharpen recruiting, retention, and reputation
    • Top 100 honorees — the Global (featured in The Economist) and America's (featured in the Wall Street Journal) lists
    • BPI faculty, researchers, and expert contributors publishing on culture, leadership, and the employee experience

    What the community is built around

    Everything BPI does now flows through Most Loved Workplace® and the SPARK framework — Systemic Collaboration, Positive Vision, Alignment of Values, Respect, and Killer Achievement. Our community uses it as a common language for what makes a workplace genuinely loved, scored against the largest dataset of its kind: 2.8 million employees and 1,800+ companies analyzed.

    Why leaders engage

    • Certification that means something — employee-validated, SPARK-scored, and eligible for the Top 100
    • Benchmarks against the best workplaces in the world — not generic engagement averages
    • Editorial reach through The Economist, Wall Street Journal, and BPI's owned channels
    • Workplace Reports and CEO interviews that make their culture story credible and discoverable
    • Peer exchange with other CEOs and CHROs operating at the same altitude

    Measurable outcomes

    • 92% of candidates apply because a company is Most Loved Workplace® certified
    • 4× higher performance in certified organizations
    • 48% lower turnover in certified organizations

    Corporate participation

    Most organizations engage at the company level: certification, the annual employee survey, SPARK scorecard, Top 100 eligibility, and ongoing employer-branding work. Faculty, expert contributors, and researchers participate individually through publications, webinars, and the CEO and expert repositories.

    How to join the community

    The fastest path is a 30-minute intro with our Workplace Certification & Visibility Specialist:

    👉 Book a 30-min working session

    Or explore the Most Loved Workplace® certification, the Top 100 Global and Top 100 America's lists, the CEO repository, and BPI's expert faculty.

    Looking for something else? Visit the About hub or contact our team.

    Best Practice Institute

    Best Practice Institute is the research organization behind Most Loved Workplace® certification, the SPARK Model, the Love of Workplace Index™ (LOWI™), and The Workplace Report.

    The Workplace Report

    The Workplace Report is BPI's original workplace culture research and editorial briefing series for CEOs, CHROs, people leaders, talent leaders, and employer-brand teams. It turns BPI's 25 years of research, Most Loved Workplace® certification data, SPARK findings, and current workforce signals into practical analysis leaders can use.

    The report format includes executive summaries, research-backed articles, company examples, methodology notes, and practical implications for retention, hiring, culture, leadership, and employee experience. New research and analysis is published on an ongoing editorial cadence at /workplace-report.