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Conscious capitalism warrior, Michael Bush is the CEO of Great Place to Work®, Inc., the agency that compiles Fortune’s “100 Best Companies to Work For” list. Bush leads 58 global offices responsible for gathering data from 10,000,000 employees as part of the company’s mission to build a better society by improving work conditions for all.
An innovation heavyweight with 30 years of executive experience, Bush has an impressive track record of strengthening efficiency and growing organizations. As CEO of Tetra Tech Communications, he grew the company’s revenue from 40 million to 300 million. During the financial uncertainty of 2008, he secured financing for the young company Clark Sustainable Resource Developments which was later successfully acquired by Triton Logging of Canada.
Bush is the founder and current president of 8 Factors, an online learning platform focused on business management and hosted in partnership with Udemy. Additionally, Bush is the founder and president of the Mattmar Group, which has been providing turnaround leadership to companies that need to get back on a sustainable path since 2002.
Bush served as a member of President Obama’s White House Business Council. He is a founding member of the private equity fund, Fund Good Jobs and teaches entrepreneurship classes at Stanford University and Mills College.
Michael C. Bush is the CEO of Great Place to Work®, Inc., the research and analytics firm that produces FORTUNE magazine’s 100 BEST Companies to Work For list. Great Place to Work has offices in 58 countries and surveys over 10,000,000 employees per year. Michael joined Great Place to Work® in 2015 at a time of rapid growth for the company, and brings over 30 years of experience in growing consulting organizations and increasing efficiencies of innovative business units. Previously he served as President of 8 Factors, an online learning organization, as well as CEO of Clark Sustainable Resource Developments, and CEO of Tetra Tech Communications which he grew from $40 million to $300 million in revenues.
Michael received his M.S. in Management from The Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. He is an advisor to the board of Inner City Advisors and a founding board member of the private equity seed-fund, Fund Good Jobs, and taught entrepreneurship courses at Stanford University and Mills College. Michael is was a member of President Obama’s White House Business Council.
Great Place to Work® is the global authority on high-trust, high-performance workplace cultures. Over 10 million employees in 50 countries annually take the Trust Index© Employee Survey, its proprietary research tool. The U.S. entity of the firm’s global network, Great Place to Work® United States, offers management consulting and leadership training to U.S.-based organizations ranging from multinational corporations to medium-sized organizations.
Bush and his team at GPTW found significant gaps between the experiences of executives and those on the front lines. Between full-time and part-time employees. Between men and women. Between whites and people of color. Bush realized: “That’s not good enough. If we’re going to call a company “great”, it’s got to be great for everybody. It’s got to be a Great Place to Work…For All.” As a result, GPTW re-examined its definition of a Great Workplace and a Best Workplace and decided to raise the bar.
Under Bush’s leadership and tapping insights from their data, GPTW built a new approach for Great Place to Work for All assessments, including a new leadership framework and retooling of its technology, surveys and company rankings to better evaluate and rank companies as a way to inspire and equip them towards being better – better for business, better for people and better for the world. Companies that are Certified with GPTW and go on to achieve the sought after rankings on their lists have up to 65% turnover lower than rivals and stock returns of three times the market average. This has resulted in many companies seeking Bush’s advice on how to get these kinds of results within their organization.
Today’s business climate is defined by speed, social technologies and people expecting “values” besides value. As a result, Bush helps leaders create an outstanding culture for everyone, no matter who they are or what they do for the organization. They must build a Great Place to Work For All. This is not just for social justice reasons, but for defining business success. Michael Bush and his team from GPTW (who are also committed to creating their own FOR ALL workplace reflective of its teachings!), published a new book with Berrett-Koehler Publishers: A Great Place to Work for All
Michael C. Bush examines what makes a great workplace and how to build a high-trust culture as well as the ripple effects it has on the world. The influence of a great work environment does not stop at a company’s doorstep; rather, Bush makes the case that employees take that positivity home with them, thus strengthening their family and society.
The factors that distinguish outstanding companies are surprisingly universal as well, Bush says, drawing from his consulting work in 44 different countries. “Workers expect the same thing. In that way we’re all the same,” he states. “They want to work for people they trust. They want to take pride in the work that they do...and people want to enjoy the people they work with. It doesn’t matter where you are in the world. These things are true.”
Are 100% of your employees excited about the work they do? Does every single member of your team from the vice-president to the janitorial staff take pride in working for your company?
The answer is rarely yes, and yet these are not impossible goals, according to Michael C. Bush, CEO of Great Places to Work, one of the world’s leading authorities on increasing employee engagement.
Bush uses data-driven research and 30 years of experience to help companies build high performance, high trust cultures. Bush identifies what employees want from their employer as well as the cultural practices in your workplace that are stunting your employees’ potential and your company’s growth. He imparts specific behaviors management can take to align values, people programs, and communications so that they can maximize their human capital and create a great place to work for every employee, not just a few.
A Great Place to Work for All: Better for Business, Better for People, Better for the WorldWhat does the latest data show about organizations that prioritize a culture of inclusiveness? Based on his book by the same name, Bush shares these details, plus how the Best Workplaces outperform their peers in the stock market and in revenue growth. Attendees hear Bush’s inspiring stories about how creating a more equitable work environment pays off. Attendees also walk away with a new “For All” Leadership Model to help drive personal performance.
Innovation by All: How Creating a Culture of Inclusion Can Drive InnovationToday’s most innovative organizations recognize that game-changing ideas can come from anywhere and anyone. Bush explains how to build an Innovation By All culture—one that maximizes your company’s human potential by tapping into the intelligence, skills, and passion of everyone in the organization. Companies that build an Innovation By All culture generate more high-quality ideas, realize greater speed in implementation, and achieve greater agility—resulting in 5.5 times the revenue growth of peers with a less inclusive approach to innovation.
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A Great Place to Work For All
What was good enough to be great 20 years ago is not good enough now. For two decades, we have published our gold-standard list of the 100 Best Companies to Work For. But our latest research shows that even at the best workplaces, leaders can—and must—do better.
CEO Michael C. Bush and team connect the dots to show how human potential is the name of the new game, fairness is the playbook, and the leaders who reach all of their people win. Today’s business climate is defined by speed, social technologies and people expecting “values” besides value. As a result, leaders have to create an outstanding culture for everyone, no matter who they are or what they do for the organization. They have to build a Great Place to Work For All.
The book features new research on how Great Places to Work For All outperform in the stock market and grow revenue 3x faster than less-inclusive rivals. We tell surprising, inspiring stories about how closing gaps in the work experience between groups of employees pays off for everyone. We document the ways Great Places to Work For All benefit the individuals working there and contribute to a better global society. And we introduce a new leadership framework, showing the advantages of Level 5 “For All” leaders. In effect, the times demand executives who not only are business-savvy but also are devoted to fairness, have deep faith in people, and empower all individuals to reach their full human potential. A Great Place to Work For All is a call to lead so that organizations bring out the best in everyone.
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