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The Survey That Refused to Stay in HR's Drawer
Peakon turned the annual employee survey into a recurring conversation. Workday paid about $700 million for the idea; the harder part is getting managers to answer back.
The Ladder, the Thumb Drive, and the Menu That Wouldn’t Wait
A pizza shop’s awkward menu update explains Displai’s larger bet: make every screen in a physical business as editable as a web page, then learn whether anyone looked.
Steve Sonnenberg Put a Thank-You Note on the Balance Sheet
He lost his first company, borrowed $5,000 for a domain, and spent four years making an impossible Amazon rewards idea work by hand. The wager turned workplace appreciation into a platform used across 163 countries.
August Jackson Is in the Business of the Morning After
Most event agencies sell the night. August Jackson sells the weeks before it, the morning after it, and the organizational memory that remains when the stage comes down.
CTL Communications Learned to Make the Room Matter After the Room Disappeared
When live events vanished, the British agency discovered that a meeting is not a format. It is a behavior-change problem - and that distinction turned a near-shutdown into a wider communications business.
Alfa & Omega and the Strange Problem of the Strategy Nobody Uses
For more than three decades, the Oslo consultancy has worked on a deceptively simple idea: a strategy is only real when people can see what to do on Monday morning.
Changing Our World Works Both Sides of the Giving Table
The New York consultancy has spent 27 years translating between donors, companies and institutions. Its real product is not generosity. It is alignment.
The Last Mile of Change Is Written in Plain English
Big transformations tend to arrive as software, strategy and slides. Pivot Strategies works on the stubborn final mile - getting actual employees to understand what changed, why it matters and what to do on Monday morning.
The Consulting Company That Built a Stage - Then Turned the Lobby Into a Job Market
Corp4ness began with a language problem: companies had good intentions and forgettable ways of expressing them. Its answer now stretches from strategy decks to television studios, conference stages and a free arena built around real job vacancies.
The People Who Move Before the Company Does
HudsonLake built a business around the moments when a company can no longer rely on an all-staff email. Its job is to move the workforce, the leadership team and the public story in the same direction.
The Company That Builds the Office Nobody Walks Into
Local Wisdom spent 25 years learning that an intranet is not a website. It is the place where a company quietly proves whether it understands the people who work there.
The Message Was Fine. The Meeting Was the Problem.
KWI Communications has built a consultancy around an unfashionable idea: before you polish the message, ask the people doing the work why they are not buying it.
The Company That Treats the Ballroom Like a Broadcast Studio
FLIRT Communications does not merely stage corporate events. It builds the argument, writes the lines, lights the room, and gives the audience a reason to participate.
The Business Plan Was on a Napkin. The Real Product Was Clarity.
Rhudy & Co. started with a toddler, a plate of noodles and a business plan sketched at Joe's Inn. Two decades later, its specialty is the thing big organizations routinely lose: a message that reaches actual people.
ROI Communication Put Its Employees in Charge of the Message
The internal-communications firm asks leaders to trust employees with hard news. In 2021, it made that advice literal by turning every colleague into an owner.
Segal Benz and the benefits nobody reads
A retirement quiz, a cafeteria campaign and a website without a password: Segal Benz helps employers turn complicated benefits into something people can actually use.
thinkPARALLAX and the Art of Saying More in 66 Fewer Pages
The California agency helped shrink Snap’s sustainability report from 113 pages to 47. Its bigger project: getting corporate ambition, evidence, and storytelling to agree.
Culture Amp wants your employee survey to have consequences
Thousands of companies use Culture Amp to ask employees what they think. Its next bet is AI that helps managers do something with the answers - while the company faces hard questions about its own workplace.
Gupy got Brazil hiring. Then came the rest of the job.
The Brazilian software company turned recruiting into a business spanning training, engagement and performance. Its harder assignment is making that expansion work for the people on both sides of the hiring screen.
Perkbox found a better business in saying thank you
A failed group-buying venture became an employee benefits platform. Now, after joining forces with Vivup, Perkbox is putting supermarket savings, workplace recognition and mental health support behind the same login.
Pluxee UK wants a place in your weekly shop
The former Sodexo Engage business is putting cashback at the centre of its employee benefits app. Its customer stories show why the hard part is getting people to use what their employer has already bought.
Interact Software Wants to End the Office Scavenger Hunt
Four intranets to check. One policy to find. Interact has built a business around that mismatch - and its next act puts AI inside the everyday machinery of work.
Unily Wants to Turn the Intranet Into a Place Where Work Actually Happens
The British software company spent two decades making corporate information easier to find. Now its AI-native bet is that the intranet should stop being a noticeboard and start doing the work.
The Weekly Check-In Grew a Brain
15Five began with one humane idea: ask people how work is going before the annual review arrives. Now it wants to turn that weekly pulse into an operating system for managers - AI included.
Robin Streit Built a Marketing Career for the Long Game
Before workforce software spoke the language of AI and predictive analytics, Robin Streit was already doing the slower work: making a complex product understandable. Her career is a study in range, patience and the quiet advantage of staying long enough to see a category change.
The 99-Year-Old Award Maker Turning Thank-Yous Into Enterprise Software
O.C. Tanner began with class rings and service pins. Now it sells a sprawling recognition system to global employers - and argues that the object still matters as much as the dashboard.
WorkTango Got Acquired Twice - Then Taught AI to Run the Meeting
A bootstrapped Toronto survey startup sold to a larger rival, watched the buyer take its name, and four years later joined a global rewards company. The useful lesson is not the dealmaking - it is how WorkTango closes the expensive gap between asking employees what is wrong and doing something about it.
The Spreadsheet Was the First Casualty: How Chronus Turned Mentoring Into Enterprise Infrastructure
Chronus took the warmest idea in corporate life - finding a mentor - and gave it matching logic, nudges, dashboards and a budget line. Now it is betting that AI can widen access without flattening the human relationship that made mentoring useful in the first place.
IdeaScale Built a Suggestion Box for 4.5 Million People - Then Learned the Hard Part Starts After the Vote
The bootstrapped software company rode Washington's open-government wave into 25,000 organizations. Its sharper lesson came later: collecting ideas is easy; proving that one shipped is the business.
Giriish Bindal Has Spent 20 Years Turning Attention Into Action
From research analyst to HR-tech CMO, Bindal's career is a study in how patient editorial craft becomes commercial leverage.